ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1901. 
365 
The following are the only statistics that can be obtained of Checats Stream: 
1895. 
1896. 
1897. 
Species. 
Total 
number. 
Average 
number 
per case. 
Season of run. 
Canneries to which 
consigned. 
9,680 
10, 712 
15, 229 
489 
20, 682 
821 
Yes Bay. 
Yes Bay and Loring. 
Do. 
Yes Bay. 
Yes Bay and Loring. 
Yes Bay. 
Redfish 
Cohoes 
Humpbacks 
Dog salmon 
9 
6 
15 
o 
July 10-Aug. 28 
Aug. 26-Sept. 1 
July 21-Aug, 15 
July 23-Aug. 2 
Year. 
Redfish dates. 
No. 
Coho dates. 
No. 
1898 
. . J uly 13-Aug. 17 
19, 821 
Sept. 6-Sept. 10 
.. 2,157 ! 
1899. . . 
.. July 18-Sept. 2 
11,816 
Aug. 9-Sept, 2 
.. 6,071 
I960 
.. July 13-Aiig. 15 
4, 165 
July 26-Sept. 7 
. . 3, 991 
Humpback dates. : No. 
July 13-Aug. 26 24, 168 
July 17-Aug. 20 1 32,382 
July 15-Aug. 16 1 13,591 
KUNK (KONKE) STREAM AND LAKE. 
On the east side of Etolin Island, about midway between Chichagof Pass and 
Anita Bay and opposite a point projecting from Wrangell Island, is a small stream 
which carries redfish and discharges its waters into Zimovia Strait. It was examined 
by a party in charge of Ensign Miller on June 11. 
This stream is the outlet to a lake lying about 14 miles WSW. from the mouth. 
It is 20 feet wide and 12 inches deep, with a strong current and a temperature, June 11, 
of 52° E. It Hows over a rooky and bowlderous bed having at intervals small areas of 
gravel and sand. About 150 yards from tide water are the remains of a barricade 
and three-fourths of a mile from the same point, on the left bank, a tributary enters; 
this is about one-third the size of the main stream and has an elevation at the 
junction of 110 feet above tide water and a temperature, on dune 11, of 45° F. 
From this point to the lower arm of the lake, a distance of three-fourths of a mile, 
the main stream flows through a deep ravine in which there is a series of rapids; 
the greatest fall is about T feet, but is much broken and presents no serious obstacle 
to the ascent of salmon. As the head is reached the stream widens into the lower arm 
of the lake, which is 1^ miles long and 300 yards wide, with an elevation above tide 
water of 270 feet and a temperature of 58 c F. ; this arm narrows at the head and 
then opens upon the main body of water. 
The main lake is heart-shaped, 1 7 miles long by about the same width. At the 
head of the lake, the western end, is the main feeder, which flows through a narrow 
valley and is about 18 feet wide, 5 inches deep, and has a 3 to 4 knot current; the 
temperature, June 11, was 45° F. 
On the southern side are four small streams together carrying a volume of water 
into the lake equal to that of the main feeder and draining the melting snow from 
the high mountains on that side. The vegetation around the streams and lake is 
dense and consists of large trees and the usual scrub growth. At a few points on the 
upper end of the lake there are small grassy flats. A few pond lilies were noticed 
near the shore and numerous small fry were seen, probably salmon. The level of 
the lake seemed to be at its highest point, and, from the appearance of the shore line, 
it probably falls several feet during a dry season. Near the mouth of the large feeder 
a site for a small hatchery might be found. 
