4 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME, 



fiid not co-operato in miy way. The camps were very similar iu cliarac- 

 ler, eonsistiiifj- of a group of small, rude shacks of rough, unpaintcd 

 boards, placed near tlie (»dge of the water, with a rough wooden Avharf 

 running out into the shallow water on hand-driven piling which 

 answered as a landing place for the camp's junk. Very few of the 

 camps could be approached at low tide, for which reason they usually 

 fished the flood tide in order that they might more easily bring their 

 catch to the landing. The shacks which constituted the living quarters 

 and storehouses were, in the majority of cases, crowded on a narrow 

 Iteach between the water and the hills. The dry grounds of each camp 

 covered about an acre of the slope of tlie hills for the want of a l)otter 



Fig. 2. Scenes on Iward Chinese shrimp junk on San Francisco "Bay. Photographs by 

 H. B. Nidever. 



place, and were usually floored with boards. In two or three of the 

 camps the drying ground was partly on a platfonn built out over the 

 "water. In 1897 there Avere 26 camps operating on San Francisco Bay 

 and in 1910 this number had been reduced to 19. The camps on 

 Tomales Bay were abandoned some years prior to 1897. Of the 19 

 camps found in 1910 three were in the cove just above South San 

 Francisco, five were at Hunter's Point, four in Contra Costa County 

 south of Point San Pablo in Marin County. The three camps near 

 South San Francisco were controlled by one company, the Fook On 

 Lung Company of San Francisco. They furnished no fresh shrimps 

 for the market but dried their entire catch. Their fishing ground was 

 in Alameda County about three miles east of San Bruno Point. Each 



