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Transportation is by company’s vessels, which are moored in Chips Cove. 
At the time of our visit the superintendent was experimenting with a machine of 
his own invention for cleaning fish, which, it is learned, has since proven successful, 
and a large number have been ordered for the 1901 season. If this machine is placed 
in successful operation, it will not only save much labor but will afford a great relief 
in the fish-house, which is usually much crowded and overworked during a heavy run. 
In 1900 the Arctic cannery employed 10 white fishermen, 9 white cannery-hands, 
10 natives, arid 59 Chinese. It used six seines, having a total length of 1,200 fathoms, 
each from 100 to 350 fathoms long, 100 to 130 meshes deep, 3-inch mesh, all hung 
straight, valued at $1.50 per fathom. It had also 3 bales of spare web, and material 
on hand to make a 100-fathom purse seine if required. 
A floating trap had also been constructed by the Italian fishermen. It was first 
used in 1899, when it took about one-half the pack, while in 1900 it only took about 
50,000 fish. This trap was located about one-half mile from the cannery and a short 
distance east from the mouth of the home stream. It had a shore lead of 100 fathoms, 
a corral 10 feet by 60 feet, pot 10 feet by 90 feet, curved wing 75 fathoms, and a 
30-foot opening. There were used in its construction 300 keg floats, several thousand 
cork seine floats, 50 anchors from 200 to 100 pounds each, 3-inch cork line, 3^-inch 
anchor line. If to 2f inch pursing line. The web was 3-inch mesh, of from 15 to 15 ! 
threads, disposed according to strain. This trap was valued at $2,500. 
The following boats were used: Two fish lighters, $250 each; 1 cargo lighter, 
$500; 6 seine boats, $60 each; 2 fish scows, $100 each; 1 otter boat, $100; 18 dories, 
$30 each; 3 skiffs, $15 each; 1 hand pile-driver, $100. 
The following vessels (owned by the cannery) were employed: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Steamer Hattie Gage 
42 
5 
$17. 000 
Launch Aurora 
5 
2 
2, 500 
Bark Electra . 
939 
(b 
15, 000 
1 Fishermen. 
The salmon pack in 1900 consisted of 32,312 cases of redfish, 13.5 to the case, 
packed June 8 to August 13. No other fish were packed and none salted. 
Kodiak Packing Company . — In 1889 a company, organized under this title, sent 
a cannery outfit to this district on the bark Lizzie Williams , which was wrecked 
in April on Tugidak Island and became a total loss. The superintendent returned at 
once to San Francisco, obtained another outfit, and erected a cannery at the head 
of Snug Harbor. It was operated in 1889 and 1890, and in 1891 its quota of fish, 
under previous arrangement, was packed in the cannery of the Arctic company. 
It entered the pool formed by the Alaska Packing Association in 1892, and in 1893 
became a member of the Alaska Packers Association. Most of the machinery has 
been removed, but the buildings are substantial, in excellent repair, and the cannery 
could be placed in operating condition in a short time by installing machinerv. It 
may be said to be in reserve. It is locally known as the “ Snug Harbor” or “ Oliver 
Smith” cannery, and, when operated, it obtained fish from the same streams as 
those now fished by the Arctic Company. 
