The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-26
lICFIC- AMERICAN FISH CO.
OF HARMONY CREATES
FRANCES IN MANAGEMENT.
~.~rer ondroy Resigns and IL
succeeded by a Chicago Man
p.uacy OF New Control Unknown
steps to Organize Combination.

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TAIRHAVEN, Feb. 25.-An important
.ksnee in the management OF the big
psrific American Fisheries Company was
snno,nced in a private telegram from
Sbicaso yesterday. At a meeting OF the
Ssrecfors OF the company In that city Mr..
paiand Onffroy. vice president and gem
al manager OF the company, rendered
NJ resIgnation. Mr.. Onffroy was the
,,ronnoter OF the enterprise, and last year
Eve the business his personal attention.
y.toiv there has been a division. 1t Is
IA among the stockholders regarding
m future extensions and management
X the companys business. and Mr..
0n Il t + snen ons q y hs 5risndS
b. Deming, of the Arm Of Deming a.
Gould. Chicago brokers. was elected gen
srsI manager, and Robert, A. Smith was
re-elected assistant general manager. IT
4 understood that Mr.. Smith will be prac-
iicaily the resident manager here.
III Il known that Mr.. Onffroy's plans
M oompany's business In Fairhaven this
wear, Including the building of new
esnnefy, shipways. docks. fertilizer
many thousands of dollars. To what ex-
tent the Improvements will be carried
cut under the new management Is I'M
Known, but the building Of the new can
merry Is assured. II is understood there
viii BE- further changes In the managerial
Tn IL the meantime the company is show
the seasons work. a force OF nearly 100
Cinnamon will arrive next week to work
n the can-making section, which is
mates on last years pack. IL. OO0.o 900 cans
viii be needed by the company this sea-
scn. Several car loads OF tin plate have
Guiding seven "tappers'' now being manu-
factured by Letson n Burpee, OF this
city and washing and labelling machines
are being Installed. The company is also
large lahor aud Milling oh
Il the Globe mill dock three steam pile
drivers are In course OF construction; at
Ballard two new tugboats. g feet in
and will soon be turned over to the com
pany. at Eliza island. which the com
pany Uses as a webbing ground, force
Of men Ii AT work preparing nets and
webbing, and the construction OF net
house 300 feet In length Is under way.
In the main cannery here the labelling
force Is just finishing its work The
seasons contract for Chinese labor has
employed and al Friday karbor sixty w. ~
In addition to the change In manage
ment noted above. interest in fishing cir
cles Is now centered on the probability
Of q new cannery combine being consum-
mated, which will take In a majority OF
the cnnneries and traps on the Sound not
owned by the Professionalism Fisheries
Company and the Alaska Packers Asso-
citation. =, a. Seaborg, president OF the
Aberdeen Packing Company, Is promoter
Of the new enterprise, and Is backed by
New York capital A prominent broker
age firm OF that city IL interested, and
y the deal Is consummated they will
handle the output. Work on the recon-
struction OF the Aberdeen company's
plant, which burned here a few months
ago has been practically suspended pend
Ing these negotiations. II the combina-
tion IL effected II viii be made the main
plant of the new company and its dimen-
sicns and capacity doubled over that OF
the old company. Mr.. Seaborg IL now
In California, and the matter has been
left In the hands Of his attorneys and
II II understood has reached the point
when auiicles OF incorporation under the
laws OF the state OF New York will be
very soon filed In the East
The organization OF this company mean
the placing OF almost the entire salmon
canning industry of Puget sound into tho
hands OF three wealthy companies. the
operations of all being practically equal
In extent. The business OF two Of them
Will thus he centralized In Fairhaven
The now combine will take In three can
neries in Farhaven which are not con-
froied by tho Pacific American Fisheries
Company. Wiz, the plants OF the Fair
haven Canning Company. Aberdeen Pack
ing Company and Astoria q Puget Sound
Packing Company, In addition 10 these
one written option and two verbal ones
have been obtained on outside canneries
Including two Anacortes plants and
Meyers Il Cos cannery In Saattle