Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-05-19

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Three mile. Of bride path beyond the
road bring. Us into broad. green valley.
through the middle OF which runs clear,
bright. silvery stream. Crossing this, We
meet smaller one, and following down
the bank of this for half mile, We dis
mount, and, turning our ponies loose to
grass, follow Mr.. Thompson to his salmon
wears.
Now q salmon wear is simply to hold
a salmon trap, and it is salmon trap
that one would think even q fish too
wise to be caught by.
Mr.. Thompson has two wears, and four
of these traps, wear and two traps in
each of the two branches of the stream
They are very simple, being nothing more
than four boards, each about four feet
square, built in wall that is thrown
across the stream. 1t is this wall that is
called the wear.
There are two Of the traps in each wall.
One side Of the trap is quite open, except
that it has some stats nailed over il 50
near together that fish cannot get through,
and this side is set up the stream. The
bottom of the box is about a foot above
the water Of the stream below the wear or
dam.
On the side facing down the stream
there is hole about foot in diameter,
close tn the bottom of the box. The wa
ter passes through the. box, and comes
out with rush through this hole.
Some water leaks through the wall of
the wear or dam, but otherwise all the
water of the stream passes through the
two holes Of these two wears.
Now the salmon is a very powerful
fish, and can spring up fall many feet
in height. 1t is nothing for him to spring
up the stream that rushes through the
hole out of the box. He no sooner sees
it than he does it. He cannot get up the
stream any other way. But Mr.. ThOmp-
son has taken good care that he shall not
get back again.
/ Around this hole he has placed circle
of small, elastic sticks, converging inside
nearly to point, which, in jumping
through, the poor, unsuspecting fish
pushes aside. As soon as he has passed,
these spring back again, and now he is
prisoner within the box. Another and
another of the fishes follow him, and
sometimes twenty, or even more, are at
one time in the trap.
They are now easily enough taken out
with long-bandled net from trap-door
In the top. We lifted out some twenty
or thirty in this manner.
1t was poor 'catch," however, owing
to some sailors having come to the rivers
mouth from q man-of-war to wash their
clothes, and by disturbing the water and
poisoning it with their soapsuds. prevent
ing the fish from entering the stream, for
the salmon is very dainty fish and easily
frightened.
And, understand, the fish are only
caught coming from the sea up stream.
BY the time they are ready to come down
stream again, the wears are taken out,
that the fish may 60 down easily. They
are then too poor to catch.
| From this it will be seen that some
fish do pass the wears. Only, however,
such As Mr.. Thompson chooses to let pass,
and this he must do. a. there would be
no fish there next year.
He opens his wears sometimes for =
| day or tao al . time. and lets all pass up
who will; and thee 60 .s far a. th~y can.
Iesping waterfalls and rapids until they
I fnd = sill pol ~ith . gS-oi basiom. and