ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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The following are the .statistics of the Pyramid Harbor cannery for 1900: 
Hands employed: 92 white and 10 native fishermen; 22-1 natives from whom 
fish were purchased; 12 white cannery-hands, 16 Klootchmen, and 86 Chinese. 
Fishing gear: 56 gill nets for redfish, each 300 fathoms long, 28 meshes deep. 
6^-inch mesh; 11 gill nets for king salmon, each 180 fathoms long, 30 meshes deep. 
8^-inch mesh. 
Boats, lighters, etc.: Three lighters, $100 each; 56 Columbia River boats, $200 
each; 3 skiffs, $25 each, and 1 pile-driver, $1,000. 
The following vessels (owned) were employed in 1900: Steamer Elsie , 37 tons, 
crew 1, value $16,000; ship Two Brothers , 1,263 tons, crew fishermen, value $35,000. 
The following was the 1900 output: 
Species. 
( 'ases. 
No. to 
the 
ease. 
Date. 
King salmon: 
Red 
i 2, 255 
3. 5 
Mav 29-June 30. 
White 
-977 
3. 5 
1 >o. 
Redfish 
51.856 
11 
July 9-Sept. 1. 
Cohoes 
513 
7.5 
Aug. 20-Sept. 1. 
1 Flats. 5 Talls. 
CHILKOOT INLET. 
Chilkoot Inlet is the arm at the head of Lynn Canal east of Chilkat and is sepa- 
rated from that inlet by a long, narrow peninsula terminating in Seduction Point. 
Chilkoot Packing Company. — At the head of Chilkoot Inlet is the cannery of 
the Chilkoot Packing Company, organized at Aberdeen, Wash., with a capital of 
$20,000. This company built their cannery in April, 1900, at the head of the inlet, 
on the northern shore, in a small bend immediately outside of the line where the river 
flats impinge upon the shore line. The promoters of this cannery formerly owned a 
cannery at Grays Harbor, Washington. 
The Chilkoot cannery in 1900 had a daily capacity of 200 cases, but this might be 
doubled. The plant consists of 2 steam boxes, 2 retorts, 1 soldering machine, and 
1 cutter. It is one of the smaller canneries and makes a hand pack. For the season 
of 1901 they expect to have fillers and toppers in operation. 
Nine thousand cases of cans were made by hand at the cannery and the rest were 
purchased; 95-pound tin plate was used, all domestic. Fish are pewed from boats 
to fish-house and when cleaned are carried to the cannery on a conveyer of an endless 
chain of buckets. Transportation is by regular freight steamers. 
The Chinese contract was 42£ cents, with the usual conditions. Fishermen 
received $25 per month from the time of departure from Puget Sound to date of 
return, with full board, transportation, and 5 cents for each redfish per boat of two 
men. The cannery paid the Indians 10 cents for redfish taken with their own gear 
and 8 cents for redfish taken with cannery boats and gear. 
They used seines and gill nets and fished from the head of the iidet to Haines 
Mission for redfish and in Berners Bay for cohoes and dog salmon, though all the 
species occur in the inlet; scattering king salmon sometimes appear. A few redfish 
have been seen as early as June 15. Trout are abundant and halibut and flounders 
are not uncommon. The Chilkoot redfish run quite large. We weighed 33 taken 
