ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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On the western bank of Wood River, about 15 miles from its mouth, is a trap 
and a trap house. This trap is the largest that was seen in the Bristol Bay district 
and is rather a complex arrangement. It has 2,700 feet of leads, with two hearts, 
75 by 75 feet, and a corral. A description of it is rather difficult, and reference is 
therefore made to the sketch. 
NUSIIAGAK CANNERIES. 
All the canneries on the Nushagak are located on the upper end of the bay, two 
on the western side, and four, besides a large saltery, on the eastern side; and, if one 
which has not been in operation since 1891 is excepted, all are within 6 miles of the 
mouth of the river. A brief history of the canneries was given in the report of 1897, 
page 173, but, as the district had not then been visited, the data was incomplete. In 
order to cover the whole subject in this report, it is deemed advisable to give the 
history anew, even at the expense of some little repetition. 
On the Nushagak this year (1900) there were live operating and one reserved can- 
neries, and one salteiy, as follows: Arctic Packing Company, Nushagak Canning 
Company (reserved), Bristol Bay Canning Company, and the Alaska Packing Com- 
pany, all belonging to the Alaska Packers Association; the Nushagak Cannery of the 
Pacific Steam Whaling Company, and the Alaska Fishermen’s Packing Company. 
The saltery is known as the C. E. Whitney & Co, station. 
Arctic Packing Company. — In 1883 the schooner Neptune was sent by Mr. Rohllfs 
to prospect for fish on the Nushagak, and a large number of redfish salted. The 
same year cannery buildings were erected for the above-named company, and in 1881 
an experimental pack of 100 cases was made. This is the first cannery that operated 
in Bering Sea. It has made a pack every year to date, excepting 1892, when it 
joined the pool of the Alaska Packing Association and was closed; in 1893 it became 
a member of the Alaska Packers Association. The cannery is located on the eastern 
shore If miles above Fort Alexander, at a place called Kanulik, and known as the 
Mission. The Moravian mission and the village are situated on the bluff overlooking 
the cannery. The Nushagak post-office is also located at this point. The capacity 
of the cannery was increased this year and now has a daily output of 2,100 cases. 
Alaska Packing Company. — This company was organized at Astoria, and in the 
spring of 1886 sent a cannery outfit on the schooner Sadie P. Caller and the brig 
Courteney Foard to the Nushagak, where a cannery was built at the head of the bay 
on the western side, at the village of Kanakanek (also called Chogiung) about 1| miles 
below the junction of the Wood and Nushagak rivers. It made a pack that year and 
every year since to date. It entered the pool of the Alaska Packing Association in 
1892, and became a member of the Alaska Packers Association in 1893. The capacity 
was increased this year, and it now has a daily output of 2,100 cases. 
Bristol Bay Canning Company was organized in San Francisco and built a can- 
nery in 1886 on the western shore of Nushagak Bay, in a bend about 2 miles below 
the cannery of the Alaska Packing Company. It made a pack that year and every 
year to date. In 1892 it entered the pool of the Alaska Packing Association, and 
in 1893 became a member of the Alaska Packers Association. The capacity was 
increased in 1900, and it now has a daity output of 2,100 cases. 
Nushagak Canning Company built a cannery on the eastern shore of Nushagak 
