PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 235 



In 1909 the State of Oregon built at Bonneville, on Tanner Creek, 

 a tributary of the Columbia River, a large central hatchery capable 

 of handhng 60,000,000 eggs, it being the intention of the State to 

 hatch at this plant the eggs collected at other stations. 



In the same year a temporary hatchery was located on the Santiam 

 River by the State of Oregon. 



During 1910 the State of Oregon received 1,500,000 red salmon 

 e^gs from the Yes Bay (Alaska) hatchery of the United States Bureau 

 01 Fisheries, and yearly since they have received a consignment from 

 the same source, as will be noted in the statistical tables. These were 

 hatched out in the Bonneville hatchery and planted in the Columbia 

 River. 



The State of Oregon built a hatchery on the Klaskanine River, a 

 tributary of Youngs River, near Olney, in Clatsop County, in 1911. 

 In the same year an eyeing station for spring chinooks was opened by 

 the wState on the Willamette River, near Lowell. 



The first entrance of Washington (then a Territory) into fish- 

 cultural operations was in 1(S79, when the State fish commissioner 

 paid tlie Oregon iSc Washiiigto?i Fish Propagating Co., which was 

 operating the hatclier}' on the Clackamas River, S2,000 for salmon 

 fry deposited in that river. In I89:i the vState legislature estab- 

 lished a hatchery fund which was to be supplied by licenses from 

 certain hnes of the fishery business. In 1895 its first hatchery in 

 the Columbia River Basin was built on the Kalama River, about 4 

 miles distant from its junction with the Columbia, and in Cowlitz 

 County. Shortly after this hatchery was built it was discovered 

 that it was above where tlie salmon spawned, and a second hatchery 

 was built 1^ miles ])elow the first named, as the nigged mountainous 

 character of the country made transportation between the two sites 

 difricidt. Of recent years a road has ])een constmcted along the 

 river Ijank, and it is probable that the upper buildings will be aban- 

 doned entirely. 



Another station for the collection and eyeing of eggs was estab- 

 lished on the Chinook River, a small stream which empties into Baker 

 Bay near the mouth of the Columbia. 



During the fiscal year 1S!»7 the United States Fish Commission 

 established a station on Little White Sidmon River, a stream which 

 empties into the Columbia, on the Washington side, about 14 miles 

 aljove the Cascades. During the fiscal year 1901 a:) auxiliary station 

 was operated on Big Wliite vSalmon River, while fishing was carried 

 on in Eagle and Tanner Creeks, in Oregon, th(^ eggs o])tained from 

 these creeks being ])rought to the Little White Salmon hatchery. 



In 1S99 the State of Washington built and operated hatcheries 

 on the Wenatchee River, a tri!)Utary of the Columbia River, about 

 1 \ miles from Chiwaukum Station on the Great Northern Railway, 

 and on Wind River, a tributary of the Columbia, about 1 mile from 

 the junction. 



In 1900 Washington State hatcheries were estal)lished in the 

 Columbia River Basin as follows: White River hatchery, which was 

 built on Coos Creek, which empties into a tributarv of the White 

 River, the location being about 21 miles from where the Green 

 River joins the White River; Methow River hatchery, built on the 

 Methow River at the point where it is joined by the Twisj), about 

 22 miles from the Columbia River; Colville River hatchery, built 



