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spare one, 2 toppers, 2 solderers, 1 cutter, and 1 can-making set. All tins are made 
at the cannery of 100-pound tin plate for bodies and 95-pound for tops; 60 per cent 
of the plate is imported. It has a daily capacity of 1,600 cases, but this amount is 
rarely attained. The pack of this cannery is the choicest in Alaska; it is mostly for 
export, is made with great care, and has only about ^ per cent of do-overs. It is 
very clean and free from the unpleasant odors noticed in many packing houses. 
The fish are pewed from boats to a car operated by a cable and steam, traveling 
on an inclined plane from the water’s edge to the fish-house, and the cleaned fish are 
passed from the draining tubs direct to the cutter. The gurry is carried with a 
stream of water in a wide trough under the fish-house into the bay. The Chinese 
contract was 424 cents for machine-filled cans, with the usual conditions. The boss 
received $50 a month and his lay, and the tester $250 for the season. The fishermen 
had $50 for the run and 4 cents per fish for each boat of two men and t'ldl board. 
About ten natives were employed as boat-pullers, who shared in the gill-net catch. 
Klootchmen employed in the cannery received $1.25 per day. 
The cannery purchased fish from about 224 Chilkat and Chilkoot Indians, paying 
10 cents for redfish, though formerly 6 and 8 cents were paid. The Chilkats deliv- 
ered at the cannery, while the cannery steamers called for the Chilkoot fish. 
The following redfish were delivered by the Chilkat Indians: In 1898, 11,156 
during August; in 1899, from July 19th to August 31st, 21,000; in 1900, from July 
25th to September 1st, 47,967. 
By the Chilkoot Indians: In 1898, July 12th to August 22d, 99,660; in 1899, from 
July 10th to August 13th, 148,896; in 1900, from July 12th to August 22d, 169,107. 
The cannery obtains its fish from Chilkat and Chilkoot inlets and rivers and 
from Taku Inlet. King salmon run at Taku from May 25 to June 30; at Chilkat, 
from June 10 to July 10, but they are not abundant. A few straggling redfish 
appear at Chilkat about June 20, but the} 7 are not found in large numbers until the 
last of June or early in July. They are plentiful then until the middle of August 
and straggle with cohoes until the last of September. The run in Chilkoot begins 
earlier and closes earlier than in the Chilkat. (In my former report the names 
became transposed and this was wrongly stated on page 128.) A good run for about 
forty- five days is usually looked for. The redfish are called sock-eye, the name 
used for this species in Puget Sound and on the Columbia; and it was noticed that 
with the advent of canneries backed by capital from that district the name sock-eye 
is becoming more common in Alaska. Cohoes are called kluks, which is the Indian 
name and the same as that used at Killisnoo. They run in Chilkat Inlet from about 
the middle of August to early in October, possibly later, and are quite abundant 
in September. There are very few humpbacks in Chilkat, but it is said that they 
are quite abundant in Chilkoot. Dog salmon straggle through the season and some 
years are abundant in September. 
The pack of this cannery is in redfish; the king salmon and eohoesare incidental 
and the humpbacks and dog salmon are not used. The first steel head ever seen in 
this locality was taken this year. The only sturgeon ever seen was mentioned in my 
former report. No shad have been seen. There are many Dolly Yarden trout and 
some veiy large halibut. The cannery uses gill nets exclusively, while the Indians 
fish the rivers with gall's and nets, the latter about 60 fathoms long. 
