THE SALMON AND SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 85 
appeared deep and were slightly discolored. At the mouth of the stream were two 
shacks and some fishing gear. The fish are sold to Metlakahtla. 
The records for three years are as follows: 
Year. 
Redflsh. 
Colioes. 
Humpbacks. 
Dates. 
Xo. 
Dtites. 
Xo. 
Dates. 
No. 
1894 
■July 17 to Aug. 18 
6, 972 
Atig. 4 to Aug. 14 
281 
Aug. 4 to Aug. 11 
9,810 
1896 
July 8 to Aug. 22 
5,695 
(Date.s not knowu) 
44 
.July 28 to Aug. 20 
8, 914 
1897 
July 19 to Aug. 27 
9, 00(1 
Aug. 17 to Aug. 27 
000 
JulV 21 to Aug. 21 .... 
3,800 
The average catch is 7,222 redfisli, and the stream could probably su[)ply 8,000 
per year. The stream is claimed aud fished by au Indian, Kithraum. 
From Nichols Bay to and including Cholmondeley Sound there seemed to be no 
permanent dwellings. 
SKOWL ARM AND OLD TOM STREAM. 
We next came to the territory fished exclusively for Loriiig, aud iucludiug Skowl 
Arm, Karta Bay, and Kasaan Bay Stream. 
Skowl Arm has two redfish streams, neither 
producing a large number. 
Old Tom Stream has its mouth at the head 
of the first bight iTiimediately west of the first, 
long deep inlet opening into Skowl Arm from 
the southward. It is opposite Kasaan village. 
The stream enters the eastern side of the bight, 
where a small inlet is formed, having a narrow 
entrance and opening out into a grassy flat one- 
fourth of a mile long and one-eighth of a mile 
wide. High water extends about 200 yards 
above the entrance. In the small inlet there are 
good gravel seining-beaches. At the month of 
the stream on the right bank are two shacks, a 
smokehouse, a canoe, seine boat, fish float, and 
some fishing gear. There were no evidences of 
barricading in the stream, which is tortuous, 
and has a general north and- south direction. 
For If miles the bed is fine sand and gravel, 
with rocky riffles. Its width diminishes from 
30 feet to 15 feet, and it rises about 20 feet in the 
distance named. Then for three-eighths of a 
mile it runs as a rapid over a rocky bed, at the 
end of which is an almost perpendicular fall of 
about 20 feet, with a deep pool below. The fall 
in this reach is about 40 feet. For half a mile 
above the fall the stream diminishes rapidly in 
volume and runs over a rock and gravel bottom. 
Considerable water drains from the western side, which is an open grassy and wooded 
slope. On the eastern side the mountains come to the bank of the stream. About 
halfway up, the stream, in running over a log, was noticed to be 10 feet wide and 2.t 
