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topic with me. The stream is presumed to be l)elow the latitude 

 in which the Atlantic salmon is supposed to be naturally found. 



As far as I have been able to find out by looking back at the 

 records, no true salmon were ever found in the Delaware river 

 in early days. But there were so many features about the river 

 indicating tliat it ouglit to l)e at least a good brood stream and 

 attempts were made in tliat direction. 



The first efforts made to estaljlish Atlantic salmon in the 

 Delaware river were al)out 18T0, when Thaddeus Norris and 

 some others procured a lot of eggs and hatched them and planted 

 them in tributaries of the Delaware river near Easton. One of 

 the streams in which they were planted was known as the Bush- 

 Kill, which emptied into the Delaware at the mouth of the Le- 

 high. Four years after, a numljer of salmon came into the Dela- 

 ware river, and five or six were caught in nets. A few were 

 found trying to make their way into the Bush-Kill at Easton. 



A second trial was made and with the same results, l)ut as 

 there were only about half a dozen iish or so caught or seen, the 

 experiment was considered a failure. 



Nothing was done then for a number of years, but in 1890 

 the late Henry C. Ford, then president of the Fish Commission. 

 and myself, made a very close examination of the Delaware riv- 

 er, particularly the upper waters, and knowing of the experi- 

 ments of Thaddeus Xorris, felt convinced that there was a reas- 

 onable chance of establishing fish in the stream. We secured a 

 lot of eggs (I think the first lot of eggs was 60,000) from the 

 United States Btireau of Fisheries. They were hatched at our 

 station at Allentown and planted in the streams of Wa^aie coun- 

 ty. The following year we secured about 200,000 eggs and they 

 were planted in the same waters, and also in the stream called 

 Blooming Grove, belonging to what is now known as the Bloom- 

 ing Grove H'unting and Fishing C*lul). In a very few months 

 the fish showed up in large quantities in these various streams. 

 There were so many, in fact, in the Blooming Grove that the 

 club stopped all trout fishing in that stream, because they caught 

 more of the little salmon than they did trout. They were seen 

 shortly afterwards in the river. In 1894 there was a little run of 

 salmon in Delaware river. In 1895 there was caught $5,000 

 worth of salmon in the Delaware, — fish that were put in the 



