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Bay in 1888, at a place called Stagarok (also known as Clai'k Point), 5^ miles below 
Fort Alexander and 3 miles above Ekuk. It was operated in 1888, 1889, 1890, and 
1891, but has not since been used. In 1892 it joined the pool of the Alaska Packing 
Association, and became a member of the Alaska Packers Association in 1893. This 
cannery is held in reserve and at present is used as a fishing station. 
These four canneries are all owned and (except the reserve cannery) operated by 
the Alaska Packers Association, under one local management. There is a foreman 
at each cannery, all under the orders of one superintendent, Mr. P. H. Johnson, who 
resides, during the packing season, at the cannery of the Alaska Packing Company, 
where he is in communication with all the canneries. The greatest distance between 
any two in operation is 1 miles in a straight line, but on account of shoals and banks 
long detours are necessary in going from one to another. The association now 
contemplates establishing a telephone service to connect the several establishments. 
The supplies are common to all the canneries of this system and are kept at the 
Alaska Packing Company’s cannery, where there are large storehouses and consider- 
able machinery for work in wood and metal. The fish are distributed so as to give 
each one a supply in order to keep all in full operation. In the statistics the pack 
only is kept separate. Until the present year the canneries had each a two-filler 
outfit, but in the spring of 1900 an additional filler was installed, and each has now a 
daily capacity of 2,400 cases. They all have practically the same machinery for 
processing the fish, which consists in each of 8 retorts, 3 fillers, 3 toppers, 2 solderers, 
and 1 cutter, with spare ones at headquarters to supply breaks. There are no fish- 
hoists or elevators; fish are pewed from boats and lighters, at low water, to platforms, 
and thence to fish-house, and, after cleaning, are conveyed in cars to the cutters. 
About 33 per cent of the cans are made at the canneries and the rest brought from 
San Francisco; 100-pound domestic tin plate is used for tops and bodies. A few 
can-making machines were supplied in 1900, but at the time of our visit had not been 
set up. It is hoped eventually to make all cans at the canneries. All transportation 
is done by the association’s own vessels, or by chartered vessels, all of which are kept 
moored during the season in the channels of the bay near the canneries. 
The Chinese and the fishermen’s contracts, and native wages for this district, 
have been given on preceding pages. 
The Alaska Packers Association has in its employ a physician and surgeon, who 
attends to the employees of the association. His otfice and dispensary are at the 
cannery of the Alaska Packing Company. 
In 1900 the three operating canneries of the Alaska Packers Association employed 
215 white fishermen, 66 white cannery-hands, 450 Chinese, and 75 natives. They used 
two sets of gill nets, 80 nets in each set, for redfish, each net 75 fathoms long, 24 
meshes deep, and 61-inch stretched mesh; l\ sets of gill nets, 80 nets to each set, 
for king salmon, each net 125 fathoms long, 24 meshes deep, and OJ-inch mesh; value 
of all about 65 cents per fathom. Besides these they had on hand a large quantity of 
web and material for making nets. 
They used four traps — one at Clark Point, and one on the right bank of the Nush- 
agak above the junction, each having a shore lead 500 feet long and an outside lead 
350 feet long, with a square pot 40 feet by 40 feet; one trap, immediately below the 
cannery of the Alaska Packing Company, on Nushagak Bay, had leads 50 feet and 
