The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-01
PREPARING FOR THE FISH.
srASOx's WORK IN THE SALMON
CANNERIEs OPENS TODAY.
All the Boats, scows, Nets, web
hing, Pile Drivers, Etc., - he
Pat ia Condftf0n-Ab0ut April 10
Tin VIII Come and Work start.

srecisi Dispatch 10 the Post-Intelligencer.
ELAINE Wash March zI.-The sea-
sos, OF preparation for the years salmon
mack opens tomorrow, when all the fish
Ing eompanIes herea5outs Will put men
a. work making the necessary repairs on
boats, scows. nets, webbing. drivers. etc.
This work wfiI be pushed rapidly forward
and az soon as completed the driving CT
traus will begin.
Next week a larger number OF Chinese
wilI arrive and about the I0tn OF Anrii
tse lin will come. The Alaska Packers
Association use mostly imported In. which
wfIl come BY ship from San Francisco.
Alnsworth Dunn will Use American tin.
which VIII be- shipped by rail 10 Tacoma
thence by steamer George +. Starr -
blaine. The Alaska Packers Association
two plants and that Of Ainsworth d Linn
have ean-Tnaking establishments In con-
necJon.
Not many tugs have gone IN cousriisston
40 far, nor will many be necessity Until
trap driving begins.
Last season Ainsworth e. Dunn and the
Pacific Northwest Packing Company
bought their fish. this season both can
neries will operate their own sraps- This
vas made necessary by the absorption Of
20 many Of the independent traps By the
Pacific American Fish Company. II fish
come as expected the Blaine pack viii
easily reach aD.Goo eases, but not ali SOCK
eyes. however. Some pluks Will have 10
be packed to reach this figure. This sea-
son the pink. or humpDaeks. as they are
generally known. Will be canned to some
extent by all Sound packers The Alaska
hackers will prepare Tor AZ least lvs.pn
eases. Ainsworth Dunn expect to get
4as0 at the very least. the remaining
plants viii. easily be equal 10 01.Vg cases.
provided of course. they can get the FISH.
In speaking ,of the neH fish c0npanys
proposition TO build a eannery At Fair
haven OF $500 cases daily capacity. Super
intendent Matthews. Of the A. r. A. can
naries, said that in his opinion the scheme
was very impracticaDle. owing 10 the
grea, number Of employees and the I'M
mense working space that would be re-
quired.
While IL is quite generally conceded that
the Pacific American Fish company's
principal plant will be erected at Fair
haven. owing to the many advantages IN
transportation afforded them. the major
ity Of we'll posted and practical fishermen
and cannery men say that IL would pay
The company far better 10 operate several
plants at various points along their fish
Ing grounds. which extend from the sal
mon banks TO Point Roberts
Altogether, the season promises much
activity and as the prices a, present are
high the market conditions are consider
ably better than last season. Should prices
remain Arm after the Alaska Packing As
gociation unionds the remainder Of their
holdings IL IL generally considered tina;
the market will not !ssit even though both
Puget sound and Alaska materially IN
crease their output.
Final Payments ny the Combine.
Special Dispatch to the intelligence.
FA1REIASEN. March si.-The final pay
ments by the Pacific American Fish Com
pany were made today ON all bonds
cept in the ase Of the Anacartes PACK ng
Company. in the settlement with whom
there has been some DELAY The affelats
NaAs hat all he a ssstfa
deal will boz closed up and thc seasons
work commenced. The payments have
been the same amounts Throughout ~
heretofore published in the p0St-inteli.
gencer.