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The total sum paid by the earners to fishermen iti 1880 for salmon is about $809,380, or 50 

 cents each. 



The total value of the pack, estimated at $5 per case, would be $2,097,930. 



3. STATISTICAL RECAPITULATION. 



STATISTICS OF PACIFIC SALMON FISHERXLAND CANNING INDUSTRY FOR 1880. 



Number of persons i-mploycd ?, 310 



Capital invested $1,381,900 



Value of product 3, 399, 574 



The total catch was 2,887,900 salmon, weighing 53,844,000 pounds. Of this amount 1,585,500 

 pounds were salted, 200,000 pounds smoked, 2,000,000 pounds sold fresh at San Francisco, 

 43,379,542 pounds canned, and the rest consumed locally or unaccounted for. 



The extent of the canning industry was as follows : 



SALMON CANNING AT POET BLAKELY. 



The salmon cannery of Jackson & Myers, formerly at Muchilteo, has now been removed to 

 Port Blakely, on the west side of Admiralty Inlet opposite Seattle. Here salmon are abundant in 

 summer and fall in the salt water and are taken with seines. During the past year (1880) the run 

 has been very good, and 3,000 cases have been packed. The species chiefly taken is the silver 

 salmon or "coho" (0. fc'sutch), with an occasional quinnat salmon. On alternate years (1877, 1879) 

 there is a considerable run of the humpback salmon or "hatldo" (0. gorbusclia),tbe female of which 

 species is canned, the male thrown away or given to the Indians to be salted. These small salmon 

 usually sell at the canneries at 3 to 5 cents each, twelve to fifteen of them filling a case. 



The details of the Alaska salmon fishery, are fullj discussed by Dr. Bean in another sec- 

 tion of this report in connection with the fishing-grounds and fishery resources of Alaska. (See 

 Section II, FISHING GROUNDS, pp. 81-115.) 

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