PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 239 
The Startup hatchery, located near Startup, on the Skykomish 
River, was formerly used as a collecting station for the Snohomish 
hatchery. It is still used for this purpose, but also retains and 
hatches a considerable quantity of spawn. The station is about 4 
miles from the Babh otic hatchery. In 1918 it was rebuilt and now 
bears the name of Skykomish hatchery 
In 1900 the State established a fisheries experimental station at 
Keyport Landing, on the east arm of Port Orchard Bay, with Pearson 
as the nearest post office. The work of the station was devoted to 
salmon and oysters until it was abandoned a few years later. 
The State established a hatchery on the Dungeness River, about 7 
miles from the town of Dungeness, in Clallam County, in 1901. In 
1906 it constructed a hatchery on a small tributary of the Skagit 
River, between Hamilton and Lyman. This was destroyed in 1917 
by floods. The station built on Sauk River, a tributary of the Skagit, 
has been operated only occasionally since the Skagit hatchery was 
built. 
The White River hatchery was constructed on Suice Creek, a trib- 
utary of Green River, some years ago. Durimg the summer of 1909 
a new hatchery was built at this station, the old one being too small 
to accommodate the amount of spawn that could be taken. The new 
hatchery is located on the east side of Suice Creek near the county 
road. The building contains 140 hatching troughs. The plant has 
a pond system, where the fry are kept and fed until they are able to 
shift for themselves. 
During the summer of 1911 the city of Tacoma constructed a large 
concrete dam in the Green River, about 4 miles west of Eagle Gorge. 
As this dam prevented the salmon from reaching the spawning beds, 
the State established an eyeing station the same year just below 
the dam. In 1913 the name was changed to Green River hatchery, 
to conform to the name of the main stream. 
In 1912 the United States Bureau of Fisheries completed the Quil- 
cene and Duckabush hatcheries. Both are on small tributaries enter- 
ing the west side of Hoods Canal, an arm of Puget Sound. 
In 1913 a new station was operated by the Bureau on the Duse- 
wallips River, a tributary of Hoods Canal, Puget Sound, near Brin- 
non. ‘Two new field stations—on Elwell River, a tributary of the 
Skykomish River, near Sultan, and on Sauk, River, a tributary of the 
Skagit River, near Darrington—-were also put into operation the 
same year. The Sauk River had been worked by the State at one 
time. 
In 1913 the Middle Fork Nooksak eyeing station was transformed 
into a hatchery. In the same year the eyeing station on the south 
fork was moved farther up the river. 
In 1914 stations were established by the United States Bureau of 
Fisheries on Day Creek and Ilabot Creek, tributaries of the Skagit 
River, while a substation was opened on Hamahama River at Eldon, 
distant about 9 miles up Hood Canal from the mouth of the Ducka- 
bush River. 
On May 23, 1914, the Baker Lake hatchery building was destroyed 
by fire. In addition to the building and equipment, 1,305,820 silver 
fry and 823,097 sockeye fry were destroyed. ‘The station was rebuilt 
but was burned down again in 1919. It has since been rebuilt. 
