ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
295 
5 cents each, cohoes 6 cents each, humpbacks 75 cents per hundred, dog salmon, in 
good condition, cents each. The cannery finds all gear. 
The following are the statistics for 1900: 
Hands employed: Fifteen white and 15 native fishermen, 5 white and 15 native 
cannery-hands, 61 Chinese. 
Fishing gear: One trap, previously described, value $1,000; 1 purse seine, 230 
fathoms by 20 fathoms, value $2.50 per fathom; 3 drag seines, 175 fathoms, 150 
fathoms, and 120 fathoms long by 10, 8, and 6 fathoms deep, all 3-inch mesh, value 
$1.50 per fathom; 2 gill nets, each 100 fathoms by 32 meshes, 10^-inch mesh; 2 gill 
nets, each 100 fathoms by 35 meshes, 6^-inch mesh, value 65 cents per fathom. 
Boats, lighters, etc.: Five lighters, $50 each; 1 seine boats, $50 each; 6 skiffs, 
$25 each. Steamer Rosie , 8 tons, crew 2, value $2,500, owned. Transportation by 
regular line of freight steamers. 
The following was the pack in 1900: 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the case 
Dates. 
King salmon 
713 
2.5 
June 25-July 10 
Redfish 
9,825 
8.5 
July 13-Sept. 7 
Cohoes 
2, 306 
7.5 
Aug. 20-Sept. 27 
Humpbacks 
20, 051 
15 
July 18-Sept. 18 
Dog salmon 
728 
6 
July 10-Sept. 27 
ROCA I)E QUADRA. 
These waters and the cannery of the Quadra Packing Company were described 
in my former report, pages 62 to 61, and only the additional information which lias 
been obtained will be referred to here. 
Salteries . — The Clark & Martin saltery at the mouth of Quadra redfish stream 
has tumbled down through decay and is practically abandoned. Near this site a 
saltery was operated in 1899 by Mr. Hilton, from Bellingham Bay, who dry-salted 
about 1,000 dog salmon. In 1900 the saltery was operated by Mr. Z. Doty, from 
Whatcom, who also salted a few dog salmon. Neither of these men had any gear; 
they simply bought the “slop overs,” as they are called, dog salmon or “chums,” 
from the cannery seines. 
In 1899 a Mr. D. Blaauw, from Tacoma, built a saltery on Grouse Island and 
operated it the same way as mentioned under the other salteries. He dry-salted 
about 11,000 dog salmon (chums), and shipped them to the Sound. In 1900 the 
saltery was closed. 
Quadra Stream , described in my former report, is one of the best redfish streams 
in Southeast Alaska, and is noted for the large fish which it carries. It has attracted 
the attention of the canneries operated in the vicinity, and so vigorous is the fishing 
carried on that it is believed very few fish ever reach the spawning-grounds. In 
1899 it was fished by the Loring cannery with 8 purse seines, the Quadra cannery 
with 8 purse seines, and Metlakahtla cannery with 2 purse seines, or a total of 18 
purse seines. In 1900 it was fished by the Loring cannery with 8 purse seines, the 
Quadra cannery with 8 purse seines, the Ketchikan cannery with 8 purse seines, the 
Metlakahtla cannery with 2 purse seines, a fishery from Port Gravina with 2 purse 
seines, and 2 independent gangs with 1 purse seine each, or a total of 30 purse seines. 
