XL-REPORT OF OPERATIONS AT THE SALMON-HATCHING 

 STATION ON THE CLACKAMAS RIVER, OREGON, IN 1877. 



By Livlngston Stone. 



On the 15th of May, 1877, 1 received a telegram from Prof. Spencer F. 

 Baird, United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, requesting 

 me to proceed with all possible dispatch to the Columbia Kiver to report 

 to the Washington and Oregon Fish Propagating Company* for the 

 purpose of conducting operations, under their auspices, in hatching 

 salmon on that river or its tributaries. I had had during the previous 

 winter some correspondence with Mr. J. W. Cook, of the Oregon Pack- 

 ing Company, at Clifton, in regard to going to Oregon with this object 

 in view, but owing to a want of sufQcieut local interest in the subject 

 the matter was dropped until the very marked falling off of the spring 

 catch of Columbia Eiver salmon called the attention of the cannery men 

 to it again and led to the formation of the above-mentioned company 

 and the dispatch just referred to. 



In pursuance of Professor Baird's instructions I left the East as soon 

 as practicable and arrived at Portland, Oreg., on the 11th of June, 

 having spent a short time en route at the McCloud Eiver, California, a 

 notice of which will be found in my report of operations at that point. 

 On the 13th of June I met the directors of the Washington and Oregon 



* Articles of incorporation avd iy-latcs of. the Oregon and Washington Fish Propagating 

 Company. Principal office at Portland, Oreg. Incorporated April, 1877. 



Directors.— John Adair, jr., J. W. Cook, J. G. Megler, J, West, C. H. Lewis. 

 Officers. — John Adair, jr., president ; Joseph G. Megler, secretary ; Henry Failing, 

 treasurer, 



ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION. 



Know all men by these presents that we, C. Leinenweber, James W. Cook, John 

 West, Joseph G. Megler, John Adair, jr., and J. P. Bannan, citizens of the State 

 of Oregon, do by these presents associate ourselves together as a corporation under 

 and by virtue of the general incorporation laws of the State of Oregon, and for such 

 purpose we do jointly and severally hereby agree to and with each other to the fol- 

 lowing articles: 



Article 1. The name assumed by this corporation and by which it shall be known, 

 is the Oregon and Washington Fish Propagating Company. 



Article 2. The duration of this corporation shall be unlimited. 



Article 3. The enterprise, business, pursuit and occupation in which this corpora- 

 tion proposes to engage, is to propagate, breed, and multiply salmon and other species 

 of fish in the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries, and to do a general 

 fish-culture business ; to purchase, own, hold, occupy, and dispose of real estate, and 



