164 SALMON FISHERIES OF PACIFIC COAST. 



Output op Hatcheries Owned by the State of Oregon. 



Year. 



Chinook fry. 



Silverside 

 fry. 



Steelhead 

 trout fry. 



Total. 



1877. 

 1878. 

 1879. 

 1880. 

 1881. 



1891. 



1899. 



1902. 



1906. 



1909. 

 1910. 



2, 



2, 



2, 



2, 



7, 



11, 



18, 



b 48, 



16, 



c27, 



<*25, 



e21, 



/20, 



24, 



50,000 

 79, 620 

 876, 500 

 834, 290 

 554, 290 

 300,000 

 500,000 

 990,000 

 792, 000 

 500,000 

 500,000 

 700,000 

 500,000 

 562,000 

 220,550 

 502, 072 

 730,791 

 393, 249 

 404, 596 

 156, 732 

 209,394 

 108,990 

 169,365 



7,957,000 

 3, 288, 600 

 3,974,185 

 5,509,085 

 7,503,655 

 6. 446, 628 

 5, 359. 709 

 9,212,649 

 3,631,827 



200,000 

 245,000 

 256,327 

 300, 850 

 143, 849 

 1, 495, 735 

 1,859,696 

 376, 245 



1,403,129 

 2.364,120 



50, 000 



79, 620 



1,876,500 



1,834,290 



2,554,290 



1,300,000 



4,500,000 



990,000 



792,000 



2,500,000 



2,500,000 



2,700,000 



2,700,000 



7,807,000 



19,433,877 



22,091,522 



52,SlS,Sli5 



23,398,069 



36, 767, 947 



31,979,605 



26,569,103 



30, 724, 768 



30,165,312 



Total , 244, 634, 439 



52,883,338 8,644,951 



306, 162, 728 



a Eggs from which hatched obtained from United States Bureau of Fisheries. 

 b 6,826,540 eggs were obtained from United States Bureau of Fisheries. 

 c 7,714,000 eggs were obtained from United States Bureau of Fisheries. 

 d 3,550,000 eggs were obtained from United States Bureau of Fisheries. 

 e 3,020,000 eggs were obtained from United States Bureau of Fisheries. 

 /6,581.000 eggs were obtained from United States Bureau of Fisheries. 

 g 6,465,300 eggs were obtained from United States Bureau of Fisheries. 



COLUMBIA RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES. 



The first fish-cultural work upon the Columbia River and in Oregon 

 was at Clackamas, on the Clackamas River, a tributary of the Willa- 

 mette River, which empties into the Columbia River about 180 miles 

 from its mouth. 



This hatchery was built in 1876 by the Oregon & Washington Fish 

 Propagating Co., which operated it until 1880. In 1887 the State 

 provided for and there was appointed a State fish commission. 

 Almost the first work of the commission was to spend $12,000 appro- 

 priated by the legislature to put in repair and operate this hatchery. 

 On July 1, 1888, it was informally turned over to the United States 

 Commission of Fish and Fisheries, which paid over the purchase 

 price, took formal possession in the following winter, and has oper- 

 ated it ever since, with the exception of several years when the build- 

 ing of dams stopped the progress of salmon to the hatchery. During 

 this period a temporary station for the collection of eggs was estab- 

 lished on Sandy River, about 15 miles away, and on Salmon River, 

 a tributary of Sandy River, both tributaries of the Columbia River. 

 Some eggs were also brought in from the California hatcheries and 

 hatched at the Clackamas station. In 1901 the hatchery was moved 

 about 4 miles down the river and has since been operated as both 

 a rearing and a collecting station. In 1901 the State established 



