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Show would toiu:h that dreadful salmon again, and that ehe thought she would U't go down to dinner today t ho gong had pounded previously. previous-ly. Portland is a city of beauty, having a gre.it many handsome residence?, public buildings and an ever-green forest on its very border!.. In the mid.st of this forest, which covers rolling hills, numerous homes of beauty are being erected, which overlook the city and river. Vegetali. m grows very luxuriantly luxu-riantly here, the climate being very moist. A house does not stand long before moss will be found growing on its roof. This is : no place for idle men unless moss commands a high price. Astoiia is quite a busy fishing center. It is scattered along the river for miles, having beautiful beauti-ful green trees on the hilU which skirt the town on the south. j CANNING SALMON. The Operation Vividly Described by a Utah Boy. Leaves from J. M' Jourtiul. Nearly every grocery store in VUih carries cannetl salmon, but not every consumer and seller knows where it comes from anil how it is put up. The fallowing may cat a shadow of light on the subject. Along the Columbia river is found t lie salmon producing reg'un of the world. In the morning and evening its waters are literally covered with fishing smacks. The salmon weigh from twenty to thirty pounds and are sold to the canneries at, if I remember correctly, correct-ly, three cents a pound. Sometimes Some-times the fishermen catch a huge sturgeon, weighing 2U0 pounds, which makes lively work to loose him before he pi ays havoc with their net. From the cascade to the mouth of the Columbia the banks of that river are dotted with numerous salmon canneries. I visited hve or six at Astoria (a place very interesting in-teresting to those who have read Xrving'a- history of Astoria) and other points, but in seeing one you see them all; so I will give a short description of the first I visited. It was most interesting, as its i trade mark is seen throughout Utah, and a young lady, who became quite shocked at the process, happened hap-pened to accompany me. We tripped lightly up the board ' shute, down which the boxed salmon sal-mon are slid to the wharf, and directly direct-ly found ourselves in the midst (.fa little mountain of empty and filled salmon cans and boxed salmon; sal-mon; large vats of steaming water into which the cannetl fish were being lowered by the hundred to be boiled; the chattering of 125 Chinamen; the clanking of cans and the dull thud of the hammer in the boxing department; and above all, that is, in interest, surrounded sur-rounded by some of the greasiest and moslsure-to-takc-your-appetke Chinamen imnginable. They all : look as if they had just been dipped in a sheep vat and were not quite dry. The air seemed ladened witii a breezy oil and the iloor was covered with grease, making walking very dangerous, j .for to fall meant another suit of clothes. My lady companion was perfectly disgusted; then drew her skirts closer and with a firm 111-see-it-through-or-die expression, followed me over the slippery floor to where the first stage of the work is carried on. The first man (China-man ) severs the head of the fish from the body and passes it to the next 1 who, with a two-foot cowboy's-tootbpick cowboy's-tootbpick sort of a knife, whips ofi" the fins and tail; then it is cut into several pieces by a machine ma-chine of six knives worked by a crank, and these pieces cut still smaller by a fourth man and carried to several dexterous Malays who chuck them into the cans, and cram and squeeze them down witli j their hands in such an in- J delicate manner that my friend all j but fainted the thought of the , greasy floor only, kept her up. j Think of Chinamen who appeared tit be coated with a quarter inch of dirt and oil, squeezing the fish into the cans like jelly ! I felt behind for a support, but touching something slimy recoiled. Whew! it must be seen in order to be appreciated. 1 was quickly urj;ed on past this corps of zealous workers who slashed around so that the atmosphere tasted of salmon, to the filling with the warm water, placing on the top1', soldering, testing, boiling in the ; vats, labelling, boxing and sending them down the shute, each man having bis partienlar p:irt of the work, making him verv dexterous in time. The runs are made here J also. This houe can turn out j forty-eight '.housand e:in per day, I or one thousand cases. A China-: man superintends Ida brethren, having taken the contract and hired them at a low figure. While watching them dip a lot of cans, j one chain broke and the lot fell I wilh a splash into the hot water ' I scalding one poor fellow till lie howled. As we left the building, . my friend drew a deep sigh of relief, saying that she never, never |