June, 1883.
THE WEST SHORE.
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above Astoria. They own 3,000 acres of limber county it small, but when the crop of the Wil-
land and are building two miles of railroad for lamette valley commences to travel over the new
logging purposes. An extensive mill will soon road to find a shipping point at Astoria, large
be erected. On the Nehalem, to the southeast, flouring milts will
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cording to ciicunslances. Thu Kimn is limited
by statute from April I to July 31. Hut fcw fuh
are taken the firit month, the largest run lielng in
June, Though salmon weighing sisly pounds and
are many square miles of the choicest timber, for obtaining wheat and shipping flour will he of even more are occasionally caught, the everng
which can only be reached by means of a railroad, a superior kind.
The line from Forest Grove will run throueh the
valley, and the transportation of Iocs to Astoria salmon canmno,
will be one of the laroest items in its traffic. 11 ' uPon tne M'ng of the celebrated Col-
There are two sash and door factories, one owned umbi ,iver' or Cninoo,t salmon, that the present
bv William Howe, and the other recently built hv P"perity and business of Astoria deiiends. In
Hansen & Co., at a cost of $10,000,
Incident to the lumber industry is the question
of ship building. During the past season there
were built 325 fishing boats, about two-thirds of
them by William Howe. These cost $220 each,
or a total of $71,500. The number required
each year to maintain the supply will in future be
from 150 to 200. There it no regular ship yard
yet a number of vessels of various kinds have
been built. Within the past year the steamer
Monttsano, the tugboats Central Milts and A. B.
Field, and the barge Astoria No. , Were con
structed, and In 1881 the fine steamer data
Parktr, This vessel was built by H. B. Parker,
its owner. She is registered at 257 tons, is 1 10
feet long, 24 feet beam, and 6 feet depth of hold,
E. P. Parker, master. Many smaller craft of
various kinds are constantly being built. The
facilities for a ship yard are unsurpassed on the
coast. Within easy access is the finest quality of
timber, the harbor is large and deep, and material
of all kinds can be readily and cheaply procured.
An experienced ship-builder from Maine, who hat
been examining the coast, recently stated that
Astoria was the best point he had seen for that
business. Two machine shops do a general ma
chine work, chiefly for the canneries, mills, and
steamers. Arndt & Ferchen employ fifteen men,
The Astoria Iron Works employ thirty-five men
in their shops and foundry. Here are made the
1833 Nathaniel VVyeth, memlier of a Iloston firm,
came to the coast for the purpoie of packing
salmon and dealing in furs, but alianduned the
project after two yeart of unsuccessful effort.
About thirty years later Jothtiu Keed and a partner
established a cannery at Oak Point, where they
put up salt salmon. In 1867 William, George
V. and K. D. Hume and A. S. Hapgood, built
a cannery at Eagle Cliff, and packed that season
4,000 cases, The business has increased year by
year until in 1881 there were put up 550,000 casea
of four doten one pound or two doien two pound
cans. In 1882 there were packed on the river
543,831 cases of an average value of $5.25, worth
in the aggregate $2,855,112,75, There are now
weight u twenty pounds. I he average catch of
the largest cannery last season wu l,aoo fish per
boat, The fishing is generally don at the mouth
of the river near the bar, the best time being at
the turn of the tide. With the etceplion of her
and there a sail nothing can l seen Juit Ulnre
the tide comet In, but soon afterwards the whit
sails cover the river as the boats come home with
the product of their night's fishing. Many lives
are annually lost in the breakers of the bar, but
the fate of their comaniinsdiics not deter other
from following the dangerous occupation.
M representative w will take the cannery of
M. J. Kinney (Astoria Packing Co.), the largest
in the world. The ettalillihmenl cover sn entire ,
block of ground, with water frontage ol 500
feet, all built upon piling, There at also teven
piers fur net racks, each 60140 feet. II ouns
85 boat and employs 1 70 hihermcn and 1 26
hands In the cannery. The fithcrmen r chleBy
Swedes, Norwegians, Danes and Italians, while
on the river thirty-nine canneries, twenty four of , faiory hatul are nearly all Chinamen. Usi
them in Astoria, of which six were built within a
year. In the city are the following 1 Seaside
Packing Co.) Washington Packing Co.) Union
Pacific Packing Co. Cutting Packing Co. Samuel
Elmore Co, Astoria Packing Co. J. W. 1 1 nine
George W. Hume; John A. Devlin & Co. 1 1. X.
L. Co. J Pacific Union Tacking Co.) Occident
Packing Co. j Columbia Canning Co. West Coast
Packing Co. A. Booth & Co. Hadoltet It Co.
Point Adams Packing Co. C. Tlmmlns It Co.
Fishermen's Packing Co. J. 0. Hanlhorn & Co.
S. D. Adair; Anglo-American Packing Co.
Thome & Welherliee) Scandinavian Packing
Co. Others on the river, all of them to a large
teason 35,000 cases were packed, but Illegitimated
product this year la about 15,000 utiles tha run of
lh Increases. The procc of canning It very
lnteiclliig and mot inlrlcat than on would
kuppoae, beginning with ill manufacture of th
cans and ending with lli packing in case. For
making cans there art Mveral mschinet In ua,
The lo and bottoms at cut with great rapidity
by dies, and th sides by knif culler. Th
tide are then rolled, tlx at lime, on a machln
somewhat resembling a clothe wringer, They
ar titers taken to th nun who solder th scam,
and from Ih.m la Chines Iniys who put on th
bottoms with great dexterity ami rapidity. A
little pier of solder, called a " float, U d lopped
decree tributary to Astoria, are 1 Alierdeen Pack
Jensen can-filler, an ingeniout machine (or can- . - iwU.0 jonn West, Hungry Harbor) I In the can and a hot lion I run around th InsUU,
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ning saimon. wnn lour men w upcii , . I(Jeph Hume, Knappton; James Williams, Janry I melting II ami lastening on in imom, n
machine will fill fifty cans per minute, accom-1 . , Q Meoler, Utookficld; Pillar Kock I Kinney's there is also In us soldering futnac
Packlm? Co.. Pillar Rock 1 Ocean Canning Co., land limmer lr rattening bottoms, similar win
Bay View 1 F. M. Warren, Calhlamet Hapgood 1 one used (or th covers, described later. Th
& Co . Waterford 1 Eureka Tacking Co., Eureka cans ar now reany lor u. anei umg careiuiiy
William Hume, Eagle Cliff 1 J. W. V. took,
Clifton 1 James Quinn, Quinn's A. W. Ilerry &
Co., Rainier. Thereat now l.Sooboelsengsged
in fishing beside olhett laid up, costing on an
average, including net, lc, $650, or a total of
1975,000. Th average cost of canneries and
fillings is $15,000 each or In all JS5,ooo. una
plishing at much at twenty-eight Chinamen work
ing by hand. Fourteen of these are now in sue
cessful operation, and order are received for
othen. One valuable feature it the regularity. It
keept the men constantly busy and practically
regulatet the working of the whole eitablishment.
The following certificate hat been made by r. C
Reed, manager of the Fishermen't Packing Co
In addition to what hat already been said In
favor of the Can-Filling Machine, ptn';d
(samlned to sc that they ar perfect, ami w now
go to tin point what th canning wmk begins.
Th tioala dUchatg their load of salmon on th
dock, lh fith being piled up nar III butcher.
A stalwart Chinaman then lays about down 00
the laid in front of him and speedily severs Ik
bead, lail and fins from th body, opens th Ca)
and removes th entrails, ach acl being accom.
pllilietl If single desltou slrok of I he knil.
Th rcfui fall through chul Inlo receptacle,
from which ll gm lo th oil factory. This ma
Boat, but from I can thu dispnt of from 1.500 lo 2.OO0 per day.
chine that ha. yet been invented for packing the (acloriet and equipment al-e. Thlt doe
salmon. Last Friday our machine, running at m pltui the capital Invested, as th current
moderate speed, filled 411 cases in ten noun, am, 0f cmluding lb business armmnl an
Saturday it filled 320 cases in seven hours. I am I
confident that it will fill $oo c.. per o.y .no . , - - . I Th fih It then dropped Int. a lank U water,
it better than Mn be done by nana. eigm 10 ien ye..- .... ... ;-
Th inventor ha. . palled an ingenious sea,,; Tr- ... further dean, ,h as.mon.
machin for knilling fi.hermen . nelt. (w(n Mfc ,h h lb blmU
U Fore', oil factory manufacture, an .see n .
quality ol machine oil from the hew. ana eo.r.,.. - . - r htm , ,
,,n-m - I ... L - - -L..I- .k
winter lime. Attached lo every cannery are ex rwcbln inai w..D on. mo.. -----
tensive piers on which ar rack s lor sprding osil Into lengths )ut lb helghi of a can. Th chunk
lh net. lo dty, .nd the- may U o on vry then lake, lo number of chops- who aU.
tide When lb. Sherman own bi. net .n4 thero Ungthwis. bsta swef.l bailee pi.wh.t)
boat b rerei'et ninety crnls (or ewry h.N I they ar carries on 1..7. .n. .
of wlroon, procuring material from the canneries.
From six lo ten barrels are turned oui oany.
A laniwr. in the upper lown It owned by C
Uineoweber, and manufactures a superior qualL
ty o( leather,
On. of the Industrie, of h. future, u rent. . bc h '- L ,b pUce. Into tb. MlU .he
. railroad b built, -ill b. f "J ZH. 1 eTiSL - A ... .11
of wheal raised in uaisop -
the
Sour.
The amount