ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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fairly successful and about paid the expenses connected with all. The following are 
its dimensions: Lead, 150 fathoms, heart double, 15 fathoms across, and pot 3G feet 
square, in 70 feet of water at high water. A short channel lead, or wing, extended 
from the corner of the heart. Webbing all tarred; 4- inch mesh for the leads, 3-inch 
mesh for the rest. 
Sketch-plan of Thlinket Packing Co.’s salmon trap, located on Zimovia Strait. 
The transportation was by regular steamer lines running from Puget Sound to 
Alaska. 
The following are the statistics for 1900: 
Hands employed: 35 white and 30 native fishermen, 9 white and 7 native cannery- 
hands, 49 Chinese. 
Fishing gear: In addition to the traps referred to, 13 king-salmon gill nets, each 
200 fathoms by 22 meshes, 97 -inch mesh; 12 redtish gill nets, each 200 fathoms by 
24 meshes, 67-inch mesh; value, 65 cents per fathom; 4 drag seines 100 fathoms long 
by 178 meshes, 3-inch mesh, value $1.50 per fathom; 1 purse seine 185 fathoms by 
220 meshes, 3-inch mesh, value $600; 1 purse seine 100 fathoms by 160 meshes, 
3-inch mesh, value $400. 
Boats, lighters, etc.: One house scow, $400; 1 fish scow, $100; 10 Columbia 
River boats, $200 each; 6 gill-net skiffs, $60 each; 6 seine boats, $60 each; 2 white- 
halls, $85 each; 3 skiffs, $20 each. 
Cannery tenders: Launch Perhaps , 6 tons; crew, 2; value, $1,500; owned. 
Steamer Baranoff , , 10 tons; crew, 5; value, $5,000; chartered. 
The following was the output in 1900: 
Species. 
Cases. 
Number 
to the 
case. 
Dates. 
King salmon: 
Red 
1 1, 375 
2 674 
f 1 505 
1 2 3, 460 
2 2,349 
215,540 
21,737 
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7. 5 
18 
6.5 
Mar 14-June 28 
June 28-Aug. 16 
Aug. 2-Sept. 21 
July 12-Aug. 31 
Aug. 1-Sept. 15 
White 
Red fish 
Dog salmon 
1 Flats. 2 Tails. 
The streams fished by this cannery aie the following: Southeast Pass Stikine 
River, Anan Ba\ r , Seward Passage, Thoms Place, Kunk Creek, Rocky Bay, Steamer 
Bay, Eagle Creek, Ratz Harbor, Red Bay. 
