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hood there were located, during the great fisheries of the last cen- 
tury, a very considerable number of salting and smoking establish- 
‘ments, among them the largest and best known of the entire province 
(see Handlingar rorande sillfisket, Stockholm, 1843, p. 4). In the north- 
western portion of the coast there should of course be a telegraph sta- 
tion at the terminus (either Hilds or Fiskebdckskil) of the proposed rail- 
road from Uddevalla. On the inner coast there should be a telegraph 
station at Stenungssund, which is an important place both as a fishing 
station and as a watering place. <A telegraph or telephone station 
could, with very little expense, be established at Tjufkil, whence a sub- 
marine cable goes to Marstrand. In the southern portion of the coast 
there are telegraph stations at Gottenburg and on the islands of Brdnné 
and Vinga. For the benefit of the herring fisheries a new telegraph 
station should be established at Juthamn, on the southwestern point of 
the island of Hisingen, which is most favorably located for the herring 
fisheries and the herring trade; lies on the high road for all the steam- 
ers plying along this coast; is the center of a large number of fishing 
stations, and is moreover the terminus of a proposed railroad from 
Gottenburg. The southern part of the south coast has easy access to 
Marstrand or Tjufkil, and the southern part can easily be reached from 
the Lrdnné station. Of the eight new telegraph stations which have 
been proposed in the above, four will probably soon be established, 
viz: Grebbestad, Kungshamn, Mollésund, and Juthamn. 
Of the greatest importance, however, not only for our herring and 
other sea fisheries, but for the welfare of our coast and our whole prov- 
ince will be the establishment of railroad connections between some of 
the most favorably located outer harbors and the railroad system of 
the country. The experience of other countries has clearly shown the 
beneficial influenee of railroads on the sea fisheries; and in proof of this 
assertion we quote the following from one of the most recent and best 
English works on the fisheries, which shows of what great importance 
railroad connections are considered to be, in their relation to the sea 
fisheries. Holdsworth, a man of great experience, after having given a 
brief review of the British fisheries for the last twenty or thirty years, 
says: “The main cause of the great change in our fisheries is the ex- 
tension of our railroad system. At present the cost of carrying fish a 
hundred miles is very trifling, and the railroads, whose lines run along 
the coast, or which from the interior of the county extend to places on 
the coast where fish are landed, have had the good sense to encourage 
the transportation of fish in every possible way, because they saw that 
thereby aregular and profitable carrying trade might be built up. The 
means thus obtained, of bringing a large quantity of fish, whilst they 
are still fresh, into many different markets, and in a condition which 
years ago would have been considered an impossibility, encouraged the 
° BRITISH INDUSTRIES: Sea fisheries by EL. W. H. Holdsworth; Salmon fisheries, by 
Archibald Young. London, 1877, pp. 4, 5. 
