The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-04-18
OPERATING PLAN
OF EAST COAST
FIRM ANNOUNCED
Take Over Three Canneries
in Opening Venture IN
Alaska Fishing Field.


The Atlantic & Poetic Products
Corporation, OF Seattle. a subsidiary
OF the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
Company, Of Jersey CITY, n j. has
taken over three cannelies ia Santh- /
eastern Alaska and will operate the
plants this season This is accord
ing to Haakon 3. Friele, manager oi
The Corporation. who is in Juaeal
on business in the interest ot he
Corporation.
The carneries token over ~ tAa
Corporation and to be operated thaa
summer are The Hidden Inlet can
merry at Hidden Inlet, purchased from
the Hidden Inlet Packing Company;
the Cape Edwards cannery ct Cape
Edwards, leased from the Deem Sei
s lmon Company. and the Heceta
Island cannery on Hece.a Island,
leased from the Swift, Arthur, Crosby
Co The two latter cannereS nave
been leased for one year. Il c3Adi-
lions warrant the plants viii be re-
leased next season with posi-
bility OF permanent operation by the
Corparation, Mr.. Friele said.
/ \ one-line cannery is being built
at Hidden Inlet, the cannery there
1 having been DESTROYED by fire LAST
war. The oannery will be completed
FOR operation June so Plans call for
another line to be Installed at the
plant next season.
The Corporation has also purchased
the property CT the G. ". hume CO.
at Nakat Inlet, according to Mr..
Friale. The property includes
good camery site, with some OF the
smaller Buildings. the clnnefY having
burned during the season Of 1920;
also four productive trap sites. The
cannery will not be rebuilt this year,
but the buildings and machinery viii
be moved to the Hidden lnle, can
ne~y and the traps VIII be operated
in conjunction with the plant at ND
| den Inlet
Preliminary work is already under
way at the Cape Edwards and Rec
eta Island canneries. Tie crews
have been placed at each plant and
are making ready for the pack which
will begin in July. Mr. Frieia said ne
expects pack of $4,000 each from
the Heceta and Hidden Inlet can
neries and 10000 from the Cape Ed
wards cannery.
The forming OF the Atlantic & Pa
cific Products Corporation vas for
the purpose Of supplying products 10
the chain of~stestas Cs the Great At
lantic & Pacific Tea Company, Mr..
E'riele said The first step taken
lby the Corporation was the es5ab-
lishment OF several small plants on
the east coast for the canning Of
vegetables The organization grad
ual1y grew and recently the huge
plant was established at Buckport,
N Y, for the canning Of vegetables,
milk and other products. The can
ming Of fish came to the attention Of
the directors OF the Corporation, with
the result of the operations in Al
aska at the present time. The Cor
poration is confident of the success
of the venture and has started the
business on large scale, placing
i Mr.. Frlele as manager OF The IN
terests.
Mr. Friele is an experienced can
merry man and is well known in the
North. He was superintendent OF
the Port Walter cannery il 1917.
Mr.. Friele win leave juneau tomor-
row morning on the cannery tender
Eagle for Hidden Inlet. He viii go
from there to Ntkat Inlet, Cape Ed
! wards and HecctaS Island to inspect
the work being done at the Gamer
les. He win then go to Ketchikan
md Seattle, returning North July !
| for the salmon run
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