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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
In 1897 two more canneries were added — Hurne Brothers & Hume and the Pacific 
Steam Whaling- Company, both at TJyak Bay, Kadiak Island. 
The foregoing account gives briefly the dates of the building of the canneries in 
Alaska. After 1891 several of the canneries were consolidated, a few were burnt, 
some were dismantled, and the available machinery utilized in the construction of 
plants in more favorable localities, and in some instances the sites were entirely 
abandoned. The large increase in canneries in 1888 more than doubled the pack for 
that year over that of 1887, and the addition of twenty more canneries in 1889 
increased the pack for that year and for the two years following to nearly double the 
quantity packed in 1888. The market became glutted, and in order to reduce the 
output a consolidation of interests followed. This was not very difficult, as a few 
individuals controlled a large number of the canneries. One firm in San Francisco 
alone controlled six canneries, with an output in 1889 of 155,118 cases; others con- 
trolled several. 
Cannery at Chilkat. 
In 1890 the three canneries at Ohiguik combined under an operating agreement 
known as the Chignik Bay Combination, under which the plant of the Chignik Bay 
Company was operated, the three canneries sharing the expense and dividing the 
output equally. This arrangement remained in foree during the seasons of 1890 and 
1891. Its evident success in 1890 probably led to the local combinations on Kadiak 
Island in 1891, and then to the association which now exists. 
The large packs during this period and the glutted market caused the cannery 
interests to devise some scheme to meet the conditions. The combination at Chignik 
in 1890 permitted the pack to be made there at a lower rate and, as previously stated, 
it was continued in 1891. The same year (1891) the canneries at Karluk, Uyak, and 
Afognak entered a combination under the name of the Karluk Eiver Fisheries, under 
which it was agreed that each cannery should have a quota of fish from the several 
