Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — Fish by the Shovelful. [ARTICLE]

Fish by the Shovelful.

There Is a fish of the smelt family, which, according to Dr. David Starr Jordan, is reducing the cost of living on the Pacific coast and might profitably be shipped. In the spring the beaches about the mouth of the Columbia river are fairly lined with the fish, which come there to spawn. They, may be literally shoveled out of the water, and sell at 3 to 5 cents a pound. Although then ki-poor condition they are excellent food, being full of a very digestible oil. It Is said that if a wick is placed In one of these fish it will burn like a candle.