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in the ship’s seine, and they averaged 8£ pounds; 30 from the cannery bin averaged 
7j pounds. The following record of steelheads may be of interest: August 20, 
1 steelhead; August 25, 3 steelheads, length 28 inches, weight 91 pounds; August 26, 
2 steelheads, length 28 and 32 inches, weight 10 and 134 pounds; August 29, 3 steel- 
heads. length 26, 28, and 31 inches, weight 94, 104, and 134 pounds; September -1, 
•1 steelheads; September 8, 2 steelheads. 
In 1900 the cannery employed 2d white and 8 native fishermen and purchased 
from 16 natives; 9 white cannery-hands, IT natives, and 28 Chinese. 
It used 1 purse seine, 160 fathoms by 20 fathoms, 3f-inch mesh, value $1,400; 
16 gill nets, each 270 fathoms long, 25 meshes deep, 64-inch mesh, value 65 cents 
per fathom; 2 Columbia River boats, $90 each, and 1 skiff, $25. 
The following cannery steamers were used: Steamer Estella , 20 tons, crew 3, 
value $3,500, owned; launch ./. R. Robert *, 9 tons, crew 2, value $3,000, chartered. 
The following was the output of canned salmon, none being salted: 
[Half-pound tins are packed in cases of 48 tins, but are reckoned in cases of 48 pounds.] 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the | Date, 
case. | 
[ '9,022 
- - 4, 098 
y 828 
f 1 574 
I :1 170 
1 158 
|- 8. 3 j j J u 1 1 e 30-Se j > t . 7 . 
8 jsept. 7-Sept. In. 
8 Sept. 10-Sept. 25. 
1 One-pound (alls. 2 One-pound flats. y One-half pound flats. 
CII ILK GOT RIVER AND LAKE. 
The northwestern end of Chilkoot Inlet terminates in a narrowing, V -shaped 
indentation, which receives at its head the waters of Chilkoot River. The indentation 
is about one-half mile wide at the outer end by three-fourths mile in length, and at 
low water is an uncovered flat, with a shallow boat channel meandering through it, 
which carries the river discharge. At the apex of the V is the river mouth, which 
at this point is contracted to about 100 feet by a point making from the western shore. 
Within the point is a tidal basin about 100 yards wide and one-fourth mile long, 
which extends to the foot of the rapids at the head of tide water. From here the 
stream first curves gently to the northward and then to the westward until it reaches 
the lake, three-fourths mile distant, having an average width of about 125 feet. With 
the exception of a length of about one-fourth mile from the lake, where, however, 
the current flows with considerable velocity, the entire river from tide water is a 
rapid of gentle fall. At the middle of this length, on the western shore, is a summer 
village of Chilkoot Indians, who fish the stream and, it is said, the lake also. 
The bottom of the stream is rocky and bowldery. The right bank is steep to a 
narrow grassy shelf which merges into rolling, densely wooded hills; the left bank 
is steep and wooded, with grassy recesses, and rises rapidly to the precipitous moun- 
tain masses. The rapids are all staked off, each stake indicating the fishing-place 
allotted to an Indian family, which is handed down from one generation to another 
and jealously guarded against intruders. During the fishing season the Indians build 
platforms over or secure canoes on their claims, and from either conduct the fishing, 
