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Cost of labor , 
Knitting nets, 228,000 fathoms - - - 250 
Catching salmon with cannery nets 400, 000 
Catching salmon with private nets 300 > 000 
■ Salvage and hire of detectives - 5 ’ 7 ®° 
White labor outside of fishing - 93, 956 
Other labor outside of fishing 142, 000 
I Total cost of labor $1,069,906 
Duty paid to the Government. 
On 74,000 boxes tin plate, 7,992,000 pounds, at 1£ cents 99, 900 
On salmon twine 
20, 520 
Total paid for duty 120 > 420 
Total of estimated payments - 
2, 210, 646 
Including every detail of the work, it is a safe estimate to say that 
the Lower Columbia salmon canneries expend annually $2,500,000, the 
greatest part of which goes into circulation in the immediate vicinity. 
[From the Daily Astorian, Astoria, Oreg., January 13, 1887.] 
New fish-market and salmon fishing in Scotland. — Mr. John 
Anderson, writing from Denham Green, Edinburgh, on March 4, 1887, 
described a new fish-market. There were exhibited 150 salmon, aver- 
aging from 11 to 45 pounds each, with every kind of fine fish caught in 
Scotland or England. There was a salmon hatchery attached showing 
the salmon leaving the eggs. Also tanks with salmon two, three, and 
four years old, and with all kinds of trout of the same ages. The sal- 
mon fisheries extend over the Tay, Forth, Dee, and Tweed, besides 
numbers all along the coast. The rents are nearly $50,000; and already 
there are nearly 220 salmon fishermen on daily pay at rates ranging 
from $4.38 to $9.75 per week. 
Very few small salmon have been seen this season as yet; but there 
has been a great crop of herling— supposed to be the young of the sea- 
trout— weighing from 6 to 12 ounces each, but pale. The floods have 
cleared our rivers of kelts and dead fish, so we may expect a good fishery 
in the autumn. The past winter here was mild, and our salmon fisheries 
all over have opened successfully. 
Carp sold in New York markets.— Mr. John H. Brakeley, writing 
from Bordentown, N. J., on January 15, 1887, said: 
“I have sold several hundred pounds of carp during the past autumn 
in the New York market, the commission merchant getting 15 cents a 
pound for them. I am satisfied that it will pay to feed carp, and shall 
do considerable of it next season.” 
Successful shipment of carp to Mexico.— Mr. Milton P. Peirce, 
writing from Philadelphia, Pa., on March 2, 1887, said: 
“On February 12 I shipped 100 young carp— of the parti- scale vari- 
ety, nearly scaleless — to the Government of Mexico. Yesterday a let- 
