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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
ESTABLISHMENT OF SALMON CANNERIES IN ALASKA. 
As it will be necessary in tliis report to refer freiiuently to the commercial organi- 
zations doing a salmon-packing business in Alaska, it may not be out of place here 
to give a short account of the growth of this industry, in order that the references 
may be properly understood, although an account of each cannery will be hereafter 
given. 
The first canneries iu Alaska were at Klawak and Old Sitka, both built in the 
spring of 1878. At the former i>lace the North Pacific Trading and Packing Com- 
])any erected their plant, made a pack that year, and have done so every year since. 
At the latter place the Cutting Packing Company commenced operations, and, after 
making two packs (1878 and 1879) the cannery was closed. In 1882 its available 
machinery was moved to Cook Inlet by the Alaska Packing Company of California, 
and there utilized in a cannery built that year at Kussilof, now known as the Arctic 
Fishing Company. 
Transport ship at Chignik. 
No additions were made to the Alaska canneries until 1882, when the cannery 
just mentioned was built and the first cannery on the Karluk Eiver appeared, built 
and operated by Smith & Hirsch, and now known as the jdant of the Karluk Packing 
Company. 
The year 1883 saw three additions — Pyranud Harbor Packing Comiiany, Chilkat 
Packing Company, and Cape Fox Packing Company, all in southeast Alaska. In 
1881 the first cannery in Bering Sea, the Arctic Packing Company, on the Nushagak 
Eiver, (iommenced operations, followed iu 1886 by the Bristol Bay Canning Company 
and the Alaska Packing Company, both at Nushagak. In the year 1887 one more 
cannery was added to the list, that of the Aberdeen Packing Company, on the Stikine 
Eiver, in southeast Alaska. During the same year the plant of the Cape Fox Packing- 
Company was moved to Tongass Narrows and operated under the name of the 
Tongass Packing Company. 
