A RECLAMATION PROJECT. 



The following statement gives the entire pack of sockeye in 

 American and Canadian waters of the Fraser River system for the 

 years 1891 to 1919, inclusive: 



SOCKEYE-SALMON PACK OF FRASER RlVER SYSTEM, 189! TO 

 INCLUSIVE. 



* Estimated. 



The foregoing table gives a complete record for six four-year cycles 

 and for the first two years of the present cycle. The outstanding 

 features therein shown are : ( i ) The great packs made every fourth 

 year; (2) the comparatively small packs made in the three intervening 

 years; (3) the gradual but pronounced decline in the runs in the small 

 years; and (4) the startling decline in the pack in the last big year, 

 1917. 



As far back as written records exist, a phenomenally big run of 

 sockeye to the Fraser is shown every fourth year. All the early 



