. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . takenon at Seattle. THE FISHING INDUSTRIES of Puget Sound are simply salmon alone the state of Wash-ington produced in 1S97 approxi-mately 60,000,000 pounds. Twoand one half million dollars are in-vested in canneries and equipments,and some 7,000 men are employed inthe industry, earning over Si,500,000annually. The salmon are so num-erous that in the season the riversand streams are actually cloggedwith them, and the immense quan- tity taken with nets for canning doesnot seem to diminish the
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . takenon at Seattle. THE FISHING INDUSTRIES of Puget Sound are simply salmon alone the state of Wash-ington produced in 1S97 approxi-mately 60,000,000 pounds. Twoand one half million dollars are in-vested in canneries and equipments,and some 7,000 men are employed inthe industry, earning over Si,500,000annually. The salmon are so num-erous that in the season the riversand streams are actually cloggedwith them, and the immense quan- tity taken with nets for canning doesnot seem to diminish the with forks throw from thestreams what they require for winterfood, preserving it by smoking, andthe bears come down from the moun-tains and supply their needs. Asthe salmon in vast numbers forcetheir way toward the headwaters,where the river becomes narrow andthe water shallow, large numbers arecrowded out of the water and dieupon the banks. At one time re-cently there were 22,000 salmon onthe docks of one cannery in Seattleand half the number may be seenanv dav. • -.
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