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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
artificial obstructions, but throughout its entire length there is much fallen timber, 
which in places must offer much difficulty to the fish in ascending. Humpbacks 
and dog salmon were seen for a distance of about 2 {- miles; all were in poor condi- 
tion, and the lacerations showed the difficulties encountered in ascending. Dead dog 
salmon were numerous. 
BAY OF PILLARS AND STREAMS. 
This bay is on the west side of Kuiu Island and opens on Chatham Strait, having 
Point Sullivan for the northern entrance point and Point Ellis marking the southern. 
It is a large body of water, much obstructed by islands and reefs, and has two deep 
arms similarly obstructed; the one on the north will be referred to as the North Bay 
of Pillars, and the other as the South Bay of Pillars. 
These waters have been surveyed by the Coast, and Geodetic Survey, and as 
that office has probably written sailing directions, notes for entering will not be made 
here. 
On the southern shore of the South Bay of Pillars, about 4 miles from Point 
Ellis, the cannery of the Astoria and Alaska Packing Company was located. This 
cannery was burned in 1892 (see my former report, p. 121), but the site and remain- 
ing building were purchased by Mr. Jack Mantle, who lives here during the fishing 
season and operates a saltery in each of the Pillar Bay arms. 
The principal streams in this vicinity fished for commercial purposes are: One 
at the head of the South Bay of Pillars, which, when the cannery was operated, was 
known as the Home Stream or Point Ellis Stream (the Indian name for it is Kutla- 
koo); one at the head of the North Bay of Pillars, which is known as the Pillar Bay 
Stream; and one in the large bay to the southward (Tebenkof Bay), known as Kuiu 
Stream, or Alecks Stream. 
POINT ELLIS STREAM, OR KUTLAKOO. 
Entering the South Bay of Pillars the ship’s course is close along the southern 
shore, quite straight, and fairly clear for a distance of 5 miles, when the bay becomes 
choked with islands and reefs, which straggle to the head. In the southeastern angle 
an arm extends to the eastward for about a mile, and receives the waters of a small 
humpback stream. On the northern side the bay terminates in the Narrows (Skookum 
Chuck), which extend in a northeastern direction about three-fourths of a mile, with 
a width of about 100 yards, through which the current is quite violent during the 
strength of the tide. These Narrows connect with an inner bay 3 miles long, in a 
northeast and southwest direction, by three-fourths of a mile wide, which at the 
eastern end sends an arm at right angles to the southward about 1 mile long by one- 
fourth of a mile wide, receiving at the western terminus the waters of the Point 
Ellis or Kutlakoo stream. This stream, examined b} r Lieutenant Rodman and Mr. 
Fassett, is a lake outlet, and from the grassy flats at its mouth to the lake is about 
three-fourths of a mile long, with an average width of 18 feet and a depth of 10 
inches. It has a general north-and-south direction, flowing over a gravelly bottom 
between moderately steep banks heavily wooded. As the lake is not more than 15 
or 20 feet above tide water the current is not strong, nor are there any falls or 
strong rapids. Tide water extends about 50 yards within the mouth. 
