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one-half mile above Vida post office. This experimental work was; 

 resumed in 1905 at a point 2 miles below Gate Creek. The hatchery 

 was permanently established at a spot about 30 miles from Eugene 

 and near the town of Leaburg a year or two later. 



In 1906 an experimental station was established by the State on 

 Breitenbush Creek a short distance above its junction with the 

 Santiam River, a tributary of the Willamette River, but the plant 

 was destroyed very shortly after its establishment, by a forest fire. 

 An experimental station was reestablished here in 1909, but a heavy 

 freshet raised the river so high that the penned fish escaped around 

 the rack. 



In 1909 the State of Oregon built at Bonneville, on Tanner Creek, 

 a tributary of the Columbia River, a large central hatchery capable 

 of handling 60,000,000 eggs, it being the intention of the State to 

 hatch at this plant the eggs collected at other stations. 



The first entrance of Washington (then a Territory) into fish- 

 cultural operations was in 1879, when the State fish commissioner 

 paid the Oregon & Washington Fish Propagating Co., which was 

 operating the hatchery on the Clackamas River, $2,000 for salmon 

 fry deposited in that river. In 1893 the State legislature estab- 

 lished a hatchery fund which was to be supplied by licenses from 

 certain lines of the fishery business. In 1895 its first hatchery in 

 the Columbia River Basin was built on the Kalama River, about 4 

 miles distant from its junction with the Columbia, and in Cowlitz 

 County. Another station for the collection and eyeing of eggs was 

 established on the Chinook River, a small stream which empties into 

 Baker Bay near the mouth of the Columbia. 



During the fiscal year 1897 the United States Fish Commission 

 established a station on Little White Salmon River, a stream which 

 empties into the Columbia, on the Washington side, about 14 miles 

 above the Cascades. During the fiscal year 1901 an auxiliary station 

 was operated on Big White Salmon River, while fishing was carried 

 on in Eagle and Tanner Cieeks, in Oregon, the eggs obtained from 

 these creeks being brought to the Little White Salmon hatchery. 



In 1899 the State of Washington built and operated hatcheries 

 on the Wenatchee River, a tributary of the Columbia River, about 

 1^ miles from Chiwaukum station on the Great Northern Railway, 

 and on Wind River, a tributary of the Columbia, about 1 mile from 

 the junction. 



In 1900 Washington State hatcheries were established in the 

 Columbia River basin as follows: White River hatchery, which was 

 built on Coos Creek, which empties into a tributary of the White 

 River, the location being about 2\ miles from where the Green 

 River joins the White River: Methow River hatchery, built on the 

 Methow River at the point where it is joined by the Twisp, about 



