BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 369 



WYALUSrau, March U, 1881. 



Sir: Your communication of the 26th. ultimo was duly received, umi 

 in reply to your request for information relative to the shad fisheries of 

 this vicinity, I am able to state the following facts, answering your 

 questions in detail : 



Commencing at Standing Stone, about 10 miles from Wyalusing vil- 

 lage, and reaching down the road from that point to the Wyoming 

 County line, there were five "old shad fisheries," viz : 



(1) The " Standing Stone fisheries." William Hank, Benjamin Brown, 

 Cornelius Ennis, and Benjamin Bennet owned this. It was a valuable 

 property, worth at that time from three to four hundred dollars a year. 

 There were from three to four thousand shad caught there annually. 

 They caught no rock or striped bass, sturgeon, or herring there or at 

 other fisheries in this vicinity. 



(2) The Terry town fishery. This was owned by Jonathan Terry, 

 William Dodge, Edmund Dodge, Samuel Wells, and John Taylor, and 

 was of about the same value as that at Standing Stone. 



(3) The Wyalusing fishery, owned by John Hollenback, Benjamin 

 Stalford, Joseph Stalford, and John Stalford. This fishery was worth 

 about $250 a year, with a " catch " of from two to three thousand shad. 



(4) The next was the "land" fishery at the head of Ingham's Island. 

 Joseph Ingham owned this, and it was worth about $200 a year. 



(5) Next was the Brown Town fishery, owned by Humphrey Brown, 

 Allen Brown, and Samuel Brown, and was worth about $150 per annum. 



(6) The next and last was called the "Bend fishery," and was located 

 near the line between Bradford and Wyoming Counties. James Quick 

 and James Anderson owned this, and it was worth about $150 a year. 



The stoppage to the emigration of shad to this vicinity was a great 

 loss to the people. For nearly two months every year the people for 

 from 15 to 20 miles, from the poor, were bountifully supplied, and I 

 should consider it a great benefit if the fisheries could be restored. 

 . Eespectfully, 



NELSON B. HOLLENBACK. 



March 3, 1881. 



Dear Sir : Yours of the 26th ultimo, making enquiry in relation to 

 shad fisheries near Wyalusing, is at hand. I spent many a pleasant 

 day in my boyhood with the men who ran the shad fishery in the Sus- 

 quehanna, near where I now live. I could easily fill a small volume 

 with a description of the varied amusements and merriments of those 

 by-gone days, but that would hardly be what you are after. This fish- 

 ery was about two miles above the mouth of the Wyalusing Creek, at 

 the place we now call Terrytown; formerly all was Wyalusing along 

 here. There were other fisheries above and below us, but this the only 

 one I have any personal knowledge of. The proprietors were Jonathan 

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