FISHERIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 
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ocean. Its fisheries are insignificant, as shown by the table, employing 
only 30 men in 1888. The fresh salmfen shown in the table were sold 
to a cannery located on Smith River, California. 
Persons employed (nativity and nationality) : 
United States 15 
United States Indians 15 
Apparatus and value : ' 
2 seines $500 
4 boats - 200 
Products and value : 
365 barrels salt salmon 2,920 
30,000 pounds fresh salmon 450 
28. FISHERIES OF THE ROGUE RIVER. 
Eogue River issues from Crater Lake, in the Cascade range of moun- 
tains, on the western border of Klamath County, Oregon, flowing a 
distance of about 325 miles to the ocean, which it enters at Ellensburgh. 
Fishing centers . — The town of Ellensburgh, located near the mouth of 
the river, is the only center for fisheries. A salmon cannery is located 
here. The town is entirely dependent upon the fisheries, its inhabitants 
being employed more or less in this vocation. In every respect it may 
be called an u industrial town,” being founded and maintained through 
the influence of the fisheries. 
Importance of the fisheries .— The salmon fishery of Rogue River ranks 
third in importance among the river fisheries of the west coast, there 
being both a spring and fall run of salmon. Fishing is not prosecuted 
for other species. For many years prior to the establishment of the cau- 
nery at Ellensburgh a large amount of salmon was caught and pickled 
in barrels, but overfishing and the effects of hydraulic mining rendered 
the industry of little importance until artificial propagation was begun. 
From the time that the effects of successful artificial propagation were 
felt the catch and pack of salmon show an annual increase. 
The following is a statement of the number of cases of salmon of the 
spring and fall runs which were packed during the years 1877 to 1889: 
Tear. 
Spring 
cases. 
Fall. 
cases' 
Total 
number 
of cases. 
Tear. 
Spring 
cases. | 
Fall 
cases. 
_J 
Total 
number 
of cases. 
1877 
3, 197 
2, 402 
4, 038 
4, 142 
8, 303 
15, 093 
10, 337 
4, 607 
6, 497 
4, 533 
3, 630 
4,017 
4, 093 
5, 819 
7, 804 
8, 534 
8, 571 
7, 772 
12, 320 
19. 186 
16, 156 
1884 
8, 202 
5, 442 
4, 299 
7, 290 
13, 653 
16, 158 
4, 174 
3, 868 
7, 848 
9, 926 
7, 409 
12, 376 
9. 310 
12, 147 
17,216 
21, 062 
1878 
1885 
1879 
1886 
1880 
1887* 
1881 
1888f 
1882 
1889} 
1883 ... ... 
*2,000 cases of the fall pack were made from salmon taken in Klamath River. 
1 1,000 cases of the fall pack were canued from salmon caught on the Klamath. 
} The report for 1889 was brought up to August 29, when the fall pack had just commenced. The 
cannery was closed but 10 days between the ending of the spring pack and opening of the fall pack. 
The first attempt at artificial propagation was made in 1878, but on 
account of inexperience and luck of proper facilities little or no sue- 
