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56. Table showing the extent of the menhaden industry of Rhode Island. 



Designation.. 



Number of factories in operation 



Value of factories 



Amount of cash capital 



Number of shoresmen employed 



Number of fishermen employed 



Number of steam vessels employed 



Net tonnage 



Value 



Value of outfit 



Number of sailing vessels employed in fishing 



Net tonnage 



Value 



Value of outfit 



Number of sailing vessels employed as " carryaways " 



Net tonnage 



Value 



Value of outfit 



Number of menhaden handled 



Value to fishermen 



Number of gallons of oil made 



Value as sold 



Number of tons of scrap produced 



Value as sold , . . . 



3 



$193,000 



$69,000 



177 



222 



11 



766.88 



$126,000 



$30,000 



1 



27.50 



$1,500 



$1,000 



3 



42.32 



$1,400 



$180 



60,901,670 



$73,072 



538,623 



SI 29 ,539 



3,810 



$81,010 



$193,000 



$70,000 



246 



225 



11 



747.56 



$135,000 



$29,000 



1 



22.44 



$1,000 



$700 



5 



64.08 



$1,825 



$265 



127,169,670 



$155,004 



762,360 



168,418 



8,551 



$166,268 



Blue-Fish 



came upon our coast the middle of June and remained until the last of 

 October. Their abundance in the waters from Monhegan Island, Me.,, 

 to the capes of the Delaware has been simply wonderful. Captain 

 Church writes us "that he could have caught more this season with a 

 purse net than he did of menhaden, and of the latter he took about 

 30,000 barrels. That it made little difference where you went, they 

 were there in large schools." He adds: " Yet some people say they 



