FISHERIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 
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making a total of 41 men. ’ In addition, 18 men were employed on the 
transport vessels; these men are hired by the month and boarded. The 
pay varies with the position and character of work. 
Boats and apparatus. — There are two schooners and a steam vessel 
employed in connection with the fisheries of Rogue River. These are 
used to market the products and carry the supplies to the town. The 
steamer Thistle , of 32.58 tons net register, is unique, inasmuch as it has 
two propellers on one shaft, one astern and one forward. It is claimed 
that this arrangement facilitates her progress vihen crossing the bar at 
the mouth of the river. The small boats used here are mostly of the 
flat-bottomed, sharpy type. Large flat-bottomed seine boats are used 
when setting the seine. 
Drift nets are 60 to 75 fathoms long and 18 to 20 feet deep, though 
some have a length of 150 fathoms. The mesh is 8| inches. Seines 
range from 140 to 250 fathoms in length, and are 22 feet deep, having a 
mesh from 3J to 5 inches. Set nets are 12 to 25 fathoms long, 22 to 24 
feet deep, and have an 8f-inch mesh. 
Methods of fishing.— The spring salmon are captured chiefly in drift 
and set nets near the mouth of the river. In the fall seines are fished ; 
these have two sizes of mesh ; from July to September a 5-inch mesh is 
used for the quinnat salmon, and from about the middle of September 
until the run of steelhead salmon is. over, a 3J-inch mesh. There are no 
pound nets or weirs on the river. 
Disposition of products.— The catch of the steelhead (S. gairdneri) 
is shipped fresh to the market at Portland, Oregon. Other species, 
however, are mostly utilized at the packing establishment for canning 
purposes, although a few are occasionally shipped to markets at San 
Francisco and elsewhere in a fresh state. The canned products are sent 
by steam and sailing vessels for disposition at San Francisco, etc. 
Salmon canning. — In 1888 the canning establishment on the river 
employed 106 factory hands; utilized 1,404,340 pounds of fresh salmon, 
worth $28,087, and manufactured 21,062 cases, valued at $121,107. 
Statistics . — The following tables show the statistics of the fisheries 
of Rogue River in 1888 : 
Persons employed. 
Country. 
Fishermen. 
Shoresmen. 
Nativity. 
Nationality. 
Nativity. 
Nationality. 
United States 
35 
52 
39 
52 
United States (Indians) 
1 
1 
British provinces 
5 
1 
8 
Sweden 
17 
6 
4 
Austria 
1 
1 
China 
53 
53 
Africa _ 
1 
Total 
*59 
59 
106 
106 
* Including 18 persons employed on fishery transports. 
