REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XIX 



At first it was contemplated to transfer the magnificent collection of 

 breeding fish to our Eastern stations, but this was found to be impractica- 

 ble, and instructions were given to plant them in the tributaries of the 

 McCloud River in the vicinity of the station. The number deposited 

 was as follows : 2,000 large breeders, 5,000 yearlings, and 80,000 fry. 



The number of eggs obtained during the season was 443,000, which 

 were disposed of as follows : 



To R. O. Sweeny, commissioner of fisheries for Minnesota, 38,000. 



To Otto Gram in, commissioner of fisheries for Wyoming, 25,000. 



To E. Chazari, commissioner of fisheries for Mexico, 33,000. 



The latter shipment was made in response to a request of the Mexi- 

 can Government through our Department of State. 



The rest were retained to be hatched at the station. 



McCloud River Station, California, Livingston Stone, Superintendent. 



This station has not been in operation since 1883, the building being 

 in charge of a custodian or watchman. 



The necessity of artificial propagation with the view of keeping up the 

 salmon fisheries of the McCloud River has become so evident that it was 

 determined to resume work there. Accordingly Mr. Livingston Stone 

 was instructed to have the buildings put in repair and all necessary 

 arrangements made for the operation of the station during the fall and 

 winter of 1888. During the spring of 188S arrangements were made for 

 placing the usual rack and bridge across the McCloud, to stop the sal- 

 mon ascending the river and for raising water to the hatching house. 

 In 1881 the original hatching house was carried away by the high water, 

 and to avoid a recurrence of this the present one was built on a higher 

 level, and pumps are used for raising the water for hatching. A 12-foot 

 current wheel was placed in the river to furnish power to run the pumps. 

 A spawning building and other appliances for taking eggs were con- 

 structed and made ready, and the hatchery and hatching apparatus 

 put in order for receiving eggs. The work of preparation is progress- 

 ing favorably, and the station will be ready for efficient work when the 

 spawning season begins in August. 



Clackamas Station, Oregon, Livingston Stone, Superintendent. 



Provision was made for the establishment of a salmon hatchery on 

 the Columbia River, its tributaries or their branches, by the sundry 

 civil bill, which became a law March 3, 1887, the sum of $10,000 being 

 appropriated for this purpose. The act further provided " that if in 

 the opinion of the United States Fish Commissioner the existing laws 

 of Oregon and Washington are not sufficient for the protection of sal- 

 mon in the Columbia River and its tributaries, this appropriation, shall 

 not be available until the legislatures of the State of Oregon and Wash- 

 ington Territory shall have enacted such additional legislation as in the 



