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roads only the catch of the Sacramento Eiver and a few small streams 

 of the California coast. The mackerel of the table is all Eastern mack- 

 erel ; most of the herring is Eastern. The sardines are mostly American, 

 which are rapidly driving out the imported article, of which only about 

 10,000 cases reached California from all sources in 1883 against over 

 13,530 cases reported in 1882. 



Table 2. — Goods aliipped hij sea and rail from San Francisco, Cal., in 1883. 



Over 100,000 fur-seal skins from American and Eussian waters were 

 shipped by rail in casks, all of them intended for Europe. Excluding 

 whale products, the exportation of fishery products from San Francisco 

 in 1883 amounted to not less than $4,000,000, the foremost items being 



