238 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 

 The yearly Khipiueuts have been as follows: 



Tears. 



Pounds. 



Value. 



1889 6,628 



1890 4,200 



1S91 3,521 



1802 4,125 



$265 

 168 

 141 

 165 



TILLA3IOOK COUNTY. 



This couuty has a frontaj^e of over 50 miles on the Paciftc Ooeaii and 

 is traversed by a number of rivers, chief among which are the Hiletz, 

 Nestuggah, Tillamook, and Nehalem, the latter forming the boundary 

 between Tillamook and Clatsop counties. TheXestuggah andTillamook 

 rivers empty into bays of the same name. The fisheries of the county 

 are restricted to the capture of salmon, which enter the rivers in large 

 quantities during the fall months. The relative abundance of chinook 

 salmon in the streams of this county is greater than farther south. 

 Some seasons the catch of chinooks will be fully equal in weight to that 

 of silver salmon ; at other times, as in the year 1892, the catch is often 

 three-fourths silver salmon. Both fish run in greatest abundance about 

 the same time, although the chinooks are the first to arrive, during 

 August, while the silver salmon come in September. The movement 

 of both species is over in November, when the fishing operations cease. 

 A few fish continue to enter the river in the winter, in company with 

 very large numbers of steelheads, but no attention is i)aid to them. 



The entire salmon catch of Tillamook River is utilized at a cannery 

 located near the moutli of that stream. The number of cases packed 

 during each of the four years 1889 to 1892 were as follows: 



The Siletz Kiver flows through an Indian reservation and the entire 

 catch is obtained by Indians, who cure the fish for winter use. The 

 annual quantity of salmon thus prepared is about 60,000 pounds. 



CLATSOP COUNTY (NEHALEM RIVER). 



The fisheries of the ocean side of this county are carried on only 

 in the Nehalem River. Those in the Columbia River will be included 

 in the general remarks on that river which follow. The Nehalem is a 

 small stream rising in the Coast Range, in Clatsop County, and flowing 

 southwesterly to the Pacific, which it enters at the southern end of 

 the county, whose boundary it forms. Its fisheries, which are of some 

 importance, are carried on in tl^ fall, when there is a run of chinook 

 and silver salmon in the river. With the exception of a few salmon 



