The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-01-31

The work is hard. and when once
the fish are in hand it has TO be car.
ried on TO a finish, however late the
hour, for the herring is very perish.
able article, and any delay in the proc
ess OF cutting and sailing would be
ruinous. The girls often cut their
hands badly, and the salt with which
they have TO work makes the wounds
exceedingly painful. But a brighter,
healthier set of workers will not cas-.
lily be found anywhere than in these
curing yards, where they may be heard
singing 20 one another, and where even
in their spare time they are not idle,
for you never see fisher girl with.
out her knitting needles.
Herrings are cured i'm several other
ways, the work in most cases being
done by women. a Ripper, than which
there are few greater delicacies, IL
herring split down The back, gut
ted, picked in brine for half an hour
or SO and then smoked for a few
hours. A bloater is an unsplit her.
ring and is kept in salt for the bet.
ter part of day before being
smoked, while the red herring is red
because il is first sailed for some
weeks ON end and then smoked for
as long, the result being that il Is
very highly cured.
The net profits Of each boat are
divided into 10 shares, OF which
seven go TO the owners and the other
nine are split up among the hands
in proportion To their standing.
Thus the master will take enc and a
lAlf or one and three-quarters share,
the mate one and quarter or one
iand a half, and so on down TO the
! las joined boy who gets quarter
or even one-eigilth OF a share. a
share In a lucky boat may run =.
close on $1,000 Tor Two ma - sbs :
The new stream drift, az
boats, about go tons. -
length by Is feet in II
the old days the nets We
than two miles long.
every steamer has at
$50, or even 200 nets 30
by Is or 20 score" deep.
is score of meshes, SO tH
mesh az an inch the depti
80 feet, with an aggregate
three miles. The nets are -
together to form continuous
face, and are foated by buoys. ~
are, in addition to the Yarmo,N
boats, over 500 Scotch sailing era
/ 4.
gulls betray the whereabouts OF TN
fish by day, lovely phosphorescep
by night. Hither come the be
with their millions of meshes,
when night has fallen the nets
paid out, the lights lit and the w
feet lies quietly drifting with IL
tide, twinkling red, green and whit
like multitudinous fragments of
some dismembered rainbow.
A good catch is ten lasts, though
IL and Is have been taken in n night.
10 must be remembered that though
last is nominally only 10000 fish IL
IL really 1920. for hundred counts
1872. Twelve and fifteen hundred lasts
are sometimes landed Mt Yarmouth
fish wharf in one day, and they are
all off by night.
The world comes TO Yarmouth for
its herring. Steamers OF 500 and
/ 900 tons lie in harbor heaped up to
the top OF their bulwarks with bar
rels of packed fish for export 20
Hamburg. Rotterdam, and other
ports of Germany, Holland or Bel
GUM.
by n fortunate provision Of nature
the herring makes It's appearance at
different parts OF Scotland and Eng
land in succession, so that for Ga
enterprising Scotch fishermen who
90 60 the Lewis and Shetland in MAY
and June. who fish out Of their own
ports on the Moray Firth ia July.
August and September and who
come down to Yarmouth and Lowe
stoft in October and No"cmber there
are three rich haryests.