The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-07

Are Abundant and Have Been Used
since the Earliest settlement.

Special Dispatch TO the Post-Intelligencer
PORT TOWNSEND. Feb. "a Port
land paper few days ago published an
article about Puget sound shrimp, In
which IL was stated that the first bed
of Puget sound shrimp was discovered
three years ago" This has attracted the
attention of Judge James 6. Swan. of this
place one of the best authorities on the
Sound on such matters, and he has given
the Post-Intelligencer correspondent the
following statement:
The truth Is that shrimp have been
found in the waters of Puget sound and
the Gulf of Georgia and tributary waters
early a. the first discovery * the region
OF the Northwest coast 10y the early navi-
gators. but there has always been such a
supe ra Dundancs or salmon. cod, hailOut
and other FISH that no one would boil the
shrimp except some ships cook or stew
ara who knew shrimp and prawns and
boiled them as Il luxury for the cabin
table. More than thirty years Joe
Vienna. tsh dealer on Government
street. Nictorle. has regularly had shrimp
on sale in their season. and any one who
wants shrimp has always been able ID
get a supply at Ntenna's market
In 1889 l was on board the United
States fish commission steamer Alba
tross by invitation OF Capt Tanner. the
commander. and We made haul of the
deep sea dredge of the mouth OF Scow
bay. opposite Port Townsend. and the FIRST
haul brought M eight bushels OF shrimp
sea water. They wero very nice, and Capt.
Tanner and I mad Il very palatabIe lunch
on of shrimp and water cress. When the
party OF Columbia college students ana
professors rs here last summer and the
previous summer. they found Scow bay
a rich field Tor collections in natural his
tory and every day would get more or
less shrimp an their collections Every
fisherman about the bay knows tha, sal
mon. herring and saFdiueS are plentIful
In ScoV bay during their season. and thev
30 utie 10 procure shrimp. Inc late
Port Admiral Slater used 10 bring shrtfnD
by the bucketful 10 the late William New
ton. who served them up In his saloon
called the 'Whalemen's Rest where the
Mount Baker block now stands
have tried on various occasions to
iniQce persons TO go into the Shrimp bust
ness, but without success There are and
Always nave been men here who would
assert that there ara no Shrir,p on ~
Sound. because they conIt NOT see fhsr,
when looking from the whArves INTO t,yen-
~ or thirty f9;homs ~ wafer and II any
ore was really inclined 20 get a regular
Sortmp net and try fer the%. ShriYrp eod
ptaNaS, tnts have always redcu,ed the
attempt, II any one Viii examine ina
stomach Of salmon caught in sew ls,
shrimp '~'' %
:, The idea that shrimp are found en]v in
Ho9J canal ard arunua Anda-ss,r,..s fsf.-,s
a. stalled in the Portland ranar is .As..i'
Shrtt1p are found IN Tho salt yafa~e -
fUStt sftGrG from Cape Flatterv - s1s,-r,
Pa tut % course. arr more plsn.sf,,, =,
.ot''" localities than fn others ~ sernr
cfse acquainted with the method 80 49,,
4A4E SHRIMP nets n San Francisco Ia
would come herr and give sur hovs a "a,
lessons. sc viii hs found thar ~ ~. -
nGm'.rtHs localities on the cot1~sy ,,,.-.,.
2. - ~ y ard prawns. and IRE boI,s ana
80 :. '.isa s,1aid max. "a lucrative bust