ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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The following was the output in 1900: Redfish, -23,003 cases, 11 to the case, 
June 6 to August 19; dog salmon and humpbacks, 3,611 cases, 10 to 21 to case, July 
2 to August 19. 
ALITAK BAY, KADIAK ISLAND. 
On Olga Bay, and its connecting waters with Alitak Bay, locally known as 
the “ South End,” there are one operating and one reserve canneries and several 
excellent salmon streams. As the locality was not visited in 1897, and as the whole 
region is unsurveyed, the Albatross this season, whilst engaged in the salmon inves- 
tigation, made a sextant reconnoissance of a portion of these waters. The area is 
so large that the live days allotted to the work were not sufficient to cover more than 
the anchorages and the passages leading to them. The results, however, should be 
of great service to vessels navigating these waters. In the following notes reference 
is made to the drawing of the reconnoissance accompanying this report. 
Alitak Bay is a large body of water on the southwestern side of Kadiak Island, 
about 65 miles by sea from Karluk. The entrance, from Cape Alitak on the west to 
Cape Trinity on the east, is about 8 miles wide, and in its length of 11 miles the 
ba} r narrows to 5 miles at the upper end, where it terminates in two wide arms, each 
several miles in length. The general direction of the bay is NNE. and SSW. The 
western side has several indentations, with islands, rocks, and foul ground for a dis- 
tance of 2 miles off the middle section. At the northern end of this section, about 11 
miles from Cape Alitak, a passage extends westward around the upper islands and 
opens upon a broad sheet of water, named Moser Bay, which, in a distance of 3 miles, 
turns to the northward the same distance, where a narrow gut leads to Olga Bay. 
In approaching Alitak Bay from the northward Low Cape is first made about 9 
miles from the western point of entrance. The former is a low bluff, and the shore 
line, which is low with high mountains in the background, extends to the latter in a 
deep bend, making to the northward and eastward. 
Cape Alitak is the terminal point of an undulating granite ridge, named Tanner 
Head, about -1- miles in length, the northern end bordering on Lazy Bay. This ridge 
is a peninsula, with the highest hills (about 600 feet) at the northern and middle 
parts, from which there is a gradual roll and descent to the pitch of the cape; this, 
at the extreme point, is low and rocky. In approaching from the westward it is 
seen as a long point with rolling hills and knobs gradually shelving to the sea. 
Five miles to the northward from Cape Alitak the western shore makes out in a 
high head, named Drake Head, which separates Lazy Bay from Kempff Bay. Sur- 
mounting the head are two conical peaks, Twin Peaks, about 1,200 fee* high, which, 
in clear weather, can be seen a long distance from seaward. They are easily recog- 
nized, and make an excellent guide to the entrance. 
South of Drake Head is Lazy Bay, which may lie recognized from its position 
with reference to the Twin Peaks and Egg Island, the latter a small rocky islet lying 
just north of the entrance. From this bay a narrow arm, named Rodman Reach, 
projects to the southwest inside of Tanner Head to Cape Alitak, where it forms a 
basin from which another narrow arm extends for some distance to the northwest, 
being separated from the sea by but a narrow strip of land. Lazy Bay affords good 
anchorage and is very accessible. 
