Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-19

,rogunoaIion. Good Judges cay that the
North Pacific Goldfish 10 the peer, in ev.
cry respect. Of his Atlantic brothers
and that the fault lies in curing the fish
Tor market. Be that as it may, the sals
OF Pacific cod Is restricted mainly ia
the
HEATHEy CHIME
Who ships the dried Choumagin fish in
small lots 70 the flOwery land, whoos
vast MYERS are unable to produce fish
enough to feed their countless millions
OF hungry pagans. The Choumagin
cod, as an article Of commerce, ranks
about on a par with the ''pigger fish, or
second grade of salt cod that the Bos-
tonians ship 70 the sugar-produciu2
islands Of the wes. Indies. to feed the
slaves. The difficulty Of introducing
any article of food to the wholesale
grocery trade of this coast is well illus
trated IN the case Of the Olympia CLAIMS,
which surpass all others in tenderness
OF fiber and delicacy of flavor. When
they We're first canned, about six years
ago, by a tinware and stove house doing
business in the Territorial capital, .
shipment of one hundred cases was
made to San Francisco. Not whole
sale house could be induced to handle
them, and they we're finally sold at auc-
ton to pay charges and freight. Dis
gus,ed at the failure of the project the
parties quit canning them. About six
months later
SAN FRANCISCO WAS FLOODED
With orders for Puget Sound clans, of
which by that time the marke. was bar
rem. No further attempt Was made to
introduce them for the three years fol-
lowing and when the trade was opened
again. 1t was by parties having no prac-
tical knowledge Of the business and
wholly unused TO packing of any sort.
Az natural consequence, the article
was inferior, and the street
set down. ON the Puget Sound clam.
which would be really meritorious ar
ticle If properly handled. Any other
article put up in Washington Territory
or the state Of Oregon has to ran the
Same blockade of unfrisndly agencies
and adversely interested parties. But
this state of affairs cannot last always,
aud when the Northern Pacific railroad
Is done, there will be shipments of Or
egon's fish and cured meats direct to
eastern markets, without our packers
and producers being compelled to run
the gauntlet Of Sam Francisco which
measures
EVERY ONE ELsK's CORN
BY its own bushel. We believe there Is
bIg money i'll beef cannery at some
point east of tho Cascades which would
be able to open a retail shop III Portland
for the sale of its roasting pieces and
steaks. 1t should be able to
can all its tallow, after refining it by
steam, for the South American market;
to work up its hides and horns into glue
and meats foot oil; and to boil all its
bones down into condensed soup for
the use of camping and exploring par
ties. Conducted III this way and man.
aged with honesty, packing concern
ought to make money in winter months,
besides canning salmon all summer.
The San Francisco trade would fight it,
however. 10 the northward of rs also,
in British Columbia. are fisheries for
herring and eulacLon, the latter being
tho noted candle-fsh Of Alaska. by
which the natives light their huts dur
ing the long winter months. A herring
fishery was established at
PORT MADISON, PUGET SOUND,
Several years ago by man named Ham
m md, who cut of the heads of his her-
ring when he packed them and then
pressed the heads for oil. He put up
the eleanes. and latest fish that could
be found, aud sent his goods II market
packed III the very incest shape. Bot
whom San Francisco began IL open the
cases they made objection that the her-
iings were headless and for that reason
unstable. The consequence was Ham,
mond quit packing herrinRs for the
table and devoted himself solely to the
production of oil and fish Ruano, the
latter meeting with a ready sale in the
older counties of California where it is
used in reviving the fertility of exhaust
ed wheat lands. All these obstacles the
producers of Oreg0n-that Is, the pro-
ducers of something beyond raw staples
have to contend with and will continue
to do SO until another trans-continental
line Of railroad opens the markets of
Idaho, British Columbia and Montana
TO US and places Us on an even footing
with eastern packers. And in that day
there will be a. much money in Ore9On's
sea fisheries as there is now in the pro-
duct OF her rivers. We have written this
10 show that there are
GOOD CHANCES FOR CAPITAL
In fishery ventures outside of salmon
which not only requires
great deal of hard cash to erect and OPP
crate them, but which can be made to
lose fortunes by either slack run of
fish or carslessness in canning them
after they are caught. Last year San
Francisco firm embarked in salmon
fishing ut Q small bay Oh thu Alaska
,oast and sent up man whom they got
from San Jose fruit cannery as super
Of their works. He knew no.
hing of salmon work, and did not cook
ais fish enough. Tho consequence was
, loss of $50 cans in trifis over 1900 BY
.swe ll-headings." There are other fish
ng ventures that will pay better upon II
small capital than salmon canneries, q
Jew Of which We have enumerated
sboye. Our desire is to see all local in
iustries controlled by home capital, and
xe know of nothing that will pay better
returns ON the money than coast fisher
les. The countless millions Of Massa-
,husetts were tirs. accumulated in this
way, and Oregon, the New England Of
The Pacific" should not be slow TO fol-
ow her example.