XLIV REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
fish hatchery in that city, at a cost of $10,000, and maintain it, the - 
people would donate a suitable site with an ample supply of good water. 
The fishermen of the region, who employ several steamers to collect the 
fish for marketing at Duluth, also offered to save the spawn and deliver 
it at the hatchery. 
In response to inquiries by Mr. Nelson, the Commissioner replied that 
the whitefish interest of Duluth had not been wholly neglected, as many 
millions of the fry of that species had been planted in Lake Superior 
from the Michigan stations at Northville and Alpena; but that if it 
was deemed desirable to increase the work, and Congress should provide 
the means, a hatching station could be built at the proposed location. 
As a result of this correspondence, the following item was inserted in 
the sundry civil appropriation bill and became a law August 4, 1886: 
Fish hatchery at Duluth, Minn.: For the establishment of a fish hatchery on Lake 
Superior at or near Duluth, Minn., $10,000: Provided, That the city of Duluth shall 
furnish, without charge, a suitable site for the said fish hatchery. 
A site offered by the Lake-Side Land Company, of Duluth, at the 
mouth of Lester River, on the northern outskirts of the city, was found, 
upon examination, to afford the requisite facilities for the purpose, and 
it was accordingly accepted. Jurisdiction to the land was ceded to the 
United States by an act of the legislature of Minnesota, approved 
March 2, 1887. 
Clackamas River, Oregon.—In February of the present year the Com- 
missioner received from the Hon. J. H. Reagan, chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Commerce, House of Representatives, a “Memorial of the 
Oregon legislature, relative to the establishment of a fish hatchery on 
the Clackamas River, Oregon,” with a request that it be given consid- 
eration. The Commissioner, in reply, stated that the “salmon fisheries 
of that region could not be maintained in the face of the adverse in- 
fluences exerted by civilization without resorting to artificial propaga- 
tion on a scale commensurate with the importance of the fisheries, nor 
without such legislation as will give a reasonable measure of protection 
to the salmon during their spawning.” He also explained that a recon- 
naissance of the Columbia River basin had been made, under the direc- 
tion of the U. 8. Fish Commissioner, by Mr. Livingston Stone, who 
reported favorably as to a location on the Clackamas River, as would 
be seen by reference to his account published in the Report of the U. 
S. Fish Commission for 1883. 
The following amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill was — 
introduced in the United States Senate December 21, 1886, by Senator 
Dolph, but was not incorporated in the bill as passed : 
For the establishment of a salmon hatchery on the Columbia River, its tributaries 
or other branches, and for the current expenses of the same for one year, $20,000. 
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