2.-A REPORT UPON SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN THE COLUMBIA RIVER 
BASIN AND ELSEWHERE ON THE PACIFIC COAST IN 1896. 
By BARTON WARREN EVERMANN and SETH EUGENE MEEK. 
During the season of 1896 the United States Fish Commission conducted a number 
of investigations in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, having for their general purpose 
the improvement and extension of the fish-cultural operations of the Commission on the 
Pacific Coast. The specific object of each inquiry, the details of the work, and results 
accomplished are given in the following pages. The work was under the imme- 
diate direction of Professor Evermann, assisted by Dr. S. E. Meek, associate professor 
of biology and geology in Arkansas State University 5 Mr. Ulysses O. Cox, professor of 
biology in the State Normal School at Mankato, Minn. ; Mr. A. B. Alexander, fishery 
expert of the Fish Commission steamer Albatross ; Mr. W. F. Hubbard, superintendent 
of the United States fish-hatchery at Clackamas, Oregon, and Mr. Alfred G. Maddren. 
Investigations were carried on in ten different regions, as follows: (1) At the 
Bedfish lakes in Idaho, by Messrs. Evermann, Meek, and Maddren; (2) at Lake Pend 
d’Oreille, Idaho, by Messrs. Alexander and Cox; (3) at Wallowa Lake, Oregon, by 
Messrs. Meek and Maddren ; (4) on tributaries of the Lower Columbia, by Messrs. 
Evermann, Meek, and Hubbard, and by Messrs. Alexander and Cox; (5) on streams 
tributary to Puget Sound, by Messrs. Alexander and Cox; (6) at Lakes Washington, 
Sammamish, and Union, by Mr. Alexander; (7) on the Siuslaw Biver, Oregon, by Dr. 
Meek; (8) on Whoahink, Tsiltcoos, and Tahkenitch lakes, Oregon, by Dr. Meek; (9) 
at Upper Klamath Lake, by Messrs. Meek and Alexander; and (10) at Crater Lake, 
Oregon, by Messrs. Evermann and Cox. 
During the progress of this work the representatives of the Commission were the 
recipients of material assistance and many acts of courtesy from various citizens, to all 
of whom we are glad to acknowledge our indebtedness and to express our thanks. 
Especial mention should be made of Mr. G. H. Stevenson, Vancouver, Wash.; Seufert 
Brothers and Mr. I. H. Taffe, salmon- canners at Celilo, Oregon; Mr. Frank Warren, 
salmon-canner at Portland; Captain Steers, of the steamer Lillian , Florence, Oregon; 
Mr. William Kyle and Messrs. Elmore & Sanborn, salmon-canners at Florence; Mr. 
Leonard Christianson, of Acme, Oregon, and Mr. Scott Morris, of Ada, Oregon. 
THE REDFISH LAKES, IDAHO. 
It was found in 1894 that these lakes and their connecting streams afforded unusu- 
ally good facilities for the study of the spawning habits of the chinook salmon and 
both forms of the so-called redfish. The matter was taken up in the following year 
and a continuous series of observations was carried on at those lakes from July 17 to 
September 24. A detailed account of those observations, together with full descrip- 
tions of the physical features of the region, may be found in the published report, in 
the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission for 1896, pp. 149-202. 
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