CANNING AND PRESERVING. 



281 



Number of establishments ' 



Capital 



Land 



Buildings 



Cash 



Persons employed 



Proprietors and firm members 



Salaried employees 



Wage-earners 



Men 16 years and over 



Women 16 years and over. 

 Children under 16 years. . . 



Salaries and wages 



Salaries 



Wages 



Men 16 years and over 



Women 16 years and over . 

 Children under 16 years. . . 

 Products: 



Quantity (pounds) 



Value 



United 

 States. 



690 



$24, 124, 000 



S3, 417, 000 



$10,288,000 



$10, 420, 000 



17,202 



897 



1,054 



15,251 



8,918 



5,184 



1,149 



$5,399,000 



$1,152,000 



$4,247,000 



$3, 175, 000 



$946, 000 



$126, 000 



468,947,000 

 $28,401,000 



Atlantic 



coast 

 division. 



464 



$11,937,000 



$1, 462, 000 



$4,878,000 



$5,598,000 



11,683 



646 



618 



10, 419 



6,084 



3, 632 



703 



$3,320,000 



$642, 000 



$2, 678, 000 



$1,903,000 



$701,000 



$74,000 



359, 558, 000 

 $18, 741, 000 



Gulf of 

 Mexico 

 division. 



36 



$2,465,000 



$242, 000 



$1,331,000 



$893,000 



3, i05 



72 



m 



2,886 



1,103 



1,370 



413 



$620, 000 



$130, 000 



$490, 000 



$257, 000 



$185,000 



$47, 000 



26, 461, 000 

 $2, 404, 000 



Pacific coast 

 division. 



99 



$8, 713, 000 



$1, 440, 000 



$3,791,000 



$3, 483, 000 



2,103 



90 



244 



1,769 



1,554 



182 



33 



$1,316,000 



$333, 000 



$983, 000 



$919, 000 



$59,000 



$4, 900 



73,257,000 

 $6, 450, 000 



Great Lakes 

 division. 



83 



$1,003,000 



$271,000 



$287, 000 



$445, 000 



296 



77 



45 



174 



174 



$142,000 

 $47, 000 

 $94,000 

 $94,000 



9,535,000 

 $788, 000 



Mississippi 



River 

 division. 



8 



$5,200 

 $2,200 

 $1,200 

 $1,800 

 15 

 12 



$1,700 



$1,700 

 $1,700 



137,000 

 $19, 000 



1 Exclusive of the canneries and salteries of Alaska, for the statistics of which see Report of the Bureau of Fisheries, Doc. No. 645. 



The Atlantic coast division ranked first in the in- 

 dustry, reporting nearly half of the capital and ap- 

 proximately two-thirds of the number of establish- 

 ments and of the value of products. The Pacific 

 coast division was second in the number of establish- 

 ments, capital, and value of products, and the Gulf of 

 Mexico division was second in the number of persons 

 employed. The schedule used in the canvass of the 

 packing and canning establishments called for the 

 quantity of fresh fish received at the plants, to be re- 

 ported in pounds. The data furnished as a result of 

 this inquiry were, however, so incomplete and unsafe 

 isfactory that no use could be made of them. 



Products, by hind. — The next tabular statement 

 gives the quantity and value of the principal kinds of 

 products prepared, arranged in order of value, together 

 with the proportion which each contributed to the 

 value of all products. 



Salmon, sardines, cod, and oysters contributed 



slightly more than two-thirds of the value of the entire 

 output. 



The following table distributes the value of prod- 

 ucts by species and by geographic divisions: 



1 Includes a value of $17,000 reported for products from the Mississippi River division 

 ' IndudS a value of $2,000 reported for products from the Mississippi River division. 



