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vast amounts of solid matter in suspension, and justly deserves the 

 name "Big Muddy.' 1 The channels of the Missouri and all the larger 

 tributaries are constantly changing and shifting the beds of the streams. 

 All this, of course, has its effect upon the fishes. 



Classified list of streams examined in the Missouri Hirer Basin in 1892 anil 1898, 



Missouri River at Chamberlain and Run- 

 ning Water, S. D. 

 Yellowstone River: 

 Tongue River at Sheridan, Wyo. 

 South Fork of Tongne River at 



Sheridan. 

 Big Goose Creek at Sheridan. 



Wolf Creek at Sheridan. 

 Little Goose Creek at Sheridan. 

 Powder River at Arvada, Wyo. 

 Clear Creek at Clermont, Wyo. 

 Big Cheyenne: 

 North Fork or Belle Fourche at Belle 

 Founhe, S. D. 

 Redwater Creek at Spearfish, S. 1>. 

 Montana Lake at Spearfish, S. D. 

 Cox Lake at Spearfish, S. D. 

 Spearfish Creek at Spearfish, S.D. 

 Crow Creek near Spearfish. 

 Chicken Creek near Spearfish. 

 Sand Creek near Beulah, Wyo. 

 Whitewood Creek at Deadwood. 

 Rapid Creek at Rapid City, S. D. 

 South Fork at Hot Springs and Edge- 

 mont, S. U. 

 Fall River at Hot Springs, S. D. 

 Beaver Creek at New Castle, Wyo. 

 Salt Creek at New Castle, Wyo. 

 Hat Creek at Ardmore, S. D. 

 Beaver Creek at Buffalo Gap, S. D. 

 French Creek at Custer, S. D. 

 Spring Creek at Hill City, S. D. 

 Crow Creek at Chamberlain, S. D. 



Smith Creek at Chamberlain, S. D. 

 White River at Chadron and Craw- 

 ford, Neb., audChambcrlain,S. 1). 

 Chadron Creek at Chadron, Nebr. 

 Lone Tree Creek at Chadron, Nebr. 

 Choteau Creek at Springfield, S. D. 

 Ponca Creek at Niobrara, Nebr. 

 Niobrara River at Marsland, Valentine, 

 Long Pine, and Niobrara. 

 Schlegel Creek at Valentine, Nebr. 

 Minnechaduza Creek at Valentine- 



Missouri River — Continued. 

 Niobrara River — Continued. 



Long Pine Creek at Long Pine. 

 Bone Creek at Long Pine, Nebr. 

 Ponds along creek at Long Pine. 

 Verdigris River and a small creek 

 at Verdigris, Nebr. 

 Emanuel Creek at Springfield, S.D. 

 Bazile Creek at Niobrara, Nebr. 

 Ponds at Creighton, Nebr. 

 Spring Creek at Bazile Mills, Nebr. 

 .1 ames or Dakof a River at Mitchell, S. D. 

 Rock, Firesteel, and Enemy creeks 



at Mitchell, S. D. 

 Prairie Creek at Scotland, S. D. 

 Platte River at Grand Island and South 

 Beud, Nebr. 

 North Fork of Platte River at Cas- 

 per, Glenrock and Douglas, 

 Wyo. 

 Garden Creek at Casper, Wyo. 

 Deer Creek at Glenrock, Wyo. 

 Little Deer Creek at Glenrock. 

 Wood River at Grand Island, Nebr. 

 Loup River at Grand Island, Nebr. 

 Middle Loup and Dismal rivers at 



Dunning, Nebr. 

 South Loup River and Mud Creek 



at Ravenna, Nebr. 

 Calamus River: 

 Isolated lakes near Long Pine. 

 Carp Lake and Lake George near 

 Long Pine, Nebr. 

 Elkhorn River at Ewing and Nor- 

 folk, Nebr. 

 Bayous, south fork of Elkhorn, and 



pond, at Ewing, Nebr. 

 Ponds and Norfolk Creek at Nor- 

 folk, Nebr. 

 Kansas River: 

 Big Blue River at Seward and Crete, 

 Nebr. 

 Lincoln Creek at York and Seward. 

 Beaver Creek at York, Nebr. 



