182 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Apparatus and capital. 
Designation. 
Number. 
Value. 
(t.nrmn.o'A 190. 58) 
3 
$26, 000 
1,500 
1, 300 
1, 700 
3, 675 
40, 000 
60, 000 
Outfit ......... ... 
Boats - 
25 
Seines 
2 
frill 11 Pit, S . 
123 
Shore property. 
Cash capital 
Total 
134, 175 
Products and values . 
Species. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Salmon used for canning 
1, 404, 340 
$28, 087 
Salmon shipped fresh 
150, 000 
3, 750 
Total 
1, 554, 340 
31, 837 
29. FISHERIES OF THE ELK RIVER. 
This stream is located in Carry County, Oregon, and empties into the 
Pacific about 2J miles south of Cape Blanco. It rises in the mountains 
in the interior of the county and flows a distance of about 40 miles in 
a westerly direction to the Pacific Ocean. It is quite narrow, and its 
fisheries can never be of much importance. 
Three kinds of salmon are taken in this river — chinook or quinnat, 
silver, and steelhead; salmon trout, black-spotted trout, smelt, herring, 
perch, flounders, and suckers occur, but are not of economic importance 
at the present time. Salmon appear only in the fall, and are taken, as 
a rule, from the mouth of the river to the head of tide water, a distance 
of about 1 mile. 
Most of the catch of 1888 was sold to the salmon cannery on the 
Coquille Kiver, and has been included in the pack of that stream. Such 
salmon as can not be shipped to the cannery in a fresh condition are 
salted and packed in barrels. The first shipment of that character was 
in 1880, and since then small shipments have been made annually. In 
1887 180 barrels and in 1888 50 barrels of salted salmon were put up and 
sent to market. 
The statistics of the fisheries on this river in 1888 are as follows : 
Persons employed : 
By nativity — 
United States . 4 
British provinces 1 
By nationality — 
United States . 5 
Apparatus and values : 
Boat $25 
Seine 150 
Gill net.... 50 
Products and values : 
26.000 pounds fresh salmon 390 
10.000 pounds salted salmon 400 
