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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
iuul Alaska Fishermen’s Packing Company, all on the Nushagak; North Alaska Salmon 
Company, on the Kvichak; Naknek Packing Company, on the Naknek; Bristol 
Packing Company and Red Salmon Packing Company, on the Ugashik; Alaska 
Salmon Association, on Cook Inlet; Fidalgo Island Canning Company, Ketchikan; 
Metlakahtla Industrial Company, Metlakahtla; North Pacific Trading and Packing 
Company, Klawak; Pacific Coast and Norway Packing Company, Blunt Point, 
Wrangell Narrows; Union Packing Company, Kell Bay; San Juan Fish and Packing 
Company, Taku Harbor; and F. C. Barnes & Co., Lake Bay, Prince of Wales 
Island. 
NEW CANNERIES IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA IN 1901. 
In southeastern Alaska six new canneries were built and operated and two were 
rebuilt during the season, as follows: Thlinket Packing Company, in addition to their 
cannery at Gerard Point, at the mouth of the Stikine River, erected and operated a 
plant called No. 2 in Santa Ana Bay, Seward Passage. The Pacific Coast and Norway 
Packing Company, which during 1900 operated a salting plant in Wrangell Narrows, 
erected and operated a cannery in the Narrows at Blunt Point. The Chatham Straits 
Packing Company, a branch of, or promoted by, the Icy Strait Packing Company, 
operated a cannery on the southern shore of Sitkoh Bay, about 4 miles from Point 
Craven. The Union Packing Company built and operated a cannery in Kell Bay, Ivuiu 
Island. Canneries were also built and operated at Lake Bay, Prince of Wales Island, 
by F. C. Barnes & Co., and in Taku Harbor, by the San Juan Fish and Packing 
Company. The Alaska Packers Association rebuilt their canneries at Loring and 
Wrangell and installed modern plants at both places. Three new canneries only were 
visited in southeastern Alaska, as time did not permit our calling at all the points. 
Union Packing Company. — This company, with home address at Tacoma, was 
organized under the laws of the State of Washington, and built a cannery during the 
spring of the year on Kell Bay, an arm of Affleck Canal, on the southern end of 
Kuiu Island. The buildings are located on the southern arm of the bay inside a 
cluster of islands. The capacity of the cannery is placed at 600 cases per day. The 
outfit was for 25,000 cases, with a Chinese guaranty of 20,000 cases. The Chinese 
contract was 44 cents per case, with the usual conditions. The fishermen contracted 
for their transportation and board, $35 per month, and for each crew of 7 men, 
collectively, a bonus of 1 cent for each redfish and coho, $4 per thousand for dog- 
salmon, and $2 per thousand for humpbacks. Transportation 1 >y calling freight 
steamers of a regular line. If the conditions should hold good, it was the intention 
to fish for halibut after the close of the salmon-packing season. 
Alaska Salmon Packing and Fur Company (A. P. A.), Loring. — During the 
spring of 1901 the old cannery buildings were pulled down, new buildings were erected, 
and new machinery installed on the old site for a first-class three-filler plant. The main 
cannery building is 240 feet by 50 feet, of which 70 feet is two-story; parallel to it 
and connected by a broad platform is a two-story warehouse, 170 feet by 60 feet, 
with an ell 120 feet b} T 40 feet. Part of the old building, 60 feet by 35 feet, has been 
retained for a box-house. There are two wharves — the upper one having sufficient 
depth alongside for vessels to lie while loading, the lower one is used for berths for 
the cannery tenders. The Y slip for discharging fish from the tenders, referred to 
in my 1900 report has been extended. 
