The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06
FISHERIES.

FISHERIES.
In the value and extent of her sea
fisheries, Maine stands second in rank
among the States OF the Union and in
the Importance of herIriver. fisheries she
is equalled by no other State. The bus
mess of canning Holsters and sardines
has grown to immense proportions.
More than ten million poundslof Holsters
are canned in favorable year and tho
average pack of sardines from the more
than fifty sardines factories is 100000
cases annually.
A recent report of the United States
Commissioner of Navigation credits
Maine with 655 vessels of total tonnage
OF q lat tons, engaged in the cod and
mackerel fisheries.
The State Fish Commissioners have
for number of years been engaged in
restocking the inland waters of Maine
with edible fish and have annually
placed in the larger rivers and lakes a
million salmon fry and a very large mum.
Der of the fry of the trout, black bass,
white fish and other food fish, and the
results of their efforts are now making
themselves apparent in greatly in
creased number of these choice species.
At Bangor, on the Penobscot, is one of
the finest salmon pools in the world and
sportsmen from all portions of the coun-
try annually visit this pool, where many
fish OF the largest size are killed each
season.
The State has enacted stringent laws
re tlr1 G.I~
inland waters and Of the game in it's
vast forests. Game wardeps keep care
full watch over these great preserves and
guard them from the depredations of
poachers during close time. The strict
enforcement of the game laws has re-
suited in very marked increase in fish
and game. especially in deer and carl
bou, which are found in great abundance
in the forests of the State.
OTHER INDUSTRIES.
In addition to the manufacturing and
other industries of Maine, heretof ire
mentioned in sdetail. large amounts Of
capital are invested in various other de.
partments of industry, in different por.
lions of the State. Among these may
be mentioned the lime industry, which,
in 1890, turned out product of the value
of $4,000, 900, the foundry and machine
shops, whose invested capital is fully up
to 100000; the -four and gristmills
with capital of more than $1,000, 900;
the manufacture of agricultural imple-
ments, employing capital of nearly
81 100000; the manufacture of CONNER
cial fertilizers, using capital of more
than quarter of million; the canning
of sweet corn, with an annual pack Of
of more than 100000 cases, and many
other minor industries, whose aggre-
gate capital will reach large amount.
There are in Maine eighty-three Nat
ional Banks, with an aggregate capital
of more than eleven millions, and fifty
two Savings Banks whose total deposits
are more than fiftv-six millions.
In addition to these there are sevcn.
teen Trust and Banking companies
whose united business is nearly seven
millions, and thirty-three Loan and
Building Associations, with an aggregate
capital of nearly two and one-half mil
lions. The newspapers of Maine num-
Der one hundred and ninetyfive and nearly
every town of any Importance in the
State supports local paper.
STATISTICS IN REGARD TO POPU-
LATION.
Names population of 661, o88 is about
equally divided between the two sexes;
there being less than one-half of one per
cent. difference between the number Of
males and females. Eighty-eight per
cent. of the population, or nearly nine
tenths are native born and the colored
population numbers 1928.
The total population per square
mile Of area is twenty-five and one
tenth.
MAINE AS A SUMMER RESORT.
We have seen that much of the wealth
of Maine has been coined from the rough
and rugged Lodges of granite and slate,
found in various portions of her territory
and from the pure waters of her rivers
and lakes which the icy letters of our
northern winters bind in crystal chains,
thus rendering it capable of being sent
abroad to temper the heat of more sou tn
ern chimes.
But Maine has another great natural
source of wealth, in a great measure
peculiar to herself, and one that cannot
be loaded upon ships or cars, or sent as
an article of merchandise to foreign
chimes. This consists in her genial sum-
mer climate, her pure and health-givins
air and her magnificent scenery of lake,
river and mountain. of rugged seacoast
and of immense forest areas, teeming
with life, but inhabited only by the ma
tive denizens of the wildwood.
Poets have sung of the grand and
beautiful natural scenery of Maine and
have inscribed her praises in immortal
verse. Artists have transferred to the
almost breathing canvas the picturesque
beauty of her wildwood retreats and the
grandeur of her rock-bou and wave-
dashed coast.
Still, these scenes must be visited to
be fully enjoyed and appreciated and
all that can be carried away in the glori-
GUS inspiration of their romantic beauty
and the priceless acquisition of restored