The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-21
SEATTLE SFISHBANKS
Great Industry Could Be Built
Up in This City.
SOURCE OF SUPPLY, 8ERlNG SEA
Opportunity to Make the Gloucester Of
the Pacific-What a Practical
Fisherman Says.

Producers, not lawyers, doctors, real
estate men with land and lots for sale,
are what Seattle needs said Capt s. ".
Sadler, the well-known fisherman and
sealer. yesterday. Did not Capt. Tozter,
of the Grant, say that in the Boring sea
there were fish enough to last the world
for a century? That is a fact know TO
be true. Then why not utilize them and
make Seattle the great fishing center for
which il was destined? That is the way
to fill brick blocks and houses. to extend
railroads and street car lines; in short, 10
build city.
How Gloucester Became Great.
II was raised at Gloucester, Mass. and
am convinced that We in Seattle have
better opportunity than that town ever
had. Before the fish business was devel-
oPed there we used TO hear the familiar
cry of No market But with a smaller
chance for market Than there is here
today the great cities from Marblehead to
Gloucester were built up by the fish in
dustry. They caught the fish and shipped
them to points south and to the West In
dies. trading for nlolasses, sugar and the
other products These were duly turned
into cash. In the next place the Western
market was opened up. Great fortunes
have been amassed and hundreds of men
have had employment for their lifetime.
Fish Cargoes Could Be Bartered.
1--WE could fit schooners out. let them
go north and get the fish, take them south
to Mexico and Central America and trade
for coffee. hides, tallow, cochineal. indigo
and costly woods. The season is long
enough for vessel 10 make two round
trips a year and bring back the wares and
dispose of them. The Western trade itself
is not built UP, and men could be sent to
the mining towns in the mountains of the
interior and introduce fish where now
they are never seen.
Never were there such opportunities TO
purchase and equip schooners The fish
of Greenland, Newfoundland. Grand
Banks and Iceland have nearly failed. and
schoonSrs in use there are too large.
Those pC7pIe o. III the best vessels in
Gloucester. originally worth $500 10 49,.
sci for $1,000 which is fitted out with two
sets of sails, rigs. anchors and apparatus
OF every kind for fishing.
A Fishing Fleet for Seattle.
I'VE should have sixty or seventy fish
laden vessels coming in here every fail,
and if this city does not build up the in
dustry, some other, such as Everett,
Whatcom or Blaine. WILL We have the
men. the knowledge and the experience.
but not the money. That is to say. men
who have money are not experienced fish
SALSH anu 1dulOL lie OppOT-
tunity. but If the enterprise was taken up
in the proper way you would see no more
idle men here.
Capt. Bill Sadler, a cousin of mine,
sailed the first vessel out of San Fran
cisco for the wealthy firm of Lynde &
Hough, nineteen years ago. and / went
the second year. The firm then hadn't
dollar, and only a shanty to do business
in. Now they own blocks, and still il is
said there is no money in cod They own
barks and barkentines briggs and brigan-
tines and schooners. The old men have
retired and their sons are running the
business. Seattle can do better than San
Francisco with 900 miles in our favor and
an equal chance for the Honolulu and
Southern market
Speaking of fish, there are 1900 miles
of cod banks in Boring sea. 1t is not a
matter of how many fish you can get, but
how many you want. At Kadiak island
In the fall there is a run of what is known
as Labrador herring, the fish averaging
fourteen inches in length. The run strikes
Kodiak in October, and the catch can be
loaded in barrels which will sell at $40 and
Sl2 each"