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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Formerly the fish from Meyers stream were sold to the Loring cannery. None 
were purchased by Loring in 1900. The following is the only record available: 
Species. 
189G. 
1897. 
1898. 
1899. 
No. 
Date. 
No. 
Date. 
No. 
Date. 
No. 
3, 211 
8,760 
Date. 
Redfish 
Cohoes 
Humpbacks . . . 
4,651 
1,408 
July 16-Aug. 7 
Sept. 1-Sept. 14 
4,700 
2, 250 
9, 874 
July 20-Aug. 20 
Sept. 1-Sept, 20 
July 20-Aug. 26 
6,838 
256 
11, 499 
July 13-Aug. 30 
Aug. 20-Aug. 30 
July 20-Aug. 30 
Aug. 8-Sept. 8 
Aug. 8-Sept. 8 
It is probable that the cohoes were obtained from the large stream at the head of 
Union Bay, which is said to carry no redtish, but some cohoes and humpbacks. 
It is believed that, through the rapacity and greed of fishermen, the salmon fish- 
eries of the northwestern coast of the United States are rapidly declining. Other 
fields are now being sought in order that these also 
may pay tribute, and soon they will enter the exter- 
minating process. 
Great. Northern. Fish Company . — This is one of 
a number of small canneries and salteries, capital- 
ized from the Puget Sound and Columbia River 
districts, which sprang into existence this year in 
southeastern Alaska. This company, not incorpo- 
rated, hails from Seattle, and fitted out for an exten- 
sive salting expedition in a rather novel way. It 
was arranged to follow the fish; to salt from a barge, 
from shacks on shore, from salteries, if they 7 could 
be rented, or from schooners; to occupy a station 
where fish were plentiful, and when they became 
slack to pack up and locate where they were abun- 
dant; to salt everything of all species, from the 
best to the worst, from those fresh out of the water 
to others not so fresh; to salt direct into barrels and 
boxes, and to carry the product to Seattle and there 
resalt and assort. The first grades were intended 
for the best markets, the second for bars and free 
lunches, and the third for districts where one salt fish is not known from another. 
Old saltery men shook their heads and said salmon could not be salted that way. It, 
was tried, however, but with what ultimate success could not be learned. It was said 
this company expected to salt 20,000 to 30,000 barrels of salmon during the season. 
Union Bay was one station selected to carry on this work. At the eastern point 
of entrance to this bay a long tongue of land, bordered on the western side by a few 
islands, makes to the southward, forming a narrow, shallow cove about a mile in 
length. Inside the entrance point a bight makes into the tongue for a distance of 
about 200 yards, and at the head is a saltery of the above company. At the time of 
our visit the place was closed and no one was in sight. 
The outfit here consisted of a rough board building 20 by 40 feet, evidently the 
bunk and mess house; a rude wharf floored over with saplings cut from the adjoining 
forests, and a raft of logs lashed together and floored over with saplings. There was 
no equipment of any kind. 
