234 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



salmon alive in corrals and pens and artificial ponds. Used a large 



tent for a hatching-bouse. Enlarged the dwelling-house. Hatched some 



eggs in boxes floating horizontally in the river. Took and distributed 



2,000,000 eggs. 



1S74. 



Used deep trays exclusively in maturing the salmon eggs. Built a 

 bridge and rack across the river just above the seining ground to obstruct 

 the ascent of the salmon. This experiment proved very successful and 

 resulted iu a yield for the season of 5,750,000 eggs. 



1875. 



Built large dwelling-house this year and made various improvements. 

 Took 8,(510,000 eggs. In December of this year President Grant made 

 a United States reservation of the fishery premises by public proclama- 

 tion. 



1876. 



Abandoned the use of tents and built a permanent hatching-house, 

 100 feet long by 20 feet wide. Erected a current- wheel 17 feet in diam- 

 eter. Salmon eggs abundant. Took 1,000,000 eggs for the hatching- 

 house in one day; took 7,500,000 eggs in all. 



Salmon eggs were sent this year to New Zealand and to the Sand- 

 wich Islands. The eggs shipped East this year were forwarded in a 

 freight car filled with ice, and traveling with passenger trains. The re- 

 sult was very successful, the loss in transportation across the continent 



being extremely small. 



1877. 



Used floating flat-boats to support the wheel instead of stationary piers. 

 Result very favorable, the wheel rising and falling with the river, and 

 consequently free from the danger of being carried away by high water. 

 Had a guard of soldiers on the McCloud River this year. 



Took 7,000,000 salmon eggs, of which some were sent to England, 

 France, Germany, Holland, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand. Only 

 2i per cent, loss in transportation to the Atlantic States. Two million 

 young salmon returned to the tributaries of the Sacramento. The Co- 

 lumbia River salmon-hatching establishment was built this year on the 

 Clackamas River, Oregon, by the writer. 



1878. 



A post-office was established here this year and named Baird, and 

 the post-office building built. A breakwater was constructed from the 

 river to the high land behind the buildings to protect them from high 

 water. A second hatching-house was built at a spring near the river. 



Salmon very abundant this year. In July the salmon, about sunset, 

 were jumping in the river in great numbers. One hundred and forty- 



