260 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The output was as follows, none being salted: 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the case. 
Date. 
King salmon: 
Red 
13,150 
f 
Pink 
’454 
\ 2.8 
May 17-June 26 
White 
i?71 
1 
Redfish 
( >5,818 
\ - 830 
} 9 
July 5-Aug. 12 
Cohoes 
i 3, 227 
7 
Aug. 1-Sept. 15 
Dog salmon 
i 2, 472 
6.5 
Aug. 15-Sept. 25 
i Tails. 2 Flats. 
PORT SNETTISHAM. 
Taku Fishing Company . — This company, with a capital stock of $15,000, said to 
be owned in San Francisco, but with home address at Portland, Oreg., commenced 
the construction of a cannery on March 1, 1900, and had the plant ready for operating 
-Tune 1. It is located on the southern side of the entrance to Port Snettisham, in the 
first bend within the southern entrance point, 2 miles east of Point Styleman. It is 
a small cannery, making a hand pack, with a daily capacity of 300 cases, and an outfit 
for about 12,000 to 15,000 cases per season. It has 3 retorts, 1 solderer, and 1 
hand cutter. All cans are made by hand at the cannery, of 95-pound domestic tin. 
The Chinese contract was 43 cents for hand-tilled cans, with the usual conditions. 
The locality has not heretofore been considered a favorable location; hence no fish- 
ermen’s contracts could be made and they were paid wages throughout the season. 
The white fishermen were transported and, with the natives, received from $40 to 
$65 per month and board. The cannery paid 7 cents each for redfish and 50 cents 
per hundred for humpbacks. King salmon were obtained from Taku Inlet and red- 
fish from Port Snettisham. Humpbacks were largely from Limestone Inlet and 
from small streams near the cannery. 
Employees: 16 white and 20 native fishermen,! white cannery -hands, 25 Chinese. 
Fishing gear: Four gill-nets for king salmon, each 150 fathoms long, 20 meshes 
deep, 9i-inch mesh; 14 gill-nets for redfish, each 150 fathoms long, 30 meshes deep, 
61-inch mesh — all valued at 65 cents per fathom. The cannery had 1 purse seine, 165 
fathoms long, 300 meshes deep, 31-inch mesh, value $400, and 3 drag seines averaging 
100 fathoms long, 5 fathoms deep, and 31-inch mesh, value $1.50 per fathom. 
Boats, etc.: One lighter, $500; 3 seine boats, $50 each; 3 Columbia River 
boats, $150 each; 9 gill-net boats, $50 each. The following launches were also 
used: N. cfe &, 10 tons, crew 2, valued at $1,800, owned; Pescaderg , 4 tons, crew 
1, value $600, owned. The transportation was by regular freight steamer 
The following was the output: 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the case. 
Date. 
King salmon: 
Red 
454 
3 
June 1-June20 
\V h i te 
97 
3 
Do. 
Redfish 
2,542 
9 
July 9-July 27 
Cohoes 
756 
7 
Sept. 1-Sept. 24 
Humpbacks 
3, 593 
21 
July 25-Aug. 16 
Dog salmon 
2,016 
7 
July 9-Sept. 24 
