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37. Each steamer and sailing vessel •.vill average eight mea each. 



42. Boiled for oil; the chum is sold for manure. 



47. The pogy is worth, on an average, $1.25 per barrel. 



57. Oil is worth about 50 cents per gallon. 



13. Statement of William S. Sartell, Pemaqidd Light- Station, Bristol, 



Me.— February 1, 1874. 



1. Menhaden or pogy. 

 3. Diminished. 

 5. Yes. 

 C. May 20. 



7. They swim near the top. 



8. From the South. 



10. It does, for they were not seen from this station last summer. 



17. September. It is done in a body. 



18. They go South. 



20. It is a small red seed that floats in the water. 



21. South of this place. 



34. Seines. 



35. Twelve hundred feet long by 360 feet deep. 



36. Steamers and schooners. 



37. Ten men. 



38. All day. 



40. It does. 



41. Sixteeen steamers and 30 schooners and sloops. 



42. Fried out for the oil. 



43. Seven factories. In 1873, J. Tar, Bingham & Co., L. INickols & 

 Co., Union Factory, and three others. 



44. In 1873, J. Tarrused 85,000 barrels fish, Bingham & Co. 1,000,000 

 barrels, L. Nichols & Co. 50,000 barrels, Union Factory 25,000 barrels, 

 and three others 25,000 barrels each. 



47. Sixty cents (1874). 



48. From three gallons to one barrel. 

 52. Yes, in the summer. 



54. New York and Boston. 



55. All over the country. 



57. Forty-five cents (1874). 



58. Yes. 



14. Statement of Alden H. Jordan, keeper of BaJcer''s Island Light, Cran- 



herry Lnles, Me., December 29, 1873, and February 9, 1874. 



1. Pogy. 



2. About 100 per cent. more. 

 8. Diminished. 



