24 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Statistics of the salmon- canning industry of California in 18S8. 
Location of canneries. 
No. of 
canner- 
ies. 
No. of 
factory 
hands'. 
Salmon used for can- 
ning. 
Canned salmon placed 
on market. 
Pounds. 
Price paid 
to fisher- 
men. 
Cases. 
Value. 
San Francisco 
*2 
83 
453, 700 
$22, 685 
6, 875 
$41,250 
Sacramento River 
4 
295 
4, 039, 200 
201,960 
61,200 
382, 500 
Klamath River 
1 
12 
288, 200 
14,410 
4,400 
26, 400 
Smith River 
1 
20 
1 52, 555 
6, 628 
2, 347 
14, 082 
Total 
8 
360 
4, 933, 655 
245, 683 
74, 822 
464, 232 
* These two canneries are not engaged exclusively in canning salmon, but are also devoted to fruit 
canning. In the item of factory hands the figures represent the proportional number of men who 
•weie employed in connection with the packing of salmon. 
13. FISHERIES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTXo v 
Geographical characteristics . — This is the southernmost county of the 
United States on the Pacific coast. Its coast line has a moderate curve 
and extends in a northwesterly direction (nearly MW.) from the Mex- 
ican boundary to Point Saint Mateo, a distance of about 57 geograph- 
ical miles. Its shores are characterized by a fringe of beaches extend- 
ing into the sea for some distance, while above them are generally 
steep, craggy headlands of sandstone, usually rising a little distance 
from the surf line. At varying distances from the shore, within 5 miles, 
is a ridge of stony bottom covered with kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)-, in 
the bays where patches of kelp occur it is called “clam kelp” by the 
local fishermen. 
Along this stretch of coast San Diego Bay is the only harbor suitable 
for important fishing operations, and the only landlocked harbor on the 
coast of California south of San Francisco, from which it is distant 450 
miles in a SSE. direction, being only 12 miles north of the Mexican 
border. The claim is made that this is the best harbor on the Pacific 
coast ; it is not so large, of course, as San Francisco Bay, but sur- 
passes it in climate and security. It is 13 miles long, has a total area 
of 25 square miles, and an available anchorage ground of 6 square 
miles, while the average width of the channel is nearly one-half mile. 
It will therefore be seen that so far as harbor facilities are concerned 
San Diego has all the natural advantages requisite for the establish- 
ment and maintenance of important fisheries. 
Immediately north of San Diego is False Bay, which is barred and so 
shallow at its entrance that it will not admit anything larger than a 
small boat; therefore it is not adapted to the purposes of an extensive 
fishery. North of False Bay the coast is practically unbroken, with 
the exception of one or two small streams that empty into the Pacific. 
San Diego as a fishing center. — The fisheries of San Diego County 
center in the city of San Diego, situated on the bay of that name. Not- 
withstanding many important natural advantages, this place remained 
until recently an insignificant coast settlement, during all the years 
