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 of the data from which the greater part of this work has been i-oinpilfd was necessarily secured from men who participated in the events chronicled. Wherever contlictinjj statements have been received from parlies equally qualified to yive information on a question, an effort has been made to harmonize such statements without materially cliannini; the facts. Statistics, which under all circumstances are dry reading!, are dispensed with as far as possible, and these pages contain only such as are necessary in illustrating the growth of tl".' industry. The kindly assistance and co-operation of hundreds of marine men in the Northwest has rendered the production of so extensive a review possible, and, as a work of their own creation, it is herewith submitted. h". W. W.

AUGUSI, 1895.