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GEORGE'S FARES. • 



The largest codfish fare ever received from Georges was 123,115 lbs., 

 round, with 862 lbs. halibut, by sch. S. R. Lane, Capt. Solomon Jacobs, in 

 1875 ; the Lane stocked $2,554 on this trip, her crew sharing $90.81, and 

 the cook making $156.62. In 1881 the sch. Triton^ Capt. Edward Groves, 

 weighed off from one George's trip 54,000 split codfish, 30,000 lbs. round 

 do., (equal to about 111,000 lbs. round), and 3,000 lbs. halibut.* In 1875 

 sch. Carl Schurz, Capt. Neil S. McPhee, landed a Georges fare of 107,200 

 lbs. codfish and 3,800 lbs. halibut, stocking $2,580; crew shared $105.04 

 cook made $143.95. ^^^' E.verett Steele, Capt. Joseph Goslin, weighed off 

 102,075 lbs. on one trip in 1869. In 1868 sch. William J. Dale, Capt. 

 David A. Osier, landed a fare of 100,575 lbs. On a fourteen days' trip in 

 1867 sch. Montana took 100,162 lbs., and in two successive trips that year 

 landed 183,362 lbs., making a gross stock of $3,417.32. In 1866 the J/«^- 

 ame Roland hdid 3. i2ixe of 99,338 lbs. In 1877 th^ Riverdale took 93,378 

 lbs., and the William J. Bale 91,500 lbs., each on one trip; the Hattie S. 

 Clark, Capt. Hiltz, took 172,500 lbs. on two trips in three weeks. In 1879 

 the Sarah F. Ayer had a trip of 60,000 lbs. split codfish. The best fare in 

 1880 was 66,000 lbs. split codfish and 1,500 lbs. halibut, in sch. Hyperion, 

 and the next best fare 65,000 lbs. split codfish and 2,000 lbs. halibut in 

 sch. David M. Hilton. On five Georges trips in the Spring and Summer of 

 188 1, sch. Froder. Brothers took 21,544 codfish in number, weighing 171,000 

 lbs. Of her crew of eleven men Mr. George Williamson was high line, 

 taking 2,417 fish, while the low line caught 1,431. 



The best stock on a single Georges trip was $2,833.29, by sch. Madame 

 Rola?id, Capt. James Lunderkin, in 1865 ; in two trips that year she stocked 

 $5,050.75. Sch. Everett Steele, Capt. Cash, stocked $2,824.55 i'^ 1865, 

 $2,760.69 in 1869, and $2,738.95 in 1866, on single trips. In 1865 sch. 

 Laughing Water, Capt. Joseph Goslin, on eleven Georges trips stocked 

 $14,843.84, and afterwards going to the Bay of St. Lawrence for mackerel, 

 stocked $3,110.46, making her season's stock $17,954.30; the high line 

 made $1,105.37, and her cook $1,402.93. 



GREENLAND TRIPS. 



The largest fare of fletched halibut ever landed at this port was 179,575 

 lbs., by sch. Bunker Hill, Capt. John McDonald, from a Greenland voyage 

 in 1 88 1, stocking $9,000. The same year sch. Herman Babson, Capt. Charles 

 J. Lawson, took 178,000 lbs. fletched halibut, and a quantity of other fish, on 

 the coast of Greenland, stocking $11,734.60 on a four months' trip; the 



*In 1879 the Triton had a trip of 69,012 lbs. split codfish and 1,100 lbs. halibut. 



