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illation of artificial propagation of game fishes, together 

 with better and more honestly enforced protective laws, this 

 sport may be improved and perpetuated and handed down 

 to posterity even better than we found it in our boyhood. 



DISCUSSION 



Comment by Mr. Cranston during the reading of the paper: I have 

 said that no stream after it has been obstructed will afford as good a 

 passage for fish as before, and that all we can hope to do in overcoming 

 the obstruction is to make as good a fishway as we can. But it is 

 almost impossible that a stream once obstructed can be provided with 

 a fishway that will be as good as if that obstruction had not been 

 placed there. 



Comment during the reading of the paper: The timber and lumber 

 interests of Oregon are counted the first in the state in magnitude, 

 agricultural second, and the commercial fishing interests third ; so you 

 can see that the fisheries are an important subject, and the judicious 

 handling of them and the judicious enforcement of the laws regulating 

 them are not boys' play in any way. 



Further comment : I did not realize until I came here and heard 

 something of the celebrity of Colorado, what a fine state we have in 

 Oregon; and I want to say nothing derogatory to the people here. It 

 opened my eyes to what we have at home. The fact that we have not 

 advertised our angling resources is the only reason why we are nut 

 just as celebrated in that regard as some our sister states. It is not 

 generally known and not widely advertised, but it is true that several 

 streams in Oregon are probably as good as any in the world : and well- 

 informed anglers come from the four corners of the world to angle 

 in some of our streams, notably the Rogue, Williamson, Spring Creek 

 and the Clackamas. The last-named stream was made celebrated 

 through an article by Rudyard Kipling, who fished for steelheads 

 there on the occasion of his first visit to Portland. 



Mr. S. E. Land, Colorado: I am very much interested in the report 

 of Mr. Cranston and especially in regard to fishways. We have had 

 the same experience with our fishways in Colorado; hut we have 

 found that in a fashion they do allow the fish to ascend the river; 

 and, moreover, the law is passed so that no man can fish within 200 

 feet of a fishway in this state during the season when the fish are 

 running and spawning. That helps protect them. Otherwise there are 

 only a few streams where they have been found to be of any advan- 

 tage here in Colorado. But the law is insistent that they shall be 

 placed on every obstruction in the water. 



