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1. Native Americans drying salmon at Squaw Camp above Blue River
Native Americans drying salmon at Squaw Camp above Blue River
Description
The Native Americans were drying/smoking salmon at Squaw Flat, junction of the South Fork with McKenzie River above Blue River.
2. Rooster Rock and salmon cannery, Columbia River
Rooster Rock and salmon cannery, Columbia River
3. Indians at home on the Klamath Reservation, Oregon
Indians at home on the Klamath Reservation, Oregon
Description
Photo shows salmon hanging to cure in the sun over the fragrant smoke of the driftwood fire. The salmon will be their winter food.
4. Salmon cannery, the largest plant on the Pacific Coast, at Astoria, Oregon
Salmon cannery, the largest plant on the Pacific Coast, at Astoria, Oregon
Description
Photograph was hand colored.
5. Seining salmon below Celilo Falls
Seining salmon below Celilo Falls
Description
Images of the Columbia River taken by Benjamin A. Gifford, primarily in 1900-1905. The images depict salmon fishing.
6. "Warren's Salmon Cannery; Strs. Dalles City and Tahoma"
"Warren's Salmon Cannery; Strs. Dalles City and Tahoma"
Description
Columbia River
7. Chinook salmon catch
Chinook salmon catch
Description
The salmon industry is one of the great resources of Oregon. The coastal streams and the Columbia River, which is shared with Washington, yield wealth to Oregon that reaches several millions of dollars annually. This picture is of Chinook Salmon at a Columbia river cannery. The value of such an industry and more than 40,000 are dependent upon it for support. The Columbia River is recognized as the greatest fishing stream in the world. From it have been taken during the past 45 years, salmon to the value of 125,000,000 dollars.
8. Fish wheel
Fish wheel
Description
This fish wheel on the Columbia shows one of the methods of catching salmon in large quantities.
9. Salmon seining
Salmon seining
Description
Salmon seining by horse power on the lower Columbia.
10. Columbia River fish wheel
Columbia River fish wheel
Description
There is much dispute in these days as to whether or not these fish wheels are so instrumental in salmon depletion that they should be entirely abolished.
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