300 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The cannery machinery consists of 2 steam boxes, 5 retorts, 2 tillers, 2 solderers, 
and 1 cutter, giving it a daily capacity of 1,600 cases. Topping is done by hand. 
Fish are pewed to the fish-house, and thence passed by hand direct from the draining 
tubs to the cutters. There are no can-makers; all tins are made by hand at the can- 
nery, of 100-pound plate, 66 per cent of which is domestic. 
The Chinese contract was 4-2£ cents per case. The white fishermen received 
transportation and board and were paid 5 cents for redfish and the same for cohoes. 
The cannery also purchased fish and paid 6 cents for redfish, 6 cents for cohoes, and 
one-half cent for humpbacks. Native wages were 25 cents per hour for adult males, 
and $1 to $1.50 per day for klootchmen. 
The following are the statistics for 1900: 
Hands employed: 21 whites, and employed and purchased fish from 121 natives: 
10 white cannery-hands and 90 Chinese. 
Fishing gear: Twenty-two seines, square hung, for drag seines or pursing by 
hand; they average 195 fathoms by 5 fathoms, 3-inch mesh; value, $1.50 per fathom; 
2 lighters, $100 each; 2 fish-scows, $50 each; 22 seine boats, $50 each; 3 skiffs, $25 
each, and 1 pile-driver, $800. 
The following steamers were owned and operated by the cannery: 
Class and name. 
Tons. 
Crew. 
Value. 
19 
5 
$12, 000 
25, 000 
3,000 
59 
9 
Gasoline launch Alphonse XIII 
5 
2 
The transportation is by calling vessels of the Pacific Steam Whaling Co 
The following was the pack in 1900: 
Species. 
No. of 
cases. 
No. to 
the 
case. 
Date. 
7,828 
4,070 
31,709 
12.8 
June 18-Aug. 10 
July 31-Sept. 10 
July 17-Aug. 28 
9 
18.6 
The following localities are fished I >y this cannery: Karta Bay, Hetta Inlet, 
Nichols Bay, Hunter Bay, Moira Sound, Klakas Inlet, Nutqua Inlet, Sukkwan Inlet, 
Hessa Inlet, Peter Johnson Stream, Keke Inlet, Cholmondeley Sound, Skookum 
Chuck, Klawak, and Copper Mountain Bay. 
The Pacific Steam Whaling Company, in connection with the cannery, operate 
a hatchery which is situated on Hetta Lake. 
HETTA STREAM. 
This stream was fully described in my former report, pages 73 to 75. As it is 
one of the large redfish streams of southeastern Alaska, and as many wild statements 
have been made in regard to the catch from it, the following data, added to that 
previously given, makes a complete record from 1886 to 1900, both years inclusive. 
