ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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300 feet, pot 40 feet by 40 feet; and the large trap on Wood River which has pre- 
viously been described. These traps must cost from $1,200 to $1,500 each, except 
the Wood River trap, which can hardly have been completed under $4,000. 
The following boats were used: 18 lighters, value, $600 each; 25 skiffs, $30 each; 
80 Columbia River gill-net boats, $200 each, and 2 pile-drivers, $1,200 each. 
The following vessels were employed: 
Class ana name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Owned or 
chartered. 
Steamer Polar Bear 
28 
5 
*12, 000 
Owned. 
Steamer Queen 
18 
3 
10, 000 
Do. 
Launch Amy S 
5 
2 
4, 000 
Do. 
Launch Tvone 
5 
2 
6, 000 
Do. 
Ship Oriental 
1,550 
(') 
55, 000 
Chartered. 
Ship Ectlip.se 
1,469 
(') 
35, 000 
Do. 
Ship Tacoma 
1, 671 
(b 
60, 000 
Owned. 
1 Fishermen. 
The following was the output in 1900: 
Alaska Packing Co. 
Arctic Packing Co. 
Bristol Bay Canning Co. 
Species. 
No. to 
No. to 
No. ti 
Cases. 
the 
Dates. 
Cases. 
the 
Dates. 
Cases. 
the 
Dates. 
case. 
case. 
case. 
King salmon.. 
2, 543 
3 
Junel7-June 25 
3, 530 
3 
Junel5-June 25 
2, 256 
3 
June 17 -June 28 
Redfish 1 
56, 228 
13 
June25-July 24 
57, 230 
13 
June23-July 23 
57, 079 
13 
June 20- July 25 
Cohoes 
332 
13 
July 21-July 24 
1,254 
13 
July 22- July 23 
931 
13 
July 23-July 23 
Dog salmon . . . 
1,694 
13 
Junel9-June 27 
1,921 
13 
June 19-Ju ne 27 
2,331 
13 
June23-June 27 
1 The Alaska Packing Co. also put up 1,420 barrels and 698 half barrels, averaging 50 to the barrel. 
The Nushagak Cannery , of the Pacific Steam T X haling Company, is located on 
the eastern shore of Nushagak Bay at Fort Alexander, which is also known as 
Nushagak Village. The cannery outfit was transported by vessels of the company 
and arrived on the Nushagak April 12, 1899. The erection of the buildings was com- 
menced at once and the cannery was ready for work June 8. A pack was made in 
1899 and in 1900. It is a modern cannery, well built and equipped, has good light, 
and is clean and airy. The capacity is 1,600 cases per day. The cannery machinery 
consists of 4 large retorts (90 cases each), 2 fillers, 2 solderers, 1 topper, and 1 cutter. 
Fish are pewed from lighters and boats to the fish-house, and, when cleaned, are 
carried to the cannery by a conveyor consisting of an endless chain of buckets 
passing under a shower. Fifteen per cent of the cans used this year were made at 
the cannery, the remainder being transported. One-hundred-pound tin plate was used 
for tops and bodies, 20 per cent of which was imported. It is proposed to increase 
the capacity of the cannery to three fillers and to install can-making machinery. 
The fishermen’s and the Chinese’ contracts and natives’ ivages were the same as 
previously noted. In 1900 the cannery employed 56 white fishermen, 10 white can- 
nery-hands, 35 natives, and 100 Chinese. 
The cannery used for redfish two sets of gill nets (25 to a set), each net, length 
75 fathoms, depth 24 meshes, 6i-inch mesh; and for king salmon two sets of nets 
(22 in a set), each net, length 125 fathoms, depth 24 meshes, 91-inch mesh; value of 
all, 65 cents per fathom. 
