ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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The head of Lake No. 3 would afford an excellent site for a hatchery. There is an 
abundance of water, which could be conveyed by gravity, and plenty of spawning- 
fish. Another site could probably be found at the mouth of the feeder in Lake No. 2, 
but it is probable that spawning fish might not be so easily obtained. 
In addition to the record of the stream given in my former report, page 96, the 
following may be added: 
Species. 
1898. 
1899. 
1900. 
No. 
Dates. 
No. 
Dates. 
No. 
Dates. 
18,377 
5,000 
150, 000 
July ‘20-Aug. 2 
Aug. 15-Sept. 15 
July 15-Aug. 15 
13, 176 
1,000 
189, 650 
15, 224 
2, 000 
150, 000 
July 1-Sept. 21 
July 15-Sept. 1 
July 31-Sept. 1 
Humpbacks . . . 
LOKING. 
Alaska Salmon. Packing and Fur Company . — The cannery of this company was 
described in my former' report, pp. 92 to 9T, but additional information and the sta- 
tistics for 1900 will be given here. The following machinery is used in canning: Six 
retorts, 2 tillers, 2 toppers, 2 solderers, and 1 cutter. The daily capacity is 1,800 
cases. There are no can-makers; all tins are made at the cannery by hand, using 
100-pound plate for bodies and 95-pound plate for tops, of which 16 per cent is 
imported. There is an inclined railway from the fish-house, Y-shaped at the tide- 
water end, which admits a steamer into the Y at any stage of the tide. Fish are 
discharged on either side into cars, which are hauled to the fish-house by cable 
operated by steam. A new cannery is to take the place of the old one for the season 
of 1901. 
The Chinese contract was T2£ cents, with the usual conditions; fishermen received 
$45 per month and board, from the time of signing to the day on which they were 
paid off. In purchasing fish the following prices were paid: 5^ to 7 cents for redfish, 
7 cents for cohoes, and $6 to $7.50 per thousand for humpbacks. All the fishing 
gear and boats were supplied by the cannery. 
The following are the statistics for 1900: 
Hands employed: 100 white fishermen, besides 150 natives employed at fisheries 
from whom fish were purchased; 20 white and TO native cannery-hands; 120 Chiuese. 
Fishing gear: Twenty-four purse seines, each 150 to 200 fathoms by 7 to 12 
fathoms, 3-inch mesh, valued at $2.50 per fathom; 16 drag seines, each 150 to 200 
fathoms by T to 6 fathoms, 3-inch mesh, valued at $1.50 per fathom. 
Boats, lighters, etc-.: Two cargo lighters, $150 each; T2 seine boats, $50 each; 20 
fish lighters, $75 each; 1 Whitehall, $50; 12 skiffs, $20 each. 
The vessels used were as follows: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
Remarks. 
Steamer Arctic 
21 
5 
$4,000 
Owned. 
Steamer Novelty 
33 
5 
12, 000 
Do. 
Ship Sintram 
1,495 
(') 
60,000 
Chartered. 
1 Crew fishermen. 
