tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755593200920587152.post2452655109734819396..comments2024-03-20T01:04:25.596-07:00Comments on Harbor History Museum Blog: Jerry (Eiichi) Yamashita, The Oysterman (1923 - present)Harbor History Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05352321858738657105noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755593200920587152.post-50588295917099525872015-07-31T13:03:24.194-07:002015-07-31T13:03:24.194-07:00I recently found the three attached articles while...I recently found the three attached articles while looking for something else. I didn't know what I would do with them, but your blog of today provides a timely opportunity. The Minterbrook Oyster Company was a late, late, late comer to oyster farming in the greater Gig Harbor area. As reported on June 7, 1879, by The Daily Intelligencer of Seattle, the New Tacoma Oyster Company was incorporated that year, with its oyster beds being in Gig Harbor, fully fifty years before Hubert and Marian Secor started their oyster company.<br /><br /> At the end of 1880 The Sacramento Record/Daily Union reported that the New Tacoma Oyster Co. of Tacoma, Washington Territory, was "a grand success."<br /><br /> On 5-5-1881 The Daily Astorian reprinted a few Puget Sound oyster business statistics from The Seattle Post, including mention of the farm at Gig Harbor.<br />oysters, Gig harbor 3, The Daily Astorian, 5-5-1881 page 2 .jpgoysters, Gig harbor 2 Gig Harbor oyster farm a success, Sacramento rec daily union, 12-3-1880 p2 .jpgoysters, Gig Harbor 1 commercial oyster beds in Gig Harbor, the Daily Intelligencer, 6-7-1879 p3 .jpg<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com