198 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
40. FISHERIES OF THE NEHALEM RIVER. 
The Nehalem is a small coastal river that rises in the mountains in 
the southeastern part of Clatsop County, Oregon, and flows southwest- 
erly across the northern part of Tillamook County to the Pacific. A 
small canuery was in operation on the river during 1887, but not in 1888 ; 
its output was 5,000 cases of canned salmon. The fish for canning pur- 
poses were caught by fishermen who came from the Tillamook to the 
Nehalem to engage temporarily in fishing on the latter stream, sending 
their products across to the canneries they were working for. There 
was some fishing in this stream in 1888, but the fishermen, their ap- 
paratus, and the catch have been included in the statistics for the 
Tillamook Eiver. 
41. FISHERIES OF NECONICUM CREEK. 
Neconicum Creek is on the Pacific coast of Clatsop County, Oregon, 
about 10 miles south of the Columbia River. Its fisheries are of small 
proportions, and are tributary to the small cannery located on the creek. 
The entire catch is sold to the cannery, the manufactured product in 1888 
being 400 cases. In 1887 the output of the cannery was 600 cases. 
Statistics. 
Fishermen employed (nativity and nationality) : 
United States 6 
Factorymen employed (nativity and nationality) : 
United States 2 
China 6 
Apparatus and capital : 
3 boats $225 
3 gill nets. 300 
Shore property 800 
Cash capital 1, 500 
Product and value : 
28,000 pounds fresh salmon 420 
42. FISHERIES OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER. 
Although the commercial fisheries of the Columbia River (which are 
almost wholly confined to the salmon industry) are prosecuted on both 
sides of the stream and in different States,* it is difficult and seemingly 
inexpedient to limit their discussion hereby any consideration of State 
boundaries. To do this would involve a great deal of unnecessary dupli- 
cation of statement. In the statistical tables that appear elsewhere the 
respective interests of the States are presented; but the description 
here, so far as it relates to the different phases of the fisheries, has 
essentially the same application to one side of the river as to the other. 
Indeed, there is an almost inseparable commingling of interests between 
* At the time the investigation was made upon which this report is based Wash- 
ington was still a Territory, but it became *a State in such a short time thereafter 
that it is deemed best to consider it as such here. 
