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This heart is about 70 feet across, ami outside of it is a box of iron piles and netting about 75 feet 

 square. The fish striking the pier netting will run out seaward to the heart, and, passing out at 

 the lower end, will find themselves in the outer receptacle. In the sections of the iron weir storage ( 

 for thousands of tons of fish can be provided, where they will keep alive in their native element 

 for a mouth or longer, and need not be brought to market when the price is low.'" 



The waters of both Peconic and Gardiner's Bays contain scallops in considerable quantities, 

 although there are many places too deep to dredge for them. Soft and hard clams also abound, as 

 well as eels, crabs, and lobsters. Ou the eastern end of the southern "limb" of the island, near 

 Montauk Point, is a large fresh-water pond. The fishing privileges of this entire point, from 

 Napeague Bay to the -extreme end, have recently been leased to Mr. E. G. Blackford, of Fulton 

 Market, New York. 



The region west of Napeague Beach, now called "Promised Land," is the site of many of the 

 oil and fertilizer establishments known as "bunker factories." These, from Amagansett east, are 

 the "Ragged Edge Oil Works," of Ellsworth, Tuthill & Co., Greenport; those of Jonas Smith & 

 Co., Promised Laud; "Ranger Oil Company," owned by T. F. Price & Co., Greenport; the Oil and 

 Guano Works belonging to H. R. Dickerson, of Staten Island; "Falcon Oil Works" of George T. 

 Tuthill & Co., Greenport; Oil and Guano W T orks of W. A. Abbe & Co., Promised Land. On 

 Hick's Island, east of the above, are the oil works of William P. Green & Co., Greenport; and a 

 little farther on, in Napeague Harbor, are those of W. M. Tuthill & Sons, of East Marion, and 

 those of William Y. Fithian & Co., of Southold. At North West, near Sag Harbor, are the 

 factories of Henry E. Wells & Co., Greenport, and the Sterling Oil Works, of which J. M. Raynor 

 & Co., of Greenport, are agents. On Shelter Island are those of Hawkins Bros. & Co., Bunker 

 City, and the Peconic Oil Works, of B. C. Cartwright & Co. At Deep Hole, between Promised Land 

 and Springs, is the factory of Higgins & Payne, of Sag Harbor; and at Southold is that of W. H. 

 H. Glover. Near Orient, on Long Point Beach, the "Atlantic and Virginia Fertilizing Company" 

 are building a new factory to replace the one burned last winter. 



Mr. W. Z. King, naval surveyor, has for some years been in the habit of gathering such statis- 

 tics as could be obtained from all points on Gardiner's and Pecouic Bays and forwarding them to the 

 United States Bureau of Statistics. In his report he has included the figures for the menhaden 

 factories of Vale & Griffin and Hawkins Brothers, on Barren Island, as the owners live at Greenport. 

 Mr. King's figures for fresh fish are made up from the boat shipments, and are doubtless below the 

 actual catch, for at times men from Connecticut have owned pound-nets in the vicinity and have 

 marketed their fish in their own boats without reporting them. I give below the figures as 

 obtained by him for the past year, beginning with July, 1879 : 



He sums up the catch of the year by estimating the total value of the products of the fish- 

 eries of the district for 1879 at 8975,000. The total catch of menhaden by the bay fishermen is 

 claimed to be 211,000,000 fish, producing 1,013,350 gallons of oil and 22,100 tons of scrap. The 



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