The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1902-12-19

ply, the situation at this point is an
exceptionally good one for large and
fully equipped station arranged TO raise
and feed all the young fry that can et
had there, Then, again, il is well sit
uated for distribution purposes, being
close to the railroad as Il is, the youns
| fry can be taken UP and liberated IN
the extreme upper waters of the snake
river should Il ever be deemed essen>
| tial.
The water supply win have to come
from the main river and can be ar
ranged for with a set OF current water
wheels 10 take care OF the supply dur
ing ordinary weather, and an auxiliary
steam pump for the extreme cold wea-
ther but this is going 70 be expensive
to install and maintain and far differ
ent from the gravity supply that costs
practically nothing but for the few
hundred feet II flume that is generally
required,
In addition TO the current wheels
and steam pump, the plant should be
provided with small set Of cannlns
appliances, SO that the spawned salmon
and other fish may be canned and in
this way saved for food for the young
fry. II the young fry are to be Kept
and fed Cor two or three months every
year before turning them out, as is be-
ing done now by the United States fish
cries department the food supply Is
going to be very important one and
every advantage should be taken that
will have tendency to lessen the ex-
pAnse In respect thereto. This canned
fish product has been made use OF the
PAST few years fy the United states
fisheries department and by Hon. K.
d. Hume and is proving to be very
good food if fed with liver and meal
1t has been demonstrated that they do
very nicely on straight fish diet, but
they do much better on a mixed diet.
This canning appliance need not nee
essarlly oe an expensive affair but It
will cost something. and will. with the
current wheels and pump, make plant
as this one should be, cost fully SlS,-
600.
The Grande Ronde river station
should have a capacity of 1o,0OOOOO eggs
and TO construct and equip plant on |
this river to properly take care of this
number of eggs and young fry, or two
plants to be situated on two of the
main tributary streams, each of a ca
pacity sufficient to properly take care
of 5000. 900 eggs and young fry viii
cost fully 5000.
The Mckenzie river station-What
should be done on the Mckenzie river
in the way of installing large plant
depends entirely on what is done about
the fishway over the Willamette falls.
IL an appropriation is made to remedy
the matter at the falls so as to allow
the saImon to get up the river, steps
should be Immediately taken to put in
| plant Of from s.9oo. .0oo to 10000. 900 ca
,acjty, fully equipped in every way to
'eed and properly care for the young
nv. To install such plant on this
liver we should have at least 5000.
The matter OF fishway for the
falls at Oregon City Is an
Id contention and there is no doubt
hat it wouli assist materially in the
and upbuilding of this in
lustry. for we have demonstrated by
shat little hatchery work we did on the
Mckenzie river this year that salmon
or hatchery purposes can be had there
ven without fishway; and with one
,rovided salmon should be gotten on
his particular river in unlimited num-
lers.
It would also be the means of our
loing hatchery work on the Santiam
liver and the Molala river, both of
g1hich show the best indications Of be-
1g good salmon spawning streams.
From thorough investigation Of the
onditiOns at the falls. it seems that a
omplete and permanent fishway could
= provided by blasting a channel and
ct Of pools or rests up through the
0eky island, at an estimated expense
4 5000.