Driscoll-Heport -3 
Department of (Emnuterre and Saline 
Captain Voeth, of Portland, is part-owner of the "Deoorah"; from 
him was obtained a blue-print of his chatted soundings off Newport. 
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The "Deeorah" had 2200-lbs. of fish, which sold for 3f/; these 
same fish were quoted © 12/ retail. The crew received a net share of 
$39.00 eaph. 
These are very good fish, averaging 15 lbs; I note a very inferior 
fish for sale here , 3 lbs . for 25/ they may be culls • 
James Bonset, a member of the crew of the "Decorah", told me, that 
there are now some fish in-shore, six or eight miles off Yaquina-Head 
light; they got 8000 one day, but he did not believe that there are 
enough fish there to enable a boat to make the work pay; no bank was 
found outside of Hecata Bank. 
.. TILLAMOOK Wash., June 22, 1914. 
Mr. ohase, of .v. 0. Chase & Son, informed me, that there are no 
fish caught out of Tillamook at present; at one time there was aboat 
(5 men) which took 17 fish weighing from 20 to 70 pounds; the boat was 
lost, and no further attempt at halibut-fishing has been made. Boats 
cannot go up the river, and the cost of shipping fish to Portland is 
prohibitive. 
Salmon are taken here, and sixty boats are engaged in the fishery; 
the common type is the "Columbia-river boat", with a 4 H. P. gas-engine; 
there are two men to each boat, with 120 fathoms of net, 18 meshes deep 
(meshe3 9^-" ) . 
A man named Henderson is trying to start a cold-storage plant, a 
short distance from Tillamook; it is surmized, by residents of Tilla- 
mook, that this is merely for speculative purposes; rumor has it, that 
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Ed. 7-2-12—400,000 
