5,000

Saugatuck, 2,000 barrels:

Valuation $16,000
600 nets and 6 boats 3,600
Paid for wages 2,500

South Haven, 2,100 barrels:

Valuation $16,800
600 nets and 6 boats 1,200
Paid for wages 2,500

St. Joseph's 3,500 barrels:

Valuation $28,000
1,200 nets and 9 boats 7,500
Paid for wages

New Buffalo, 300 barrels:

Valuation $3,000
400 nets and 5 boats 2,600
Paid for wages 450

Michigan City, 3,000 barrels:

Valuation $30,000
1,020 nets and 18 boats 8,000
Paid for wages 4,400

Showing an aggregate of 21,000 barrels, of which about 18,000 barrels
are salted; valuation $169,800; value of fixtures $43,600; estimated
amount paid for wages, $22,000.

The fishing grounds of Michigan City are almost entirely within our
State. The number of barrels include those sold fresh as well as
salted, there being a considerable quantity of the former, in some of
the fisheries last named, Michigan City and New Buffalo especially,
from whence they are sent packed in ice to the different towns in
Michigan; also to Lafayette and Indianapolis, Indiana, to Louisville,
Kentucky, to Cincinnati, and also to Chicago, where they are repacked
in ice, and some of them find their way to St. Louis, Cairo, etc. From
St. Joseph and Grand Haven there are large quantities sent fresh to
Chicago and Milwaukee, where they are repacked in ice.

At a fair estimate for the few small fisheries on this coast from
which we have no return, together with those on the west coast of Lake
Michigan, they are worth at least $60,000, but we have no data by
which to form an estimate of the proportion packed.

The number of men employed, and the consequent expense, varies
according to the method employed. With seines the occupation is very
laborious, and requires a much stronger force than pound nets. One set
of hands can manage a number of the latter. Some of the fisheries on
Detroit and St. Clair rivers use seines altogether, to draw which,
horse-power is brought into requisition in some cases. A double set
of men are employed, working alternately day and night, and the
exposure is