At the end of the XIX century, the newspaper Sibirsky Listok wrote about this fishery as follows: "The material for making wooden dishes is dry-standing coniferous forest: cedar, pine and larch, and only the best commercial forest, without branches, is used for work; where there is little such forest left in the forests, tickets are taken for cutting it, a log of three fathoms in length and 42 vershka in diameter costs from 70 kopecks to 1 ruble 50 kopecks, 12−16 tubs of medium size come out of such a log.
Having harvested the forest, it is sawn into pieces of such length as is needed for one or another dish, then these stumps are split into planks, planed, dried in the oven and folded, fastened with hoops, which are made from halves of willow or cherry twigs. They make large and small dishes: tubs, tar pits, pickles, gangs, troughs, buckets, cups, etc. To work, you need to have an axe, a saw, a chisel, a plow, or "jointer", a plane, two scrapers — straight and curved and a compass, total guns for 100−200 rubles, they make dishes in winter in their free time; the average worker will make 2−3 tubs or tubs per day, or one barrel, or several pieces of small dishes, which are valued depending on the work and material; all earnings for the winter range between 30−60 rubles, in Eastern Siberia it is slightly higher. The dishes are sold by the artisans themselves, without intermediaries, to nearby villages or transported to neighboring rural and urban fairs, sometimes they are bought up by merchants in the villages."