an
additional sum of $600 for each, making the aggregate value of the
boats and their outfit about $13,000. About forty men were employed on
an average during the season, receiving a probable aggregate of $7,000
for wages. Taking these outlays, etc., as a fair average, and we have
the following result:

From Port Huron to the Beavers, inclusive, together with Green Bay in
Michigan, and the Saut Islands:

Cost of outfit $83,500
Amount paid for wages 45,000
Average number of men 300

The amount shipped from Lake Superior, as appears from the report of
the Superintendent of the Saut canal is 4,000 barrels. This is
probably not a tithe of what might be done. The mouth of almost every
stream in that region affords good fishing grounds, which is also true
of most of the islands, particularly Isle Royale, where the siscowit
is very abundant.

The fisheries on the east coast of Lake Michigan have for about six
years past increased very rapidly in importance, some years gaining
100 per cent, on the year preceding. A few years since a party of
Norwegians came on and embarked in the business, which they have
prosecuted ever since with advantage and profit. Trained in the severe
school of their rugged northern home, they exhibit the greatest
daring, going out in their tiny craft during the heaviest gales. They
frequently venture out twenty-five miles from shore, almost meeting
their countrymen from the Wisconsin side of the lake, who are engaged
in the same hazardous calling. We have the following returns:

Little Traverse, 600 barrels:

Valuation $4,000
300 nets and 6 boats, worth 1,800
Paid for wages 575

Big Point Sauble, 1,500 barrels:

Valuation $12,000
600 nets and 8 boats 3,600
Paid for wages 1,700

Little Point Sauble, 2,000 barrels:

Valuation $16,500
750 nets and 10 boats 4,500
Paid for wages 2,000

White Lake, 1,500 barrels:

Valuation $12,000
500 nets and 5 boats 3,000
Paid for wages 1,600

Grand Haven, 4,000 barrels:

Valuation $32,800
800 nets and 8 boats 4,000
Paid for wages