The tuna canneries and the government are by far the two largest employers.
In 1917 many small canneries were threatened with the prospect of closing and letting the adjacent crops spoil in the fields; hence their call for schoolboys to assist them in cultivating and harvesting.
No provision of the labor law was repealed, suspended, or modified, and the provisions of the labor law relating to the employment of children in canneries or in any factory or mercantile establishment still remain in force.
I fear the canneries are causing too many to be killed now.
Some canneries on the Pacific pack from forty all the way up to a hundred thousand fish a day.
The canneries each have a small steambarge, which is sent to several villages daily to pick up the catch.
The salmon canneries of Alaska are not all in the neighborhood of the towns at which the excursion steamer calls, but are at or near every considerable stream which flows into the straits, channels and inlets.
All have large canneries near by, which employ natives, many of whom have acquired considerable property.
Stopping part of a day on Kodiak Island, they visited the great salmon canneries at Karluk, where the boys were told they could catch all the salmon they wanted.
The poor fellers have been workin' the canneries all summer and ain't had a mouthful of fresh meat all that time.
At various points salmon canneries have long been in operation; and the Seward City mines are only the best among several mineral locations of promise.
The tuna canneries are the second-largest employer, exceeded only by the government.
There are fifty canneries established at the mouth of the Fraser, besides others further north, and between them they export annually millions of tins of canned salmon.
In the first week of July or thereabouts the silver and blue-back salmon appear, and the canneries at the Fraser mouth begin work.
The sea coast of British Columbia stretches far to the north, and most of it is absolutely unknown to the fisherman, while even further north still there are canneries on the coast of Alaska.
As at certain places on the coast the canneries were the only market for lobsters the fishery would cease as soon as the canneries stopped.
Most of the canneries were built and operated by Boston and Portland firms.
At other places, which were visited by the smacks, some of the fishermen would continue fishing after the canneries closed, selling to the smackmen.
This was caused principally by the high prices paid for large lobsters for the fresh trade, with which the canneries could not compete.
In the vicinity of sardinecanneries the heads of herring are used.
As the supply of lobsters on the Maine coast began to decrease shortly before 1870, while the demand for canned lobsters increased at an enormous rate, the dealers began to establish canneries on the coasts of the British provinces.
At most canneries lobsters formed only a part of the pack, sardines, clams, fish, and various vegetables and fruits being packed in their season.
Some canneries had to suspend operations at an early stage, owing to the exhaustion of the grounds in their vicinity.
About 1860 the canneries began to absorb a considerable part of the catch, and they employed vessels to ply along the coast and buy lobsters.
The supplies for these canneries previous to the inception of the fishery were obtained by smacks running to the westward.
In later years, before there was a restriction fixing the minimum size of lobsters that could be canned, the canneries frequently used half-pound lobsters.
When the cannerieswent into operation they usually worked during the spring, early summer, and fall, and as they furnished a ready market for all the lobsters that could be caught this came to be the principal season.
This has sometimes resulted in the development of large concentrations near canneries and, more recently, near dumps.
There have almost certainly been local fluctuations in the number of breeding birds as food supplies, such as canneries and dumps, have appeared or disappeared in an area.
Previously, canneries in northwest Greenland exported large numbers of thick-billed murres to South Greenland--e.
Consumption of seabirds is to be limited to local residents, and sales to canneries for shipment to other cities is to cease.
It has eleven large sawmills, many shingle mills and various other factories for utilizing the products of its timber, besides fish and clam canneries and other factories.
There are about sixteen canneries on the Fraser, six on the Skeena, three on the Nasse, and three scattered in other waters--River Inlet and Alert Bay.
Now they work in the canneries or fish for them in summer, and hunt, trap, or loaf the rest of the time.
In the canneries the tins are made, and, as a rule, saw-mills near by produce the wood for the manufacture of the packing-cases.
Besides, the canneries were shut up in winter time.
No man would have attempted to traverse the tremendous snow-wrapped desolation of almost impassable hills and trackless forests that lay between them and the nearest of the commercial factories on the north, or the canneries on the other hand.
During the season of 1877 there were eleven canneries in operation in Astoria and more than a thousand fishing boats were in use on the river.
During this year a new enterprise was started at the canneries of M.
At the present time there are only seven canneries in operation in Astoria, but the cold storage business has assumed large proportions during the past two years.
More and more, pits from canneries are being planted for stocks.
The aid afforded the peach-grower in this country by the cannerieshas been a great stimulus and makes the possibilities of profitable production of this fruit in the future certain.
The fur trade and the canneries depend largely upon the labor of Indians.
The lake is a natural hatchery of king salmon, and immense canneries are located on Bristol Bay, which lies directly north of the Aliaska Peninsula.
In 1907 forty-four canneries packed salmon in Alaska, and those on Bristol Bay were of the most importance.
Besides the thousands of men employed in the canneries of the Kadiak and the Aleutian islands, at least ten thousand men work in the canneries of Bristol Bay.
Near the canneries the natives obtain work during the summer, but soon squander their wages in debauches and are left, when winter arrives, in a starving condition.
Karluk Bay is very small; but several canneries are on its shores, and when they are all in operation, the employees are sufficient in number to make one of the largest towns in Alaska.
The hope of relief in the canneries proved to be a vain one.
There are seven salmon canneries in operation which are tributary to Ketchikan.
Nearly all the canneriesin this region are operated by the Alaska Packers Association, which also operates the greater number of canneries in Alaska.
There is a superintendent and a permanent force of six or eight men, including a cook, with additional help from the canneries when it is required.
The superintendents of these canneries always live luxuriously, and entertain like princes--or Baranoff.
There were canneries at Uyak, and mosquitoes, and things to be smelled; but if there be anything there worth seeing, they must first kill the mosquitoes, else it will never be seen.
For the canneries where nothing but the white product is put up, the shoots are cut the instant they show their tips above the surface.
The canneries are located as near the fields as possible, the effort being to get the product in glass or cans before it becomes in any way withered, the important point being that asparagus is never allowed to become dried.
For canneries where nothing but the white product is put up the shoots are cut the instant they show their tips above the surface.
First touching the hatchery at Karluk and then the canneries at Uyak and Chignik, the mail boat visited the settlements on the Island of Unga, and thence covered swiftly the three hundred miles to Dutch Harbor and Unalaska.
Why, simply by glutting his canneries and taking from the streams the food supply which the natives have depended upon for generations.
I've never had any talk with him about the Canneries business.
Harwood's declaration of war in the White River Canneries matter had proved wholly disagreeable, and Fitch had not been able to promise that the case might not come to trial, to Bassett's discomfiture.
White River Canneries was never in the Boordman office to my knowledge.
That Canneries stock that we inventoried as worthless is pretty sure to pan out.
Do you mind telling me what you're up to in this White River Canneries business?
I promoted the canneries scheme and I was responsible for it, no matter what Harwood says about it.
Dan felt that it had been worth the journey to hear direct from Bassett the intimations of a wish to compromise the Canneries case.
He spoke of the Canneries case and wanted to know if I cared to reconsider my refusal to settle it.
Bassett's connection with White River Canneries was an incident of the politician's career to which Harwood had never been wholly reconciled.
I guess settling up that Canneries business cost him some money, but things had always come too easy for Morton.
He had a proposition to make in that Canneries case.
He had five thousand dollars in government bonds, but he sold them and bought shares in that White River Canneries combination.
Swathed in oil-skins, however, I braved the downpour, and visited one of the numerous canneries to which the Topeka tied up for a few minutes, and here I was surprised to find that Chinese labour is almost exclusively employed.
The captain of the Topeka informed me that glaciers and canneries are the chief attractions of this coast.
But the number of canneries on this coast is increasing at a rapid rate, and five or six years hence large fortunes will be a thing of the past.
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