ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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Worth Alaska Salmon Company . — This compan} r , organized from the Sacramento 
River Packers’ Association and incorporated under the laws of California, sent a 
large cannery plant to Bristol Bay in the spring of 1900 and built two canneries on 
the left bank of the Kvichak River, near the mouth, about 6 miles above Koggiung. 
The plant was placed in two canneries, 1,000 feet apart, for the purpose of obtaining 
tire protection. They will be operated, however, under one management during the 
season of 1901, when the first pack is expected. Each cannery will have 1 retorts, 
2 tillers, 2 toppers, 2 solderers, 1 cutter, and 1 set of can -makers. As the, cannery 
will employ 50 hands to the tiller, a daily capacity is expected of 1,800 cases, or 3,600 
cases for the two canneries; a conservative rating, however, would be 3,200 cases. 
THE NAKNEK RIVER. 
The next large salmon river is the Naknek, which enters Kvichak Bay, on the 
eastern side, about 25 miles to the southward of Koggiung, in latitude 58' J 12' north, 
longitude 157° 02' west (approximate). The river has its source in a large lake of 
the same name (at one time also known as Lake Walker), on which two villages are 
located. The river is large, about 60 miles in length, and flows a great body of water 
in a general westerly direction. It is said that tide water extends about 25 miles from 
the mouth, at which point the river is about one-half mile in width, and that at the 
mouth there is an extreme rise and fall of spring tide of over 20 feet. 
Shoals and banks, many of which uncover at low water, fill the lower course of 
the river and extend 3 or 1 miles off the mouth, then trend around to the northward 
and join the body of banks that fill the upper end of Kvichak Bay. At low water 
the channel between the banks and the flats is very shallow; cannery steamers, draw- 
ing but 7 feet of water, await half tide before entering. Navigation is done on the 
rising tide or at high water. 
The mouth of the river is about 3 miles wide between the headlands, which consist 
of bluffs about 100 feet high. Within the entrance the banks converge quite rapidly, 
and about -1 miles from the mouth the river is about three-fourths of a mile wide 
F. C. B. 1901—11 
