published by Dr. David Starr Jordan, they appear to be Blue-Back salmon, or what 

 is sometimes called Red fish. I secured about fifty thousand eggs from this 

 variety. The fish was evidently planted in the spring of 1916 and was mixed 

 among the Chinook salmon eggs secured from the Oregon Fish Commission. This 

 fish has also been reported from several other lakes, in fact Lake Five, Rodgers, 

 Beaver Bay, (White-fish Lake) and Foys Lake. We sincerely hope this fish may 

 meet with the hearty approval of the public. 



Chinook Salmon. 



This beautiful silver sided fish, planted in many lakes of this locality, is 

 certainly making good with the anglers, as they have nothing but praise for it. 

 As yet I have only heard of it being taken in two lakes, Ronan and Foys Lake. At 

 Ronan Lake a great many have been taken both by fly casting and on the trowling 

 spoon, some have attained four pounds weight, and when hooked invariably leap 

 several times out of the water, but for some unknown reason quite a number have 

 come ashore dead, without bruises or other mutilations. So far I have no report 

 of this happening in other lakes. This fish was planted from the hatchery in 

 the spring of 1916. 



Montana White-Fish, 



W^e made the usual attempt to trap this fish at Big fork again this fall but 

 for some unknown reason the fish did not run up as well as usual, and we were 

 compelled to be content Avith only one hundred and twenty- five thousand eggs 

 which are now being eyed in the hatchery. These fish have not run well at Bigfork 

 for the past two seasons and I am of the opinion that the extensive logging opera- 

 tions at the head of Swan Lake has something to do with it. 



Improvements During Year. 



The improvements about the hatchery consist chiefly of cement work, built 

 during the fall months. We replaced the old cement retaining wall running along 

 the roadway on the west side of the hatchery, the old wall having completely 

 fallen down. This wall is now one hundred and twelve feet long, by two feet 

 high, twelve inches thick at the bottom and seven inches at top, well reinforced 

 with woven wire, and has a four-inch drain tile laid back of it to insure drainage. 

 At the end of this wall near the cement fish pond we constructed a flight of steps 

 four feet wide. This leads to the grounds above the retaining wall. We also 

 built a winding flight of steps at the other side of the pond leading to the house. 

 Our next step in the way of improvement was a cement fountain fifteen feet in 

 length by seven feet in width. This we did not get completed before freezing 

 weather came on. This fountain is near the new road that runs down past the 

 ice house and up past the hatchery giving free access to hatchery and grounds. 



The water supply for the hatchery has been greatly improved by the extension 

 of the main pipe line some three hundred feet to a new head or cement basin. 

 As we have to deliver most of our fish to the State fish car at the Somers dock 

 we must have a good, reliable boat, capable of carrying forty or fifty cans at a 

 trip. For this purpose we built a flat bottom barge with a tunnel stern. When 

 completed with engine taken out of the old boat, and wheel placed up in the 

 tunnel, it will be capable of running in six inches of water. The water about the 

 dock gets very shallow in late fall, and the boat we now have is unable to get up 

 to the elevator as it draws almost three feet of water when loaded. I expect 

 to install the engine in the barge this winter. 



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