The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-11
THE NEW GLOUCESTER
Fishermen of the Atlantic Rec
ogniZe 1t i'm Seattle.
GOOD NAME OF A HAIIBuT BANK.
They Call II Seattle and Talk OF Nov
ing Here-Increase In Demand
for Washington Prunes.

New Seattle Is the name of TIE recently
discovered hsIibut fishing grounds. 40
miles in length. on the Atlantic coast,
located by the fishermen or Gloucester.
Mass, and named IN honor OF the city
which they regard as the Gloucester 81
the West. II IS located between the Grand
banks and Flemish cape. of the coast %
Newfoundland The halibut caught thers
have proved TO be the finest of that part
OF the country and very numerous. and as
the Atlantic halihut are becoming scarce.
the discovery OF this new bank may have
suggested the name o. the new fishing
center Of the Pacific.
Phil Z. Kelley. OF the Keuey-Suthor
Company, has Just returned from Glouces-
ter. bringing the information OF the new
ly discovered banks, and says that the in
terest or Gloucester fishermen in Seattle
and Puget sound is something surprising.
He said: Fishermen OF Gloucester are
mere or less interested in Seattle and its
progress. and in their spirit OF friendship
have named the new banks in honor OF
the city. 1t would not surprise me in the
course OF two or three years 10 see a num-
Der Of their schooners come around the
Horn. for they are looking this way for a
new field. and they can bring their boats
around cheaper than they can build new
ones. The feet consists OF over 80 YES
sells, little larger on the average than
our sealing schooners. The mackerel catch
there has decreased IN few years from
1900 or more barrels TO 25,00o annually.
In many markets found that the Pa
clnc halibut had the preference when
properly smoked. and l have not the
slightest doubt that the industry will be
great one IL the smoking is done care
fully to keep the color of the fish. should
not advise selling in big quantities, so that
none VIII mould on the dealers hands
Mr.. Kelley went East more especially TO
place the prune shipments OF his firm. and
barring the low prices. had good success.
Two train loads of dried prunes viii leave
Clarke county within the week, and from
that time shipments VIII go almost daily.
In the prune business / interviewed all
Of the large dealers between Chicago and
New York" said Mr.. Kelley. and I sold
goods to the largest firms in America. who
formerly did not handle prunes. 1 found
business good, although the excessive heat
In September had its effect in quieting
things.
This year records one OF the straugest
business freaks that ever existed-the
very low price of prunes under the most
contrary conditions of supply and de-
mand. II is the first time in years when
there were no foreign prunes TO compete
with us. for the reason that French
prunes OF the four sizes cost. laid down in
New York, cents a pound. and straight
10 TO COS Is CENTS. BY 30 To SOS we mean
that many dried prunes to the pound. the
other four sizes being 60 to 70. 20 TO SO.
20 TO 80 and 20 to 100. These prices entirely
shut the French prunes out. when last
year France sent us 100000 pounds. or
700 car loads. Notwithstanding these high
prices the California shippers have tum-
bled over each other to place goods. re-
CARELESS Of value, and have sold at and
cents less, for the ~ to COS. than the
French. California sets the price for the
Coast. and II any others are not so well
known, even IL superior, they cannot bring
much as those from Santa Clara.
when the Moran contract was let. you
would have been astonished at the inter
est excited and the questions asked about
Seattle"