1914. 
Ifer. 28 
Dr. Waldo S. Schmitt 
Natural! st , 
U.F.P.S. Albatross 
Sausalito 
al 
j WCiJ. . 
Dear Sir; 
I have just received your letter 
dated the 17th and carefully note what you say. 
I am still endeavoring to secure satisfactory 
fishermen and, with the extra leeway you give in the 
\vay of remuneration , I will certainly be able to 
get men of more experience. 
Regarding gear, my suggestion is that you 
purchase enough material for 12 new 8 line skates. 
The cost of each skate would be approximately fjlb.OO 
to 017.00 each. The fishermen would rig up the 
skates on board the vessel themselves. Besides 
this we should have 12 anchors, 10 coils of buoyline, 
6 balls of twine for gangine, 10 buoy kegs and one 
gallon of pine tar. There will probably be a 
few other small items required, but I can tell better 
about this after going over the supplies you have 
on the vessel. All of the above gear can be 
procured here at a minute’s notice, the dealers 
keeping plenty of stock on hand. 
Pegardine bait, I can secure 
first class quality, newly salted, for 
barrel. 
this of 
$4. 5b per 
Regarding the question of steam line 
haulers. I have been looking into this somewhat 
myself but have not been able to get very much 
information on the subject. I have asked Mr. 
Lee of Lee &■ Brinton to write you more fully on 
the subject as they are also investigatxog on their 
own account. 
Thanks for the blank envelopes, which I will 
use in communicating with you. 
Yours respectfully, 
