FISHERIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 185 
sharp bow and square stern, and average from 18 to 20 feet in length, 
having about 5 feet beam. 
The gill nets are 70 fathoms long and 16 to 17 feet deep, with a 7J to 
8| inch mesh. The seines average from 130 to 140 fathoms long, 18 to 
20 feet deep, the mesh being 4£ inches in the bunt and 5 inches in the 
wings. Seines ami gill nets are made by the fishermen. 
The statistics of the fisheries in this river in 1888 are as follows : 
Persons employed. 
Country. 
Fishermen.* 
Factory men. 
Nativity. 
Nationality. 
Nativity. 
Nationality. 
United States 
36 
75 
50 
60 
1 
117 
32 
27 
45 
1 
4 
4 
Swflll ftT) 
Nrirway 
Russia . _ 
Portugal . 
China 
36 
36 
Total 
222 
222 
40 
40 
*Of these, 38 were from the Columbia River and are reported from there. 
Apparatus and capital. 
Designation. 
No. 
Value. 
Boats 
84 
$3, 540 
9, 000 
1,800 
15, 800 
45, 000 
Gill nets 
150 
Seines 
9 
Buildings, machinery, etc 
Cash capital 
Total 
75, 140 
Products and values. 
Species. 
1887. 
1888. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Salmon, fresh 
840, 000 
30, 000 
$12, 600 
1,200 
734, 000* 
15, 000 
$10, 860 
600 
Salmon, salt 
Total 
870, 000 
13, 800 
749, 000 
11, 460 
* This quantity, together with the fish purchased from outside fishermen, 
was utilized in the manufacture of 11,000 cases of canned salmon, valued at 
$63,250. 
32. FISHERIES OF KOOS BAY AND RIVER. 
Koos River proper is an unimportant stream. Rising in Ivoos County, 
at the base of the Umpquah Mountains, it flows in a northwesterly direc- 
tion for a few miles, and empties into what is known' as Koos Bay, a 
navigable inlet of the ocean, having numerous arms or branches. Koos 
Bay, after being joined by Koos River, describes almost a semicircle, its 
course lying in a northwesterly direction for about half the distance, 
whence it turns, almost abruptly, to the southwest, until it reaches the 
ocean, There is much marshy ground in the bay, and a number of so- 
