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miles above that dam. It is the purpose of the commis- 
sion to add fish-way after fish-way until we can finally 
send the fish up again to New York State line, where for- 
merly they were caught in larger quantities than they are 
caught in the Delaware to-day. 
Mr. Rocers—At Mechanicville Dam, a stone struc- 
ture sixteen feet high, fish were jumping there, salmon, 
trying to get over. I saw six in one pool close to the 
dam; Two of them would weigh thirty pounds. Those 
salmon, as soon as the fishway was done, went right up. 
My son went through the fish-way from bottom to top 
and found fish in every apartment. Last year a large 
number of salmon were caught away up at Baker's Falls, 
fifty miles above the dam. 
I also put one in the Northumberland dam, thirty 
miles above, and they went through that. 
Mr. Cary—Do you know positively that shad ever 
pass up through? It is well known that salmon will go 
everywhere that shad will. 
Mr. Rocers—If they can send shad over the Troy 
Dam, they could over the Mechanicville Dam. I have 
put shad over a dam in Canada seventeen feet high. 
Mr. Cary—lIs it positively known that they did pass 
up! 
Mr. Rocers—Yes. 
Mr. PowreLt—About the young shad being destroyed 
going tothe sea. It has been a good deal of discourage- 
ment to our commission. We have four hundred miles 
of fish water, useless for commercial purposes, full of 
islands. We try to propagate and protect those fish. » 
We have been trying for years to get the State of Mary- 
land to join with us to pass laws uniform to our State. 
We are making a great effort to keep those fish there 
from passing out. They have twelve miles and we have 
four hundred. It is very discouraging for us to raise 
those fish and let those people catch them in twelve miles. 
In regards to these fish-ways, I have a letter in my 
