26 FISHERIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST STATES IN 1904. 



Wholesale Trade of Portland, Oreg., in 1904. 



Item. 



Number. 



Value. 



Establishments . . 



Cash capital 



Wages paid 



Persons engaged . 



889, 650 

 42,500 

 31, 900 



San Francisco. — This city continues to be the headquarters of the 

 fish business of California. Here a large fleet of steamers and sailing 

 vessels annually fits out for the salmon fisheries of Alaska, and at the 

 close of the season the vessels return bringing the products of their 

 work, which are shipped to nearly all parts of the globe. The large 

 fresh-fish markets of the city are usually supplied by small boats, as 

 is the case at other ports, which make large shipments to this market. 

 The fish business of San Francisco is represented by 26 firms, with 

 $1,190,762 capital and 486 persons engaged, the wages paid in 1904 

 amounting to $306,642. The fresh fish used locally and shipped to 

 the interior amounted in 1904 to 18,136,290 pounds, with a value of 

 $554,476. There were also handled 7,746,761 pounds of miscellaneous 

 products, such as oysters, clams, crabs, terrapin, turtles, spiny lob 

 sters, eastern lobsters, crawfish, mussels, frogs, etc., having a value 

 of $869,336. 



