The Alaska daily empire., 1917-06-02
BIG FISHERIES
 COMPANY HAS
 MORE PLANTS
Pacific American Fisheries To Operate Four
 More CannerieS
PLAN A WIDER FIELD
ShipbuiIding, Cod and Her. ring Fishing, By-Prod-
 ucts Among Plans.

The Pacific American Fisheries, next to the Alaska Packers. the larg est company engaged in Alaskan fish cries, will operate nine canneries in Alaska this year, and is prepared for a pack of from 500,000 to 750,0 900 cases of salmon this year. In addi- tion to this it will make a start in the manufacture of by-products, and further prepare to enter other branch es of fisheries and extend it's by products preparation. The company will not only operate the canneries that it has heretofore conducted, but
 it is building a new cannery out near Unimak Pass, and has taken over the interests of E. A. Sims and associates, which include three can neries.
 This is briefly a statement made by Robert Forbes, Alaska superin- tendent of the company. who is at the Occidental Hotel awaiting the ar rival of one of the company's tenders to carry him to Excursion Inlet
 Ship Building Part of Work
 
 since the close of it's last years operations in Alaska, has entered the ship-building business, and in addi- tion to completing the construction of four specially designed oil-burning steamers for use in it's own business, two of which are in commission, it l expects to build ten 3,000-ton vessels | for the United States government.
 Our experience last year. said Mir. Forbes, "and the outlook that was presented to us then on the fu- ture demands on American shipping, | convinced us that we would have to have our own vessels in order to | have any security against vexatious delays in the handling of our own business. We immediately built at E Bellingham what we believe to be { the best equipped ship yards on the Pacific Coast, and began the con struction of four oil-burning steamers for ourselves. They are 345 feet in length equipped with cold-storage plants and otherwise fitted for the fishing business"
 Two vessels of the Pacific Ameri can Fisheries have sailed from Bel lingham, and the others are about ready for work
 Offer Vessel To Government
 When the Pacific American Fish cries company was asked to coop crate with the government in the shipping business, and asked to list their vessels for government use, one of the new vessels which they were building was offered to the government, and, while it has not yet been requisitioned. it probably will be-
 Shortly before MT. Forbes depart ure from Bellingham his company was asked to enlarge it's yards to the utmost capacity for building vessels, and asked how many ships it could build. It replied that it could make vessels on the ways at one time. and suggested that it could handle a gov ernment contract for ten vessels of 270 feet, or whereabouts in length, of carrying capacity of 5000 tons each.
 Will Enter Cod and Herring Business
 The plans of the Pacific American Fisheries Company contemplate the addition of cod and herring and mild cured salmon and other fish to their business possibly some of the lines will be handled this year. The company has already installed a plant to handle the waste at it's Ex- cursion Inlet cannery. and it ex poets next year to have such plan' at each of it's Alaskan canneries This will be used largely for the produc- tion of fertilizer and oil
 In addition to it's Alaska canneries,