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the eastern shore. Do not attempt to enter the big’ht or coves at the head, or approach 
them too closely, as they are very foul. The anchorage is in 20 fathoms, soft bottom, 
about one-half mile below the point of the tongue separating the two coves, and 
toward the eastern side. 
CALLBREATII HATCHERY. 
Mr. John C. Callbreath has been a resident of Alaska for many years; ne was 
the manager of the Point Ellis cannery until it was destroyed by fire in 1892, and has 
lately been engaged in the transportation business on the Stikine River and in trad- 
ing, making his home at Wrangell. He is a representative citizen, enterprising, and 
devoted to salmon culture. 
In 1892, in connection with the Point Ellis cannery, he started the hatchery 
referred founder that stream heading. Having seen the rise of the salmon industry, 
Ruins of trough and baskets, Callbreath’s old hatchery. 
and knowing, as all must Enow who are familiar with the question, that the abusive 
and excessive fishing and total disregard of the law by the fisheries must slowly but 
surely exterminate the salmon for commercial purposes / he determined to take a 
salmon stream that under normal conditions carried a few thousand redfish, and by 
artificial propagation increase the production to hundreds of thousands. He hoped 
that, if successful, a law would be framed making all the increase his own property. 
The hatchery is a private enterprise, unconnected with any cannery or fishery, 
and based upon the widely prevailing belief that the salmon return to the parent 
stream in four years after they are hatched. As this time has passed, however, with- 
out any apparent return, Mr. Callbreath has extended his period to ten years. 
In establishing the hatchery a stream was sought satisfying the conditions 
imposed, and one was found at the head of McHeniy Inlet. It is small, about one- 
