Show oregon salmon portland oregonian Orf goman on the trip of the alaskan to astoria saturday there was a gentleman from maine evidently a man of intelligence and stad hide wide traveling lie ile was interested in in the canneries and the fishing and as usual with strangers agers asked questions of his fellow travelers concerning the industry industry george sheppard remarked to I 1 alie I 1 ie stringer stranger that ours were the largest and finest salmon ia in the world they m may y be finer flavored than our kennebec 3 ealmon salmon remarked the et tranger ranger but they aro are certainly not larger how illow largo large are your our big salmon queried sheppard 11 well the largest I 1 ever heard of weighed 19 pounds ds answered the 4 sotinos yankee I 1 1 I did it not see the fish but I 1 havo have no doubt in in the world that it weighed as stated nearly twenty pounds gounde sheppard heppard eaid said nothing but when the boat reached astoria lie took the stranger to humes cannery it hap bened that about two hundred extra line fish had been brought in that afternoon ten or more weighing fifty pounds each and very few less than thirty the stranger looked at the lot and remarked good natu e excuse me air I 1 gu bucsa I 1 adzi dzi dont know anything an thing about big ealmon salmon |