Some ten or a dozen varieties of salmon and salmon‐trout, Mr. Murphy tells us, enter the rivers of North‐Western America, but only one is selected for commercial purposes. Two of the most delicate‐eating varieties—the silvery‐white and spring salmons—are never packed in tins, because their schools are less abundant and the fish themselves smaller. The hook‐nosed and dog salmons are rarely eaten, except by Indians; while the man has not yet been discovered who would tackle the hump‐back. The blue‐back, or weak‐toothed salmon, an inferior fish also, is only exported to the Sandwich Islands, where the natives are said to really prefer its lean and fibrous flesh to the more delicately‐flavoured and succulent kinds. The salmon principally caught is distinguished by the Indians as the “Tyhee,” or chief; it is abundant, large, and most excellent eating; it possesses those “all‐round” qualifications which particularly fit it for commerce and cooking. It is the _Salmo quinnat_ of the naturalists. The fishery season on the Columbia lasts from the beginning of April to the end of July, and the fisheries extend along the river for a hundred miles or more. Some of the curing establishments employ their own men to tend the nets, while others purchase from fishermen, the price for fish weighing from fifteen to forty pounds ranging from 25 cents to 50 cents (approximately one to two shillings). These prices would seem ridiculously low were it not for the abundance of the fish and the ease with which they are taken. A party of four men may secure from 300 to 2,000 salmon in twenty‐four hours! Take the lowest estimate—300 at 25 cents. This gives 75 dollars (or £15) to divide among the four fishermen. But this would be a very poor catch. A thousand fish are no uncommon haul. This at the lowest price paid would give 250 dollars (£50) to be divided. Of course there is the wear and tear of boat and fishing gear to be considered. Large quantities of the fish are caught in weirs. The Indians, also, knowing that the salmon avoids currents if possible, build out into the river from the shore, for ten or a dozen feet, walls of stone a few inches in height. The salmon crowd into the quieter water caused thereby, and are easily captured in nets or by spearing. They are so numerous in places that the Indian can often flap them out of the water, by a sudden dexterous jerk of his paddle, to his squaw on the beach, who then immediately knocks them on the head and guts them.