Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1909 — SILVERSIDE SALMON SWAMPING PACKERS [ARTICLE]

SILVERSIDE SALMON SWAMPING PACKERS

Oner 5,000 Fish Delivered al Cannery In One Day. Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 26.—The unprecedented run of sil\ erside salmon experienced in Gray’s harbor during rhe last two weeks continues. In one day more than 5,000 fivh were delivered to the Hoquiani Packing company, and had it been possible to receive the calch from the fishermen up the Chehalls river, the number would have been swelled to 8,000. The pack has been a record breaker and every available {pace in the canneries and warehouses has been utilized to store cans. The company has a crew manufacturing cans day and night Several score of Chinese cannery employes have averaged sixteen hours daily for two weeks.