ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1901. 
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The Pacific Packing and Navigation Company acquired the following properties, 
and they are now operated by that organization: 
Alaska. 
Canneries of Pacific Steam Whaling Company at Nushagak, Bristol Bay; Chignik, Alaska Peninsula; 
Uyak, Kadiak Island; Kenai, Cook Inlet; Orca, Prince William Sound; Hunter Bay, Southeast 
Alaska. 
Hume Bros. & Hume, with canneries at Chignik, Alaska Peninsula, and Uyak, Kadiak Island. 
Thlinket Packing Company, canneries at Gerard Point and Santa Anna Bay, Southeast Alaska. 
Western Fisheries Company, with a cannery at Dundas Bay, Icy Strait. 
Chilkoot Packing Company, with a cannery at Chilkoot Inlet. 
Taku Packing Company, with a cannery at Taku Inlet. 
Taku Fishing Company, with a cannery at the entrance to Port Snettisham. 
Boston Fishing & Trading Company, with a cannery at Yes Bay. 
Chatham Straits Packing Company, with a cannery at Sitkoh Bay. 
Icy Strait Packing Company, with a cannery at Petersburg, Wrangell Narrows. 
Quadra Packing Company, with a cannery at Mink Bay, Boca de Quadra. 
Puget Sound Region, Washington. 
Pacific-American Fisheries Company, with canneries at Fairhaven and one at Friday Harbor. 
Ainsworth & Dunn, with canneries at Seattle and Friday Harbor. 
Fairhaven Canning Company, with a cannery at Fairhaven. 
The new concern also acquired a hatchery near the entrance to Freshwater Bay 
and one in the Boca de Quadra, Alaska. 
As the histories of the Alaska canneries have been given in my former reports, 
reference will be made here to the canneries located in Washington and absorbed by 
the new company. 
The Pacific American Fisheries Company was incorporated in 1899 under the 
laws of New Jersey. This company purchased at the time of its organization the 
cannery and trap properties of the Island Packing Company, San Juan Island, and 
the cannery of the Franco- American North Pacific Packing Company at Fairhaven, 
the latter concern having been promoted the year previous. The “P. A. F. as it 
was locally known, also acquired about thirty independent trap locations in the 
adjacent waters of Washington. 
Ainsworth & Dunn had one cannery at Blaine and one at Seattle, and a number 
of trap locations. This business had grown up gradually, during a period of seven 
or eight years, from a small beginning in the fresh-fish trade to a prominent position 
in the Puget Sound salmon industry. 
The Fairhaven Canning Company was a Washington State corporation, owning- 
one cannery at Fairhaven and several trap locations. 
The Pacific Packing and Navigation Company therefore represents a combine of 
twenty-three canneries with their equipage. The company claims an Alaska pack 
for 1901 of about 700,000 cases, and expects to increase its output so as to have a 
total capacity of 1,000,000 per season. 
Returning to the cannery conditions in Alaska, there are now two large corpora- 
tions and sixteen independent canneries. The Alaska Packers’ Association easily 
leads in this enterprise, with a pack this year of 50 per cent of the total. The Pacific 
Packing and Navigation Company follows with about 30 per cent. The remaining 20 
per cent are distributed among the following independent concerns: Alaska Salmon 
Company, Columbia River Packers’ Association, Portland- Alaska Packers’ Association , 
