SALMON. 61 
Some few attempts have been made by specu- 
lators, but always failed for want of capital and 
proper management. The Hudson’s Bay Com- 
pany, in some of their inland and northern 
posts, feed their employés on dried salmon during 
the winter. At Fort Langley, on the Fraser 
river, the Company generally salt in several 
hundred casks of salmon, and these principally 
go to the Sandwich Islands or to China. There 
was one large salmon-curing establishment at the 
mouth of the Puyallup river, but I have been 
told it did not pay; the fish, being badly put up 
and carelessly packed, often spoiled before reach- 
ing the markets for which they were destined. 
In Victoria, salmon is now a very important 
article both of food and commerce. 
