Aberdeen’s New Salting Plant
A new salmon-packing venture on the waterfront signals a boost for the local economy.
The story, cleaned up
A cleaned-up reading of the newspaper page: spelling and layout repaired, one story lifted off a crowded page. It follows the original closely but it is not a transcription. The original page is below; read it if a detail matters.
A lively scene was presented on F street Monday when the big tanks were rolled down from Damitio's planing mill to the old cannery, where Charles Lind and Jacob Shepard are preparing to salt salmon on an extensive scale. They have twelve ten-barrel tanks, and the procession was about a block long as they were rolled down the street. Messrs. Lind and Shepard are experienced packers from the Columbia river, and they expect to do quite a business in both the eastern and California markets. This is another evidence of the importance of the fishing industry, and also of the fact that Aberdeen is really on the up-grade.
“This is another evidence of the importance of the fishing industry, and also of the fact that Aberdeen is really on the up-grade.”
The waterfront of the 1890s was a messy, industrial, and thriving place where infrastructure like 120-gallon tanks were moved by manpower and muscle. Today, the location of the old 'F Street' cannery represents the long-standing transition of the region from raw resource extraction to the modern, often complex, regulatory environment of today’s maritime industries.
From readers
No comments yet. If you know something about this story — a correction, a family memory, a source — it belongs here.