FISHERIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST STATES IN 1904. 



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wholesale fish firms of Seattle and Tacoma, $214,487. Clam and sar- 

 dine factories, cold-storage plants, boneless-fish establishments, and 

 fertilizer works paid an aggregate of $65,521. 



The following table shows the shipments of fresh fish by express 

 and fast freight over the Northern Pacific Railway during 1903 and 

 1904 from stations between Portland, Oreg., and Seattle, Wash.: 



Seattle 



Tacoma 



Aberdeen ... 



Kalama 



Kelso 



Hoaquim ... 

 Snohomish. . 



Olympia 



South Bend 

 Cosmopolis.. 

 Fairhaven 

 Portland 



Total 8,457,279 8,520,805 



1903. 



1904. 



With the exception of Portland, all of the above-mentioned stations 

 are in Washington. The shipments of 1904 show a net increase of 

 63,526 pounds over those of 1903. Seattle and Tacoma furnished nearly 

 seven-eighths of the total shipments from this district, most of which 

 went to cities on the eastern coast. Those from Tacoma were chiefly 

 halibut and those from Seattle largely salmon. The Great Northern 

 Express also shipped from Seattle during 1904, 1,713,230 pounds of 

 fish, which went chiefly to cities east of the Rock} T Mountains. 



Seattle. — The wholesale fish trade of Seattle has experienced many 

 changes during the past ten years. Men not familiar with the busi- 

 ness have dropped out after heavy losses and from lack of capital. 

 Men of many years' experience and large capital have succeeded them, 

 and this has placed the business on a more certain foundation with 

 fewer firms engaged. During 1904 Seattle was represented by 6 firms 

 with $355,900 capital, employing 172 persons at wages amounting to 

 $116,187. The sales in that year amounted to 11,354,225 pounds of 

 fresh, salted, smoked, and kippered fish, crabs, shrimp, and spiny 

 lobsters, 4,372 bushels of clams, 13,640 bushels of oysters, and 13,200 

 cases of canned salmon, the total value of the sales being $676,937. 

 The following were the leading products and the quantity and value of 

 each: Fresh salmon, 2,874,220 pounds, valued at $158,125; mild-cured 

 salmon, 987,600 pounds, valued at $88,339; fresh halibut, 4,654,590 

 pounds, valued at $192,025; salted cod, 889,000 pounds, valued at 

 $42,050; smoked halibut, 187,000 pounds, valued at $15,550; smoked 

 salmon, 42,000 pounds, valued at $3,800; and crabs, 124,140 pounds, 

 valued at $6,137. 



