2646 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. Would you reduce this item one-half? A. I would reduce it one- 

 quarter. 



Q. Would not one bait-mill last two trips ? A. Yes ; it would last for 

 4 mouths and 13 days. 



Q. Would one last for 2 different trips? A. These mills wear out as to 

 the teeth in one season, and these have to be renewed for the next trip. 

 Tbe wood-work of the mill will last for 2 seasons. 



Q. Then you charge the value of a new bait-mill for each season's 

 trip, and that is too much ? A. Yes; it should be f. As to salt, I may 

 here mention that 50 hogsheads of salt will fill 115 barrels ; these hogs- 

 heads contain about 3 barrels. 



By Mr. Dana : 



Q. How many bushels are reckoned to a hogshead of salt at the cus- 

 tom-house ? A. 8. 



By Mr. Davies : 



Q. l)o you mean to say that salt costs, wholesale, $2 a kogshead ? 

 A. I know that is the price charged for it. 



Q. What does it cost, say, by the 100 or 1,000 hogsheads ? Does a 

 merchant for such a quantity pay $2 a hogshead ? A. No, probably not ; 

 he would probably obtain it for 81.75 or 1.87^ per hogshead. 



Q. Showing a difference of about 25 cents per hogshead as profit ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. Would not the profit be more than 25 cents per hogshead on 8,500 

 barrels of salt ? A. No. 



Q. By the way, what portion did you take off the bait-mill item ? A. 

 I took off one-quarter. 



Q. Of what does the fishing-gear for these 107 vessels consist '. A. 

 Of hooks, and lines, and keelers. 



Q. Are they not good for a second season ? A. Hooks and lines are 

 not, but the keelers may be so used. 



Q. Do you mean to say that they throw away their hooks and lines after 

 having been used for one season ? A. They are no good after one 

 season. 



Q. What else goes to make up this fishing-gear in this item of 

 $4,815 ? A. Tbe cost of the pewter is included, I guess. 



Q. What proportion would you take off that for one season ? A. Not 

 a cent. 



Q. What proportion of the money thus invested could be utilized at 

 the end of the season ? A. I do not think that a cent's worth in value 

 could be taken off this item. The keelers get pretty well used up at the 

 end of the season. 



Q. Surely the pewter would be good at the end of the year ? A. I do 

 not think so. 



Q. Do you say as a matter of fact that this fishing-gear, including the 

 articles you have mentioned, is absolutely valueless at the end of one 

 fishing trip ? A. I do. 



Q. Absolutely valueless, and treated so ? A. It is treated so. 



Q. Nothing can be realized from it at all ? A. Nothing at all. 



Q. Where did you get the custom house and port charges from ? A. 

 I obtained a good portion of them in the Dominion ; 8 cents per hogs- 

 head of salt is charged in Gloucester for weighing-fees ; and then the 

 vessel has to clear from Gloucester. 



Q. You think that this $140 is a fair charge ? A. Yes. Mr. Steele 

 paid a license on his vessel during those years. 



Q. The next charge sets the charter of these 107 vessels at $200 a 



