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of having the salmon pond easily accessible from tide-water, and at 

 convenient distance from the mouth of the Penobscot, where alone the 

 breeding fish could be had in sufficient quantity for our use. After dil- 

 igent examination of the whole region, I was forced to fix upon separate 

 locations for the pond and hatching-house. 



For a pond we went back to Dead Brook — to the very spot tried in 

 1871 ; for a hatching-house to the original site on Craig's Brook. 



Dead Brook is tributary to Eastern Biver, which it joins between 

 Orland village and Orland Falls, in a low and swampy region, partly 

 overflowed by the backwater from the dam at Orland. Its lower portion 

 is from this cause broader and deeper and more sluggish than in its 

 natural condition, as well as more accessible by water. The Orland 

 dam is provided with a lock, and large boats have been accustomed to 

 load with wood in Dead Brook for transportation down the river. Our 

 salmon cars could thus reach the brook from any point in tide-water, 

 and the salmon thus transferred to our inclosure without the overland 

 carriage to which they were subject in Bucksport. 



A section of the stream about 80 rods long was selected for our inclos- 

 ure. The bottom was mostly gravel, partly overlaid by a thin stratum 

 of mud supporting a rank growth of water weeds. The water itself 

 was pure, — rather better than the average of rivers in Maine — the 

 sources of the stream being in two natural ponds in a hilly and wooded 

 district. Wooden racks, which had before done service in the pond at 

 Bucksport village, were made into barriers to form the upper and lower 

 ends of the inclosure. The sides were formed by the banks of the brook, 

 which would be high enough to retain the water and the fish except in 

 extreme freshets, but to guard against escape in any event close fences 

 were built along all the banks liable to submergence. 



The hatching-house is located at the mouth of Craig's Brook, on the 

 east side of Alamoosook Lake, across which it is necessary to trans- 

 port all the eggs as soon as taken, the distance being near two miles, a 

 little more than half of it being by water. Aside from its location at a 

 distance from the spawning place, this site has all the desiderata for a 

 first-class hatching-house. The water is abundant and pure, part from 

 springs and part from Craig's Pond, and the steep inclination of the 

 ground affords complete facilities for managing and aerating the water. 

 An old mill stood ready for our use, and was fitted up with troughs and 

 other appurtenances, patterned after those in use at Grand Lake Stream. 



In charge of the operations I placed Mr. H. H. Buck, of Orland, who 

 had already had experience in the work at Bucksport and Grand Lake 

 Stream. 



2. — Collecting breeding salmon. 



Arrangements for a supply of breeding salmon were made with sev- 

 eral fishermen in the southwestern part of Verona— mostly the same 

 men who had furnished salmon to the old establishment. They were 



