28 FISH-CULTURAL:’ ASSOCIATION. 
therefore, be sufficient to raise the water to the hatching house, 
and the adjacent land is so favorable for building on, that the 
wheel can be placed very near the hatching house, which will 
render unnecessary the construction of a long flume from the 
wheel to the hatching house. Ass the river does not rise till the 
hatching season is over, the wheel need not be protected from 
drift wood, nor arranged with reference to the rising and fall- 
ing of the water. 
| These are great conveniences, and on the whole it may be 
said that the water supply may be safely depended upon in every 
respect. The location is also remarkably favorable as to availa- 
bility. Fortunately, the adjacent country is still in its primitive 
state. When I visited the place in July, 1883, many Indians were 
encamped on the river bottoms; but I saw no white men. It is 
true some claims near the river have been taken up by white 
men, but they are not valuable, and could be bought without 
much expense. It is, therefore, very probably that the site of a 
salmon building station could be obtained without much cost; 
and as there are very few settlers up the river, and no towns or 
villages, no objection would probably be raised to collecting the 
parent salmon during spawning season by means of a dam 
across the river. 
The Little Spokane, is also of such a character that it would 
be an easy matter to capture the breeding fish. Indeed, I think 
a seining ground could be arranged, so that nearly all the spawn- 
ing fish that come up to the river could be caught; and further- 
more, it being close to the main Spokane river it would not be 
difficult to run two seining grounds, one on each side, which 
would undoubtedly somewhat increase the yearly catch of 
breeders. 
It would be a very easy matter to build a dam or salmon rack 
across the river to keep the breeders on, or near the seining 
ground. Indeed the frail structure that we saw the Indians suc- 
cessfully erecting across the river, shows how easy it would be 
for white men, with their superior appliances, to put a salmon 
rack across the river, such as would be required to answer the 
purpose of a breeding station. There being no drought or 
freshet on the river during the season’s operations at the station, 
