ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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Saltery of G. E. Whitney & Co . — This saltery was built and operated by the 
Bristol Bay Canning Company, on the Egashak (Snake) River in 1886; three years 
later three fishermen acquired each a one-quarter interest and moved the outfit to 
the mouth of the Nushagak. Upon the formation of the Alaska Packers Association, 
Messrs. C. E. Whitney & Co. purchased the one-quarter interest of the Bristol Bay 
Canning Company, and also that of one of the fishermen, and in 1895 purchased 
another quarter. In 1899 the firm became the owner of the saltery by purchasing 
the remaining quarter. The saltery was moved to its present site about 1892. It is 
the largest in Alaska and is located on the eastern shore of the Nushagak Bay, 41 
miles above Fort Alexander, at a point where the bluff recedes and the long, broad 
low point commences to make out to form the head of the bay. 
The following are the statistics for 1900: 62 whites employed as fishermen, trap- 
men, saltery hands, etc., and 3 natives. 
Fishing gear: One trap, near the saltery, having leads of 150 feet and 50 feet, 
with a pot 20 feet by 20 feet; 14 gill nets, for redfish, each 85 fathoms long, 23 
meshes deep, 61-inch mesh; 14 gill nets, for king salmon, each 120 fathoms long, 25 
meshes deep, 91-inch mesh. 
Boats, lighters, etc.: 3 lighters, valued at $500 each; 5 skiffs, value, $30 each; 
14 Columbia River boats, value, $200 each. 
The following vessels were employed: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Owned or 
chartered. 
Steamer Usok 
2 
(i) 
*3. 000 
25, 000 
Owned. 
Barken tine Willie R. Hume 
589 
Chartered. 
1 Fishermen. 
The pack was completed very early on account of the large run of fish, and on 
July 17 the vessel was loaded and ready for sea. 
The saltery output for 1900 consisted of 536 barrels of king salmon, June 14 to 
July 11, 14 to the barrel; 7,186 barrels of redfish, June 14 to July 11, 50 to the barrel. 
The following is the output of the saltery from 1889 to date: 
Year. 
No of 
barrels. 
Y ear. 
No of 
barrels. 
1880. . 
250 
400 
700 
1,000 
1,400 
050 
1895 
1,043 
1,74] 
2, 436 
4, 112 
6, 225 
7, 722 
1890 
1891 
1896 
1897... 
1892 
1898... 
1893 
1899 
1894 
1900. . . 
About 90 per cent of the pack consists of redfish; the remaining 10 per cent is 
made up of king salmon and cohoes — very few of the latter. 
THE KVICHAK. 
The large arm at the head of Bristol Bay, extending to the northeast and bounded 
on the south by a line from the southern entrance point of Egegak River to Etolin 
Point, has been designated in a previous paragraph as Kvichak Bay. The upper 
