7 6 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



formed its channel, in their progress up the 

 river. The Indians who were watching their 

 movements were wild with excitement over 

 the scene. ..." 



In this pool " they had their natural habitat 

 and surroundings, and the whole volume of 

 the McCloud river for a water supply. . . . 

 When any were wanted, it was only necessary 

 to extend the net around them and haul them 

 in. Once or twice no less than 15,000 lbs. of 

 salmon must have been inclosed in the net. 

 They formed a solid mass reaching several 

 yards from the shore, and filling the net two 

 or three feet deep. If I should say 20,000 lbs. 

 I do not think it would be exaggerating. . . . 

 One much-disputed point about the McCloud 

 river salmon was settled this year by the 

 presence of the dam. The vexed question has 

 been whether the salmon ascending the 

 McCloud river to spawn, ever returned to the 

 sea. . . . The fact has been proved tbis year 

 that the spawning salmon do not return to tbe 

 sea. The proof is this : our dam formed an 

 impassable barrier to the return of the salmon 

 which had ascended the river to spawn. Tens 

 of thousands, not to say hundreds of thousands, 



