ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA. 
Since my former report eight new canneries have been built in this district, one 
of which made its first pack in 1899 and the remainder during the present season 
(1900). During the same period one has been dismantled, that of the Baranof 
Packing Company at Reclfish Bay, which was sold to the Alaska Packers Association 
and moved to the Egagak, and one was in course of construction, in 1900, at Bartlett 
Bay, which will be operated in 1901. The season of 1901 promises to see many new 
canneries in Alaska, a number of which will locate in this district. 
Western Fisheries Company. — A company under this title, organized at Portland, 
Oreg. , built a cannery in the spring of 1900 at the head of Dundas Bay, which is on 
the northern side of the junction of Cross Sound and Icy Straits. The cannery is one 
of the smaller ones and has a capacity of 300 cases per day, made largely by hand. 
In 1900 this cannery employed 9 white fishermen, 26 native fishermen, 5 white 
cannery-hands, 20 native men, 6 native women, and 30 Chinese. The record of the 
native men includes those to whom gear was furnished and from whom the catch 
was purchased. They used one purse seine 150 fathoms long; 6 drag seines — length, 
2 of 110 fathoms, 1 of 100 fathoms, 1 of 80 fathoms, 1 of 60 fathoms, and 1 of 50 
fathoms — valued at $1.50 per fathom; -1 gill nets of 150 fathoms each, valued at 65 
cents per fathom. There was 1 lighter, $250; 5 seine boats, $75 each; 1 gill-net 
boats, $50 each; 2 Columbia River boats, $100 each; 1 dory, $50; 1 skiff, $50. 
The transportation was by regular freight steamers. The following cannery 
steamers were used: Steam tug Favorite , 7 tons, crew 3, value $2,000, chartered; 
steam tug Beaver , 19 tons, crew 5, value $5,500, owned. 
The following was the output in 1900, none being salted: 
Species. 
Cases. 
Number to 
the case. 
Date. 
Kins salmon 
60 
4.5 
Sept. 1-Sept. 30 
Redfish 
r>, i3o 
8 to 12 
June28-Aug. 25 
Cohoes 
977 
7.5 
July 30-Sept. 20 
Humpbacks 
1 , 866 
18 - 
July 10-Aug. 10 
Dog salmon 
4,760 
6. 5 
.July 15-Sept. 20 
The Chinese contract was 38 cents for 1-pound tails, 40 cents for half-pound 
fiats, and 42 cents for 1-pound fiats, with the usual conditions. The white fishermen 
received $40 to $60 per month, with transportation and board. Fish were purchased 
at the following rates: King salmon, 10 cents; cohoes, 6 cents; redfish, 5 cents; dog- 
salmon, 2 cents; humpbacks, 1 cent. 
The following are the numbers of fish taken and the localities where found: 
275 king salmon off' Hooniah; 66,901 redfish in Dundas Bay, Taylor Bay, Surge Bay, 
Cape Spencer, Thakanis Bay, Soapstone Point, Excursion Inlet, and Glacier Bay; 
8,596 cohoes, scattering on the redfish grounds; 35,383 humpbacks at Port Althrop, 
Soapstone Point, and Excursion Inlet, and 29,803 dog salmon in Dundas Bay. 
Pyramid Harbor Packing Company. — This cannery, the fisheries, and the general 
locality were described in my former report, pages 125 to 128, so that only the 
statistics for 1900, together with references to features omitted or changes made, 
will be given here. The canning machinery consists of 6 retorts, 2 fillers and 1 
