Petersburg Pilot -

November 18, 1916 – Chris Keay and Louis Kay, who have been in Petersburg for several weeks in connection with resuming of operations by the Garden Shrimp Company, which has been reorganized and incorporated, leave for Seattle on the Admiral Evans. The former, who is manager of the company, states that everything is now in readiness to successfully carry on the industry, and that shipment of shrimp will soon commence.

Fishing headquarters have been established at Ruth Island, in Thomas Bay, in which vicinity the shrimp are found to be more plentiful and larger than at any other hereabouts...