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Title: Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Fisheries
Subjects: Fisheries
Publisher: Washington, The Commission U.S. Govt. Print. Off
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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West.Tlie Spanish-American war was a great help to Tarpon Springs, as theKey West vessel captains avoided going to Key West with their car-goes for fear of being captured by Spanish war vessels, and so wereconstrained to sell at Tarpon Springs. During 1899 and 1900 a fewsponges were sold at Lemon City, on the east coast. Some of thekey boats from the upper part of Biscayne Bay found it more con-venient to sell to the one buyer llicri^ llian to niak(> the long trip toKey West. The business did not tli:i\(. lio\\e\cr, as the spongers do Report U. S. F. C. 1902. Plate 8.
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TIIK SlM>M(iE KISIIEKY OF FLOKLDA \N l!»0(). 173 not like to sell at :i phico wliere there is l)ut one buyer, as they claimthe lack of eoiupetition keeps the price down. None was sold atLemon City after the sprinj^ of 1900. At Key West and Tarpon Sprinj^s all of the l>uyers, except two—one at each place—represent New York, Philadelphia, and St. LouisAvholesale houses. The two independent buyers market their owncatch. Each buyer has a warehouse where the sponges are dried,cleaned, and baled ready for market. Some of these ))uildinos areelaborate and costly structures, and a number of persons are employedat each in preparing- the product. In 1900 tlie Key West establish-ments, which were valued at $90,100, employed 67 persons, whosewages amounted to $25,978. At Tarpon Springs, in the same year,the sponge establishments were valued at $9,332, and gave employ-ment to 57 persons, whose combined wages amounted to $17,969.Property is much less valuable at Tarpon Springs than at Ke

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