ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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machinery consists of 5 retorts, 2 fillers, 2 toppers, 2 solderers, and 1 cutter; can- 
makers will be installed. This year all cans were brought from San Francisco, 100- 
pound tin plate being - used for bodies and 95-pound plate for tops; all domestic. 
Fish are pewed from boats to cars which are hauled by cable, operated by steam, 
over an inclined plane leading - from the fish-house to the water at all stages of the tide. 
After cleaning, the fish are passed directly from the draining table to the cutter. 
The saltery, which has been moved to the cannery site, is operated in conjunction 
with the cannery. 
The fishermen’s and Chinese contracts and native wages were the same as for 
other canneries of this district. In 1900 this cannery employed 39 white fishermen, 
16 white cannery-hands, 10 natives, and 80 Chinese. 
They used 20 gill nets, each with a length of 80 fathoms; depth, 26 meshes, 
6|-inch mesh; value, about 65 cents per fathom. No traps were driven, but they 
Freehand sketch of entrance to F.gegak River, Bristol Bay. 
were prepared to drive two with leads of 200 and 250 feet and pots 10 feet by 10 
feet, valued at about $1,000 each. 
They used 5 lighters, $200 each; 7 skiffs, $30 each; 19 flat-bottom gill-net boats 
$100 each, and one pile-driver, $1,500. 
The following vessels were employed: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Owned or 
chartered. 

Launch Llewellyn 
5 
2 
fl.OUO 
Owned. 
Launch Corinne 
5 
2 
2, 000 
Do. 
Bark Charles B. Kenney 
1,014 
554 
(-) 
;io, ooo 
Chartered. 
Bark Will W. Case 
( 2 ) 
18,000 
Owned. 
1 Employed at Naknek also, which see. - Fishermen. 
The following was the output in 1900: Redfish, 21,652 cases, 12.5 to the case, 
July 1 to July 25. Redfish, salted, 582 barrels and 1,513 half-barrels, 50 to the barrel. 
