THE SALMON AND SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 
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15tli of August. Several years ago preparatious were made to take codfish on a large 
scale, but the venture was unprofitable. It is believed that with a large equipment, 
and fishing over a wide area, 50 tons might be taken in a season. 
Only very general information could be obtained at Killisnoo in reference to the 
salmon streams in the vicinity, and an investigation of the localities will be necessary 
to determine their importance. 
BARTLETT BAY. 
This is an arm of Glacier Bay, on Icy Straits. In 1890 a cannery was built on the 
bay by the Bartlett Bay Backing Company, and operated by Williams, Brown & Co., 
of San Francisco. A saltery was conducted here prior to that date, and in 1889 a 
pack of 4,300 cases was made in a crude way. Cans were carried to the locality, 
cookers imiirovised, and the pack was made by hand. In 1890 the cannery was built, 
and a pack made that and the following year, but none subsequently. The cannery 
entered the pool of the Alaska Packing Association of 1892, and was one of the can- 
neries of the Alaska Packers’ Association in 1893. In 1894 it was dismantled, the 
buildings were pulled down, and the place abandoned. 
CHILKAT. 
A long narrow peninsula projects into the head of Lynn Canal, forming two bays 
or inlets. The eastern one, called Chilkoot Inlet, again divides, the western arm 
receiving Chilkoot Eiveiq the eastern arm continues about 10 miles farther to the 
northward under the name of Taiya Inlet, and has at its head the villages of Dyea and 
Skagway. The western arm, or bay, of Lynn Canal, called Chilkat Inlet, receives the 
waters of the Chilkat about 9 miles from Seduction Point (the end of the peninsula). 
In 1880, when it appeared that the salmon of the Columbia were becoming scarcer, 
with no adequate steps to restock the river, Mr. M. J. Kinney, then and now one of 
the large packers on the Columbia, started inquiries elsewhere with reference to future 
business. In 1882 he had the Chilkat territory prospiected for fish, built a hut at 
Pyramid Harbor, and in 1883 he erected a cannery, under the name of tlie Chilkat 
Packing Company, on the eastern shore of the inlet, about a mile below the site now 
occupied by the cannery of the Chilkat Canning Company. A pack was made that 
year. The cannery changed hands several times, and hnally was burned in 1892, and 
not rebuilt. The site is now owned by the Alaska Packers’ Association. The cannery 
packed every year from 1883 to 1891, both inclusive, except in 1888, when it was closed. 
A cannery known as the Chilkat Caninng Company was built in 1889 by Messrs. 
Hugh Murray and David Morgan at Chilkat Village, on the eastern side of the inlet, 
and inside of Pyramid Island. It was operated from 1889 to 1893, and then sold to 
the Alaska Packers’ Association and closed. It has not been operated since 1893, but 
is held as a reserve by the association. It has a capacity of about 800 cases a day. 
PYRAMID HARBOR. 
Pyramid Harbor is on the western side of Chilkat Inlet, IJ miles south of Pyra- 
mid Island, and consists of a small cove in which two or three vessels may find 
anchorage. The cannery of the Pyramid Harbor Packing Company is on the south- 
ern shore of the cove. It was built in 1883 by the Northwest Trading Company, at 
the time that company was established at Killisnoo, and operated in 1883 and 1884. 
It was idle in 1885, and in 1888 was sold to D, L. Beck & Sous, of San Francisco, and 
