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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The Eoyal Packiug Company built a cannery in 1889 at the head of Afoguak Bay, 
on tlie western side, three-fourths of a mile below the mouth of the river, and oper- 
ated it in 1889 and 1890. Under the agreement of the Karluk Eiver Fisheries in 1891, 
the (luota of lish for this cannery was packed in the cannery of the Karluk Packing 
Company at Karluk. It entered the pool of the Alaska Packing Association in 1892, 
and became a member of the Alaska Packers’ Association in 1893. It has not been 
operated since 1890, and it is claimed that the President’s proclamation of December 
24, 1892, reserving the stream at Afognak, has caused the cannery to be closed and 
dismantled. In the spring of 1896 the available machinery was moved to Uganuk, 
and in the building are now stored the boats and some gear of this cannery and of 
the Eussian-American. 
The Eussian-American Packing Company was incorporated in December, 1888, 
and in 1889 built a cannery immediately above that of the Eoyal, which was operated in 
1889 and 1890. In 1891, under the agreement of the Karluk Eiver Fisheries, its quota 
of lish was jiacked in the cannery of the Alaska Improvement Company at Karluk. 
In 1892 it joined the pool of the Alaska Packing Association, and in 1893 it became a 
member of the Alaska Packers’ Association. It has not been operated since 1890, and 
it is claimed that the President’s proclamation of December 24, 1892, reserving the 
stream at Afognak, has caused the cannery to be closed and dismantled. In 1895 the 
available machinery was moved to the Ugashik (Sulima) Eiver, in Bering Sea, on the 
western side of the Alaska Peninsula, and utilized as a iiart of the machinery in a 
cannery built at that point by the Alaska Packers’ Association, and operated in 1896 
and 1897. In the spring of 1896 the building was taken down and moved to Uganuk, 
and erected there for the cannery built that year by the Alaska Packers’ Association. 
Kothing remains at Afognak of the Eussian-American cannery except the boats, 
which are stored in the building of the Eoyal Packing Company. 
There is a redlish stream on Afognak Island, known as Maliuof Eiver, which 
empties into Malinof Straits near its junction with Shelikof Straits. It has for years 
been heavily barricaded. 
CHIGNIK BAY. 
Ohignik Bay, on the southern side of the Alaska Peninsula, is 150 miles west- 
southwest from Karluk, the position of one eannery in Anchorage Bay, an arm of the 
main bay, being in latitude 56° 17' north, longitude 158° 23' west. This is the next 
western locality after Karluk where canneries are now operated, and the westernmost 
outside of Bering Sea. 
The southeast point of Chignik Bay terminates in a high-turreted or castellated 
Iioint called Tuliumnit Point or Castle Cape, having on its western side a large arm 
making to the southward, called Castle Bay. Passing this bay and continuing along 
the southern shore to the westward, four headlands are seen forming the terminal 
points of high ridges, and between them are shallow bights and sand beaches. These 
beaches have the apiiearauce of spits inclosing lagoons or ponds. To the westward 
of the 'fourth ridge, and about 12 miles from Tuliumnit Point, a small, deej) bay, 
known as Anchorage Bay, makes in on the southern shore. This is partially inotected 
by a sand-spit, affording good anchorage in deep water for all winds, except from the 
north. Two canneries are located here, and the transporting vessels of all the Chignik 
Bay canneries make their anchorage at this point. 
