304 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



The result of our experience with your float, coupled with our thorough 

 practical knowledge of oysters, enables us to pronounce your float a 

 success, and we recommend its use to every oyster packer in the 

 country. 



"We think you can with safety prepare to do a large business in float- 

 ing oysters, as a single practical test will demonstrate beyond a doubt 

 the great advantage in the way of increased quantity and improved 

 quality and condition of the oyster after floating to be gained by the 

 use of your float. Your charge of 5 cents per bushel for the use of 

 your floats is very moderate and reasonable. 



If 3"ou can do the work, and will make it known that you are pre- 

 pared to do it, we think that within three weeks you will be working 

 for every i^acker of any consequence in the city, and that you will be 

 taxed to your utmost to fill the demand that will be made upon you. 

 After October 1 probably we will require two of your floats every day. — 

 H. F. Hemingway & Co. 



Baltimoee, Md., September 24, 1883. 



161.— THE COI^UMBIA RIV£B SAIiI?IOIV— A IIATCIIERIT IVEEOfO. 



By E. C. HOL,DE]V, Secretary. 



The Astoria Chamber of Commerce respectfully asks for the estab- 

 lishment of a salmon hatchery, by the General Government, on the 

 Columbia Elver or its tributaries. 



It is expected that the railroad will be connected with the river, form- 

 ing a continuous uninterrupted line across the continent before the month 

 of August, 1883, and in time to distribute any spawn taken in that year. 



The Columbia Elver salmon for distribution would be unequaled, 

 while the restocking of the parent waters would be of great value. The 

 catch on the Columbia in I8.S2 was not less than 1,000,000 fish, and 

 surely so great an industry and consumption needs fostering. We ex- 

 ported from the Columbia Eiver, in 1882, 510,000 cases, valued at 

 $2,900,000, There are 21 salmon canneries now at Astoria and 10 more 

 within 30 miles, representing a jjermanently invested capital in ground, 

 buildings, machinery, &c., of at least $850,000. Ko other river in the 

 [Jnited States produces so fine a quality of salmon (quinnat) ; it is pre- 

 ferred in every market of the world, has more oil and a finer color and 

 flavor, and commands an average of 15 per cent in price over the pro- 

 duct of any other river. 



Astoria, Oreg., December 29, 1882. 



