CONTENTS 



Page 



CHAPTER I 1 



Golden Anniversary Banquet of the Olympia Oyster 

 Crorvers Association 



CHAPTER II 4 



Organization of the Olympia Oyster Growers Associa- 

 tion. 



CHAPTER III 8 



Nativity of Species — Early Laws Pertaining to 0})ster 

 Land — First Land Owners 



CHAPTER IV 22 



Early Day Culling, Cultivating, Marketing, Opening and 

 Packing — Inception of Diking System. 



CHAPTER V 30 



How the **Olympia Oyster'* Received It's Name. 

 CHAPTER VI 35 



Development of Grading and Diking System. 

 CHAPTER VII 41 



Seeding and Cultivating Olympia Oysters 

 CHAPTER VIII 45 



Oyster Lands — Isolated Tracts — Reversionary Rights. 

 CHAPTER IX 49 



Marketing — Advertising Program 

 CHAPTER X 61 



Sanitation — Sanitary Control 



