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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Boats, lighters, etc. : Two lighters, <$600 each; 7 seine boats, $60 each; 14 Columbia 
River boats, $200 each; 8 old Columbia River boats, $25 each; 5 skill's, $25 each. 
The following vessels, owned b} r the company, were employed: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Ship Llewellyn .1. Morse 
1,271 
0) 
135, 000 
Steamer Ella Rohlffs 
36 
5 
15, 000 
Steamer Aleut 
19 
5 
10, 000 
1 Fishermen. 
The following was the output in 1900: 
Species. 
Cases. 
Number 
to the 
case. 
Dates. 
King salmon 
1,837 
3.8 
May 15-July 1 
Redfish 
10,848 
10.1 
June 18-Aug. 10 
Cohoes 
9,401 
7.4 
July 10-Sept. 18 
Humpbacks 
36, 432 
15.8 
July 2-Aug. 22 
Thlinket Packing Company . — This company was organized at Portland, Oreg., 
and incorporated under the laws of that State. A sawmill at Point Gerard, on the 
mainland opposite Point Highfield at the junction of the Eastern Passage and the 
southeast stream of the Stikine Delta, was purchased, and in the spring of 1899 a 
cannery was erected and a small pack was made that year. The site does not afford 
much room on level ground, necessitating considerable crowding in the building 
arrangements. There is a substantial wharf with the fish-house over deep water, 
where the current carries away the gurry and leaves the place free from the un- 
pleasant odors so frequently noticed around plants of this kind. The cannery plant 
consists of 2 steam boxes, 2 retorts, 2 hand cutters, 1 can-washer, 1 crimper, and 1 
solderer. The pack is made by hand, and the plant has a daily capacity of 800 cases. 
The fish are pewed from boats or lighters into a chute, adjustable for different stages 
of the tide, which leads to a cage car, or vertical elevator, operated by steam. When 
this car is filled it is hoisted and its contents dumped into a second car which runs 
to the fish-house. All the cans, except a small percentage of fiats, are made by hand 
at the cannery, of 100-pound domestic tin plate. The Chinese contract was 42 cents 
for tails made at the cannery, 38 cents for tails purchased, and 42 cents for flats pur- 
chased, with the usual conditions. The fishermen’s contract was transportation and 
board, bonis of $80 each for beach work, 10 cents for king salmon, 5 cents for red- 
fish and cohoes, and 1 cent for humpbacks, per boat. The fishing bosses had allow- 
ances which brought their monthly wages to $70 or $75, and the others averaged $50 
and $55 per month. Indian labor was used, but it is not looked upon with favor on 
account of being unreliable. 
Four traps were built this year at an expense of $5,500, located as follows: One 
in Dry Strait; 1 in the lower part of the southeast stream of the Stikine; 1 about 300 
yards west from the cannery, and 1 in Zimovia Strait, about 10 miles below Wrangell. 
The first three were complete failures, although rebuilt several times; the fourth was 
