4 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Craig Brook Station, Maine.—Completion of stable and annex to superintendent’s 
cottage; building of a small settling reservoir; deepening of ponds; repairing hatch- 
ery annex by laying a floor in the former woodshed and plastering the same for an 
office and food room; building a small smithy and annex to the farm house; repairing 
water conduits and flume; and some grading of the grounds. 
Woods Hole Station, Massachusetts.—Repairs to doors, windows, and blinds of main 
building; grading along water front of same; repairing flooring of coal wharf; 
bottoms of boat-landing floats, woodwork around boat EERO NES and small fen 
basin renewed; and the movable coal hoist repaired. 
Fish Ponds, Weaving D. C.—Repairs to ponds and embankments, to supply and 
drain pipes, hydrants, grounds, etc. The north half of the first floor of the super- 
intendent’s cottage was strengthened for storing books thereon. 
Bryan Point Station, Maryland.—Improvements on the grounds; the rebuilding of 
a landing; and minor repairs to buildings. 
Wytheville Station, Virginia.—Repairs to ponds; laying additional supply pipes 
from spring to ponds, hatchery, and railroad; new spawning beds prepared; pond 
walls and embankments repaired; blind ditches opened; and a flagstaff erected. 
Northville Station, Michigun.—The erection of adam with fishway across the north 
branch of the Rouge River, 2,400 feet southwest of the hatchery grounds; the con- 
struction of a brick reservoir on the grounds, and the laying of an 18-inch water 
conduit of terra cotta from said dam to the reservoir on the grounds, capable of sup- — 
plying 2,000 gallons of water per minute; repairs to the telephone line between the 
hatchery and the railroad depot; building of new ponds and repairs to old ones; 
laying new supply pipes from reservoirs to hatchery and ponds; and minor repairs to 
buildings and outfit. 
Duluth Station, Minnesota.—Repairs to tanks, flume, crib well, hatchery flooring, 
and grounds. 
Neosho Station, Missouri.—Building new ponds, new earth closet, and woodshed; 
minor repairs to buildings, ponds, walks in grounds, ete. 
Leadville Station, Colorado.—Repairing the old hatchery, ponds, and a break in the 
embankment of Lower Evergreen Lake; building a number of new ponds and grading 
a portion of the grounds. 
Baird Station, California.—Rebuilding a bridge with rack across the McCloud River; 
erecting a flagstaff; repairing stable, hatching and spawning houses, and current 
wheel, and other minor items of damage done by the past floods. 
Fort Gaston Station, California.—A dam and trap were built at Mill Creek, a tribu- 
tary of the Trinity River, about 4 miles distant from the station. The auxiliary 
hatching house on Redwood Creek, 11 miles southwest from Fort Gaston Station, was 
enlarged. Repairs were made to ponds, supply flume, and buildings. 
Clackamas Station, Oregon.—A rack was built across the Clackamas River, as well 
as across the Sandy River, a tributary of the Columbia River, 17 miles northeast of 
the station, with a dam and flume at the latter; a flagstaff was erected, fish inclos- 
ures made, new conduits to hatchery laid, and grounds improved. 
FiSHWAY, POTOMAC RIVER, 
Congress, by act approved August 5, 1892, made an additional ap- 
_ propriation of $15,000 to complete the erection of a fishway at Great 
Falls, in the Potomac River, sections 4, 5, and 6 having been completed 
during the previous year. Plans and specifications for sections 1, 2, 
and 3 were prepared, and proposals for the construction were invited 
by advertisement. But two bids were received, of whicb the lower— 
that of Isaac H. Hathaway, of Philadelphia—was accepted, and a 
contract entered into with him by the Chief of Engineers, U.S. A., on 
November 23, 1892. Sections 2 and 3 and a part of the permanent 
deflecting dam were completed during the year. 
