Report of the Commissioner from 1889 to 1891 . th low deckhouse. Both formsare commonly cat-rigged. They are employed for general transporta-tion between the oyster stations and to carry oysters to market. A good-sized schooner of unusually light draft has been built by theMorgan Oyster Company for oyster work in the bay and has been foundvery efficient. When the tide goes out and all these craft are left high and dry ifponthe tide lands, the workmen, putting on leather-soled rubber boots forwading in the mud, are employed in leveling or otherwise improvingthe surface for oyster bedding. Emplo
Report of the Commissioner from 1889 to 1891 . th low deckhouse. Both formsare commonly cat-rigged. They are employed for general transporta-tion between the oyster stations and to carry oysters to market. A good-sized schooner of unusually light draft has been built by theMorgan Oyster Company for oyster work in the bay and has been foundvery efficient. When the tide goes out and all these craft are left high and dry ifponthe tide lands, the workmen, putting on leather-soled rubber boots forwading in the mud, are employed in leveling or otherwise improvingthe surface for oyster bedding. Employes.—Usually about 100 men are employed upon the oysterbeds of San Francisco Bay, this number being considerably increasedat certain times. They are recruited from the ranks of the sea-goingclass, nearly always numerous about the wharves of San Francisco,and are constantly changing, none of them developing into regularoystermen. About 00 per cent of them are of Scandinavian origin. Report U. S. F. C. 1889 to 1891. (To face p. 358.) Plate Float and Packing-boxes, San Francisco Bay.
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