ALASKA SALMON INVESTIGATIONS IN 1901. 
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FRESHWATER RAT, STREAM, AND LAKE. 
On the eastern side of Chichagof Island, about 12 miles below Point Augusta, a 
deep inlet makes in to the westward known as Freshwater Bay. On the southern 
side of this bay, 1 miles within the southern entrance point (East Point), is a cove 
known as Pablof Harbor, which affords a good anchorage, and receives at its head the 
waters of a stream carrying redfish, and known among fishermen as the Freshwater 
Bay stream. It was examined by a party in charge of Ensign Kempff on June 20. 
Near the mouth on the southern side is the old site of the cannery of the Astoria 
and Alaska Packing Company, which made a pack in 1889 and then moved to the 
South Bay of Pillars, where it was destroyed by fire in 1892. 
Sketch of Stream, Lake, and Feeder, Pablof Harbor, Chichagof Island, Alaska. 
Freshwater Bay stream, the outlet to a lake, is less than one-fourth mile long - , 100 
feet wide, 9 inches deep, and flows with a strong current over a rocky and gravelly 
bottom, between rocky, well-wooded banks. Just without the lake the water flows 
over a broken fall, 10 feet high, but so stepped that fish may easily ascend at high 
water. There are no barricades. Temperature of water, 13° F. 
The lake is three-fourths of a mile long and one-half of a mile wide, with the major 
axis NE. by E. and SW. by W. The shores are low, grassy in places, with heavily 
wooded areas in the background; the beaches are muddy, and the body of water seems 
moderately deep. Temperature of water near the shore, 45° F. Elevation, 20 feet. 
