FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 135 



Location of tracts — Great South Bay. 



Number gas and steam vessels employed . . 9 



Tonnaee of gas and steam vessels .... 118 



Value of gas and steam vessels $17,800 00 



Value of outfit 4,200 00 



Number of sail vessels employed .... 22 



Tonnasre of sail vessels 26 



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Value of sail vessels $32,000 00 



Value of outfit 2 , 000 00 



Number other boats employed 2 



Value of other boats $1,300 00 



Value of outfit 2 . 000 00 



Number tongs used 60 



Number dredges used 86 



Number hands employed 171 



Amount paid in wages $58,950 00 



Value shore property 14.800 00 



Bushels market oysters produced .... 213,000 



Bushels seed oysters produced 23 , 000 



Bushels seed oysters planted 109,500 



Bushels seed oysters sold 165,000 



Value seed oysters sold $140,000 00 



Value market oysters sold 330, 750 00 



Principal market New York and Europe 



Long Island Oysters for California. 

 Four thousand two hundred and fifty barrels of seed oysters, an unpre- 

 cedented quantity, were shipped to California from the following Long 

 Island localities: 



From Northport 3 , 700 barrels. 



From Oyster Bay 350 barrels. 



From Port Jefferson 200 barrels. 



The seed from Oyster Bay and Northport was more than one-half 

 grown and was used upon the Pacific coast to replace oysters of the same 

 size which had been damaged by storms. 



The stock sent from Port Jefferson was smaller seed to be used upon 

 new grounds in the west. Unfortunately the Port Jefferson seed beds 



