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NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 26. 1948 THIRTEEN Engineering Feat Puts Fraser River at Top of Salmon Streams By JACK HEWINS VANCOUVER, B. C Aug. 24-UP An engineering twist of the wriit turing a cataract on edge has made the Fraier River of Weat Canada the world'! richest salmon stream. Dollar for dollar, the Fraser runs eclipse even those of the mam moth Columbia, where giant dams have thrown one barrier after another In front of the homecoming Chinook. Yet the upper Fraser was almost a lost river, salmon-wise, for more than 30 years. It's a turbulent stream much smaller than the Columbia, but it reaches a rough 500 miles north, probing both the Rockies and the Coastal Range for its water. Sockeye, pink and silver salmon pile Into its mouth near Vancouver In hordes, heading for the hundreds of miles of tribu tary streams and lakes high in side Canada. Early in the Journey they weave without trouble through Hells Gate, where the engineers made a million dollar miracle. It was at Hells Gate 35 years ago that a haymaker was swung at the salmon. "In 1913 and 1914." says the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, "railroad construction caused slides to -occur tn a narrow canyon of the Fraser river known as Hells Gate. Although this canyon is about 130 miles up from the river mouth, the big runs had their spawning grounds above this point The Canadian government ordered the contractors to re- ALUMINUM ROOFING Carload -To Arrive About Aug. 30th PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW FOR DELIVERY OFF CAR AT REDUCED PRICES DENN-GERRETSEN CO. Phone 128 402 W. Oak 3irTirnirTiriii mr" . ... "rr 1 1 CD CD CD CD I! i I il J yMHUi iWiUlUtll Hl I, ..S, 4SB 1 f ht) 7 ' i MIMH tt so-- II 'II 111 lii ft. v i-v-. tf so f I t - ' t, - v v. . W '- . i r iL.l 'f'i Has" siwMimin' tvi ' ' Foreign Educators To Study Otmocroey in U. S. ESTES PARK, Colo.. Aug. 26. L Assignment of six Ger man and Austrian educators to American colleges to study admin istrative procedures was announc ed today. The educators were sent to this cecntry by the U. S. military gov ernment as part of its cultural i exchange program to bring Ger many oacK 10 aemocracy. uean inns a. ueioung of rictur. by Uuur Studio ENTERTAINS VETERANS Roteburq's Municipal and Elks Band, directed by Lam Bitner, mad its final appearanca of the season, playing an hour s concert Monday night at the Veterans Hos pital. The program was sponsored by the Oregon stale elks Association, with Prank Wickham, local elks veterans entertainment chairman, at master of ceremonies. I he band took a position in front of the administration building so patients in all tha buildings could hear. Other patients were grouped on tha lawn. In addition, about 80 townspeople in nearly 20 cars drove out to hear tha concert. Prises were awarded winners in the patients' orchestra contest. First place winner received a sport shirt and box of candy, and second place winner a colored T-shirt. Also, T shirts were awarded all participants of the winning Softball team of the summer season. Ice cream bars were passed out to all tha patients. NOW ' PHONE 468 Order Wood and Sawdust Prepare now for next Win tar's comfort. Order wood and sawdust from Roseburg Lumbar and forget fuel worries. -FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY- 16" gr. slabwood - 4' slabwood H" mill onds 4' dry Screened sawdust 16" dry SAWDUST-THE PERFECT FUEL Uniform Heot Plentiful Supply ssssssssssMssasssssssasssssMassiBSBsaBsssssaBa SINGLE AND DOUBLE LOADS PLANER ENDS 50 Cheaper Than Other Fuels ROSEBURG LUMBER CO. Phone 468 move the debris. Much of It un doubtedly was removed, but the runs were not resorcd." The Fraser at Hells Gate is like a band of sheep charging through a narrow chute all white wool and plunging hys i teria. Coming home from the sea, the salmon hit this mael strom and disappear. For years people thought they were going safely through because very few dead salmon were found below. But experts found the sockeye, which can leap a waterfall higher than your head, lacked the strength to battle the 1 ong 1 stretch it wild water. They j fought it until they passed their normal spawning period, then i sank to the silt of the river bot I torn. Or they turned back to down i river tributaries and died there. I Canada and the United States, I working together through the I commission, learned that the loss over the years was "about one and one-quarter billion dollars," based on the 1943 price of sal mon. The commission handed the Hells Gate problem to its engl i neers. -Engineers Solve Problem I Now the common type of fish ladder Is merely a series of man- Loans on Homes FOR LESS Repay at any Time Without Penalty UMPQUA SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSN. AMAZING NEV OIL FURNACE! 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Oak St. i It Phone 348 Game Commission Has to Go Far Tc Obtain Fish Food Raising an unprecedented num ber of legal-sized trout this year, the Oregon State Game Com mission has had to obtain fish food from all over the United States. Carload lots of food have been purchased from as far away as Texas, Georgia and Min nesota In recent months. The development of many uses for meat by products has caused a serious scarcity for all game departments that raise trout. At the same time many different uses have been developed for fish by-products which are also used extensively for trout feed In the Oregon hatcheries. The available supply of commercial fish meals has also diminished due to the fact that there is now an increased demand for the in gredients that go into the manu facture of these meals. During the year of 1947 almost two and a quarter million pounds of food was fed to the trout in the hatcheries operated by the Oregon State Game Commission. In the first seven months of 1948 the consumption of feed In these hatcheries was In ex cess of 150 tons more than for the same period In 1947. At the same time the cost of these feeds has substantially Increased, many of them now costlne double and some of them as much as three times as much as in pre-war nines. "Many people do not realize the enormous amount of food that it takes to operate our hatcheries, Mr. C. A. Lockwood, State Game Supervisor stated. "At Just one of our hatcheries fish food consumption was run' nlng almost a ton every three uays inis spring. Before the war sufficient feed could be obtained locally but to day the Game Commission can not meet its needs even when taking all the available locally piuuui-tru ipea ana maKing pur chases in Washington, California, Nebraska, Alaska and other markets. 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The engineers needed a new wrinkle and a "wrinkle" Is what they came up with. They built narrow concrete boxes with "baffles" poking Inward from either side. Water pours around these in serpentine fashion and below each baffle Is an eddy a resting place for the upward bound salmon. The boxes, one on each side of the river at Hells Gate, are 40 feet tall. This spring the flood waters crested 60 feet above that, without affecting the operation of the fishways. They were completed In 1945 and pink salmon, which return to spawn in two-year cycles, passed Hells Gate in a flood last year. Silver salmon hatched up. stream In 1915 are due back this year In their three-year cycle. The sockeye, a four-year travel er, will Jam the Fraser next sea son. The commission Is confident now about the homecoming of the king of salmon, sockeye. Each year since the ladders were built the tributary streams away up yonder have been crowded more and more with spawning fish. 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