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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
manager has under eonsideration the advisability of attempting a pack of king salmon. 
They can be taken and are in good condition as early as May 15, or as soon as the ice 
is clear of the bay. 
OHEOATS. 
In Jlehm Canal, about 2 miles east of New Eddystone Rock, is an indentation or 
baj^ which receives a stream called Ohecats. This stream is said to have large red 
salmon and to be capable of yielding 10,000 a year. 
The following tigures were obtained, but no complete record was available: 
Tear. 
Species. 
Total 
uumber. 
Average 
number 
per case. 
Season of run. 
Canneries to which 
consigned. 
1805 
Rea fish 
9 680 
Yes Ray. 
1896 
Redfish 
loi 712 
July 12 to Aug. 12 
Tes Ba\' and Loring. 
(Redfish 
15, 229 
9 
July 10 to Aug. 28 
Do. 
1897 
489 
6 
Aug. 26 to Sept. 1 
Tes Bay. 
] Humpbacks 
[Dog salmon 
15 
July 21 to Aug. 15 
Yes Bay and Loring. 
821 
6 
July 22 to Aug. 2 
Tes Bay. 
There are many streams entering Behm Canal and its branches that should be 
examined, but, so far as known, no others that have many redfish. 
BUEBOUGHS BAY. 
At a point where Behm Canal turns at right angles to the southwar d. Burroughs 
Bay enters, and at its head is the Unuk River, one of the largest streams of south- 
east Alaska, and said to contain king salmon, redfish, and cohoes. On the eastern 
shore, near the head of the bay, was formerly a cannery known as the Cape Lees 
Packing Company. Mr. James Miller operated a saltery here in 1886 and 1887. In 
1888 Messrs. Andrew and Benjamin Young, of Astoria, built the cannery and operated 
it in 1888, 1889, and 1890; it made no pack after the latter year. In 1892 the cannery 
joined the Ala.ska Packing Association, and in 1893 it became one of the canneries of 
the Alaska Packers’ Association. In 1894 it was dismantled, part of the machinery 
going to Boring and iiart to Wrangell. Mr. Miller states that from 1,200 to 1,500 
cases of king salmon could be packed at Burroughs Bay, but that the proportion of 
white meated fish is very large. He also stated that he had taken salmon there 
weighing 90 pounds. 
THOENE BAY. 
Thorne Bay is an arm of Clarence Strait on the eastern side of Prince of Wales 
Island. Formerly all the waters to the westward of a line drawn from Tolstoi Point 
to Tolstoi Island were known as Tolstoi Bay. The chart has named the eastern bay 
“ Tolstoi,” and the western one “ Thorne Bay,” but the latter is still referred to as 
“ Tolstoi,” causing much confusion. In the bay named Tolstoi on Chart A there are 
no red salmon streams — in fact, no streams of any importance — while in Thorne Bay 
there is one very large stream, which empties into the head of the northwest arm, and 
differs entirely from any of the other streams thus far visited. It partakes more of 
the nature of a river, having a large estuary, and flows through a comparatively fiat 
and level country, with the tide ascending a considerable distance. It is an outlet of a 
lake whose source is said to be from 12 to 15 miles from the mouth. No white man 
in the vicinity has ever visited it, and all that is known of it is from information given 
by an old Indian who hunts there during the winter. It is said there is a chain of 
