Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-05-26

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manage Il for him. To eseh boat =
allotted net, or seine, variable IN
sire, the average being go fashoms.
,2o0 feet. in length, by II feet IL
depth. The meshes Of these nets are
large enough to admit the head of the
salmon to q point behind the gills,
but too small to allow the body to
pass through. 1t is suspended be-
tween two lines. the upper one sup
ported by corks or floats, while the
bottom line is provided with leads to
sink and hold the net in prependi-
cular position. The smack being
provided with an oarsman, sail, nm
Choir, line and ballast, the fisher
man, about sunset, moves out into
the river, and drops his net on line
across the current, by which it is
borne down the stream many miles,
perhaps, before the coming morn.
The fisherman, during the night,
passes back and forth along the line
to release his net from snags, and
remove to his boat any fish he may
find entangled in its meshes. At
daylight the nets are hauled aboard,
and all the boats belonging to each
cannery gather up their bow-linss
and attached to steamer they are
lowed up the river to their respective
quarters, when they discharge the
catch of the night. The fish, on
reaching the cannery, are, by q pro-
cess of bakery and cookery, quick
ly transferred to the cans, hermeti-
cally sealed and packed in four DOZEN
can cases, ready for shipment toany
part of the globe.
The salmon fisheries on the CO.
lumbia, last year, as is shown by the
measure of products, exceeded by
far, in value, the entire wheat crop.
So large has the demand abroad for
Oregon salmon grown to be, and so
profitable its supply, that not a few
of the men engaged in the business
have found themselves suddenly
worth their hundreds of thousands.
This discovery has served to so slim
ulate the business, that the run of
1877 finds the facilities for taking fish
on the Columbia nearly, if not quite
doubled. No less than one Thousand
fishing smacks are now on its waters,
and the river from Lower Cascades
to the bar at its mouth "a distance of
$50 miles, is said to be q maze of
floating nets.
The amount of capital required to
prosecute the business on the scale
attempted this year is immense.
The expense Of maintaining one Of
the principal csnneries viii suffice to
give some idea Of their extent. That
Of J. G.. Asgler 4 Co.. q. Brook6eld