ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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These numbers are probably too small by 20 per cent. An estimate made by 
a cannery man, who has a very good knowledge of this stream, gives the catch of 
redfish from this stream in 1898, 120,000; in 1899, 85,000; in 1900, 100,000. 
KINA STREAM, KASAAN BAY. 
Between Coal Bay and Twelvemile Arm there is a large unnamed bight, which 
extends nearly 2 miles into the southern shore, and which receives at its head the 
waters of a small stream called Kina, referred to in my former report, page 90. 
This stream was examined, on September 22, by Ensign Miller who found that 
it had its source in a lake. It is about 1^ miles long, with a width of from 10 to 10 
feet, and depth from 12 to 18 inches, with pools 1 feet in depth. It flows through a 
heavily wooded, rolling country, between rocky banks from 20 to 50 feet high, and 
over a bowldeiy and gravelly bed showing here and there exposed ledges. The 
