12 INLAKD FISHEKIES COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. 



William Brigliiman's Oil Wo7'ks, Tiverton, R. I. 



Capital invested iu works $18,000 00 



One steamer 8,000 00 



Two sailing vessels 3,500 GO 



$29,500 00 

 Manufactured 43,000 barrels of fisli; produced 50,000 gallons of oil and 1,260 

 tons of guano; 17 men employed about the works; 37 men fishing. 



James MancJiester, Tiverton. 



Caught 4,000 barrels of fish; produced 5,000 gallons of oil and 130 tons of 

 guano; one sailing vessel, value $600; employed eight men at the works and 

 eight men fishing. 



Isaac Brown, Tiverton. 

 Produced 33,000 gallons of oil and 750 tons of guano; capital invested $10,000; 

 four vessels, $3,800; 17 men emploj^ed in tbe works; 33 men fishing. 



Charles Cook, Tiverton Four Corners. 

 Manufactured 3,000 barrels of fish; produced 3,500 gallons of oil, 90 tons of 

 guano; one steamer, value $6,000; employed 5 men in the works, 10 men fishing. 



C. Otis Wilcox, Tiverton Four Coimers. 



Caught and manufactured 6,000 barrels of fish; i^roducing 7,500 gallons of 

 oil, 180 tons of guano; one steamer and outfits, value $4,000; employed 6 men 

 in the works, 9 men fishing. 



(This is an estimation by W.D. Wilcox.) 



Atlantic Works, below Bristol Ferry. No report. Officers of the company 

 in Boston, Mass. 



Oil works at the south end of Prudence Island come in with Job Wilson's 

 works at Cole's River, Mass. 



Remarks on East River (Seaconnet River) //w?i Stone Bridge to Seaconnet Point. — 

 I find a great deal of diflSculty in getting at the number of men that fish in this 

 river by other methods than traps and seines. Great complaint is made by sum- 

 mer visitors at the scarcity of fish as compared to former years. They attribute 

 it to spring trapping and heart seines during the summer season. 



East Qreenwicli. — Fifteen men in this place are (mgaged in fishing throughout 

 the year; ten of these fish by all methods, in February they set fyke nets for 



