. Salmon of the Pacific coast [microform]. Salmon fisheries; Saumon. salmon product of that wonderful Btream. Mean> while the streams of British Columbia have been developed, until 1882 marks to the o edit of that section a product of 255,000 cases, and at the same time Alaska began to make a showing, with a pack of upwards of 20,000 cases, which grad- ually increased until 1892, when it produced more salmon in cases than the Columbia ri^^r, and its output, added to that of British Columbia, the Columbia river and other rivers of Oregon, brings the total pack of 1892 up to 1,323,000 cases,
. Salmon of the Pacific coast [microform]. Salmon fisheries; Saumon. salmon product of that wonderful Btream. Mean> while the streams of British Columbia have been developed, until 1882 marks to the o edit of that section a product of 255,000 cases, and at the same time Alaska began to make a showing, with a pack of upwards of 20,000 cases, which grad- ually increased until 1892, when it produced more salmon in cases than the Columbia ri^^r, and its output, added to that of British Columbia, the Columbia river and other rivers of Oregon, brings the total pack of 1892 up to 1,323,000 cases, which represents in value, i\pproximately $6,549,000. What a contrast between the years 1867 and 1892, as regards the industry. At the first date one cannery, with its small product, having great difficulty in obtaining sufficient employees to prosecute the business, while in 1892, in addition to the large number of canneries in British Columbia and on the Columbia river, which were employing thousands of people, there was not a stream putting into the ocean along the Oregon and California coast, which can be entered even by the lightest draught vessels, that has not one or more canneries located on its banks, forming a nucleus from which radiate the development of other industries; while along the whole coast, from California to Alaska, the business has become an important factor in the development of such sections as have heretofoie been considered almost inaccessible, by offering inducements which have sent the pioneers ahead to begin the work of civilization, that in a few years will furnish, in addition to the large number now engaged, homes and employment to a vast number of people, if rightly fostered, without the stimulating influence of which these sections would remain desolute for centuries. The salmon industry of the Pacific coast has furnished lucrative employment to thousands, and has been both directly and indirectly the means by which very many have made for- tu
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