ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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Ilume Bros, cfc Hume . — This cannery operates 4 retorts, 1 tiller, 1 solderer, and 
1 cutter, and tops by hand. All cans are made by hand at Uyak of 100-pound imported 
tin for bodies and tops. The fish are handled in the manner noted under the preced- 
ing cannery. The Chinese contract was the same as at Karluk and the fishermen’s 
contract the same as given under the Pacific Steam Whaling Company’s cannery. 
The following are the statistics for the Ilume cannery, season of 1900: Employed 
52 white fishermen, 9 natives, 12 white cannery-hands, 56 Chinese; used 10 seines, 
from 150 to 350 fathoms long, 160 meshes deep, 3-inch mesh, valued at $1.50 per 
fathom; 1 lighters, $400 each; 12 seine boats, $120 each; 1 Whitehall boat, $75; 20 
dories and skiffs, $20 each; 1 pile-driver, $1,000. 
The following vessels (owned by the cannery) were employed: 
Class and name. 
Tons. Crew. 
Value. 
Steamer Equator 
12 7 
$12, 000 
Steamer Francis < 'utting 
59 1 8 
10,000 
Launch Herbert Hume 
5 2 
3, 500 
Bark Harvester 
710 12 
12,000 
The following was the output in 1900: Redfish, 27,636 cases, 13.5 to the case, June 
5 to September 20; humpbacks, 2,064 cases, 21 to the case, July 5 to September 20. 
Scattering cohoes and dog salmon were packed with humpbacks under pink brands. 
Salted 25 barrels of redfish. 
The only places in this vicinity that might offer a hatchery site are Little River 
and Uganuk. 
AFOGNAK. 
From Uyak the Albatross went to Afognak, where an examination was made of 
the Fish Commission interests in that locality. During the four clays in which these 
investigations were being conducted a sextant reconnaissance was made of Afognak 
(Litnik) Bay and approaches. As the locality is exceedingly foul and had never 
previously been surveyed, the chart accompanying this report will no doubt be use- 
ful to the Commission and to the mariner, and the following notes, so far as they 
relate to Afognak Bay, are referred to it. 
In leaving the anchorage off the canneries at Uyak, of which a survey was made 
by this vessel in 1897 and published in Coast Survey Bulletin No. 38, a course was 
laid out of Uyak Bay clearing the shores and headlands of Capes Kiliugmuit, Ugat, 
and Uganuk by about 1 mile and entering Karluk Strait in mid-channel. A course 
through the middle of Karluk Strait seems perfectly safe and clear, and on this 
course the head of the vessel is found to point for about the center of Whale Island, 
possibly a little to the southward. 
The Raspberry Island side seems to be the boldest, though no outlying dangers 
were seen anywhere. A short distance to the eastward of Dry Island, which lies off' 
the entrance to an indentation on the southern shore midway in the strait, the tides 
coming through Shelikoff Strait meet the tides from the eastward around Whale 
Island. Outside and between the two small islets off the southeastern end of Rasp- 
berry Island is a sunken rock known as Thomas Rock. A fair berth of these two 
islets is said to clear the rock. 
