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None of this growth and prospering meant that the millennium had arrived; the Northwest had vexing problems. Its economy was still based primarily on mining, fishing, agriculture and lumbering, and though all were doing well, they did not fully support the expanding population.
Clinkers & Scallops. Meanwhile, 65 feet down, his divers probed the bay floor with powerful hydraulic jet drills and huge vacuum-cleanerlike suction pumps, looking for cash but finding mostly romance. So far, they had raised what seemed to be an ancient, encrusted cannonball. It turned out to be a clinker...
Dragging for the fat shrimp which wriggle along the warm Mexican gulf coast, fishermen from Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. make long, profitable runs. But the business also has its hazards. One pink-streaked dawn last week, off the coast at Soto la Marina, a Mexican gunboat steamed up beside...
The Mexican coast guard changed the shrimpers with poaching in Mexican territorial waters five miles out, and fined each skipper 5,000 pesos ($580). The shrimpers protested the fine and insisted that they were at least ten miles offshore. The Mexicans said that they had no intention of keeping Americans...
Of Men and Mountains, by William O. Douglas. Trout fishing and mountain climbing in the tall Northwest, served up with a garnish of mountain-made philosophy by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice (TIME, April 17).