ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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Gill nets: King salmon, each 50 fathoms long, 25 meshes deep, and 9-inch mesh; 
redfish, 50 fathoms long, 40 meshes deep, and 5£-inch mesh; cohoes, 75 fathoms 
long, 30 meshes deep, and 7-inch mesh (120 nets in all; value, 65 cents per fathom). 
Boats, lighters, etc.: 1 cargo lighter, $850; 12 seine boats, $100 each; 12 gill-net 
boats, $50 each; 12 seine-boat tenders, $35 each; 1 skiffs, $20 each; 1 pile-driver, $500. 
The following vessels (owned) were employed: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Steamer White Wings 
34 
r, 
|V, 000 
Steamer Annie M. Nixon 
IS 
G 
6, 000 
Steamer (stern, pad.) Gypsy Queen 
Hulk Blanche • 
58 
107 

(’) 
6,000 
4, 500 
Scow Elliott 
43 
(’) 
1,000 
1 Fishermen. 
The output of the cannery consisted of — 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the case. 
Date. 
f 1 8, 625 
] 15 
July 1-Aug. 20 
Sept. 10-Oet. 10 
July 20-Sept. 15 
Aug. 15-Oct. 30 
1 2 1,310 
| 1 500 
i 
1 7 
\ 2 1, 000 
1 10,000 
( 
20 
/ 1 4,' 800 
1 8.5 
( -'3,700 
f 
1 Tails. 2 Flats. 3 Salted 100 barrels cohoes, running 27 to the barrel. 
The Bartlett Bay sal ter y in 1899 salted 200 barrels of redfish. In 1900 it salted 
530 barrels of redfish, 15 to the barrel, June 25 to August 7; 120 barrels of cohoes, 
30 to the barrel, August 20 to September 30. 
The Shipley Bay saltery in 1900 salted 200 barrels of redfish, 50 to the barrel, 
June 27 to August 11. 
The Taku Inlet saltery in 1898 salted 140 barrels of king salmon and 12 barrels 
of white king-salmon bellies. In 1899 it salted 400 barrels of king salmon, 12£ to the 
barrel, and 12 barrels of white king-salmon bellies, May 10 to June 25. In 1900 it 
salted 400 barrels of king salmon, 12£ to the barrel, and 12 barrels of white king- 
salmon bellies, May 7 to June 25. 
On the hulk Blanche in 1899 there were salted 1,500 barrels of herring, Septem- 
ber 15 to October 31; in 1900, 1,000 barrels of herring, August 1 to October 3. 
Pacific Coast and Norway Packing Company , Wrangell Narrows. — This is a 
company chartered in Minnesota, with main office at Minneapolis, and said to be 
incorporated for $1,000,000, of which, however, a very small portion only is reported 
to have been subscribed. It is a new organization, and this year was prospecting for 
a cannery site on Wrangell Narrows, or in that vicinity. It is expected to build a 
cannery in the spring of 1901 and make a pack that season, but none of the details 
have yet been considered. This season a floating saltery outfit was operated and 
salmon and herring were salted. Later the halibut industry is to be examined. 
The following are the statistics, as far as they could be learned: 
Men employed: 16 white and 8 Japanese fishermen and 2 Japanese cooks. 
