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per fatliom 5 3 gill nets, each 100 fathoms long by 20 meshes deep, 8^-inch mesh, valued 
at 40 cents per fathom; also 2 seines each 60 fathoms long, 100 meshes deep at bunt 
and 60 at ends, 3-inch mesh, worth $1.25 per fathom (used to empty trap); 1 double 
trap leading out 100 fathoms from beach in front of cannery, with two wings from the 
pot, 50 fathoms each in length, one up and the other down stream; width of pot, 20 
feet; value, $600. 
The vessels and boats were the launch Emilia^ of 5 tons, with a crew of 2, and 
valued at $1,200; the bark B. P. Clieneij, of 1,200 tons, with a crew of fishermen, and 
valued at $14,000; 1 lighter at $700; 6 lighters at $300 each; 1 pile-driver with 
engine valued at $300; 20 double-ended gill-net boats at $90 each. 
In 1896 the company employed 36 white fishermen and salters, 6 white cannery- 
hands, 62 Chinese, and 10 natives. The remaining statistics are about the same as for 
1897, except that the large lighter valued at $700 was new iu 1897, and only 16 gill- 
net boats and 22 gill nets were used. The bark Ferris 8. Thompson, of 514 tons, was 
chartered for transport. 
The pack for 1897 consisted of 216,500 redfish, of which 215,000 were taken iu 
gill nets and 1,500 in traps, making 18,000 cases, or 12 fish to the case. 16,000 of these 
fish were taken outside, the remainder in the river. Packing began June 30, and 
finished August 1. At the saltery 501 barrels of redfish were salted, 48 fish to the 
barrel, between July 1 and 14, and 99 barrels at the cannery. 
In 1896 8,600 cases were packed ffom July 2 to August 2, all redfish, averaging 12 
to the case. 175 barrels of redfish were salted to order. 
The following redfish, running 48 to the barrel of 200 pounds, and all taken in the 
lower Naknek Kiver, have been salted by this company since the station was opened: 
225 barrels in 1890; 450 barrels iu 1891; 1,100 barrels in 1892; 2,600 barrels in 1893; 
2,630 barrels in 1894; 200 barrels in 1895. . 
EGEGAK FISHING STATION. 
Egegak fishing station, also called Igagik and Ugaguk, is about 34 miles south 
of Naknek. In 1895 the Alaska Packers’ Association established and operated a 
saltery at the mouth of the river, and have salted there each year since. In 1897 the 
company employed 10 white fishermen, 16 white saltery-hauds, and 6 natives. Five 
gill nets were used, each 75 fathoms long by 26 meshes deep, and 2 traps with leads 
of 800 feet. Tlie vessels and boats were the launch Minnie, of 5 tons, with a crew of 
2, and valued at $1,600, and 9 boats and lighters. The three-mast schooner Premier, 
of 292 tons, with a crew of fishermen, and valued at $15,000, was used as a transiiort. 
In 1897 this company salted 257 king salmon, making 15 barrels, and 203,458 
redfish, making 3,374 barrels. 
UGASHIK RIVER. 
TlieUgashik, or Sulima Eiver, as it is sometimes called, is 70 miles south ofNaknek, 
and is the most southerly station on Bristol Bay. There are two salteries and two 
canneries on this river. 
The Bering Sea Packing Company, a branch of the Alaska Improvement Com- 
pany, but a separate coi'iioration, built a cannery at Egashik in 1891, and operated it 
that year. It was closed in 1892 and in 1893, and oiierated in 1894, 1895, and 1896. 
It was neither in the pool of the Alaska Packing Association of 1892, nor did it join 
the Alaska Packers’ Association iu 1893. It was purchased by the latter organization 
