SALMON HATCHING ON CLACKAMAS RIVER, OREGON, IS??. iHj 



Others still, that were both manageable and abounded in salmon, were 

 too distant or inaccessible to be utilized. So all the spawning-streams 

 up to the Walla Walla Eiver, one after another, had to be given up in 

 consequence of some fatal objection which mad« them unavailable. 



Owing to the Indian troubles, which were then very serious, it was 

 unsafe, and in fact wholly out of the question, to go to the Clearwater 

 or Salmon River, or to the Yakima or any of the tributaries of the Upper 

 Columbia. 



Although the prospect was so discouraging, I nevertheless left Mr. 

 Hubbard at Umatilla to put a rack across the Umatilla Eiver to obstruct 

 the ascent of the salmon in case they came up; and later in the season, 

 hearing that salmon were expected in large quantities in the river, I 

 sent Mr. Richard Ilubbard to the Umatilla on the 19th of Sicptember 

 to make an examination of the river. He found no salmon there, and 

 having reported unfavorably on the place it was given up. 



On the IGth of July, while the proposition was being discussed by the 

 directors of the Oregon and Washington Fish Propagating Company 

 of postponing all operations till another year, I suggested to them to 

 make an examination of the Clackamas River before abandoning the 

 enterprise entirely for the year. 



The result was that the Clackamas was examined and found suitable 

 for the purpose in every respect, and on the 18th of July I received by 

 telegraph the following authorization to proceed with operations on the 



Clackamas River : 



"Astoria, Oreg., July 16, 1877. 

 " To Livingston Stone, 



" United States Fisli Commission : 



"Tou are hereby authorized to take such action and make such 

 arrangements as you think necessary and expedient in the matter of 

 salmon hatching. 



" JOHN ADAIR, Jr., 



^^ President Oregon and WasJdngton Fish Propagating Company. ^^ 



Having examined the river, first by traveling along the bank for 25 

 miles, and afterward going up the stream 20 miles in an Indian canoe, 

 I decided upon locating the hatching- works on the south bank of the 

 Clackamas, just above the mouth of Clear Creek. 



As soon as this decision was made, I telegraphed to Mr. Walda 

 Hubbard, at Umatilla, to come to the Clackamas River, and having 

 communicated my plans to him for a hatching-house, a dwelling-house, 

 water-supply, &c., returned to the McCloud River reservation in Cali- 

 fornia. I remained there until the operations of the United States Fish 

 Commission at that point had been placed in good running order, when 

 I returned to the Clackamas River. On arriving at the hatching sta- 

 tion, on the 10th of August, I found that the work had been pushed 

 with vigor by Mr. Hubbard, and had made very satisfactory progress. 



The mess house was finished, the hatching-house was nearly completed, 

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