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The main lake sought by redfish lies a short distance to the northward of the 
mouth of the glacial streams which furnish the main body of water. The lake lies 
in a low basin at the foot of a high mountain system, at an elevation of 95 feet above 
tide water. The temperature of the surface water was 56° F. It is an irregularly 
shaped body of water, less than a mile in length, lying in a general north-and-south 
direction. The bottom is sand and gravel. The banks are heavily wooded with the 
usual growth, and on the water near the shore are large areas of a mossy scum. It is 
said the lake receives two small feeders, the outlets to two small lakes, but there are 
no large feeders. A number of small fry were seen in the lake. 
Immediately below the main lake, and between the mouths of the glacial streams, 
is a small lake or pond in which it is probable that some fish spawn. 
There are no available data from which the value of this stream can be estimated; 
it is said to vary considerably. During a good season it may yield 50,000 redfish. 
BARTLETT BAY SALTERY AND CANNERY. 
On the northern side of Bartlett Bay, about half a mile from the mouth of 
the stream, is a saltery which was owned by the Icy Strait Packing Company and 
operated by that organization in 1900. As a branch of their Petersburg cannery, 
which was acquired by the Pacific Packing and Navigation Company this spring, it 
is understood that the Bartlett Bay property was included in the transfer. At the 
date of our visit, June 25, it was stated that the saltery would not be operated during 
the season, but that all fish taken would be transported by steam tenders to the new 
cannery of the Chatham Straits Packing Company at Sitkoh Bay. The saltery has 
12 tanks of 12 barrels capacity each. A crew of 8 men, with 2 boats, arrived on the 
ground June 20, .and to the 25th had taken 80 redfish. 
During the season of 1900 the Icy Strait Packing Company erected a cannery 
building on the southeastern shore of Bartlett Bay, opposite the saltery, expecting 
to install machinery in time to operate it during 1901. At the time of our visit the 
plant consisted of a simple cannery building, 150 feet long, projecting on piles over 
the water. No machinery had been installed, and it was stated that no additions 
would be made during the season. Like the saltery, it is believed to have been 
acquired by the new combine. 
DUNDAS BAY STREAM. 
The Western Fisheries Company, located at Dundas Bay, obtains some redfish 
from around the mouth of a stream at the northern end of Dundas Bay, the value of 
which is unknown. An examination of the lower course of this stream was made 
by Ensign Hepburn on June 28. 
A broad, fiat valley makes to the northward of Dundas Bay which is drained 
by two streams, one a glacial stream with a width varying between 60 and 100 yards, 
an average depth of 2 feet, and a strong current flowing in a general ESE. direction; 
the other is a much smaller stream, the outlet of a lake lying about 10 miles NNW. 
from the center of the mouth of the valley. Three miles from the northern shore 
of Dundas Bay these streams join at a point where the two parts of the glacial stream 
unite again after flowing around a large island. From this point of junction the two 
streams flow SSE. (mag.) for about a mile between well-defined banks and then spread 
out over a large triangular gravel flat about 2 miles long and extending across the 
