Good Old Days - 4/28/11

8 years ago - April 30, 1886

The driving of the Chinese from towns on Puget Sound, has left salmon fisheries there in a bad condition. It has deprived them of a class of labor that was both cheap and skillful and which cannot be replaced. The proprietor of the cannery at Tacoma threatens to move his establishment to the Columbia River if the Chinese are not permitted to return. White labor costs more and if it is employed the price at which salmon are sold to consumers must be increased. The season for catching usually begins the first of April. A month is already gone and yet the fishermen...