THE SALMON AND SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 
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Continuing to the westward, another shallow bay makes in on the sontnern shore, 
known as Doris Bay, locally called Mud Bay, which has an indifferent anchorage off its 
month. Around the high, round, bold head next to the westward is the entrance to 
Chignik Lagoon, in the extreme southwest corner of Ohignik Bay. Two canneries 
are located oti this lagoon, and at the head is the mouth of the stream, from which 
all the canneries here and in Anchorage Bay draw their supplies of redfisli. 
In 1888 the Fishermen’s Packing Company of Astoria, Oreg., sent a party to 
Chignik Bay to prosiiect for fish, and they returned in the fall of that year with 2,160 
barrels of salt salmon. 
The Chignik Bay Company’s cannery was built and operated in the spring of 
1889 by the Fishermen’s Packing Company of Astoria on the eastern shore of Chignik 
Lagoon, 2^ miles from the entrance. As this cannery is frequently referred to as the 
“Scandinavian,” resulting in some confusion, it may be mentioned that xirior to tlie 
building of this cannery the Fishermen’s Packing Comxiany x>nrchased the x)rox)erty 
of the Scandinavian Packing Comx)auy of Astoria, and also built the cannery of the 
Alaska Packing Company on the IsTushagak. 
The Shumagin Packing Company, composed of caxiitalists from Portland, Oreg., 
built a cannery on Chignik Lagoon in 1889, near that of the Chignik Bay Comxiany, 
and ox)erated it that year, and the same year the Chignik Bay Packing Comxiany, of 
San Francisco, built and operated a cannery near the two just mentioned. Though 
these three canneries were built by different companies, they soon became closely 
allied and linally combined into one organization, so that the history of one is practi- 
cally that of all. The operating agreement of these three canneries was successfully 
carried out in 1890 and 1891. In 1892 they all joined the i>ool of the Alaska Packing 
Association, and the cannery of the Chignik Bay Company alone ox>erated. In 1893 
they became members of the Alaska Packers’ Association. 
Since 1891 only the Chignik Bay Comxiany’s cannery has been ox^erated. The 
Shumagin building has been moved alongside that of the Chignik Bay Company 
and the machinery consolidated, so as to form practically one large cannery, with a 
capacity of 2,600 cases per day, which is operated, and erroneously called the Chignik 
Bay Packing Comxiany. It is really the Chignik Bay Comi)any, for the cannery of the 
former is in such condition that it can be oxierated independently on short notice, and 
is held as a reserve. It has a capacity of 1,500 cases a day. 
In 1896 the Chignik Bay Comxiany employed 73 white lishermen and 3 white 
coal-miners; in the cannery were 13 whites and 158 Chinese; 33 natives were kex)t at 
various employments. The company used 3 gill nets, 150 fathoms long, 6i-inch mesh, 
valued at 65 cents x>er fathom; 9 trax)S, 1,350 feet long, at f 1,000 each; 5 drag seines, 
200 fathoms long, 3-inch mesh, 100 meshes deexi at bunt, at $1.50 x)er fathom. 
The vessels and boats were the steamer Afoanalc, of 38 tons, with a crew of 9, 
and valued at $15,750; the stern wheel steamer Bahy Buth, of 10 tons, with a crew 
of 3, and valued at $4,500; 7 lighters, valued at $500 each; 10 trax) scows, at $200 
each; 2 xhle-drivers, at $650 each; 12 seine and gill-net boats, at $125 each. The shix) 
Llewellyn J. Morse, of 1,271 net tons, valued at $25,000, with a crew of fishermen, 
was used as a transx)ort. 
In 1897 the emxdoyees consisted of 57 white fishermen, 3 coal-mijiers, 13 white 
cannery-hands, and 103 Chinese. The fishermen used 3 gill nets, each 150 fathoms 
long, valued at 65 cents x)er fathom; 10 trails, averaging 1,350 feet long, valued at 
$1,000 each; 5 drag seines, each 200 fathoms long, 3 inch mesh, valued at $1.50 xier 
