ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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of COO feet and 400 feet, respectively, and pot 40 by 40 feet. These traps are valued at 
about $1,000 each. It is stated that about 20 per cent of the fish are taken in traps. 
The following boats were used: Nine lighters, valued at $800 each; 10 skiffs, $25 
each; 30 Columbia River gill-net boats, $200 each; 1 pile-driver, $1,500. 
The following vessels were used: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Owned or 
chartered. 
Steamer Thistle 
56 
5 
|25, 000 
Owned. 
5 
2 
2 
7,000 
2, 500 
1 )o. 
Launch Cathie K 
3 
Do. 
Bark Nicolas Thayer 
555 
(>) 
(■) 
15, 000 
Do. 
Bark Coryphene 
733 
15, 000 
Chartered. 
Three-masted schooner Premier 
292 
(>) 
15,000 
Owned. 
1 Fishermen. 
The following was the output in 1900: King salmon, 101 cases, 4 to the case, 
June 18 to June 29; redtish, 54,581 cases, 13 to the case, June 21 to July 29. There 
were salted C03 barrels and 606 half-barrels of redfish, 50 to the barrel, and 10 
barrels of coho bellies. 
Bristol Packing Company . — This company, organized largely by the stockhold- 
ers of the Naknek Packing Company, sent a cannery outfit to the Ugashik early in 
the spring of 1900 and located on the left bank of that river about 25 miles from 
Smoky Point, near the site of the old trading post of the Alaska Commercial Com- 
pany. The cannery was ready for packing July 9. It was not fully equipped, but 
had at the time of our visit 2 retorts, 1 fruit topper, 1 solderer, and 1 cutter. The 
work was done largely by hand, but it was estimated that 500 cases could be packed 
per day. All the cans were brought from San Francisco; they were made of 100- 
pound imported tin plate. It is said that in 1901 the cannery will be equipped with 
3 fillers and the corresponding machinery, and it is anticipated that a pack of 40,000 
cases will be made during the season. 
The transporting vessel ascended the river to a point about 8 miles below the 
cannery, where she was moored in the channel for the season. 
In 1900 this cannery employed 27 white fishermen and beachmen, 6 white 
cannery-hands, 10 natives, and 48 Chinese. 
They used 8 gill nets, each 75 fathoms long, 23 meshes deep, 6^-inch mesh, valued 
at 65 cents per fathom. No traps were used. 
The following vessels owned by the company were used: Gasoline launch Amelia , 
5 tons; crew, 2; value, $2,000; bark Agate, 595 tons; crew, fishermen; value, $10,000. 
The} T have 1 lighter, value, $250; 1 skiff, $25; 7 gill-net boats, $100 each. 
The output in 1900 was: Redtish, 6,653 cases, 12 to the case, July 9 to July 29. 
Commenced salting July 2, and salted 1,150 barrels of redfish, 46 to the barrel. 
With the Ugashik our examination of the Bristol Bay district was finished. It 
is a wonderful salmon country, and can not be equaled. The redtish still run in 
countless numbers, and, as the rivers can not be barricaded and as overfishing has 
not yet produced its effect, there seems to be no depletion. The next few years, 
however, will see many new canneries established by the capital that was used in 
the canneries on the failing waters of the northwest coast of the United States. 
But in the absence of proper laws, or the enforcement of such poor ones as now 
obtain, these streams, too, will become depleted in time. 
