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on the river that we occupied was, as before, the lower fishing- ground. 

 Here was the main fishery; the other, from its coming above the dam r 

 being practically abandoned. There were here two or three corrals for 

 salmon, and two or three little wooden structures forming a rude camp 

 for the fishermen. Some distance above this point, and about a hun- 

 dred yards from the house, were the bridge and upper corrals. The 

 main corrals were on the opposite side of the river, and extended about 

 50 feet down to the farther end of the bridge. The bridge reached 106 

 feet across the river to the wheel which raised the water for the hatch- 

 ing-works. A flume connected the wheel with the filtering-tanks at the 

 upper end of the hatching- tents. Next came the distributing-spout, and 

 then the hatching-apparatus proper, which extended 80 feet farther to 

 the end of the hatching-tents. Just at this point was a fishing-ground 

 for trout and " Wyedar deckets;" and a little farther up the stream was 

 a set of hatching-boxes, with wire sides and bottom, floating horizon- 

 tally in the current. Only a few steps farther up the river came the 

 house in which we lived. Behind was the United States flag on a 50- 

 feet flag-staff, and a little farther on two smaller tents and a brush-camp. 

 About ten rods up the river from this point was an inclosure, or pound, 

 in which the young salmon for the State of California were put before 

 they were old enough to wholly shift for themselves. This terminated 

 our series of works in this direction. 



It will be seen by comparison with last year's report, that the ar- 

 rangement of the camp was similar to that of 1873 ; the river-corrals 

 and bridge being new, however, as has been mentioned. The hatching- 

 troughs were also extended 40 feet farther in length, involving the use 

 of an additional tent 40 feet by 30 feet. This made the hatching-tents 

 this year 100 feet long. The addition to the dwelling-house nearly 

 doubled its size, making it 28 feet by 26 feet, and giving us three new 

 rooms, one of which was employed for a bed-room, one for a store-room, 

 and one for the photographer's use. The brush-camp north of the 

 dwelling-house was quite a valuable addition of this year. It was very 

 rudely built, after the fashion of the aborigines, but it ^ras located in a 

 shady spot, at the water's edge, and proved to be an extremely conven- 

 ient place to transfer my office to during the warmer portions of the day, 

 when my room in the house often became intolerably hot. The only 

 other new feature at the station this year were the inclosures, or pounds, 

 for receiving the young salmon intended for the McCloud River. These 

 were built of rocks and covered with brush, and when the salmon were 

 approaching the period of the absorption of the yolk-sac, they were 

 transferred from the hatching-troughs to these corrals, where they had 

 ample space to move about. 



THE HATCHING-APPARATUS. 



This was on a much larger scale as well as on a different plan from 

 that of last year. The wheel and flume were the same, but owing to 



