XXXVI REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
run); 3,320,000 were transferred to the State hatchery at Sisson, the 
State commission completing the work of developing, hatching, and dis- 
tributing at their own expense; 2,000,000 were retained and hatched at 
the station and planted in the McCloud River; 100,000 were forwarded 
to the Society of Acclimation of France through the intervention of Mr. 
Eugene G. Blackford, commissioner of fisheries for New York, and 
arrived at their destination in excellent condition. 
The racks placed across the river at the station completely arrest the 
ascent of salmon and enable us to judge with reasonable accuracy as 
to the number of fish in the river. The August run this year was much 
less than usual, and is to be attributed to the fact that the State lias 
abolished the close time in August and substituted for it a close time 
in September, when the first run of salmon is over. 
CLACKAMAS STATION, OREGON. 
Deeds to this property were given April 13 and November 28, 1888. 
Subsequent proceedings, made necessary by the death of some of the 
devisees, delayed its final acquisition until February 22, 1889. In the 
meantime, however, Mr. Livingston Stone proceeded to operate the sta- 
tion as agent of the .IT. S. Fish Commission. On July 1, 1888, Mr.. 
Waldo F. Hubbard was engaged as acting superintendent. During: 
the summer various repairs and improvements were made. The prop- 
erty purchased from the Oregon fish commission for the sum of $5,155.60 
included a rack 400 feet long, a dam across Clear Creek 160 feet long,, 
a flume 16 inches square conducting water to the hatchery (a distance 
of 1,800 feet), filtering tanks, a dwelling-house, a house for workmen, a, 
hatching-house, and a stable, all in good condition. The hatching- 
house is a wooden building 40 feet wide and 100 feet long, having a 
capacity for 6,000,000 eggs, and the water supply is sufficient to hatch 
30,000,000. 
On account of the great number of salmon which collected at the 
rack, it became necessary to guard them day and night from poachers.. 
The station is located at the mouth of Clear Creek, on the Clackamas 
River, a tributary of the Willamette, which empties into the Columbia 
about 180 miles from its mouth. By the consent of the Oregon com- 
missioners the egg-collecting and hatching continued until the mid- 
dle of November, when the station was turned over to the Oregon fish 
commission to complete the work of the season at their own expense. 
Some difficulty was experienced with the water supply from Clear Creek 
until the fall rains set in about the middle of October, a deficiency which 
Mr. Stone would obviate by utilizing the water from a small tributary 
of the creek and the construction of a temporary hatching-house large 
enough to carry all the eggs prior to the fall rains. An additional sup- 
ply could be obtained also by using the power furnished by the surplus 
water from the Clear Creek flume to pump water from the river. 
On August 25 the first good eggs were secured, and from that date 
