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Show GOOD LUCK.-The fishermen are having extraordinary luck with the ?? just now. The factory at Deep Hole, near Sag Harber, R. I. has received 1,935,450 fish within four days, equal to 225 barrels of oil and 200 tons of scrap. This factory has five steamers and several sail boats engaged in fishing, and the works are so arranged that two steamers can be discharged at once of about 90,000 fish an hour. At the Promised Land factory of George Tuthill, near Amagansett, 2,000,000 fish were used within a week, making 809 barrels of oil. On Wednesday sixty vessels were cruising off East Hampton, twenty of them steamers, and one steamer sent ashore the news that it had taken 900,000 fish in twelve hours. |