ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1901. 
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The following canning machinery is installed: 2 cutters, 3 tillers, 3 toppers, 
3 solderers, 10 retorts, 2 sets of canmakers (complete with 2 toppers and 2 solderers), 
and 2 fish -cleaning machines. The cannery has a capacity of 2,400 cases a day, and 
was ready for operation for the first run of fish this season. All the tins were made 
at the cannery, of 100-pound domestic plate. The canning machines were run at 
the rate of 55 per minute for each set. 
Glacier Packing Company (A. P. A .), Point .Uighfield , Wrangell. — As the old 
cannery was no longer suitable for the purpose, it was pulled down during the season 
and a new enlarged cannery with the latest machinery was constructed on the site of 
the old plant. The cannery building proper, a structure 238 feet by 50 feet, of which 
138 feet is two-story, was ready for the season’s pack, and the warehouses and other 
buildings were erected during the season and after the runs were over. All cans 
were made by hand at the cannery, except 1,200 cases of fiats which were carried 
from San Francisco. T'he tin plate was of domestic manufacture, 100-pound weight. 
Several of the older canneries were visited in southeastern Alaska, but no marked 
changes were noted from conditions existing in 1900, except a general tendency to 
improve methods, better machinery, and increased facilities for making a larger pack. 
It may be of interest here to note that during our visit in the vicinity of 
Burroughs Bay it was learned that the Indians during the past two years have taken 
quite a number of shad. 
NEW CANNERIES, WESTERN ALASKA, 1901. 
From Cross Sound to Bering Sea there were no additions to the canneries, but 
the latter district received six new ones and enlargements to several old plants. 
The Portland-Alaska Packers’ Association built a cannery at Snag Point, on the 
Upper Nushagak Bay. The location is in front of the village, a short distance above 
the A. P. A. cannery known as the Alaska Packing Company, or the Johnson plant. 
The Columbia River Packers’ Association constructed a cannery at the mouth of 
Clark Creek, above the Nushagak Canning Company’s reserve plant (A. P. A.). 
The Alaska Salmon Company erected a canning plant on the right bank of Wood 
River, about 2 miles from the mouth, and abreast of the lower point of the first island 
in the river. 
The Red Salmon Packing Company built and operated a cannery on the Ugashik 
River, about half a mile above the site of the old Bering Sea Packing Company. 
The Alaska Packers’ Association built an additional three-filler cannery on the 
Ugashik, on the site of the old Bering Sea Packing Company, and have retained the 
latter name for the new cannery. 
Under the name of the Guardian Packing Company the A. P. A. built a four-filler 
cannery on the Naknek, about 2 miles below their old cannery, which is operated 
under the name of the Arctic Packing Company. 
The Alaska Packers’ Association has also laid the foundation for a large addition 
to their plant below Koggiung, which was constructed and operated in 1900. In my 
last report this was called the Kvichak Packing Company, but since then the name 
has been changed to the Horsehoe Fishing and Mining Company. This addition is 
to have four fillers and to be ready for operation during the season of 1902. 
The Alaska Packers Association have erected a large salmon hatchery on the 
Naha Lake System, at the head of the Third Lake, within the mouth of the stream 
F. C. B. 1901—23 
