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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The following boats were used: Six lighters, value, $300 each; 4 skiffs worth 
$30 each, and 25 Columbia liiver gill-net boats worth $200 each. 
The following vessels were employed: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Owned or 
chartered. 
15 
1.647 
9 
(') 
S4, 500 
60, 000 
Owned. 
Chartered. 
1 Fishermen. 
The following was the output in 1900: 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the 
case. 
Dates. 
King salmon 
2,291 
3. 6 
June 12-July 22. 
Redfish 1 
39, 223 
13 
June 22-July 22. 
Dog salmon 
1,873 
13 
June 20-July 1. 
1 Salted, 415 barrels redfish, 48 to the barrel. 
The Alaska Fishermen's Packing Company, of Astoria, built a cannery immedi- 
ately below that of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company in the spring of 1899. The 
canning outfit arrived May 27, and the plant was ready for operation June 25. They 
made a pack in 1899 and in 1900. The cannery has a daily capacity of 1,600 cases, and 
the following machinery is used in processing the fish: Six retorts (capacity, 47 cases 
each), 2 fillers, 2 toppers, 1 wiper, 2 solderers, and 1 cutter; 28 per cent of the cans 
were made at the cannery, using 100-pound domestic tin for bodies and tops. The fish 
are pewed to the fish-house and the cleaned fish then transferred by cars to the cutter. 
In 1900 the cannery employed 55 white fishermen, 7 white cannery -hands, 35 
natives, and 93 Chinese. 
They used for redfish 30 gill nets, each 70 fathoms long, 30 meshes deep, 64- inch 
mesh; for king salmon, 25 gill nets, each 70 fathoms long, 22 meshes deep, 10-inch 
mesh; all valued at 75 cents per fathom. 
The following boats were used: Four lighters, value, $700 each; 3 skiffs, value, 
$30 each; 17 Columbia River gill-net boats, value, $200 each. 
The following vessels were employed: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Owned or 
chartered. 
34 
4 
$15, 000 
20, 000 
Bark Harry Morse 
1,241 
(b 
Chartered. 
1 Fishermen. 
The output of the cannery for the year 1900 was as follows: 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the 
case. 
Dates. 
1,990 
38, 100 
3 
12.5 
June 15-July 22. 
June 25-July 22. 
Redfish 1 
1 Salted, 445 barrels and 105 half-barrels of redfish, 48 to the barrel. 
