240 PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
WASHINGTON. 
Willapa Rwer.—In 1899 Washington established a hatchery on 
Trap Creek, a tributary of the Willapa River, situated about 200 
yards from the creek’s mouth. 
Chehalis River.—The construction of a hatchery on the Chehalis 
River, about 4 miles above the city of Montesano, was begun by the 
State in October, 1897, but owing to bad weather and extreme high 
water was not completed until late 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. 
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 Huniptulips, and the same was constructed and put 
into operation in October of the same year. The plant is now the 
property of the State. 
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 hatch- 
ing 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 col- 
lected on Phinney and Grandy Creeks and brought to Baker Lake to 
be hatched. 
In 1898 a private hatchery (the necessary money being raised by 
subscription among the residents of Fairhaven, now Bellingham, 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 Nooksak 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- 
