234 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



In 1889 the State established a hatchery in the cannery of F. M. 

 Warren, at Warrendale, in Multnomah County, on the Columbia 

 River, which was operated in that year and in 1890. 



In 1895 some of the Ore^n salmon packere combined and organ- 

 ized the Columbia River rackers' Propagating Co., which estab- 

 lished a hatchery on the upper Clackamas River at the junction of 

 the Warm Springs and the Clackamas and operated it in 1895 and 

 1896. The Government operated it in 1897 and 1898, after which 

 it was turned over to the State and moved to the opposite side of 

 the river. 



In 1898 the collection of steelhead- trout eggs was first undertaken 

 on the northwest coast by the State of Oregon on Salmon River, a 

 tributar}^ of the Columbia River, and met with fair success. In 

 March, 1899, the Government sent a party to the falls of the Willam- 

 ette River, near Oregon City, to collect steelhead eggs, and also 

 operated for this purpose at its substation on the Salmon River, but 

 the latter effort met with failure, as the rack was washed away. 

 This station was turned over to the State on June 15, 1899. 



In 1901 the State of Oregon did some experimental work at Swan 

 Falls, on Snake River, the boundary for a considerable distance 

 between Oregon and Idaho. During the \\ inter and early spring of 

 1902 the State also worked Tncannon River, which is a tributary of 

 Snake River, for steelhead, but met with poor success. Snake 

 River was worked a^ain in 1902 at the foot of Morton Island, which 

 is situated 2 miles above Ontario, in Malheur County. Title to the 

 necessary property was secured from the War Department in 1903 

 and permanent buildings were erected. It was closed for some years 

 and finally abandoned in 1911. 



In 1901 the State of Oregon established an experimental hatchery 

 in Wallowa County, on the Grande Ronde River, at the mouth of a 

 small tribiitary called the Wen aha River, which enters the main 

 stream about 50 miles from its mouth. A permanent station was 

 established in the canyon a])out 1| miles below the Wallowa bridge 

 on the Wallowa River, a tributary of the Grande Ronde River, m 

 1903. 



In 1902 the State of Oregon erected a permanent plant on Salmon 

 River at its junction with Boulder Creek. This plant was closed in 

 1911. 



In the same year the vState established an experimental station on 

 the McKenzie River, a tributary of the Willamette River, about one- 

 half mile above Vida post ofiice. This experimental work was 

 resumed in 1905 at a point 2 miles l)elow Gate (Yeek. The hatchery 

 was permanently esta})lished at a spot about 30 miles from Eugene 

 and near the town of Leaburg a year or two later. 



In 1903 a hatchery was built by the State of Oregon on the vSnake 

 River near the town of Ontario, in eastern Oregon. 



In 1906 an experimental station was established by the State on 

 Breitenbush Creek, a short distance above its junction with the 

 Santiam River, a tributary of the Willamette River, but the plant 

 was destroyed, very shortly after its establishment, by a forest fire. 

 An experimental station was reestablished here in 1909, but a heavy 

 freshet raised the river so high that the penned fish escaped around 

 the rack. 



