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water still covers our spawning-house floor, and in hatchery No. 2 it is 

 still several inches above the tops of the troughs. Five gates are open* 

 and a great volume passing oft", yet Munson thinks the water has beeni 

 rising lately. The total volume of water now flowing in hatchery No. 

 1 is 28.6 gallons per minute. In hatchery No. 3 [only one aqueduct was. 

 then in operation] the volume is 9.6 gallons i^er minute. Temperatures ^ 

 of water observed to-day: At hatchery No. 1, 46|° F.; at hatclfery No. 

 3, 63^o F. [the water here is open to sun outside the building] ; at Grand: 

 Lake, at surface, near dam, 72^° F. 



Munson says that the fish hatched out this year were by far the best 

 he ever hatched, stronger and more active. All visitors admired them. 

 None of the fry were planted this year below the dam. They were, 

 scattered along the shores of the lake as far as Munson's Island. A 

 number, estimated to have been about 2,000, were taken in a can with- 

 six or eight gallons of water, and in turning them out a canful would 

 stretch along several rods of shore. 



Both Forbes and Munson testify to the abundance of the young of 

 Schoodic salmon below the dam this year. They often followed and 

 seized the hook intended for large fish. The fishing at the regular- 

 season (May and June) this year was excellent. Munson says they took 

 very fine fish and a good many of them, and the fishermen were well, 

 satisfied. 



/September 10, 1881. — Arrived from Bucksport on 9th via Big Lake;. 

 The lakes are high, but I hardly think Grand Lake is any higher than 

 in 1875, when, I remember, we used to run canoes down through the 

 sluice-gate of the dam without touching. It stands now on our gauge 

 at 3 feet 5J inches, with a very light northerly wind. This, it appears, 

 is 5^ inches lower than on August 3. It is now 1 inch below our spawn- 

 ing-house floor. It is 1 foot 7^ inches higher than November 7, 1880. 

 For about ten days in August the gates were all closed on account of 

 the bursting of the Union dam in Calais. The rest of the time there 

 have been five gates open. The water is believed to be now falling 

 rapidly. In Big Lake the water is very high, there being but two gates. 

 open at Princeton. 



None of our nets have been put into the water yet, it appearing to 

 Mr. Munson to be unnecessary, because the fish have not come until 

 n ithin a few days. None were caught until Mr. Ferguson's arrival, on 

 the 9th, when he took one. Crossing the bridge on the 9th I saw five 

 of the salmon under the bark-mill. Mr. Ferguson also took two to-day^ 

 one just below the dam and one at Big Falls. I have seen several leap- 

 above the dam. 



October 6. — Third visit to Grand Lake Stream. The nets to intercept 

 the fish in their descent have been in place since the middle of Septem- 

 ber. Work on the extension and the foundation of hatchery No. 3 i&- 

 going rapidly forward. 



October 26. — Arrived from Bucksport about 11 a. m. The addition to 



