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l)uilt on streams which are dry a good share of the year, and nev- 

 er had or will have any fish. I think the wording of the resolu- 

 tion might well be changed in that particular so as to indicate 

 the style of dam in which we wish to have fishways. 



President Meehan : How would it do to insert the words 

 ^■^suggested on the recomniendation of the bureau?" 



Dr. Birge : Yes, or on all dams across streams containing 

 fisli, or something of that sort. 



President Meehan : Those words will be inserted ''on all 

 streams cont^iining fish." 



]\[r. W. T. Tliompson, of Leadville, Colo. : I just want to 

 say that while tliat might apply in the beginning it won't carry 

 the thing through, because in some of the best places that we 

 have in the Eocky Mountains for taking fish spawn when the 

 dam was built we foimd the stream above contained no fish. 

 There is one reservoir that I think of in particular, where we 

 have taken upwards of 4.000,000 eggs, and fifteen years before 

 that date it was nothing l)ut a mountain meadow. A"ow very few 

 of these reclamation projects are contemplated in places where 

 it would not be possible and feasible to have fish. 



Dr. James A. Henshall, of Bozeman, Mont. : The resolution 

 is only intended to apply where canals are taken out of flowing 

 streams that already contain fish. It does not apply to reservoirs 

 in mountain gulches. There is a dam soon to l)e Iniilt in Wyom- 

 ing twenty-five feet higher than the Flatiron Building in Xe\^' 

 York, but that would not be covered by the resolution ; it applies 

 to flowing streams where canals, sometimes 200 or 300 miles in 

 extent, are taken from a river, and that is where some device 

 should be placed for keeping fish from entering the canals ; and 

 in dams that are not too high practical fishways should be in- 

 stalled. That is the meaning of the resolution. It does not af- 

 fect those immense reservoirs built in mountain gulches where 

 the water would be perhaps several hundred feet in depth, and 

 where no fresh water fish could live. 



Dr. Birge : I move the wording of that resolution be left to 

 the committee on resolutions to revise if it deems it wise to do 



