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"I will wait me. I just come to fetch Maarda; she been city; she soon come now." But she left her "working" attitude and curled like a school-girl in the bow of the canoe, her elbows resting on her paddle which she had flung across the gunwales. "I have missed you, klootchman; you have not been to see me for three moons, and you have not fished or been at the canneries," I remarked.
There are thousands of men employed, and in one year over three million salmon were packed, yet with all this work for busy hands to do, the canneries employ Chinese, Greek, Portuguese, and American workmen in preference to the Indians, bringing them by the shipload from San Francisco." "What other places do we pass?" asked Ted.
The fact that the figure quoted was below cost was nothing to him. A cutthroat war between two rival canneries might result in still lower quotations which would give him a greater profit. "Certainly not," he answered. "The figure quoted me was from the Golden Rule Cannery." Gregory felt his face growing hot under the influence of Mr. Eby's exasperating smile.
"He was here yesterday and probably hadn't had time to see you before you left town. He had a proposition to make in that Canneries case." "I didn't know that, of course, or I should have waited. I've never had any talk with him about the Canneries business." "So he said."
Besides, the canneries were shut up in winter time. They were prisoners, and could only wait with what patience they could muster until the thaw set them free again. There was a sharp frost outside, and the prairie was white with a thin sprinkle of snow, when a little party sat down to supper in the Hastings homestead, one Saturday evening. Hastings sat at the head of the table, Mrs.
Where, but a short time before, the brooding silence had been undisturbed save for the plaint of wolf-dogs and the lazy voices of natives, a noisy army was now at work. The bustle of a great preparation arose; languid smoke-wreaths began to unfurl above the stacks of the canneries; the stamp and clank of tin- machines re-echoed; hammer and saw maintained a never-ceasing hubbub.
When it is to be sold in nearby markets or to a cannery the exact stage of maturity, when picked, is not so important, although it is always an advantage not to gather until the fruit is well colored and before it begins to soften. Some growers for canneries make but three or four pickings, but in this case it is well to gather the ripest fruit separately.
She's going to write a book on the salmon canneries while she's here. It's bound to be one of the 'six best smellers'!" O'Neil waved him away with the threat of sending him out among the mosquitoes. "I'll agree to show you everything we're doing." "Even to the coal-fields?" "Even to them. You shall know everything, then you can write what you please."
He was paying forty cents a fish, more than any troller in the Gulf of Georgia had ever got for June bluebacks, more than any buyer had ever paid before the opening of the canneries heightened the demand. He was clearing nearly a thousand dollars a week for himself, and he was putting unheard-of sums in the pockets of the fishermen.
They told him that. "If somebody else offered sixty cents you'd sell to him, wouldn't you?" MacRae asked a dozen of them sitting on the Blanco's deck one afternoon. They had been talking about canneries and competition. "Not if he was boosting the price up just to make you quit, and then cut it in two when he had everything to himself," one man said. "That's been done too often."
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