ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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may again be large runs, the average will become less. In 1900, however, there was 
a large increase, the canneries under consideration packing about 220,000 cases. It 
will be interesting to note the future pack of this locality, as the hard fishing com- 
menced in 1888, and the first output of the hatchery was made in 1896. 
For future comparison it may be interesting to record the redfish statistics of the 
Karluk canneries for 1900, which are as follows: 
Packed at the two Karluk canneries '2,031,971 
Received from Ayaknlik River - 242,500 
Received from Little River 5, 800 
Received from Eagle Harbor 1,000 
Received from Uganuk 24, 000 
— 273, 300 
1,758,671 
Sent to Uganuk from Karluk 9, 000 
Total redfish taken at or near Karluk Spit 1, 767, 671 
Packed at the Uganuk Cannery 170,960 
Received from Ayaknlik River 17,500 
Received from Little River 17,300 
Received from Kiliuda Bay 4,900 
Received from Eagle Harbor 3,000 
Received from Karluk 9, 000 
— 51,700 
119,260 
Sent to Karluk 24, 000 
Redfish taken at Uganuk 143, 260 
The following are the statistics for 1900 of the Karluk and Uganuk canneries 
combined. There were employed 171 white fishermen, 13 native fishermen, 13 white 
cannery -hands, 8 natives, and 263 Chinese. 
There were used 10 seines, each 400 fathoms long and 185 meshes deep; 6 seines, 
each 250 to 300 fathoms long, and 120 to 160 meshes deep; and 3 hatchery seines, 
each 100 fathoms long and 80 meshes deep, all 3-inch mesh and valued at $1.50 per 
fathom. This, however, only represents a fraction of the material on hand. There 
is a warehouse filled with old seines, many bales of all kinds of webbing, and an 
abundance of floats, sinkers, cordage, etc. At Uganuk the two floating traps men- 
tioned in my former report were used. These traps fire valued at $1,500 each. 
The following boats were used: Nine lighters, $500 each; 3 launch tenders, $90 
each; 17 fish scows, $150 each; 20 seine boats, $150 each; 33 dories, $25 each; 1 
hatchery scow, $150; 6 hatchery transporting cars, $30 each. 
The following vessels were used: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Ownership. 
Steamer Kadiak 
58 
9 
820, 000 
Owned. 
Steamer Gertie Story 
36 
7 
12, 000 
Do. 
Launch Karluk 
8 
2 
10,000 
Do. 
Launch Uganuk 
8 
2 
1(1, 000 
Do. 
Launch Delphine 
5 
2 
2, 500 
Do. 
Launch Ida 
5 
2 
2, 700 
Do. 
Ship Santa Clara 
1,453 
18 
40, 000 
Do. 
The ship Indiana and the bark Heroin , which arc accredited to the Alaska Pack- 
ers Association cannery at Naknek, were also employed in part at Karluk. The 
bark Merom broke from her moorings off Karluk Spit on October 6, 1900, during a 
gale, and was totally wrecked on the rocks, losing 12,572 cases of salmon. 
