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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



with the Union Fish Co., and one of the brightest men engaged in 

 the industry, has written considerable upon the early history of the 

 San Francisco fleet, and the author quotes from his writings as 

 follows : 



While making a review of the past years in the codfish business, probably 

 the most interest would lie in recalling the names of those who have been prom- 

 inently identified with the industry. Considering the few years that the busi- 

 ness has been carried on and the restricted nature of it, the list is a surprisingly 

 long one, and is one that should be published as a record to be preserved among 

 the archives of the industry. 



First, there was Captain Turner himself. Like most pioneers he did not make 

 much of a financial success of it and soon abandoned it to others. 



Sometime previous to 1870 Miller & Hall, the hay merchants, sent the brig 

 /. B. hunt two or three times. The fish were sold by Lynde & Hough, but the 

 returns did not pay cost and interest and they dropped out. 



Pig. 4. — Union Fish Co.'s home station at Union City, San Francisco Bay, Calif. 



Andrew Crawford, the ship chandler and Tahiti trader, had a schooner in the 

 codfisheries previous to 1870. From 1870 to 1873 he operated the bark Legal 

 Tender, Captain Wentworth. At first there was a profit, but the last two years 

 were so unfavorable that Crawford withdrew from codfishing and turned his 

 entire attention to the South Sea trade. 



Donald Beadle was one of the prominent figures " on the front " in the early 

 days having interests in the commission and shipping business, and in the old 

 firm of Goodall & Perkins, and with Moss in some of the southern coast land- 

 ings. Like everybody else on the front he had his turn at the codfish fever 

 and was interested in the voyages of the Bernice, Kinau, and bark Union. At 

 that time the fish were all cured direct ex-vessei and so many spoiled before 

 they were sold that the losses were considerable. 



Captain Wing, backed by the funds of his son-in-law, Bailey Sargent, of the 

 American Exchange, bought the little bark Domingo, and the captain became a 

 codfisher. With an occasional diversion to South Sea trading, he fished with 

 more or less regularity for five or six years, Sargent backing the ventures until 

 the captain died, practically of old age. 



