BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
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The fishermen’s and Chinese’ contracts and native wages were the same as given 
on previous pages for this district. 
In 1900 the company employed 60 white fishermen and beach-hands, 12 white 
cannery-hands, 11 natives, and 131 Chinese. Twenty-one redfish gill nets were used, 
each 75 fathoms long, 22 meshes deep, 6i-inch mesh; value, 65 cents per fathom. 
They have 7 lighters, $600 each; 5 skill's, $25 each; and 28 flat-bottom gill-net 
boats, $100 each. 
The vessels employed were: Steamer Fram , 12 tons; crew, 3; value, $8,000; 
owned. Barki?. P. Cheney , 1,200 tons; crew, fishermen; value, $20,000; owned. 
The following was the 1900 output: 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the 
ease. 
Dates. 
31 
4.8 
Throughout the season. 
35, 675 
352 
12 
July 23-July 28. 
'There were salted 22 barrels of king salmon and 1,150 barrels of redfish, the latter 
running 47 to the barrel. 
THE EGEGAK RIVER. 
This river empties into the outer limits of Kvichak Bay about 31 miles south of 
the Naknek, and has Cape Chichagof for its northern entrance point. It is a large 
river about 2 miles in width at the cannery, and is the outlet to Lake Becharof. It 
flows in a general westerly direction for about 50 miles. Tide water is said to extend 
about 25 miles up the river; very little is known of the locality. 
The lower part of the river is a wide bay, contracted at the mouth, and, like 
other rivers of this district, at low water a large part of the bed is exposed in shoals 
and banks, with narrow channels winding through them. At the entrance shoal water 
extends several miles 'offshore, and the small cannery steamers enter only from half 
to full tide. The channel into this river is wider and deeper than in the Naknek and 
Kvichak, and, if it were properly buoyed, vessels of moderate draft could enter at 
high water; there is, however, no swinging room inside. The cannery transporting 
vessel, a bark of 554 tons, is carried in at high water and moored head and stern 
alongside of the low-water bank. 
This river is also essentially a redfish stream, though all other species are found, 
but they are scattered throughout the season and are few in number. There are a 
few trout, but no steelheads, shad, sturgeon, halibut, or cod. The time of run of 
the redfish is the same as given under the Naknek, to which reference is made. 
Fgegak Fishing Station . — Under this name the Alaska Packers Association, in 
1895, established and operated a saltery on the right bank of the Egegak about 5 
miles from the entrance, and salted every year until 1900, when the apparatus was 
moved to the new cannery site, though the buildings were left standing. 
Egegak Packing Company. — In 1899 the Alaska Packers Association, under this 
title, commenced building a cannery on the left bank of the Egegak, opposite and a 
little above the salting station, utilizing the available machinery of the cannery 
of the Baranotf Packing Company, of Redfish Bay, Southeast Alaska. This plant 
had been purchased during the winter of 1898 and 1899, when that locality was 
abandoned. The new cannery was completed in 1900, and the first pack commenced 
July 1. It has substantial buildings, and is clean and well arranged. The cannery 
