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extends 150 yards upstream from the low-water mouth. The average width of the 
outlet is 40 feet, depth 18 inches, and current 3 knots. 
The lake is of an irregular, hour-glass shape, about 1^ miles long, and from one- 
fourth to one-half mile broad. It has four well-defined feeders. The shores, 
except for a short stretch near the middle of the eastern side and at the southern 
end, are very steep and thickly wooded, and drop off into deep water a few feet from 
the beach, except at the mouths of the feeders and on the northwestern end, where 
there are sandy shoals. Across the outlet is a large drift of big trees, but the water 
here is several feet deep and fish can readily pass underneath. The bottom, where it 
can be seen, is generally of sand, sometimes of pebbles or rock, and at. t lie southern 
end, where a small feeder enters, of mud with water-logged bark. The temperature 
of the water was 52° F. The lake has an elevation above sea level of 60 feet. 
The principal feeder enters on the northeastern side about one-fourth mile 
from the outlet. It is a stream 30 feet wide, 12 inches deep, with a current of 4£ 
knots, and flows over a stony and pebbly bottom in a general southwesterly direction. 
The water is dark and clear, a little lighter in shade than the lake water, and has a 
temperature of 49° F. About 200 yards from the mouth of this feeder there are 
heavy falls, which, it is believed, the salmon can not pass. 
The next feeder in point of size enters the lake at a point about 400 yards south 
of the mouth of the stream just described, near the narrowest part of the lake. This 
stream has two mouths, forming a delta of considerable extent. The division of the 
main stream occurs about 300 yards from the lake shore. It flows in a tortuous 
channel through a rather low country in a general westerly direction. Half a mile 
from the lake the ground rises sharply, and here is a series of cascades and falls 
insurmountable for any fish, the water in places spreading out and rushing over 
huge, smooth, sloping rocks with great velocity and a depth of only one or two inches 
for many feet. The water is very clear and cold, temperature 39° F., and apparently 
comes from the melting snows on the mountains. The average width of this stream 
is 25 feet, depth 10 inches, and current. 4 knots; bottom stony and gravelly. In late 
summer this volume must be very much reduced. 
A small feeder enters the lake on the southeastern side. It is inconsiderable in 
size and is apparently formed by seepage from the hills. 
Another small feeder enters at the head of the lake in its extreme southern 
part. It, is a small stream flowing through a narrow valley, low and flat near the lake 
but rising to an altitude of 250 feet within 1 mile. Temperature of the water, 52°. 
A few trout or, possibly, young salmon, about 4 inches long, were seen near the 
drift of logs around the outlet. 
A good site for a hatchery could be found at the mouth of either of the two 
feeders first mentioned. The ground around the mouth of the second stream is 
better adapted for building purposes, and the supply of water there is at present 
ample, but this supply must be greatly reduced at times if, as is supposed, the stream 
is only the result of melting snow. The volume of the first feeder is greater, and 
the water in it has the appearance of being that of a lake outlet. 
Checats Stream was referred to in my report for 1897, page 100, and was then 
fished by canneries at Loring and Yes Bay. Since 1897 it has been fished by Loring 
only. Under average conditions, it may yield 12,000 to 15,000 redfish per season. 
