ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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Ensign Hepburn, and from his report it is quite probable that it is not a redfish 
stream and that but few salmon can surmount the obstacles. The stream is not a 
lake outlet, but drains the hills about 10 miles to the southeast from its mouth. 
Throughout its entire course, and to within one-half mile of its mouth, it follows a 
line of hills which lie to the northward. The opposite side is comparatively low. 
Three hundred yards within the mouth, at a sharp bend, is a fall to which tide water 
Scale of Miles 
Cascade stream, east side of Wrangell Narrows, opposite Finger Point. 
extends. At low water the fall is about 30 feet high, and it is only at high-water 
spring tides that fish can ascend. Above the falls the width is 15 feet, depth 1 $ feet, 
and current 1^- knots. The bottom is rocky where the stream narrows, and in the 
wider reaches it is sandy and gravelly. The color of the water is dark, and the 
temperature (September 6) 2 miles from the mouth was 50° F. The banks are heavily 
timbered, and there is a dense undergrowth. On the left bank, beyond the stream 
