XLIV REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PISH AND FISHERIES. 



fish hatchery in that city, at a cost of $10,000, and maintain it, the 

 people would donate a suitable site with an ample supply of good water. 

 The fishermen of the region, who employ several steamers to collect the 

 fish for marketing at Duluth, also offered to save the spawn and deliver 

 it at the hatchery. 



In response to inquiries by Mr. Nelson, the Commissioner replied that 

 the whitefish interest of Duluth had not been wholly neglected, as many 

 millions of the fry of that species had been planted in Lake Superior 

 from the Michigan stations at Northville and Alpena; but that if it 

 was deemed desirable to increase the work, and Congress should provide 

 the means, a hatching station could be built at the proposed location. 

 As a result of this correspondence, the following item was inserted in 

 the sundry civil appropriation bill and became a law August 4, 1880: 



Fish hatchery at Duluth, Minn.: For the establishment of a fish hatchery on Lake 

 Superior at or near Duluth, Minn., $10,000: Provided, That the city of Duluth shall 

 furnish, without charge, a suitable site for the said fish hatchery. 



A site offered by the Lake-Side Land Company, of Duluth, at the 

 mouth of Lester Eiver, on the northern outskirts of the city, was found, 

 upon examination, to afford the requisite facilities for the purpose, and 

 it was accordingly accepted. Jurisdiction to the land was ceded to the 

 United States by an act of the legislature of Minnesota, approved 

 March 2, 1887. 



Clackamas Eiver, Oregon. — In February of the present year the Com- 

 missioner received from the Hon. J. H. Reagan, chairman of the Com- 

 mittee on Commerce, House of Representatives, a "Memorial of the 

 Oregon legislature, relative to the establishment of a fish hatchery on 

 the Clackamas River, Oregon," with a request that it be given consid- 

 eration. The Commissioner, in reply, stated that the "salmon fisheries 

 of that region could not be maintained in the face of the adverse in- 

 fluences exerted by civilization without resorting to artificial propaga- 

 tion on a scale commensurate with the importance of the fisheries, nor 

 without such legislation as will give a reasonable measure of protection 

 to the salmon during their spawning." He also explained that a recon- 

 naissance of the Columbia River basin had been made, under the direc- 

 tion of the U. S. Fish Commissioner, by Mr. Livingston Stone, who 

 reported favorably as to a location on the Clackamas River, as would 

 be seen by reference to his account published in the Report of the U. 

 S. Fish Commission for 1883. 



The following amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill was 

 introduced in the United States Senate December 21, 188G, by Senator 

 Dolph, but was not incorporated in the bill as passed : 



Pur the establishment of a .salmon hatchery on the Columbia River, its tributaries 

 or other branches, and for the, current expenses of the same for one year, $20,000. 



