ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1900. 
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half mile in length, and Hows over a rocky and bowldery bed between heavily wooded 
shelving banks. At its head is a small lake 42 feet above tide water, slightly 
L-shaped, about three-fourths mile long by one-fourth wide, and bordered by low 
wooded banks. The stream was never known to supply more than from 3,900 to 
5,000 redfish, a number too small to attract the attention of the commercial fisheries. 
In fact, it was known as a “cultus chuck” or worthless stream. 
After making satisfactory arrangements with the Indians claiming the stream, a 
hatchery 7 ’ was built in 1892 on the right bank about 200 yards from the mouth, and 
suitable dams were thrown across the stream to impound the fish. The hatchery 
water was taken from the stream, conveying it by 7 a flume from a point near the 
Trap pen and barrier in lower course of stream, Callbreath’s Hatchery, McHenry Inlet. 
lake, where a dam was built. After operating the hatchery during the latter part of 
the season in 1892 and turning out about'600,000 fry, it was seen that the breeding 
fish could not be impounded properly in the stream, many dying, probably" from 
exhaustion in attempting to pass the barrier; it was also found that the stream water 
used in the hatchery" was unsuitable, not only on account of the wide range in tem- 
perature, but the organic matter it contained smothered the eggs and caused fungus. 
An excellent site having been found on the lake in the vicinity of the streams form- 
ing the natural spawning-beds, with a spring giving an abundant supply of pure 
water of very 7 equable temperature, the hatchery was moved in the spring of 1 893 to 
its present site. It was operated that year and every year until 1900, when the pro- 
