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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
BOCA DE QUADRA. 
The Albatross arrived at Mary Island, southeast Alaska, June C, and after making 
such inquiries relating to the salmon and halibut lisheries as seemed pertinent to the 
subject, went to the Boca de Quadra and anchored off the cannery the following day. 
This body of water is a deep fiord making into the mainland in a general northeast 
direction from Revillagigedo Channel for a distance of 28 miles. Three smaller fiords 
branch from it to the southward and eastward, viz, Marten Arm, Mink Arm, and Vixen 
Bay; and extending to the northward are Badger Bay and Weasel Cove. There are 
no villages or permanent Indian habitations on the Boca de Quadra — a shack here and 
there affording temporary shelter during the hunting and fishing seasons. About 2 
miles below the entrance on the southern side is a small Indian village named after 
the Cape Fox chief, Kah-Shakes, who lives there. 
The shores are rugged and mountainous. A few streams, all of which contain 
salmbn, discharge their waters into the main arm and into the heads of its branches. 
Only one, however, is known to be a resort of red salmon, though a second redfish 
stream empties into Kah-Shakes Cove. 
One of the first canneries in Alaska was located on the northern shore of the Boca 
de Quadra, about 8 miles from the entrance. It was built in 1883 by Mr. M. J. Kinney, 
of Astoria, and was operated under the name of the Cape Fox Packing Company 
from 1883 to 1880. In the winter of 1886-87 it was sold and moved to a idace now 
called Ketchikan, in Tougass Narrows, and was operated there under the name of the 
Tongass Packing Company during the seasons of 1887, 1888, and part of 1889. It was 
burnt in August, 1889, after having packed about 13,000 cases. 
The cannery now operating in the Boca de Quadra was built by the Quadra 
Packing Company in the spring of 1896, and made its first pack that year. It is on 
the western shore of Mink Arm, in a small indentation near the entrance, and directly 
inside of Crouse Island. As the building was only commenced in March, the equip- 
ment was necessarily incomplete for the 1896 pack, yet 8,000 cases of redfish were 
canned. The fish were all taken at no great distance from the cannery, in purse 
seines. When the Albatross was at this i>oint in the early part of the season, new 
buildings were being erected, the wharf extended, and iireparations made for fishing on 
a more extended scale. For the season of 1897 the steam schooner Annie M. Nixon- 
was chartered to transport fish from a distance and as a general cannery tender. 
The agent of the couq)any at Victoria reports that the total pack of 1897 was 
21,500 cases, of which 7,500 cases were redfish, and the balance humpbacks and cohoes. 
QUADRA STREAM AND LAKE. 
The mouth of Quadra Stream is N. J W., a scant mile from the cannery, in a 
V-shaped inlet. The entrance is formed by i>recipitous rocky walls, covered with the 
dense growth characteristic of this country, and on approaching it the rushing white 
waters of the ra])id stream are seen. The entrance contracts to a width of about 50 
yards and then opens into a small bay. This bay receives the water of the stream 
at low water, but at high tide the fresh water recedes a considerable distance. A 
saltery was built on the northern shore about seven years ago by Clark & Martin, of 
Ketchikan. It was not operated in 1896, but some fish were salted in 1897. 
After leaving this bay the rapid waters of the stream are encountered, and in less 
than half a mile the lake which is the source of the stream is found. The stream is 
