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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The Indians do all the work. They are neat, clean, and tidy, iierform their work 
deftly, and receive $1 per day. It is extra work and not paid for by the piece. Before 
work was commenced abont forty klootchmen presented themselves for emi>loyment, 
and from this number the manager made his selection. 
KLAAVAK STREAM. 
Near the upper end of Klawak Inlet is a large island, close to the eastern shore, 
and around the northern end of this island is a narrow channel leading to the can- 
nery, which, with the village, is on the southern end of a head making out from the 
main shore of Prince of Wales Island. A narrow passage around the cannery leads 
back of the buildings to a salt-water basin less than half a mile in diameter. This 
basin receives the waters of the home stream. 
Klawak Stream is a lake outlet and from the lake it flows in a general west- 
-southwest direction for 2^ miles, with an average width of fully 100 feet. It flows 
with a strong cur- ^ 
rent, in a large vol- ^ 
ume, over a bowldery ^ 
and rocky bottom, 
and emi)ties into the 
basin previously men- 
tioned. There are 
three ra])ids, one at 
the lake end of the 
outlet, one near the mouth, and 
one about midway, over which the 
fish iirobably have some difficulty 
in passing, but that they are not 
insurmountable is proved by the 
presence of fish in the lake. There 
are a number of side passages 
and pools in the stream, in which 
humpbacks and dog salmon spawn. 
The cannery company is considering either placing fish-ladders at the most difficult 
points of the stream or blasting out some of the ledges. 
The lake is an irregular-shaped, elongated body of water, about 10 miles long in a 
general west-northwest and east- southeast direction, and from 1 to 2 miles in width. 
The shores, except for a short distance around the upper end, are low and flat and 
Sketch of Klawak Stream and Lake. 
