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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Pacific Steam Whaling Company's cannery at Kenai , Cook Inlet. — Reference was 
made to this cannery in my former report, page 141. The buildings were erected in 
1897 near the cannery of the Northern Packing Company, and the available machinery 
from the cannery at Coquenhena, in the Copper River delta, was installed here in the 
spring of 1898. The first pack was made that year. 
The following cannery machinery is used: Two retorts, 4 steam boxes, 1 filler, 
1 solderer, and 1 cutter; topping is done by hand. Fish are hoisted in buckets by 
steam to the fish-house, and when cleaned are conveyed by carts to the cannery. 
All the tins are made at the cannery by hand; 100-pound tin plate is used for the 
bodies and tops; 46 per cent of the plate is imported. 
In 1900 the following hands were employed: 40 white and 10 native fishermen, 
6 white cannery -hands, 6 natives, and 60 Chinese. 
They used 5 traps, averaging 1,000 feet length of lead, 240 feet length of curved 
wing, 30 feet by 30 feet pot, value $500 each; 20 gill nets for king salmon, each 60 
fathoms long, 22 meshes deep, 9±*inch mesh, value 65 cents per fathom, and 20 gill 
nets for redlish, each 60 fathoms long, 30 meshes deep, 6-inch mesh, value 65 cents 
per fathom. 
The following boats were used: Seven lighters, $350 each; 20 gill-net boats, $40 
each; 1 seine boat, $100; 3 skiffs, $25 each; 2 pile-drivers, $1,500 each. 
The following vessels (owned) were employed: Gasoline Duxbury , 30 tons, crew 
5, value $10,000; steamer Salmo, 28 tons, crew 6, value $10,000. Transportation by 
calling vessel of company. 
The output in 1900 was: 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the case. 
Dates. 
King salmon 
2, 400 
2.7 
June 1-July 10 
Redfish 
20, 924 
13 
June-Aug. 10 
Cohoes 
1,765 
8.1 
July 1-Aug. 10 
The Chinese contract was 42 cents per case. Fishermen received transportation 
and board and 1 cent each per case. 
Arctic Fishing Company. — The cannery of this company at Kussilof, Cook 
Inlet, was fully described, together with the surrounding conditions, in my former 
report, pages 142-143, and the statistics for 1900 only will be referred to here. 
This company employed the following hands in 1900: Forty-five white fishermen, 
10 native fishermen, 10 white cannery-hands, and 100 Chinese. Eight traps were 
used, with leads from 100 to 700 feet long, pots 30 feet by 30 feet, depth at pots 30 feet, 
average value $1,000; 30 king-salmon gill nets each 60 fathoms long, 22 meshes deep, 
9£-inch mesh; 30 redfish gill nets, each 60 fathoms long, 28 meshes deep, 6£-inch mesh, 
value 65 cents per fathom. There were used 3 sail lighters, $450 each; 7 trap scows, 
$50 each; 20 gill-net boats, $40 each; 2 Columbia River boats, $200 each; 6 skiffs, 
$30 each; 2 pile-drivers, $1,500 each. 
The machinery consisted of 6 retorts, 2 tillers, 2 toppers, 1 solderer, 1 cutter, 
and 1 can-maker; 75 per cent of the tins are made at the cannery of 100-pound tin 
plate, 60 per cent of which material is imported. Fish are hoisted in tubs to the 
fish-house by steam and, when cleaned, are conveyed in cars to the cannery. 
