PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 937 
In 1901 the State of Oregon established an experimental hatchery 
in Wallowa County, on the Grande Ronde River, at the mouth of a 
small tributary called the Wenaha River, which enters the main 
stream about 50 miles from its mouth. A permanent station was 
established in the canyon about 14 miles below the Wallowa bridge 
on the Wallowa River, a tributary of the Grande Ronde River, in 
1903. 
In 1902 the State of Oregon erected a permanent plant on Salmon 
River at its junction with Boulder Creek. This plant was closed in 
191. 
In the same year the State established an experimental station 
on the McKenzie River, a tributary of the Willamette River, about 
one-half mile above Vida post office. This experimental work was 
resumed in 1905 at a point 2 miles below Gate Creek. The hatchery 
was permanently established at a spot about 30 miles from Eugene 
and near the town of Leaburg a year or two later. 
In 1903 a hatchery was built by the State of Oregon on the Snake 
River, near the town of Ontario, in eastern Oregon. 
In 1906 an experimental station was established by the State on 
Bréitenbush Creek a short distance above its junction with the 
Santiam River, a tributary of the Willamette River, but the plant 
was destroyed, very shortly after its establishment, by a forest fire. 
An experimental station was reestablished here in 1909, but a heavy 
freshet raised the river so high that the penned fish escaped around 
the rack. 
In 1909 the State of Oregon built at Bonneville, on Tanner Creek, 
a tributary of the Columbia River, a large central hatchery capable 
of handling 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 
eggs from the Yes Bay (Alaska) hatchery of the United States Bureau 
of 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 State on the Willamette River, near Lowell. 
The first entrance of Washington (then a Territory) into fish- 
cultural operations was in 1879, when the State fish commissioner 
paid the Oregon & Washington Fish Propagating Co., which was 
operating the hatchery on the Clackamas River, $2,000 for salmon 
