IGO BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
and bowldery spit closing up a valley running south-soutlieast and north-northwest. 
The lagoon is three-fourths of a mile wide along the spit, with open water extending 
three-eighths of a mile from it. The stream flows into the lagoon through several 
channels, forming a number of grassy islands. Above this the stream flows with little 
current through bottom land having a few patches of alders, which, a mile from the 
beach, narrows to one-eighth of a mile. The bottom of the stream is fine sand and 
gravel, and the shores are grassy but without beaehes. The top of the spit is about 
8 feet above the lagoon, and at the eastern end is the outlet, 30 feet wide, and running 
in a rapid to the straits. 
UGANUK BAT. 
Uganuk Bay is the next to the eastward of Uyak, Prom the lower end of the 
western bay three arms make off, which we have called the northeast, east, and south 
arms, respectively. At the junctiou of the east arm with the bay, on a sand and 
Cannery at Uganuk Bay. 
shingle beach on the northern shore, the cannery of the Alaska Packers’ Association 
is located, and at the head of the arm is the redfish stream from which it draws its 
supply of salmon. For several years a saltery was operated by Mr. Oliver Smith in a 
bight on the southern shore of the east arm, a mile within the eutrauee. This was 
sold to the Association in 1897, and is now closed. 
The Uganuk eaunery of the Alaska Packers’ Association was built during the 
spring of 1896, on the iioint forming the northern entrance to the east arm. The mate- 
rial used in its construction was largely from the cannery building of the Eussiau 
American Packing Company moved from Afognak, and the machinery is that which 
was available from the canneries of the Eoyal Packing Company at Afognak and the 
Arctic Packing Company at Larsen Bay (Uyak). The capacity of this cannery is 
