Perhaps the most ludicrous example of timber restrictions choking local commerce, or at the very least inflating the cost of local goods, occurred at a salmon cannery at Klawock in 1886. The cannery built its own small sawmill for the limited purpose of producing wooden barrels and boxes in which to ship its fish products. The federal government forbid it to do so and ordered the cannery to import its containers from Seattle and other points in the Pacific Northwest, much to the delight and profit of businessmen there.
