lOO APPENDIX. MENHADEN FISHERY. 



haden a food extract like the extract from beef, and, as declared by scien- 

 tists, equal to it in nutritive qualities. ] 



1877 — Factories, 56; sailing vessels, 270; steamers, 63; men, 2,631; 

 capital, $2,047,612; fish, 587,624,125; gallons oil, 2,426,589; tons scrap 

 (crude), 55,444. [During the year 5,600 tons of dried scrap were 

 reported. ] 



1878 — Factories, 56; sailing vessels, 279; steamers, 64; men, 3,337; 

 capital, $2,350,000; fish, 767,779,250; gallons oil, 3,809,233; tons scrap 

 (crude), 53,719 — dried, 19,377; cash value of oil and scrap at the factories, 

 at average market prices for the year, $2,289,172. 



1879 — Factories, 60; sailing vessels, 204; steamers, 81; men, 2.296; 

 capital, $2,502,500; fish, 637,063,750; gallons oil, 2,258,901; tons scrap 

 (crude), 67,059 — dried, 29,563. 



1880 — Factories, 79; sailing vessels, 366; steamers, 82; men, 3,261; 

 fish, 776,000,000; gallons oil, 2,035,000; tons scrap (crude), 44,995 — 

 dried, 25,800. 



1881 — Factories, 97; sailling vessels, 286; steamers, 73 (19 not in 

 use); men, 2,805; ^sh, 454,192,000; capital, $2,460,000; gallons oil, 

 1,266,549; tons scrap (crude), 7,592 — dried, 25,027., 



1882 — Factories, 92; sailing vessels, 212; steamers, 83; men, 2,.3i3; 

 fish, 346,638,555; gallons oil, 2,021,312; tons scrap (crude), 10^029 — 

 dried, 17,452; capital $2,838,500. [Attacks having jjeen made, and others 

 threatened, upon the safety and welfare of the business, the Association 

 voted to defend its members in any part of the United States in the; legal, 

 legitimate right of fishing along the seaboard.] 



1883 — Factories, 78; sailing vessels, 136; steamers, 69; men,-,.2,427; 

 fish, 613,461,776; gallons oil, 1,166,320; tons scra;p (crude),. 20,920 — 

 dried, 34,246; capital, $2,051,000; average yield of oil per 1,060 fish, 

 1. 96-100. 



The reports for 1883 — the last year reported — show great quantities of 

 fish mosdy very poor, a small yield of oil. High prices of scrap in 1882 

 forced manufacturers of phosphate fertilizers to look up substitutes ^or 

 scrap out of which to obtain ammonia, such as nitrate of soda, sulphate of 

 ammonia, cotton seed, oil cake, tankage, meat scraps, etc. This fact, 

 with the large production of scrap in 1883, so lowered prices and 'reduced 

 demand that factory owners made comparatively little profit on the large 

 supply of fish. . . 



i'884 — The statistics of the Association for this year had not, at time 

 ot writing, been made up; but I have from a gentleman engaged in the 

 business a careful and close approximation to the figures of catch of fish 

 and make of oil and scrap at the twelve factories on Gardiner's and Pecon- 

 ic Bays, which foots up the following aggregates: Fish caught,' 176,500,- 

 000; gallons of oil, 883,000; tons of scrap (dried), 13,125. At low aver- 

 age prices these products of the menhaden fishery on the two bays during 

 the season of 1884 were worth close upon six hundred thousand doUais. 



And, as showing its local development, I condense from figures given 

 me at different times by W. Z. King, Surveyor of Customs at, Greenport, 

 the following abstract of reports made to his office for the district including 

 the towns of Shelter Islaiid, Southold and . Riverhead in the year 1880. 

 Number of meijhaden rendered at fe.ctories,. 202,000,000; value of pro- 

 ducts, $627,450; numbers taken in district but rendered outside, 140,000^- 

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