"Colorado Salmon." 
Box Canon, Verde River, about 10 miles below Port Verde, 
central Arizona, April 3, 188?. 
"They had caught a dozen *bony-ta.ils* ( Gila robusta?), the 
largest weighing 3 pounds Avoirdupois ;J and Lieut. Smith had seen 
a huge * Colorado Salmon*". Many were afterwards seen that day. 
This fish was commonly caught in the Box Canon of the Verde, below 
the Post; and, once or twice, small ones were captured by ranchmen 
in acequ i as higher up the Verde. Lieut. Herbert Whipple told me 
his men had captured some very large ones in shoal water in Bonito 
Pork, a stream of the Gila system not far from Port Apache, Arizona. 
I afterwards caught many in the Colorado, from Port Majave to the 
Gulf, and also on the Oalton River of the Colorado Desert. 
Port Verde, Arizona, June 23, 1884. 
"Took a Salmon in ’Poker* Johnston’s sluice to-day." 
