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Rh winter and summer. The main industry of this seaport town is fishing. Here is the home of the royal chinook salmon and at no other place in the world is the salmon found of such superior quality as at the mouth of the Columbia river, and during the entire fishing season the canneries and cold storage plants are busy preparing salmon to ship to all parts of the globe.

Every evening I could see about two thousand boats starting out with two men in each boat; some come back in the morning with their beauties and some perhaps stay a day or two, while at times some never return, as they become careless getting over the bar in the swift ocean waters, and before they realize their danger their boats would be upset and they would go to the bottom; in spite of all the efforts made by the life-saving crews to save them.