224 REPORT QF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Table showing the extent of the salmon-canning industry on the Columbia River and the 
fishery dependent thereon, in 1888. 
Oregon. 
Washington. 
Total. 
Number. 
Value. 
Number. 
Value. 
Number. 
Value. 
Canneries 
18 
$177, 057 
10 
$195, 420 
28 
$372, 477 
Cash capital 
670, 000 
340, 000 
1, 010, 000 
1, 037 
534 
1, 571 
Fishermen 
2, 215 
1, 180 
3, 395 
Boats 
919 
146, 235 
516 
87, 680 
1,435 
- 233, 915 
Drift gill nets 
821 
240, 400 
465 
130, 800 
1, 286 
371, 200 
Set gill nets 
757 
22, 325 
300 
7, 500 
1,057 
29, 825 
Seines 
2 
1, 050 
23 
24, 900 
25 
25, 950 
Pound nets 
49 
37, 050 
56 
52, 500 
105 
89, 550 
Weirs * 
3 
3, 000 
12 
12, 200 
15 
15, 200 
Stationary fish wheels 
17 
53, 580 
8 
35, 720 
25 
89, 300 
Scow fish wheels 
7 
10, 033 
7 
9, 567 
14 
19, 600 
Dip nets 
60 
1, 200 
60 
1,200 
Horses employed 
5 
500 
78 
7, 800 
83 
8, 300 
Total pounds of salmon 
taken 
15, 826, 369 
816, 876 
9, 653, 486 
502, 298 
*25, 479, 855 
1, 319, 174 
Pounds salted 
327, 900 
13, 395 
27, 900 
1.395 
355, 800 
14, 790 
Pounds canned - 
14, 771, 054 
769, 325 
9,419, 670 
490', 607 
24, 190, 724 
1,259,932 
Cases packed 
227, 559 
1, 365, 354 
144, 918 
869, 508 
372, 477 
2, 234, 862 
Cost of packing, including 
fish 
1, 224, 443 
730, 443 
2, 004, 886 
Estimated profits of can- 
neries 
140, 911 
89, 065 
229, 976 
* Not including 300,000 pounds, valued at $12,000, the estimated quantity of fresh salmon consumed 
locally on or adjacent to the Columbia River. 
The following* table shows the nativity and nationality of the fisher- 
men and factory hands in 1888 : 
Country. 
Fishermen.* 
Factory hands.t 
Nativity. 
Nationality. 
Nativity. 
Nationality. 
United States... 
738 
2, 486 
154 
173 
United States (Indians) 
104 
104 
British Provinces 
67 
24 
7 
4 
Russia , 
714 
300 
4 
Austria 
240 
155 
1 
Norway 
402 
121 
Sweden 
932 
152 
15 
5 
G-reece 
132 
56 
fi-ermany 
47 
18 
5 
Italy 
92 
79 
1 
Portugal 
44 
26 
France 
4 
4 
1 
1 
Denmark 
9 
China 
13 
13 
1,383 
1,383 
3, 538 
3, 538 
1, 571 
1,571 
* These figures include 51 persons employed on small steam vessels in trans- 
porting salmon to the canneries. 
t The factory hands credited to the United States include 15 women. 
As a matter of interest in connection with the salmon industry and the 
money disbursed in its prosecution, and as a fair illustration of its im- 
portance, the following is given on the authority of the Daily Astorian, 
of Astoria, Oregon, which claims that the statement is a close estimate 
