298 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The following was the pack in 1900: 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the case. 
Dates. 
6,930 
610 
9,690 
330 
13.7 
7.9 
20 
June 20-Sept. 5 
July 27-Sept. 12 
July 18-Sept. 4 
Dog sal moo 
No salting has ever been done here. The streams fished for the cannery are the 
Home Stream, Tamgas, Duke Island, Quadra, Karta Bay, Kithraum, Peter Johnson, 
Nowiskay, Old Johnson, Kegan, and Kagahine. 
KLAWAK. 
North Pacific Trading and Packing Company . — This cannery and its surround- 
ings were described in my former report, pages 109 to 115, and only such additional 
information as seems pertinent to bring the records up to date will be referred 
to here. 
The cannery, together with all the buildings, sawmill, store, etc., was burnt on 
September IS, 1899. In the spring of 1900 the same company built a new cannery 
about a mile south from the old site and on the opposite side of the arm, where it is 
more accessible to vessels. It is considerably larger than the old plant, and modern 
machinery has been installed. In the canning process the following machinery is used: 
Four retorts, 1 filler, 1 topper, 1 solderer, and 1 cutter. This should give the cannery 
a daily capacity of 800 cases. The fish are butchered on a float and conveyed to 
the cutter by a conveyor on the endless-chain principle. 
The Klawak cannery, representing the earliest in Alaska, was, from 1878 to 
1896, operated by Indian labor. These people demanded more and more each year 
until the expense of the pack became greater than it would have been had Chinese 
labor been employed. The result was that the cannery slowly introduced the latter. 
In 1896 there were employed in the cannery 62 natives and 2 Chinese, and in 1900 
13 natives and 16 Chinese. 
The following are the statistics for 1900: 
Hands employed: 55 native fishermen, 10 white and 13 native cannery-hands, 
and 16 Chinese. 
Fishing gear: Nine purse seines, each 175 fathoms by 210 meshes, 3-inch mesh, 
valued at $300 each. 
Boats, etc.: One scow, $100; 11 seine boats, $80 each; 5 skiffs, $25 each. 
Transportation was by special sail, chartered. 
The cannery steamers were the Klawack , 10 tons, crew 1, value $5,000, owned; 
Cora, launch, 5 tons, crew 2, value $1,500, owned. 
The following was the pack in 1900: 
Species. 
Cases. 
No. to 
the case. 
Dates. 
Redfish 
8, 228 
14.2 
June 17-Aug. 25 
cohoes 
3,973 
8 
July 21-Sept. 25 
Humpbacks 
15, 551 
17 
July 17-Aug. 27 
