FISHING AND HUNTING. 
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city which its favorable position seems to 
promise, the boca dulce will furnish one 
of the leading fishes for its market. 
While we were there the United States 
Fish Commission steamer Albatross 
came into the harbor from a long cruise 
in investigating the fishes of the Gulf of 
California, and Captain Tanner of the 
United States Navy told a small party 
of us that there were enough fish in the 
Gulf of California to supply all the mar¬ 
kets of Mexico and the United States. 
Singularly enough, nearly all this great 
fish supply in the Gulf was along the east¬ 
ern coast of this American Adriatic, or 
on the Sonora and Sinaloa side, rather 
than on or along the coast of Lower Cali¬ 
fornia. A good system of railways to the 
interior,mining camps is needed to make 
this great supply available to the wealth 
