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numbers anticipating a large run, are uneasy and fear the fish are not 

 coming. Yesterday morning they caught eight, which was the largest 

 number taken at any one time as yet. A white man living in the neigh- 

 borhood told me that last year he made a rough estimate of the salmon 

 taken by the Indians. He thinks they had between 40,000 and 50,000 

 drying atone time, about October 1. 1 will make another investigation 

 about October 1." 



The injury to the McCloud Eiver salmon this year, due to the blasting 

 of the Northern Pacific Railroad, which will be completed this winter, 

 is, I am happy to say, in all probability, but temporary. The next year's 

 run will probably be the same that it would have been if the railroad 

 had not been built. 



The result of my researches on the Snake Eiver are that no salmon 

 ascend as high as the crossing of the Utah and Northern Eailroad, and 

 that there are no salmon as high as the foot of the American Falls on 

 the Oregon Short Line Eailroad. The salmon probably cannot get 

 over Shoshone Falls. In the spawning season there are a great many 

 salmon at the foot of these falls, 27 miles from the Oregen Short Line 

 Eailroad. 



Charlestown, N. H., October 5, 1883. 



131 — TOTAL AMOUNT OF SHAD AND HERRENG CAUGHT ON THE 

 POTOMAC RIVER DURING THE SPRING OF 1882. 



By GWFMN HARRIS, 



Inspector of Marine Products for the District of Columbia. 



During the month of February there were 5 shad and 925 herring- 

 caught. The first shad was caught February 21, about 75 miles down 

 the river, and just below Mathias Point. The totals for the season are 



as follows : 



Shad. Herring. 



Landed in Washington 349, 140 6, 500, 726 



Landed in Alexandria 105, 000 3, 600, 000 



Landed in Georgetown 8, 000 815, 000 



Shipped to Baltimore from Glymont 3, 372 



Sold on different shores 2, 500 600, 000 



Totals 468,012 11,515,726 



Some of the fishing shores have quite a local trade; for instance, 

 Chapman's, Budd's Ferry, Moxley Point, Bryant's Point, Freestone, and 

 other shores. I think the estimate for these sales is small. The amount 

 put down for Georgetown I think will also include the fish caught at 

 Little Falls and Chain Bridge. 



Washington, D. C, July 1, 1882. 



