FISHERIES OF ALASKA IK 1909. 
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Work was begun on the buildings in 1908 and was pushed forward as 
rapidly as the weather would permit. 
There are six buildings in the plant at Belanna and three at the 
power station on George Inlet. The main building at the former 
place, containing the freezers and storage rooms, is 85 feet by 95 feet 
and two stories high. The receiving house is 60 by 70 feet and also 
two stories high. The ice plant is one story in height and 72 by 25 
feet, while the power house is 40 by 50 feet. In the rear is a com- 
modious office building. All the working buildings are of wooden 
construction of the heavy joisted type. The outside surface is covered 
with vertical matched sheathing with battens over the joists, while all 
floors, partitions, and walls are insulated with sheet cork with wood 
insertion and nailed direct to the boarding or joists. It is estimated 
that the whole plant cost $250,000. 
Inclosing a section of the wharf and located in the foreground in 
close proximity to the freezer is the receiving house, in which the 
fish are to be washed and dressed in their transit from the vessels to 
the freezer. After washing and cleaning they are sent to the 
freezer building, a short distance in the rear. Here there are four 
freezers each 25 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, in which a temperature of 
from 25° to 30° F. below zero can be maintained if desired, although 
it is probable that a temperature of not more than 10° below zero will 
be required. All freezing is by direct expansion, and each freezer is 
piped with about 2 feet of 1^-incli pipe per cubic foot of freezing 
space. The bunkers in the freezers are in pairs, each nine pipes wide, 
spaced on 5-inch centers, and nine tiers high, spaced 10 inches apart. 
This leaves a 3 foot passage through the center of each freezer oppo- 
site the 3J by 6J foot serving doors. The large halibut, owing to 
their size, are placed directly on the tiers of pipes instead of in pans, 
as is the custom with the smaller fish. 
After freezing, the fish are passed through openings in the rear of 
the freezers into the glazing room, where, after glazing, they are 
crated and trucked into the storage rooms in the rear half of the 
first story and the entire second story. It is estimated that the six 
storage rooms have a capacity of 1,500 tons of fish. The storage 
and glazing rooms are piped with 1 linear foot of 2-inch pipe per 
10 cubic feet of space. The storage rooms will have a temperature 
of 10 degrees above zero. 
The fish are raised to the second-story storage rooms by a 2-ton 
electric elevator. Shipments of boxed fish are made from the second 
floor down an incline to the wharf level. 
For the purpose of developing power for the plant a 15-foot dam 
was constructed at the outlet of Lake Whitman, a small lake just 
inside George Inlet. From here a 36-inch pipe line taps the lake 
