ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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Pillars opposite the mouth of the Pillar Bay Stream, where 6 tanks, each of 20 barrels 
capacity, are operated. There is also one saltery tank at the old cannery site. 
He used 1 drag seine 120 fathoms by 1 fathoms by 3-inch mesh, valued at $200; 
1 scow of 100 barrels capacity, value $75; 1 35-foot seine boat, value $50, and 1 
small skill', value $25. During the fishing season he employed 6 men (native) for 
fishermen and 1 klootchmen for butchers. The saltery at the Point Ellis Stream is 
operated during the early part of the season for redfish, and when the cohoes begin 
to run the gear is transferred to the Pillar Bay Stream and that species is salted. 
Mantle commenced salting here in 1893, and has averaged about 350 barrels each 
year to date. 
TEBENKOF BAY. 
This bay is on Kuiu Island, next south of the Bay of Pillars, and opens upon 
Chatham Strait. It is a large sheet of water and is said to have deep channels and 
good anchorages, but has not yet been surveyed. Several streams carrying various 
species of salmon enter the bay, but only one that has a run of redfish in sufficient 
numbers for commercial purposes. This one is known as Kuiu Stream, or Alecks 
Stream. This stream was examined by Ensign Kempt! and Mr. Fassett on August 
31, Avho visited it with a party from the anchorage in Pillar Bay. It is located on 
the eastern side of the inner bay, about the middle of its length, and is hidden in 
approaching it by islands lying off the shore, but i< maybe recognized by a log house 
situated a short distance north from the mouth. 
The general direction of the stream and lake system is north-northwest and 
south-southeast. The former is about 2£ miles in length. The stream Hows over a 
rocky and gravelly bottom between moderately steep, well-timbered banks, and at a 
point midway on its course is 50 feet wide, 1 foot deep, and has a current of about 
1 knot per hour. The water, though clear, has a brownish tinge and a temperature 
of 55° to 56 E. There are no marked rapids, and no tributaries were noticed. 
Tide water extends nearly a mile from the mouth, around which, at low water, exten- 
sive flats are uncovered. The stream drains two lakes. The first, a “mud” lake, is 
an irregular shaped body of water about 1 mile long, with an extreme width of one- 
half mile. It is shallow, with a muddy bottom, and has three very small and shallow 
feeders entering from the westward, none of which appeared to be used as spawning 
ground. The temperature of the water along the shores of this lake was found to 
be 63° F. This increased temperature above that of the stream is due probably to 
the shallow depth along the side where there is no circulation. At the upper end 
of the lake there is a narrow extension, about 250 yards long, connecting with the 
second lake, which is about 2 miles in length, with an extreme width of H miles, and, 
from appearances, quite deep. The banks are steep, well timbered, and rise rapidly 
to the higher slopes. The beaches bordering them are gravelly with shale. The 
lake is at an elevation of about 50 feet above tide water, and the surface temperature 
of the water near the shore was 61° F. At the head it receives two large feeders, 
which appear to flow through converging valleys, and in these feeders are spawning 
beds of the redfish. 
In the main stream, a short distance above tide water, posts were found which 
were probably used to support a net stretched across to hold the fish, a line of rocks 
