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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Eiver Delta, known as Coquenhena, and operated under its former name, making a 
pack in 1891. It joined the Alaska Packing Association in 1892 and was closed, but 
for some reason it did not Join the Alaska Packers’ Association of 1893. Since 1893 
it has been operated by the Pacific Steam Whaling Oonqiany, A change in the 
channel of the slough has made it difficult of access, and the cannery was closed in 
1897. The machinery has been removed, and it is said that such as is available will 
be installed in the new cannery built in 1897 at Kenai, Cook Inlet. It had a capacity 
of about 1,200 cases a day. 
The Peninsula Trading and Fishing Company employed 40 white fishermen, 
20 white cannery-hands, and 60 Chinese in 1896. Ten gill nets were used, each 100 
fathoms long by 24 meshes deep, for king salmon, and 20 gill nets, each 200 fathoms 
long by 30 meshes deep, for redfish — all valued at $1 per fathom. The vessels 
employed by the company were the stern-wheel steamer Thlinket, of 30 tons, with a 
crew of 5, and valued at $10,000, and the launch Beaver ^ of 5 tons, with a crew of 3, 
and valued at $4,000. The ship America, attached to the Orca cannery, was used in 
transportation. Two lighters, valued at $200 each, and 20 Columbia Kiver boats, 
valued at $200 each, were also operated. 
The pack of 1896 was 20,558 cases of redfish, 10 to the case, from May 20 to July 
25, and 114 cases of king salmon, 2.5 to the case, from May 20 to June 1. 
ODIAK. 
In 1889 Messrs. Louis Sloss & Co., of San Francisco, built a cannery under the 
title of Pacific Packing Company, at the extreme eastern end of Prince William 
Sound, on the mainland east of Hawkins Island and on the northern side of a mud 
slougli separated from Lake Eyak by a narrow neck of land, about three-fourths of a 
mile wide, and now called Odiak. This cannery has been operated every year 
since except 1892, when it joined the Alaska Packing Association and was closed. In 
1893 it entered the Alaska Packers’ Association, and is now operated by that organi- 
zation. It has a capacity of about 1,500 cases a day. 
In 1897 the Pacific Packing Company employed 64 whites as fishermen, and 7 
whites and 66 Chinese in the cannery. The nets used comprised 32 sets of gill nets, 
450 fathoms per set, worth $1 per fathom — 94-ineh mesh for king salmon, 6^-inch mesh 
for cohoes, and 6^ -inch for redfish. The vessels and boats employed were the screw 
steamer Pacific, 32 tons, crew 6, valued at $14,000; the stern-wheel steamer 8. B. 
Mathews, 165 tons, crew 6, valued at $14,000; the stern- wheel steamer Susannah, 18 
tons, crew 6, valued at $9,000; one lighter worth $250; 32 Columbia Eiver boats 
worth $200 each, and 2 seine boats valued at $100 each. The ship Centennial, 1,139 
tons register, worth $20,000, served as a transport, with a crew of fishermen. 
The 1896 statistics for equipment were practically the same as for 1897, except 
that the chartered bark Gatherer, 1,377 tons, was used as a transport. 
The following gives the statistics of the output of the Pacific Packing Comiiany 
for 1896 and 1897 : 
1896. 
1897. 
Species. 
Total 
number 
offish. 
Dates. 
Cases 
packed. 
No. of 
fish per 
case. 
Total 
number 
of fish. 
Dates. 
Cases 
packed. 
No. of 
fish per 
Kertfish 
Cohoes... 
282, 138 
1,953 
217, 120 
May 10 to Aug. 30 
Allfr ft t(» ?,7 
29, 500 
217 
9.6 
9. 
170, 116 
May 6 to Aug. 10 
13, 315 
12.7 
Humpbacks .. 
July 8 to Aug. 21 
9,940 
22. 
239, 430 
July 5 to Aug. 8 
9, 784 
24.5 
King salmon.. 
817 
May 6 to June 14 
216 
3.8 
995 
May 6 to June 13 
202 
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