OYSTER RESOURCES OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 357 
The station known as San Bruno was established by Corville & Co. 
about 1872. It was subsequently owned by Swanberg & West, and 
finally passed into the hands of the Morgan Oyster Company. 
The establishment at Millbrae dates from 1874, and is one of the 
most valuable. The house is nearly 2 miles off shore, and is connected 
by telephone with the city office. 
Dumbarton was begun in 1877 and may be considered the most 
important station of all. The oyster beds here are the most remote 
from the sea. There is probably sufficient warmth of water here in sum- 
mer to admit of more extensive oyster-spawning than elsewhere. South 
of this point the tide water backs up many sloughs and creeks far 
inland, where it can become warm, and there is little doubt that future 
tests ml show this to be desided. the warmest part of the bay and 
‘the best adapted for raising seed oysters. —. ==" = 
The Alvarado place, about 8 miles north of this and in a very exposed 
situation, has been abandoned on account of the heavy seas, caused by 
winter winds, to which it was subjected. The South Belen place 
was started in 1877 and North Belmont in 1884. The last, founded 
by Doane & Co., was later consolidated with the Morgan Oyster Com- 
pany, of which Mr. Doane is now the field superintendent. The San 
Mateo oyster station has been in operation for five or six years. The 
employés are moved from station to station as the beds at different 
places require attention. 
Seed oysters are usually laid out at the Dumbarton beds or the Bel- 
mont beds (all of which are near the head of the bay) for a couple of 
years, and are then transferred to ‘the beds at Millbrae and San Bruno 
for the final year before being put on the market, as the latter pees je 
are supposed to be better adapted to fattening them. —— ; 
This company employs a schooner, quite a fleet of sloops or gdiene 
gers,” many scows or barges, and some floats. No retail stands or res- 
taurants are operated. They have considerable territory in Willapa 
Bay, Washington, devoted to the cultivation of the Washington coast 
oyster (Ostrea lurida), Large regular shipments of this species are 
made to San Francisco. The wholesale oyster business of the company 
is transacted at a commodious building on Third street, San Francisco, 
from which oysters, opened or in the shell, are supplied to the hotels 
and restaurants of the city, and, boxed or canned, are shipped to all 
the large towns of the Pacific region, from Victoria to San Diego, and 
from Salt Lake to Honolulu. 
Oyster establishment of M. B. Moraghan.—Mr. M. B. Moraghan, an 
importer, planter, and wholesale and retail dealer in oysters in the Cal- 
ifornia Market, San Francisco, established his oyster bedding-ground 
at Millbrae sont 1882, where he owns 200 acres and leases 900 acres of 
tide lands. Much of the product of these beds is used at his restaurant 
Stalls in the California Market. The methods of the Morgan Oyster 
Company, previously described, apply also to this place. 
