934 . U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
In 1889 the State established a hatchery in the cannery of F. M. 
Warren, at Warrendale, in Multnomah County, on the Columbia 
River, which was operated in that year and in 1890. 
In 1895 some of the Oregon salmon packers combined and organ- 
ized the Columbia River Packers’ Propagating Co., which estab- 
lished a hatchery on the upper Clackamas River at the junction of 
the Warm Springs and the Clackamas and operated it in 1895 and 
1896. The Cormeen operated it in 1897 and 1898, after which 
it was turned over to the State and moved to the opposite side of 
the river. 
In 1898 the collection of steelhead-trout eggs was first undertaken 
on the northwest coast by the State of Oregon on Salmon River, a 
tributary of the Columbia River, and met with fair success. In 
March, 1899, the Government sent a party to the falls of the Willam- 
ette River, near Oregon City, to collect steelhead eggs, and also 
operated for this purpose at its substation on the Salmon River, but 
ihe latter effort met with failure, as the rack was washed away. 
This station was turned over to the State on June 15, 1899. 
In 1901 the State of Oregon did some experimental work at Swan 
Falls, on Snake River, the boundary for a considerable distance 
between Oregon and Idaho. During the winter and early spring of 
1902 the State also worked Tucannon River, which is a tributary of 
Snake River, for steelhead, but met with poor success. Snake 
River was worked again in 1902 at the foot of Morton Island, which 
is situated 2 miles above Ontario, in Malheur County. Title to the 
necessary property was secured from the War Department in 1903 
and permanent buildings were erected. It was closed for some years 
and finally abandoned in 1911. 
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 
1911. 
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 
Breitenbush 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 
eas ake the river so high that the penned fish escaped around 
the rack, 
