AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMM1S81OX. - , 



men who were poor when I went there, were owner* of flrm* vbtt I 

 left. 



"Q. Were they engaged in the bay fishing ! A. CapUin Andrew 

 Layton was reported to be part owner of a vessel in IJHJJ. and when I 

 left there he was established with seven or eight ves*eU with a firm. 



44 Q. Due to his prosecution of the Hank finking? A. YI: in 1MB 

 he had a vessel built at a cost of $U,(MH). He sold her that fail al 8. 

 Peter's for the same amount of money, and he declared that he 

 in the business that year the price he paid for this veaael. Other 

 I also knew made money." 



I hope you have been tolerably prosperous. Is that a true account 

 of the way your money was made ? A. No, sir. 



Q. What do you say about clearing $14,000 in a year at the MagtU 

 lens ? A. I do not think all the tleet ever cleared it. 



Q. Taking the business of fishing for mackerel alone, nuppoM that 

 was all a man was doing, would he make a large amount of uioory ? JL 

 Well, there is once in a while when they would do very well, but taking 

 the fleet together, they didn't do anything. 



Q. What else were you doing those years you were fishing for mack- 

 erel in the summer! A. I went for herring at Newfoundland from l*>'& 



Q. How many years did you go ! A. I wmt about eight yean. 



Q. To what part of Newfoundland ? A. Fortune Hay. 



Q. Did you go to catch or to buy ? A. To buy. 



Q. Did you catch any herring there ? A. No. 



Q. How did you provide for buying, with money or good* 

 money and some goods. 



Q. Did you freeze them yourself ? A. Yes. 



Q. Did you carry any arrangements for fishing. yourself 

 _ ^ t j^ o> 



Q. Whom did you buy them from ! A. I bought them of I 

 itauts. They caught them, and 1 gave them so much a Imrr 

 was when we first went out for fro/en herring. 



Q. You were one of the earliest ! A. Yes. 



Q! On Jour V^en^^YeT; we iisVd to build little wharrr* on 

 shore and freeze some, and we would freeze the rest 



Q. Which way did you freeze the greater part ! 

 sel. When we got more herring than we could fret-. 

 habitants would let us freeze them there. They told u 

 ashore, and we fixed a little stage and froze them 



Q. In 1866 you ceased to fish and started at 

 went to the West Indies, one year after 1 qui 



Q. In command of a vessel 5--A. 



of !*!.,( h. ,ou , N - 



Name tbem.-A. Cod-lisbing, Milmtins.', 'ckvl 

 THow g mauy vessels tave you usually lu,,l l*hi.( for m* 



. 

 A. Well, eight, I guess, or nine. ,,,,, 



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course ? A. No. 



