| Notes | This news item is not about the estuary, but it does concern the economic development of Newport. “Voeth & Humbree have organized a new fish firm at Newport, Ore. Their intention is to operate gasoline schooners in the fishing banks of Yaquina Bay. Some years ago, the U.S.S. Albatross surveyed these banks lying southwest of the bay and reported that cod and halibut were on the grounds in large quantities. … The new enterprise is but one of several now under way. It is understood that the J. M. Alexander Company, of Aberdeen, is expecting soon to put one or more vessels into the business out of this bay and at least two other firms are busily looking over the ground with a view to erecting large cold storage plants for the handling of cod and halibut.” |
