The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-23
SALMON EGGS
 NOT BEST FROM "IRON CHINK'
This Seems to be One of Many Lessons to Be Seen at the Territorial
 Hatchery in Juneau

A total of seven million salmon egks have been taken from Alaska streams this season and most of them replanted when they have reached an eyed stage in protected places at Duck creek, Warm Cprings lake. Falls creek on Admiralty Island, streams in the Eagle River district and in Peterson creek. This work has been accomplished by Territorial Superintendent of Hatcheries A. J. Sprague and his assistants.
 At Warm Springs Lake, the lake is now frozen over. offering protec- ton to the fry that have matched since the eggs were planted. They cannot be destroyed by gulls and water fowls Some time after the planting was done here thousands oi the little salmon were seen not BOG wards from where they were planted
 The first plant of eyed salmon eggs in Warm Springs lake was made on October 23 and was witnessed by J c. Lund, game warden and the eggs taken over to the location without injury by Captain William Geddes on the gas boat Nokomis.
 Just at the present the lower flool of the A. E. building is very inter esting place to visit and people ol the vicinity should avail themselves of the opportunity of seeing some wonderful sights.
 In the hatching troughs may be seen every stage of the process fol the matching of salmon eggs. First
 is seen the fry just shedding their outer covering, then at a week old with the food sack very large and from that age up to four weeks old when the fry have about absorbed the food sack and have taken to eating
 Eggs may also be seen in the automatic matching jars that were previously only used for hatchine shad, whitefsh and the Alaska gray ling. This method was declared i'm practicable for the hatching of sal mon eggs by the Bureau of Fisheries. but is being used with great success here. After the fry have shed theii outering covering or egg shell they go to tanks through syphon.
 New concrete display cases have been built in which can be seen Alaska salmon that have been raised in captivity for one year. They are very small. In the case next to them may be seen young sal mon from the same setting of eggs that were liberated and left to grow for one year under their natural sur roundngs. These latter are at least four times the size of the other. This proves conclusively that the fry should be liberated as young as pos sible so that they will reach a fna- tural growth.
 In another display case may be seen the Colorado Brook trout that were liberated as fry in nearby streams. The samples shown are a year old and were taken from the Salmon Creek dam. They are beauti- full specimens.
 In another case may be seen Dolly Warden and Cut Throat trout. By examining these one can get an idea of the looks of the great enemy of the salmon fry. These are not the only enemy they have, as salmon are known to feed on, their own fry.
 Experiments here at the hatchery have shown that concrete troughs are much better than wood as they do not collect slime and impurities.
 Perhaps ethe greatest curiosity to be seen in the hatchery is the tank in which eggs from salmon that had been put through the Iron Chink