544 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
The following shows the Clatsop County fishery products and their 
first value: 
| 1895 1899 
Species, |" - <4 a oe a = = (i Caer a cal Taig =e ann 
Lbs. Value. Lbs. Value. 
— - oe -|— = 
SAIN es oa enn Coron nee eee ose a cake neem 26, 548, 262 $1, 027, 132 12, 964, 813 $626, 846 
Syria eee cee Ue ecto oie anicewe ower 31,125 | 1.245 28, 000 340 
Ie oe ae ao Ss in Gemtetn'a 2a a minetents 39, 000 | 350 30, 000 | 300 
Hering ..2.2 ss... BE A (ee Se ae Bapockasccccec 12,000 | 240 
VSG pee os eee Bors aie aes clon ee eee porte’ « Satatawenre seeks | oc stehaterreteialetaoe 17, 000 1,360 
STADE e257 0) Fee ata ae A nail oR, nO ne eee eae Mette ere se 56, 380 | WAAGAS cons ec ces Seca eeeemucee ee 
STEMS aie aes wisi eee = ae cra ore ae Sieers ayesererarayele 23, 520 | 637 31, 344 | 980 
Did | eee en eee ey jee ec a | 234, 500 2,010 951, 510 | 9, O87 
(Chey OE] a) nee eae ee ral Ts oN ie | 2, 800 160 | c,c <0 xs ccesloncsencses 
S@ilseaeen nee Se on clam nsionis seein ce ee cee ceoccce Te DOOM Jone noc elle er eee 
PPV UGG sis calerecs Orie teas Saree Biren erm olen oe eS | 26, 931, 587 | 1, 040, 480 | 14, 034, 667 639, 153 
The cases of salmon packed were as follows: 
| No. of | 
Year. | can- | Cases. Value. 
| neries. | 
7 ee | Pe fe = 
ae dieprtone apes eee rise aes Bate < ete Deicke wees Cee tome ee ee epee ee eae eseaie 11 | 387,013 $1, 917, 073 
BOG oan a Pemckss sc kod boc SS tec n eee k em aioe caletoaee os eee cabo es cece eens 9 | 206, 889 1,128, 905 
Two small fish scrap and oil establishments at Astoria collect the 
refuse from some of the canneries. These plants represent $43,200 
capital, employing 35 men, and in 1899 produced 19,600 gallons of 
salmon oil of $4,130 value, and 140 tons of fish scrap for fertilizer, 
ralued at $8,000. Only a small portion of the refuse from the can- 
neries of the river has ever been saved. 
A small proportion of the salmon cans used are hand-made at the 
canneries, but most of them are made at large factories. The can 
factory at Astoria represents $350,000 capital, and employs 125 persons. 
During 1899 the factory used 60,000 cases of tin plate, all of domestic 
make. Twenty-two million salmon cans were made in 8 sizes and 16 
varieties. A large stock of cans is kept on hand to supply orders from 
the canneries of Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. 
Clams and crabs are quite plentiful along the beaches of Clatsop 
County near the mouth of the Columbia. Since the jetties were built 
some + miles of beach have been made connecting with 13 miles of the 
old beach, on which razor clams are plentiful. A few soft-shell clams 
had previously been found on the old beaches, and clams are reported 
as rapidly increasing near the jetties. 
The razor clams canned, are minced, cooked, and packed in their 
own liquor. They have been much in demand, being shipped as far 
east as Chicago. During 1899, 7,148 bushels of clams were used at 
the cannery and 6,450 bushels were shipped in the shell; the 13,593 
bushels giving the 25 clam diggers $9,087. Five thousand cases of 
vanned clams, of $27,750 value, were marketed, 
Crabs taken from the same Benches numbered 1,306 dozen, or 31,344 
pounds, valued at $980. 
