252 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The cannery machinery consists of 8 retorts, 2 fillers, 2 toppers, 2 solderers, and 
1 cutter. The tins are all made at the cannery, by hand, of 100-pound domestic plate 
for bodies and 95-pound tin for tops. 
The fish are pewed to the fish -house and, after cleaning, are conveyed by cars to 
the cannery. 
The Pacific Steam Whaling Company , at Orca, employed, in 1900, 60 white fisher- 
men, 13 white cannery-hands, 2 natives, and 60 Chinese. 
They used 2 drag seines, each 120 fathoms long, 40 meshes deep, 3-inch mesh; 
value, $1.50 per fathom; 30 gill nets, 400 fathoms long, 28 meshes deep, 6 to 6£ inches 
mesh. The boats used were 5 house scows, $400 each; 30 Columbia River boats, $200 
each; 2 seine boats, $200 each; 8 skill's, $25 each; 1 pile-driver, $200. 
The following vessels were employed: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Owned or 
chartered. 
Ship America 
1,908 
(9 
S55, 000 
Chartered. 
Steamer Thlinket 
90 
4 
10. 000 
Owned. 
Steamer Wild Cat 
104 
4 
10, 000 
Do. 
1 Fishermen. 
The following was the canned output in 1900, none being salted: 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the case. 
Date. 
Kin? salmon 
369 
4.2 
May 7-.Tune 7 
Redfish 
28, 501 
12 
May 7-July 22 
Humpbacks 
1,718 
28 
July 20-July 24 
The Chinese contract was 42 cents per case, with the usual conditions. The 
fishermen received $15 per month throughout the season, full board and transporta- 
tion, and 4 cents per boat for redrish, 10 cents for king salmon, and $5 per thousand 
for humpbacks. 
The cannery machinery consists of 4 steam boxes, 2 retorts, 1 filler, 1 solderer, and 
1 cutter. Fish are pewed to the fish-house and, after cleaning, are passed directly 
to the cutter from the draining tubs. They use 100-pound tin plate for bodies and 
tops, all imported. All the tins are made at the cannery. 
The redfish used in these canneries are nearly all taken from the Copper River 
delta. All the humpbacks and a few redfish come from the Prince William Sound 
streams. A description of the locality, time of runs, and other information is given 
in my former report. 
