The San Francisco call., 1898-04-14
PACIFIC COAST FISHERIES.

NJ 1895, by William A. Wilcox which have just been published by the United States Fish Com mission, serve the double purpose of showing how important IS the fishing industry of this coast and how slow IS the Government in making public the full re- ports of its agents The publication in 1898 of re- port dealing with conditions in 1895 is not exactly commendabe in Government that represents an up-to-date people
 Late as 1t comes however, the report can be read with considerable interest and instruction by all who desire information the subject. In commercial value the fisheries of California, Oregon Washington and Alaska rank in importance to those of New England and the Atlantic Middle States It is more over probable that in the long run the Pacific out put will exceed that of the East for even in the years embodied in this report which were those of the panic and depression the development of the industry was considerable.
 A large portion of the California capital in- vested in fisheries is employed in Alaska but as that department of the industry not included in this re- port, full showing of the commercial value of the business to us IS not made Owing to the depression In prices which prevailed at the time, while the out put of the salmon fisheries of the State increased 353274 pounds in 1895 over that of 1892 the money value decreased $25,778 There was also marked shrnkage ln the value of the output of oysters and shrmps, showing that the fish industry, while it in | business of the country from the hard times and lost much of the rghtful profit of its labor
 Much better Is the showing made for the coast by the fisheries of Washington and Oregon. Between 1892 and 1895 despite the depression the value of the fishery products of Washington increased by $47o8o5 and those of Oregon by $411,731 - 10 pack the salmon output of the coast requires upward of soooo,ooo tin year, and this demand IS the cause of considerable industry in making the cans. The bulk of the can factories are in San Fran cisco, and is gratifying to note that even in the bad year of 1895 considerable portion of the tin plate used in the cans was of American manufacture
 An exchange of saffron hue exposes to remark editorial entitled What It Means to Be Yellow" but does not follow with the lucid explanation which might have been expected. There are few papers in this country SO designated, and the exchange in question is one of the most vivid among these The term, justly applied, that paper is above all else sensational; that it prints picturesque lie rather than the sober truth that it cares not for reputaon that honor is nothing that it revels III filth of blackmai incites to crime, traduces decency, tends to make the world believe that the people of this country low and base and that the greatest rogues in jail or out the propretors of these purveyors of carrion. Such is fair exposition of the meaning of yellow"
 It must not be considered that the plans outlined so minutely for attack on Havana have the sane ton of the army navy officials who will execute whatever plans may be arranged As rule com mander does not forward to the enemy detailed ac count of what he proposes to do and the available means But the yellow correspondent is beyond control
 The chief reason for regretting that two heavy weights have signed articles of agreement to fight that the event will be regarded of such importance as to warrant the giving to it of considerable space which might be devoted to something worth men, toning
 The Russian gentleman who remarked that the United States had barred its action may observe that the authority has knocked the bars down