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stood that about twenty years ago a few cases of this product were put 
on the market, but there being no demand for it the project was soon 
abandoned. At the present time, however, there is considerable call 
for this article of food among the first-class hotels and restaurants. 
California.—California ranks last in importance in the production 
of canned salmon, having only three canneries, two situated on the 
Sacramento River and one at Requa in the northern part of the state. 
The pack in 1908 amounted to 12,102 cases, with a value of $65,359. 
The pack for 1902 was 17,246 cases, with a value of $93,128, and in 
1901 it was 18,309 cases, valued at $106,182. The value of the can- 
neries and accessory property is approximately $80,000, and they 
gave employment to 221 men, of whom 37 were regular fishermen. 
Besides this number, however, many men engaged in fishing for the 
markets of San Francisco and Sacramento at times disposed of their 
catch at the canneries and cold-storage plants. The Carquinez Packing 
Company, on the Sacramento River, owns no boats or nets, but pur- 
chases all of its fish, and during the season of 1903 took fish from 212 
fishermen. The Black Diamond Canning Company also obtained most 
of its fish in this manner. 
The spring pack of the Carquinez Packing Company was 4,200 cases 
of 1-pound talls. No fall fish were packed. The Black Diamond 
Cannery packed 1,819 cases of spring and 2,583 cases of fall fish. 
The Klamath Packing Company put up 3,500 cases. The steady 
decrease in the annual output of the canneries on the Sacramento 
River is due to the fact that a considerable portion of the catch is mild- 
cured. In 1901 the Carquinez Packing Company utilized in this man- 
ner 252,000 pounds of salmon; in 1902, 850,000 pounds, and in 1903° 
539,000 pounds, representing a total value toe the fishermen of $45,640 
for the three years. Had this amount of fish been packed, it would 
have been equal to 16,779 cases, 68 pounds of raw fish being reckoned 
toacase. The quantity of salmon mild-cured by the Black Diamond 
Canning Company was 1,272,600 pounds in 1991, 1,036,800 pounds in 
1902, and 1,092,200 pounds in 1903, the first value for the three years 
combined being approximately $148,000. Of these fish 768,800 pounds 
were caught in Monterey Bay and shipped to San Francisco, where 
they were cured and placed in cold storage. 
The salmon taken in Monterey Bay are all caught by trolling, none 
being taken in gill nets or other forms of apparatus. It is stated by 
fishermen that on July 8, 1903, 1,500 fish were caught in this manner, 
averaging in weight 23 pounds. 
Besides the mild-cured salmon prepared by the two canneries above 
mentioned, there were 1,733,933 pounds handled by small cold-storage 
plants, making a total output of 3,365,133 pounds. 
F. C. 1904—10 
