THE SALMON AND SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 
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In 1888 the following additional canneries were in operation: Alaska Salmon 
Packing and Fur Company, at Loring, southeast Alaska; Cape Lees Packing Comi)any, 
at Burroughs Bay, southeast Alaska; iSTorthern Packing Company, at Kenai, Cook 
Inlet; Kodiak Packing Company and Aleutian Islands Fishing and Mining Company, 
both at Karluk, Kadiak Island; Arctic Packing Company, at Larsen Bay, Kadiak 
Island, and the Kushagak Packing Company, on the Kushagak Biver, Bering Sea. 
The increase of canneries in 1888 and their large output called the attention of 
the ])ublic to the Alaska salmon fisheries, and in 1889 there was a further increase of 
canneries, as follows: 
Southeast Alaska: Boston Fishing and Trading Company, Yes (McDonald) Bay; 
Baranoff Packing Company, at the Eedoubt, near Sitka; Astoria and Alaska Packing 
Company, Freshwater Bay; Bartlett Bay Packing Company, Bartlett Bay, and Chilkat 
Canning Company, Chilkat Village. 
Prince WilUam Sound and Copper Biver : Peninsula Trading and Fishing Company, 
Little Kayak Island; Central Alaska Company, Little Kayak Island; Pacific Packing 
Company, Eyak, Copper Kiver, and the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, Eyak, 
Copper River. 
Kadiak and Chignik: Hume Packing Company, Karluk; Alaska Improvement 
Company, Karluk; Arctic Packing Company, Alitak Bay; Kodiak Packing Com])any, 
Alitak Bay; Royal Packing Company, Afognak Island; Russian-Ainerican Packing 
Company, Afognak Island; Chignik Bay Company, Chignik Bay; Shnmngin Packing 
Company, Chignik Bay; Chignik Bay Packing Company, Chignik Bay; Western 
Alaska Company, Ozernoi, Alaska Peninsula; Thin Point Packing Company, Thin 
Point, Alaska Peninsula. 
The cannery of the Alaska Improvement Company, at Karluk, was built and 
ready for operation in 1888, but the loss of the Julia Ford^ the cannery ship, with all 
the season’s outfit on board, kept the cannery closed, and the first pack was therefore 
made in 1889. 
In 1888 there were 17 canneries in operation in Alaska with an output of 412,115 
cases, and in 1889 there were 37 canneries with an output' of 714,190 cases. Two more 
canneries were added to the list in 1890 — George W. Hume, at Kussilof, Cook Inlet, 
and the cannery of the Metlakahtla Industrial Company, in southeast Alaska. In 
1891 only one new cannery, that of the Bering Sea Packing Company, at Ugashik, 
Bering- Sea, was added, while several operated the year previous were closed, and in 
a few other cases there was a consolidation of interests. In 1892 and 1893 there was 
a further consolidation of cannery interests, and in the latter year one additional 
cannery was operated, that of the Hume Canning and Trading Company, in Tanglefoot 
Bay, near Karluk. There were no new canneries built in 1894, but in 1895 two more 
were in operation at Kakuek, in Bering Sea, the Arctic Packing Company and the 
Kaknek Packing Company. 
In 1890 the following new companies were in operation: 
Southeast Alaska: Quadra Packing Company, in Mink Arm, Boca de Quadra; 
Pacific Steam Whaling Company, Hunter Bay. 
Kadiak Island: Uganuk Fishing Station, Uganuk Bay. 
Alaska Peninsula: Hume Brothers & Hume, Chignik Bay ; Pacific Steam Whaling 
Company, Chignik Bay. 
Bering Sea: Point Roberts Packing Company, at Koggiung, Kvichak River; 
Ugashik Fishing Station, Ugashik River. 
