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Driscoll-Report  -3-
                         ^[[underline]][[Portland?]][[/underline]]
     Captain Voeth, of Portland, is part-owner of the "Decorah"; from him was obtained a blue-print of his charted soundings off Newport.
     The "Decorah" had 2200 lbs. of fish, which sold for 3¾¢; these same fish were quoted @ 12¢ retail.  The crew received a net share of $39.00 each.
     These are very good fish, averaging 15 lbs; I ^[[also]] note a very inferior fish for sale here, 3 lbs. for 25¢ --- they may be culls. ^[[(sent from Seattle)]]
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James Bonset, a member of the crew of the "Decorah", told me, that there are now some fish in-shore, six or eight miles off ^[[the]] Yaquina-Head light; they got 8000 ^[[lbs.]] one day, but he did not believe that there are enough fish there to enable a boat to make the work pay; no bank was found [[strikethrough]]outside[[/strikethrough]] ^[[other than]] of Hecata Bank.                       
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                 TILLAMOOK, Wash., June 22, 1914.
     Mr. Chase, of W. O. Chase & Son, informed me, that there are no fish caught out of Tillamook at present; at one time there was aboat (5 men) which took 17 fish weighing from 20 to 70 pounds; the boat was lost, and no further attempt at halibut-fishing has been made.  Boats cannot go up the river, and the cost of shipping fish to Portland is prohibitive.
     Salmon are taken here, and sixty boats are engaged in the fishery; the common type is the "Columbia-river boat", with a 4 H. P. gas-engine; there are two men to each boat, with 120 fathoms of net, 18 meshes deep (meshes 9½").
     A man named Henderson is trying to start a cold-storage plant, a short distance from Tillamook; it is surmized, by residents of Tillamook, that this is merely for speculative purposes; rumor has it, that