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during’a part of each season when the weather conditions were such that 
fishways could not be surveyed to good advantage or the fishways built. 
To get out as many surveys and blue prints as possible during this 
coming season we have engaged a draftsman under a contract to make 
the tracings from the surveys so as to allow the surveyor more time in 
the field during the season that such work can be done. 
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Fig. 5. Screen installed in the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District Canal, near Anderson, 
Shasta County, California. Photograph by A. E. Culver, May, 1918. 
We have met with no resistance from any of the owners or occupants 
of dams except on the Merced River. There one of the large power 
companies is resisting the order to install a couple of cheap fishways, on 
the ground that there is not sufficient water to pass the fishways during 
the summer season and that the salmon do not ascend the river in num- 
bers sufficient to justify the expense. There is ample water in the river 
in the spring and fall when the fish are ascending the river for the 
fishways and all power purposes, and there is also a good run of salmon 
in the Merced River, and if they are allowed to reach the spawning 
grounds on the upper reaches of the river they will soon increase and 
add materially to the salmon supply of Monterey Bay and the rivers 
tributary to San Francisco Bay and the San Joaquin River. 
Respectfully submitted. 
(Signed) W. H. Suesuey, 
In charge, Department of Fisheulture. 
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