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carries the hands and the cannery outfit for the season from San Francisco in the 
spring. It is met at Dixon Entrance by one of the steamers and towed to the cannery, 
where it is tied np to the wharf for the summer. When the pack is finished the bark 
carries the hands back, and also the pack, or so much of it as can be handled. The 
crew of the Electra are fishermen and are so employed after the vessel reaches her 
destination, the officers taking charge of the cannery steamers, acting as watchmen, etc. 
In 1897 an extra vessel, the Nicholas Thayer, of 556 net tons and valued at $10,000, 
made two trips to assist in carrying the pack. 
On the fishing grounds and at the cannery are 29 lighters and fish-scows valued 
at from $50 to $100 each, and 21 seine boats valued at $50 each. 
In 1896 the fish were all taken in 21 drag seines, varying in length from 75 to 250 
fathoms, and valued at $1.50 per fathom. The seines were practically the same in 
1897, though of the 21 only 7 were used by the cannery fishermen, as follows: Three, 
150 fathoms long, 200 meshes deep; one, 125 fathoms long, 200 meshes deep; two, 100 
fathoms long, 130 meshes deep; one, 75 fathoms long, 200 meshes deep. The others 
Avere used on the independent fisheries supplying the cannery. It is difficult to give 
accurate statistics of seines, not only on account of the independent fisheries supplying 
the canneries, but because every cannery has usually a number in reserve and a large 
amount of web, floats, etc., ready to be made np. The standard mesh for the Alaska 
fisheries is 3-inch stretched, and this usually takes the form of 2^-inch in the bunt, 
3-inch in the quarters, and 3i to 4 inch in the wings. 
NAHA STREAM. 
Upon arrival at Loring incpiiry was made at once in reference to this stream and 
its lake system. The only information obtainable was that the stream was of consid- 
erable length, flowing through a very rough and rugged country, and was the outlet to 
a chain of lakes, some reports said two, others as high as seven. No one could be 
found, however, who had explored the region or who could give definite information. 
It was decided that an examination of the lower course of the stream and a view of the 
lake basin from a mountain top was all that could be attempted. Accordingly, a 
liarty ascended a mountain a little over 1,700 feet high, back of the cannery, and took 
photographs and bearings of the lake basin, estimating distances of prominent features. 
It is iirobable that all these lakes indicated on the sketch communicate with each 
other or with the outlet. 
Upon leaving the cannery for the stream, a small wooded island, connected with 
the shore at low water, is passed, and continuing to the eastward about a mile the 
head of the bay is reached. Tiie bay here narrows to a passageway (which turns 
about 180° to the northward around a sharp projecting i>oint) connecting the head of 
the bay with the first lake or lagoon. On the inner side of this passage, and on the 
western shore, is an old saltery, now used for storing boats and fishing gear. The bot- 
tom of this passage is rocky, and rises in such a manner that on both tides it forms 
rapids, making slack water only when the tide is within about 2 feet of ordinary high 
water, so that the current usually flows out. This body of water may be termed the 
“first lake.” The water was found practically fresh at all stages of the tide. The 
water that flows in during the last of the flood can only be slightly brackish, for the 
large discharge keeps the water brackish in the upper part of the bay, and the amount 
that flows in forms only an inconsiderable portion. 
