ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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The Chinese contract was 45 cents per case, with the usual conditions. The 
fishermen received $50 for the run and 1 cent per case, with full board. 
The following- vessels (owned) were employed: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Ship Centennial 
1,138 
Fishermen. 
#30, 000 
Steamer Jennie 
69 
G 
30, 001) 
Steamer Reporter 
26 
3 
10,000 
Launch Arthur 
5 
2 
1,800 
The following- was the output in 1900p 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the case. 
Dates. 
King salmon 
6,169 
3 
May 26-Aug. 10 
Redfish 
22, 185 
13 
May 28- Aug. 12 
Cohoes 
5, 427 
12 
July 15-Aug. 12 
PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND AND COPPER RIVER. 
This district, with the canneries, was fully described in my former report, pages 
129-139. Since then the cannery at Coquenhena has made one more pilgrimage. 
It was dismantled in 1897, and, as previously noted, the available machinery was 
installed in the Pacific Steam Whaling Company’s cannery at Kenai, Cook Inlet. 
The Pacific Packing Company , at Odiak, for the season of 1900 employed 1 doctor, 
60 white fishermen, 10 white cannery and beach hands, 6 natives, and 60 Chinese. 
It had 1 drag seine 250 fathoms long, 120 meshes deep, 2^-inch mesh; value, $1.50 per 
fathom; 38 gill nets, each 350 fathoms long, 30 meshes deep, 6^-inch mesh; value, 65 
cents per fathom. The boats were 2 lighters, $400 each; 3 house scows, $400 each; 
33 Columbia River boats, $200 each; 2 seine boats, $200 each; 6 skiffs, $25 each. 
The following vessels were employed: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Owned or 
chartered. 
Bark Kate Davenport 
1,175 
(') 
$10, 000 
Chartered. 
Steamer Pacific 
31 
6 
15, 000 
Owned. 
Steamer S. B. Matthews 
164 
G 
14,000 
Do. 
Steamer Susanna 
18 
4 
8,000 
Do. 
1 Fishermen. 
The following was the output of canned salmon in 1900, none being salted: 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the case. 
Date. 
King salmon 
473 
4^ 
May 9-June 12 
Redfish 
35,049 
m 
May 9-Aug. 4 
Humpbacks 
3,888 
■m 
July 6-Aug. 2 
The Chinese contract was 42 cents, with the usual conditions. The fishermen 
received $60 for the run and 4 cents per boat of two men for redfish, 10 cents for 
king, and $10 per thousand for humpbacks, with full board. 
