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salteries in Monti Bay each with a cannery as an objective if the fisheries should 
prove of sufficient value. 
Saltery of F. A. Fredericks Company. — This company hails from Seattle, Wash., 
and during the fall and winter of 1900, in the schooner Martha W. Tuft , salted 1,285 
barrels of herring in the vicinity of Yakutat. In the spring of 1901 this company 
built a large saltery on the northern side of the head on which the village of Yakutat 
is now located. The intention was to salt herring, and if salmon could be obtained 
to extend their operations to that species. 
Saltery of See & Flenner. — Messrs. A. L. See and A. Flenner, at the time of 
our visit (July 3), had in course of construction a saltery on the western point of the 
entrance to An-kau Creek, about 2 miles from Yakutat post-office. One building, 
20 feet by JO feet, had been erected in a bight within the entrance to the creek, and 
another was in course of construction on the point, which was to be connected with 
the first by a tramway 1,700 feet long. It was the intention to salt herring, and 
salmon also if they could be obtained; for the latter, 2 salting tanks had been 
provided. No salting had been done at the date of our visit. 
Cannery and railroad proposition , Yakutat Bay to Alsek River Delta. — In the 
fall of 1900 and spring of 1901 a gentleman from San Diego, Cal., prospected this 
region with a view of establishing a cannery. He visited the Alsek and adjacent 
streams, and concluded that there was an abundance of fish, but that it is impracti- 
cable to transport them by water if the cannery were located in Monti Bay; also, 
that it is impracticable to handle the cannery equipment and the pack over the Alsek 
Bar if the cannery were located in that vicinity. 
At Yakutat it was reported that a party in Seattle was interested in and intended 
raising money for the purpose of building a railroad from Monti Bay to the Alsek, 
a distance of about 60 miles, to carry the fish from the Alsek district. At a location 
on the southern side of Monti Ba}q in a bend about one-half mile from the mission, a 
wharf 300 feet long, to accommodate steamers, is to be built, and whenever the railroad 
is completed a cannery plant is to be erected. This is mentioned simply to indicate 
the wild schemes spoken of in Alaska. At the time of our visit all there was in the 
locality to give the project any credence was a small bunk-house and a wharf about 
100 feet long built from the bank to the high-water mark. 
South Alaska Packing Company. — During the season of 1900 a fisherman by 
the name of Flemming examined the stream conditions from Yakutat to the Alsek. 
Upon his report a Mr. Shaw went over the ground during the spring of 1901, on 
the part, it is said, of an organization called the South Alaska Packing Company. 
Mr. Shaw had returned south before our arrival, but it was reported in Yakutat that, 
several sites for canneries had been located. Inquiry in San Francisco elicited the 
information that the company no longer existed. 
PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND STREAMS. 
The streams and fisheries of this district were referred to in my report of 1897, 
pages 137-139, and as there has been no material development or change, the general 
conditions need not be repeated here. At the time of our former visit we were 
unable to make an examination of the streams and lake systems on account of the 
lateness of the season, and therefore accepted this work as a part of the examination 
