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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The Pacific Steam Whaling Company’s cannery at Chignik, located in Anchorage 
Bay, operated this year in its canning plant 2 iron retorts, 4 steam boxes, 1 tiller, 1 
solderer, and 1 cutter. The fish are pewed from lighters to the fish -house, and after 
cleaning carried by cars to the cannery. The plant has a daily capacity of 950 cases, 
and they expect to pack during the season about 30,000 cases. It has no can-makers. 
The cans are all made by hand at the cannery, using 100-pound tin for tops and bodies, 
of which about 13 per cent is imported. The plant will probably be enlarged. 
In 1900 this cannery employed 60 white fishermen and trapmen, 10 white can- 
nery-hands, 4 natives, and 60 Chinese. They used 10 gill nets, each 260 fathoms 
long, 30 meshes deep, 6-inch mesh, valued at 65 cents per fathom; 3 seines, 2 of 200 
fathoms length and 1 of 300 fathoms length, each 22 feet deep, 3-inch mesh, valued 
at $3.50 per fathom; 4 traps (2 single pot, 2 double pot), average shore lead 800 feet, 
average channel lead 800 feet, heart 80 feet each side, and pot 40 feet by 40 feet, 
average value $1,500 each. 
The boats used were: Four lighters, $400 each; 2 sail scows, value $200 and $800; 
10 trap scows, $60 each; 10 skiffs, $25 each; 3 seine boats, $75 each; 3 gill-net skid's, 
$100 each, and 3 pile-drivers, $1,000 each. 
The vessels employed were: Steamer C. C. Cherry, 37 tons, crew 6, value $15,000, 
owned; launch Esquimaux , 5 tons, crew 2, value $2,500, owned. 
Transport of pack and spring outfit by calling vessels of company. 
The following was the output in 1900: Red fish, 32,966 cases, It. 4 to the case, 
June 9 to August 6; dog salmon, 120 cases, 10 to the case, July 20 to July 28. 
Salted 69 barrels of humpback bellies, 450 to the barrel. 
Hume Bros. <4? ITume cannery at Chignik, located at Anchorage Bay, operated 
this year in its cannery plant 4 retorts, 1 filler, and 1 solderer. The fish are handled 
from lighters to cannery in the same manner as noted under other canneries. The 
plant has a capacity of 800 cases per day, and they expect to make a season pack of 
25,000 cases. Cans are made by hand, of 100-pound tin for tops and bodies, of which 
50 per cent is imported. 
In 1900 this cannery employed 52 white fishermen, 10 white cannery-hands, 6 
natives, and 58 Chinese. They used 15 gill nets, each 150 fathoms long, 26 meshes 
deep for lagoon and 40 meshes deep for outside fishing, 6-inch mesh, value 65 cents 
per fathom; 2 seines, 150 fathoms long, 25 feet deep at bunt, 3-inch mesh, value 
$1.50 per fathom; 7 traps (5 single, 2 double), average shore and channel leads 800 
feet, heart 80 feet on each side, pot 40 feet by 40 feet, average value $1,500. 
The boats used were 13 lighters, $140 each; 2 sail scows, $300 and $600; 14 skiffs, 
$25 each; 2 seine boats, $70 each; 8 Columbia River boats, $200 each; 10 gill-net 
skiffs, $100 each; 2-pile drivers, $1,050 each. 
The following vessels (owned by the company) were employed: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
5 
2 
S3, 200 | 
Launch Ethel and Marian 
G 
3 
• 2 , 880 
Bark Ferris S. Thompson 
480 
11 
12,000 
Schooner Maid of Orleans 
171 
8 
8,000 
