The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-16
MANY TONS OF FISH.
They Will Be Shipped From
Seattle to Europe.
WILL MAKE THREE TRAIN LOADS.
An Eastern Man Buys ESQ Tons of salt
sairnon-He Predicts q Great
Fishing Industry.

The iarges. shipment of fish ever made
from tbs United States VIII leave this city
within few days and is destined 70 Dc u
tirnately sold n the countries bordering On
the Mediterranean sea X viii require
three full trains OF cars 20 carry Il, and IN
all twenty-five cars viii be used Tns ac-
tnal net weight amounts 20 upwards OF
1o.aso pounds and, while the value - not
given out, Il can be yariousiy estimated
from sls.so6 10 1850.
This great shipment Is consigned BY
Fischer Brothers. OF this city. 20 ]. Berg
hSn. OF New York city, and consists OF
salt salmon from the Alaska streams NJ
Bergho1. who Is at the Hotel Butler. has
been quietly operating on this coast n
California and Alaska for some time past,
probably more or less for years
Mr. BerghofT was met az the Butler last
evening by a Post-Intelligeucer reporter
and while very re1icent about his business
told enough 70 warrant the statement that
there are few II any dealers ia the country
who are more extensively engaged IN the
salt FISH business, and perhaps zone are
better informed on the trade than he. In
the course OF an interview he said:
"AH or my shipments are sold IN the
Mediterranean countries. These Latn
states are peopled by two classes The
weather. Is able to buy meats, and with
them consume much salt salmon. but Il IS
not classed as a luxury. but rather as a
common staple. The poorer class eat saIt
salmon and consider II an unusual luxury.
for not many OF them can afford II, ana
those not more than once week. 1hese
are all Catholic countries where fsn Is
used more than in Northern Europe IN
England considerable FISH is eaten, but not
salt fish. and do not deal in other classes
Of goods. Canned fish IS on the decline as
comuared TO either salt or fresh, as are
canned commodities OF any kind DO not
handle any variety but salmon snip
some of them by sailing vessels down the
Asiatic coast and through the SueZ oanai,
but for quick dispatch, which Is the So
cret OF SUCCESS send them overland 10
New York city and from there across the
Atlantic"
When the reporter suggested that there
might be a fortune IN the halIbut trade ne
shook his head. He finds his principal sup
ply from the coast in Alaska where ne
saws the streams are stocked so thorough
ly and the manner OF curing and sailing IS
so poorly developed in proportion TO the
possibilities that mammoth industry VIII
be built up when Improvements are male.
The Alaska salmon are the only ones on
the coast worth mentioning.
Mr.. Perghofr Is OF the opinion that the
fisheries alone will make this city great
commercial center. but said: the people
here do not pause 20 study or think OF
the question. They want 10 speculate ana
get rich in a year or two. and are not
willing TO stop and develop the country
byr that SLOW perseverance whicn mas
characterized the upbuilding of all great
enterprises worthy Of note"
That Mr. Berghon Is a practical man
is evidenced by a suggestion he made on
the proper way TO make money in straw
berries He says that II the Washing
ton growers would freeze their berries
as Is done IN Europe, they would sell them
the following winter for from two 10
three times as much as they can get
for them by any other possible means
Mr.. Berghoff Is a brother-in-law OF ex-
Postmaster General Don NJ. Dickinson, OF
Michigan, but while he does not deny
the fact. he does not make a parade OF
it, for as ne put II. he does not believe
IN trading on the reputation Of his rela-
lions.