IV.-WORK AT COLD SPmO HARB^^^^^^ LONG ISLAND, DURING 



1883 AND 1884. 



By Fred Mather, 



I beg leave to submit the followins account of the work at the 

 Iiatcberj under my cbarge : 



Tbe new statio'u of tbe x\ew York flsb commission, lease.) in ISS" 

 and estabbsbed m 1883, and designed for batcbing boti salt and fresh 

 water fishes ,s situated on the north side of Long Island, 32 miles east 

 of Isew lork Cty by railroad. The harbor was formerly a w , ,bt 

 station, and many old buildings connected with that industry still re 

 mam there unoccupied. The line between the counties of Suffolk and 

 Queens runs through Ihe center of the harbor, and while the villa' 

 ™d „ost.offloe ,8 ,n tbe former county, the hatcheries are in the lattcfr 

 There are two romts of especial excellence in the site which will a^ 

 once conunend it, and these are the elevation of tbe springs one of 

 which IS fully 50 feet above the hatcheries, and the proxim'h' to salt 

 water, which at half tide is oulv 200 yanis away " 



Some time iu the year 18S2 the plac-e was iu charge of Mr. Jonathan 

 Mason, one of the men from the New York station at CalcdZa to 

 for some reason not known to me the work was abandoned, an 1 M 

 Mason returned to Caledonia. I visite.l the station on Decembe L ' 

 188. to see what ha,l been done and to note what would be rec, u re ' 



^ flrf ' , •'"■■fJ -^^ "^'r" trays, were found. The troughs were 

 boeif f Ttand" ''f--'"« and were well made, but w°ater h" 



hadbirft hem ^/" ' '""' ^''- •*'"" "^f' the station, and ice 



Janu<iij 1, 1883, I came to the station to begin work I rHscl ti... 



o7 1 oid'^iirtl T'T ' "^' """ •"■""«" '' - 'i'» --^ ^ 



ot the o 1 mill, and brought nine old hatching troughs from Koslvn 

 Queens County, where I had batched salmon ?„r the U S Fil 0<fm' 



m , ., ' ■' •''"'' "■"'" I''""''' outdoors in two lines and re- 



orne Ljt /?' . '""""' '"« "=''«'■ '" "'« '-"^-^'voir to it; 

 •ormer^lcvel and used ,t only „„ ,he lower door; also I brought down, 



H. Mis. G8 9 '^ 



