The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-07
HANS FLOE DOES QUICK WORK ON
 NEW CAN N ER '
Hawk Inlet Will Be One of Best Canneries Tn Alaska
 Ready for Machinery

J The current Pacific Fisherman
 contains laudatofy account of the
 new cannery being erected at Hawk
 Inlet for ?. E. Harris and Con- l pany. The building has been com pleted and is now ready for the machinery that will be put in be- fore the beginning of the season.
 The Fisherman's article follows. i "A notable record for quick but
 thorcughgoing and substantial can-
 nery construction was achieved dur
 ing the past fall by Hans Floe, su-
 perintendent of P. E. Harris and
 Company's Hawk Inlet, Alaska, can-
 nery, who put up a brand-new i cannery building, completing the
 work Sept. 25, just a month from
 the time he commenced tearing
 down the former structure.
 l The Hawk Inlet cannery was
 built many years ago, and while the
 equipment has been kept fully up Ito date, the building was becoming
 antiquated, and last year it was decided to replace it. Little pre- liminary work could be done until the current pack was completed and shipped out; but once the job
 was started it was rushed through in quick time, from the driving Of | 150 creosoted piles to the last stroke of the paint-brush, and the build ing was left spick and span, ready for the installation of machinery early in the spring.
 "The plant is believed t5 be as modern as any in Alaska, the ar rangement being planned for the maximum economy in labor and the highest sanitary standards. The building follows the same general ground plan as the old one, but is 5 feet longer, being 40 by 240 feet, with 40 by 40 feet building for the machine and blacksmith shop. It is of heavy mill construction, with rustic siding and galvanized iron roof. One decided improve ment is the use of trussed roof, eliminating posts in the working space. Fish will be received in sloping-floor bins of solid plank construction, discharging on cen tral sluiceway with elevator to the Iron Chinks," so that handling will be almost entirely automatic.
 "The machinery will be the same as was in the old cannery, being practically new: two lines for talls and enc for halves, including new American Can company vacuum closing machines, clinchers and lines, and an 80 h.p. Fairbanks-MorSe diesel engine and generator; the machines being op- erated in groups by separate mo- tors.
 Hans Floe has been in the fish business all his life, and is one of the best known cannerymen in the odllilOll 4llQUoOl y. "A IldtlVt OI NOI- way, he came to the Coast in 1907, and the following year started with the Northwestern Fisheries com pany on a piledriver at Dundas. In 1911 he worked on Puget Sound for the Astoria and Puget Sound Canning Company, returning there for 1913 and 1914, after spending the 1912 season as web forem4n at Hawk Inlet. In 1915 he went back to Hawk Inlet, and has returned there each season since; serving as outside foreman for five years, af- ter which he was promoted to the position of superintendent, which he has now held for ten years.
 "He is also president of the Northwestern Herring company, or ganized in 1924 by his brother, Olaf Floe, which operates a large and successful herring curing and re- duction plant at Port Conclusion, at the opposite end of Chatham Strait from the Hawk Inlet can nery."