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State in October, 1897, but owing to bad weather and extreme high 

 water was not completed until lato in 1898. The hatchery was a 

 failure until 1902 when a fair season was had, as was again true in 

 1903. It was not operated in 1904. Since the State began taking 

 eggs from the Satsop River, a tributary of the Chehalis, it has been 

 possible to fill the hatchery each season, and the project was enlarged 

 in 1929. 



In 1909 the site where eggs had been gathered on the Satsop River 

 was purchased, and a new hatchery was erected there. It has three 

 concrete rearing ponds and is fully equipped for the taking of spawn 

 and the hatching out and caring for 5,000,000 fry. This plant was 

 first operated in the fall of 1909. 



Work was begun in September, 1914, by the United States Bureau 

 of Fisheries on a hatching station on Lake Quinault, Wash., and a take 

 of eggs was made the same year. 



In lieu of installing fishways in their dams in the Humptulips 

 River and tributaries, in the Grays Harbor section, two timber firms 

 agreed to furnish the money needed to build a hatchery on Stevens 

 Creek, west of Humptulips, and the same was constructed and put 

 into operation in October of 1914. The plant is now the property of 

 the State and was rebuilt in 1929. 



In 1917 a hatchery was built by the State on Chehalis River near 

 Dryad, with money contributed by two lumber companies in Heu of 

 building fishway over a dam. 



Puget Sound and tributaries. — In 1896 the State established a hatch- 

 ery on Baker Lake, which is the head of Baker River, a tributary of 

 the Skagit River, and this was the first establishment for the hatching 

 of sockeye salmon. In July, 1899, it was sold to the United States 

 Fish Commission. In 1901 steelhead trout eggs were collected on 

 Phinney Creek, about 5 miles from the town of Birdsview, and some 

 30 miles from Baker Lake. In 1901 an auxiliary station was opened 

 at Birdsview, on Skagit River, and steelhead trout eggs were collected 

 on Phinney and Grandy Creeks and brought to Baker Lake to be 

 hatched. The Birdsview station has since been developed as a main 

 station, and the Baker Lake hatchery relegated to auxiliary status. 



In 1898 a private hatchery (the necessary money being raised by 

 subscription among the residents of Fairhaven, now BelHngham, and 

 vicinity) was built near Lake Samish, a few miles from Fairhaven. 



In 1899 a hatchery was built by the State on Kendall Creek, a 

 tributary of the Nooksack River, about 300 yards from same, and 

 about 2 miles from the railway station of Kendall. Except in 1903, 

 this hatchery has since been operated continuously. An eyeing sta- 

 tion was built in 1907 on the south fork of the Nooksack River, about 

 1 mile from Acme. 



In the same year the State built a hatchery on the Skokomish 

 River, about 4 miles from its mouth. An eyeing station was also 

 erected on the north fork of the same river. The main station was 

 not operated in 1904 and only on a small scale in 1903 and 1905. 



The State, in 1889, built a hatchery on Friday Creek, a tributary 

 of the Samish River, situated about 1 mile from the mouth of the 

 creek. 



The following State hatcheries were first operated in 1900: Snoho- 

 mish hatchery, built on the west bank of Skykomish River, a few 

 miles from its mouth; Nisqually River hatchery, built on Muck Creek, 

 about one-half mile from the Nisqually River, and about 4 miles 



