192 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
lishments were in operation, and three were worked during 1888, but 
two of them were small and packed only a limited number of cases. In 
1887 the products of the canneries amounted to 11,180 cases, and in 1888 
the .three had a total output of only 9,260 cases. During 1888 the facto- 
ries paid 50 cents for quinnat and 20 cents for silver salmon. 
The fisheries on the Alseya River in 1888 were as follows : 
Persons employed. 
Country. 
Fishermen. 
Factorymen. 
Nativity. 
Nationality. 
Nativity. 
Nationality. 
United States, white.. . 
United States, Indian . . 
United States, negro . . . 
Tt.aly 
58 
3 
73 
3 
10 
16 
2 
2 
2 
2 
Russia, 
2 
2 
Sweden 
11 
5 
Norway 
10 
5 
Germany 
4 
6 
China 
49 
49 
Total 
92 
92 
65 
65 
Apparatus and capital. 
Designation. 
No. 
Value. 
Boats . . ..... ................................ 
43 
52 
2 
$1,300' 
5, 200 
400 
9, 500 
28, 000 
41, 400 
Grill nets *- T ......... 
Seines ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... .......... .... 
Shore property 
Cash capital. ..... .............................. 
Total .......................................... 
Products and values. 
Species. 
Pounds. 
V alue. 
Salmon sold to canners ............................. 
*673, 400 
140, 000 
$10, 101 
2, 800 
Salmon shipped fresh. 
Total . . ... 
813, 400 
12, 901 
* Equivalent to 9,620 cases, with a value of $55, 315. 
36. FISHERIES OF YAQUINA BAY AND RIVER. 
The Yaquina (“ crooked”) River is about 60 miles long; its general 
course is nearly west through the county of Benton. The river is nar- 
row (from 30 to 40 yards wide) and comparatively unimportant for the 
greater part of its length. But a few miles from its mouth it suddenly 
broadens out into an estuary from one-half to three-fourths of a mile 
wide, which is commonly called Yaquina Bay. For many miles above 
the “bay” the river has a depth of between 12 and 15 feet, and is 
therefore navigable for vessels of considerable size. The river empties 
into the Pacific about 100 miles south of the Columbia, It is a stream 
