FISHERIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST IN 1899. 547 
chiefly confined to salmon used by the canners, a limited amount of fresh 
fish, crabs, and oysters going to the neighboring fresh-fish markets. 
Siletz River has one cannery that packed 4,719 cases of salmon of 
$19,146 value; Alsea River one cannery, 7,160 cases of salmon of 
$28,176 value; Yaquina River two canneries, 4,850 cases of $17,124 
value; a total by the four canneries of Lincoln County of 16,729 cases 
of $64,446 value. 
Shipments of fresh salmon, flounders, and herring by express from 
Yaquinaamounted to 107,627 pounds. Crabsare quite plentiful; 79,260 
pounds of $1,635 value were disposed of locally and to the near-by 
markets. 
Yaquina Bay has the only oyster-grounds of Oregon. The beds of 
native oysters are limited to only a few acres and produce but a small 
quantity. The total oyster products for 1899 amounted to only 591 
sacks of 100 pounds each, valued at $1,625. 
The fisheries of Lincoln County represented a capital of $63,163, and 
employed 234 fishermen and 101 cannery-hands. The fish sold to the 
canneries and fresh-fish markets amounted to 1,442,730 pounds, which, 
with oysters, clams, and crabs, yielded the fishermen $23,499. 
Lane County.—The capital invested in the fisheries of this county 
amounted to $47,975 in 1899, and there were 95 fishermen and 46 can- 
nery employees. ‘The fisheries are based on the fall run of salmon in 
the Siuslaw River, and the salmon taken aggregated 781,700 pounds, 
valued $12,040. 8,600 cases of salmon were packed by the one can- 
nery at Florence, near the mouth of the Siuslaw River; 399 barrels of 
salmon were salted, and 60,000 pounds of salmon were sold fresh to 
the local trade. 
During 1900 several pound nets were put down in the river near 
Florence. The pounds at times took 50 to 100 shad, weighing 3 to 5 
pounds each. The shad are scarce in these waters, and there is no 
market for those taken. 
Douglas County.—The capital invested in the fisheries of this county, 
including the value of two salmon canneries, amounted to $66,105; 
207 fishermen and 50 cannery hands were employed. The business 
was confined to the fall run of salmon, of which the two canneries used 
603,120 pounds, packing 8,616 cases, valued at $31,211. 32,500 pounds 
of steelhead were sent by express to Portland, making a total catch of 
635,620 pounds, of $14,215 value to the fishermen. A few shad were 
ken during the season in a pound net near the mouth of the river. 
Coos County.—The fisheries here were restricted to the salmon of 
the Coquille River and Coos Bay and River. One cannery at Parkers- 
burg on the Coquille and two at Coos Bay utilized the entire catch, 
amounting to 1,052,540 pounds of salmon. The pack of the three can- 
neries amounted to 11,947 cases of $44,518 value. The capital invested 
in the fisheries was $81,140; 322 fishermen and 105 cannery-hands were 
employed. 
