The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-11
nySTER CULTURE
S.ms,hing About the Festive
BivalveS p!
,us ,g7sET or HENDERsONS BlY.
CONTINENTS NEEDED TO
' nrvELOP 4 FORTUNE !

The oyster ira IL o' 'Ho aoi"e e'A-I
.,,sd hard blow from the compile
-, 81 the overland railroad. though
49,. or .ny other single interest should
,,,oo,,en in the good conferred upon
-. .r.ire community by the perfection
.t., grea. national work. Just as
S.,x.,sr Bay and Yaquina were be
ing places Of commercial note and
s..;naiug to maintain direct trade with
&c v,.nei,cc, then the railroad began
,-siI the sau Francisco market with
.n,ae Points" Saddle Rocks aud
.1,..~.bury," Of such rates as captured
,bs liber San Franeiscans aud forced
s q. oysters into their former oo'cur-
lily.
TIE LARGEST OYSTERS
:. the known world are found on the
p.c;sr coast, along the Gulf Of Cali
s,,r;, The mos, extensive beds OF
,ham are found at II place called Boca
I,,apan. where the writer dug them
oh HI, own bands some fifteen years
20 These oysters are fully twice AS
Ii,,. a. the best Baltimore oysters, and
IN a. large again as those of Mobile
Raw copceded to be the largest found
"a Itlsntic waters. Their flavor is
rar inferior, however, and when
.,..ed they taste about like chicken
,..,led in sal. water. The grain OF the
MEXICAN oyster il fully as coarse as that
q tho aJiloae, which the Chinese dry
.ud send back t, the Central Flowery
Land
sHoALwATER BAY,
wh,el, lies in Pacific county III this
Territory. is the pioneer oyster port Of
q, Pacific. In lS5l-j2, the Shoalwater
Raw oysters we're the only ones shipped
n San Francisco, aud wretched coppery
I,ule things they were too. After
while men familiar with the business IN
The older States, notably Anthony Lud-
INN and Frederick Rotan, came out and
wen, into the cultivation OF oysters at
sboslwater Bay, where they soon got
tho little sea toads.' "a the Missourian
called them, to grow nicely. The Win
ants C,ellias and others, have since
made handsome little fortunes out OF
the sane trade. This locality had two
thirds Of the San Francisco trade at the
time that the Eastern oysters were IN
tfoduced
YAQuIyA BAY.
Lies in Benton comfy. Oregon, and |
has two small rivers flowing through |
it. on which ale located saw-miils. 1t
il the future terminus Of a narrow
gusgc railroad leading toward Corvallis. !
The oysters Of Yaquina Bay are larger
than those of Shoslwater, but owing
TO their not being so fat and the irregu-
Arity of supply. they Descr have
gained any permanent foothold III the .
San Francisco market. During the /
fall season they are carried over III /
wagons (before the roads get too bad) |
to Albany and Corvallis. where the |
average Webfooter doth muchly gobblc |
them. They are long aud narrow. !
while the Puget Sound oysters are Of
much broader and rounder shape.
THE OLYMPIA OYSTERS
Are the finest for their size on the coast.
bang uniformly lat and of delicate fla
sOr. They are less corpery in taste /.
than the celebrated oysters Of Ostcnd /
sad Cancale. so priced by the ton 81.
taSt' OF the European continent. \. j.
Burr, the atfable postmaster at the cap
Ial city, is the head and front of the T.
largest company engaged in the bust
ness lie sent us q sample jar. the (
ether day, Theoretically scaled for ex-
port tho flavor Of the contents being su.
pero The company has on hand about |
iva thousand bushels, aud fills orders
10 Portland as well as Victoria and the |
sound ports. All the evidences are
lbs. the Sound waters are good for fat !
ssaing oysters.
THE sAMIsu OYSTERS,
% often called Bellingh.m Bay oysters.
come from the tide flats at the mouth of
NE SAmlsh river. some eighty miles +,
a',sa oil here They are not so white !
700 ht as those of Olympia. but they
ne larger oysters and susceptible of
Improvement by cultivation. Former
" Wien communication with Olympia !
.s out semi-weekly. tho Samish oys
sas were the only ones to be had in
oo.Asie, but the daily steamboats, to
.a!mta have given the oyster beds of
1sSsptal City the upper hand iii the
sa'set he-e. Is we'll as Tacoma. Some
ago. . man living at Steilacoom.
aooght into town some enormous oys-
=" Claimed to have been found at
HENpERsoN's BAY,
Ssasn emptles iuto the Sound at
aa"Sys Point. They were as large as
New Haven oysters and equal in
.'O' TO any that were ever brought
- S The continent by rail. The man
-. .l saertly afterwards whether from
u. oysters or not. we can't say aud
set persisted with him. Nobody
a.. az weid IND the bed. though it WAS
ssa Tor frequently. Seattle bay
e... Cn Dc good oyster bed. on &C.
49, 49, OF the vast amount of yolcani,
sos from White river which
lsae's oysters III their beds. But we
49, tha' Puget Sound offers a great
s1r's o' oyster culture. 1t is we'll es-
/. asu That Eastern oysters will fat.
h.., Gan fnncisco bay; but all efforts
SEraotUcE THEMSELVES
h.. proved fruitless. Various causes
!, ,s sa assigned fer this, some claim
ts.s. -, Tie Jar Of a ride across the con-
mt, ass;royed The fecundity Of the
rs,. Our belief is tina, the temper