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Some few attempts have been made by specu- 

 lators, but always failed for want of capital and 

 proper management. The Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany, in some of their inland and northern 

 posts, feed their employes on dried salmon during 

 the winter. At Fort Langley, on the Fraser 

 river, the Company generally salt in several 

 hundred casks of salmon, and these principally 

 go to the Sandwich Islands or to China. There 

 was one large salmon-curing establishment at the 

 mouth of the Puyallup river, but I have been 

 told it did not pay; the fish, being badly put up 

 and carelessly packed, often spoiled before reach- 

 ing the markets for which they were destined. 

 In Victoria, salmon is now a very important 

 article both of food and commerce. 



