[5] OPERATIONS AT THE m'cLOUD RIVER SALMON STATION. 1067 



The stable is a well-built, substantial two-story building, 40 feet by 20 

 feet, with accorainodatioiis for four horses. It has two commodious 

 store-rooms and a loft. On the north side, where it is protected from 

 the sun in summer and the storms in whiter, a shed is built joining the 

 ])arn. 



Tbe hatching house is a large, handsome, painted building 80 feet loug 

 and 30 feet wide. It stands well above the danger mark of high water, 

 and is provided with forty liatching troughs, each IG feet long, furnished 

 with seven hatching baskets, each 2 feet long, making two hundred 

 hatching baskets in all. These baskets will carry 35,000 salmon eggs 

 each, giving a total hatching capacity to the whole house in round num- 

 bers of 10,000,000 salmon eggs. 



The hatching-house is provided with nine windows on each side, one 

 window in each gable end, and five sky-lights on the roof, all of which 

 combined furnish a good supply of light even on the dark, rainy days in 

 the fall when the salmon are being hatched for the restocking of the 

 tributaries of the Sacramento. On the east end of the house is a large 

 shed built for the purpose of furnishing room and shelter while packing 

 the eggs intended for distribution. The water supply for hatching the 

 eggs is lifted to the house by a current-wheel in the river. This wheel 

 is a fine piece of workmanshij), and a credit to the builders. It is 32 

 feet in diameter, is furnished with thirty-two arms and thirty-two pad- 

 dles, and revolves on a shaft IS inches in diameter. It rests on two 

 very substantially built boats, each 36 feet long and 8 feet wide. On 

 these there rests, sustained on suitable supports, the current-wheel. 

 The boats and wheel are placed at a point in the river where the current 

 has the greatest velocity, which gives the wheel a lifting capacity of 

 24,000 gallons an hour. 



In addition to the structures already mentioned, there was the post- 

 otfice building, which was washed oft" its original foundation and some- 

 what injured by the high water, but which had been replaced, raised 

 higher, and somewhat enlarged. This is now used as a dwelling-house. 

 A small store-house which sur^^ved the flood, and the spawning-house 

 for taking the eggs, complete the list of buildings at the McCloud Eiver 

 salmon fishery as it is now restored. 



As may be supposed, some of the methods of work employed here are 

 of a primitive character. To illustrate this, allow me to trace the boat 

 gunwales through their various stages of progress till they were framed 

 into the boats. 



The boats' gunwales were to be 36 feet long and 29 inches wide. It 

 was therefore necessary to find a tree which would furnish a stick of 

 good timber 37 feet long and 30 inches wide ; and we hoped at first to 

 find a tree from which could be cut a rectangular joist 30 inches by 24 

 inches, and 37 feet in length. The work of getting out the gunwales 

 began, therefore, with finding the tree. With this object in view, Mr. 

 Campbell spent three or four days in the hills hunting for a suitable 



