Congressional Serial Set Volume 4392 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...is about 3 miles wide, utilizing in its construction the available machinery of the Russian-American Packing Company's cannery at Afognak. It made the first pack in 1890, and has packed every year since to date. Originally it was a two-filler cannery, but in 1900 another tiller was installed, and it now has a capacity of 2,400 cases per day. The machinery consists of 7 retorts, 3 fillers, 3 toppers, 2 solderers, 1 cutter, 1 spare filler, 1 spare topper, and 2 sets of can-making machines. Fish are pewed from boats and lighters to platforms and thence to fish-house, and when cleaned are transported in cars to the cutter. Seventy per cent of the cans are made at the cannery and the rest transported from San Francisco. One hundred pound tin plate is used for bodies and 95-pound tin for tops, all imported. Fishermen's and Chinese' contracts and native wages were the same as mentioned under other canneries. The transporting vessels enter the river at high water, and during the season are moored in the channel, one near the cannery and two near the left bank about 5 miles above the cannery. In 1900 this cannery employed 64 white fishermen and trapmen, 24 white cannerjT and saltery hands, 20 natives, and 140 Chinese. It used two sets of gill nets, 24 to a set, each 85 fathoms long, 26 meshes deep, 6i-inch mesh; value, about 65 cents per fathom. There were 3 traps; one about a mile above the cannery, on the right bank, with leads each 500 feet and pot 40 by 40 feet; one about 18 miles above the cannery, on the left bank, with leads each 400 feet and pot 40 by 40 feet, and one about 22 miles above the cannery, with leads of 600 feet and 400 feet, respectively, and pot 40 by 40 feet. These traps are valued at about 11,000 each. It is stated that about 20 per cent of t...