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4 E. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 19M The Rogue River Fisheries mom Runs m Basimi Are- escribed Sal Flesh of Chinook Considered Most Pleasing on Coas (Editor's note: Thii ii tha third in i itriti of arliclas on In Rogu river fishery and ill management. Tha article! ar praiented at ihii lima ai survey oi tha Rogu basin looking to a water control program are nearing completion. They may aid in understanding tha Rogu. its fish lit and proposed dams on the river and its tributaries. (The series was written by Col M. Rivers, fisheries agent for the Oregon slat gam commission. Riven has been a resident in the Rogue basin for 18 years, making biological investi gations for the game com mission, and is one of the tew persons considered an authority on the fishery In the Rogue, its problems and management. (Today's article describes the three runs of salmon, their characteristics and us by sportsman.) Cole Klveri By COLE M. RIVERS Fisheries Agent State Game Commission Spring-run chlnook enter the Rogue on the rise of water temoeratureB in February or early March The run con tinues at the mouth of the river Into June. These fish m i g r a t to preferred s p a w n 1 n g areas in the main channel of the upper Rogue and cstab- llsh a summer holdover. Early runners go high in the basin and later arriving fish choose areas progressively lower Spawning does not occur until September and October. The head of the run is found where and when the water first reaches 50 degrees fahrenheit. This temperature ii first found near the mouth of the river, and as the water warms upstream the leading fish can be found following that 50 degrees fahrenheit line of demarcation. Peaks in May The run appears in the Grants Pass area between March 5 and 20 and peuks there in May. The first fish at the Gold Ray counting station arrive In mid-April with a peak formed in June. Some of the run is still being tallied In September. Only a few stragglers of the run fail to go above Gold Ray. Preferred sections of the upper river used for summer holdover are located from points above McLeod down to below Bybce bridge with hea viest use in the Rogue Elk to Shady Cove section. A por tion of the run moves Into Big Butte creek which is the only tributary of the Rogue basin used by these salmon, i The flesh of the Rogue spring chlnook Is considered the most palatable on the Pa cific coast. Highly preferred, these fish are sought after by thousands of spring fisher men. At the mouth of the river ', '' ?:" s i ' "V ' ''' - vt ' " ' J' vy ft ;n - , ' I ZCi ' , 'Jf$ 7'-r ' h " ' 4 . , " !';"'' t , t"' i . - i i " 5u . , CROSSING BOARD A spring chinook salmon is shown crossing the board at the Gold Ray counting station. Trained person nel count adults and jacks of both chinook and silver salmon, summer and winter steel- head and suckers at this station. ' A lV ijV li" ' -. Atl " 1 1 m ri. IIIIIIMIH I llll'lie'' i;:WPHIMHe UvA .! j'i"mii i "S2 ;th.J L-JStr J CHINOOK CATCH A spring chlnook . Gold Beach. Annual catch of these fish from salmon being beached by a sport angler at the lower Rogue river averages 4,900. the peak of the fishery occurs in April and May. Since 1949 when the lower river catch was first measured, the an nual take has averaged 4,900 fish. More of these spring fish are caught upstream. The annual catch from sal mon boards ranges from 300 to 800 fish In the middle sec tion of the river. Above Gold Ray surveys in 1D58 disclosed that nearly 1,900 spring sal mon were taken by anglers from this section of stream. The total annual spring chl nook run entering the Rogue averages about 29,000 fish. In addition to water tem peratures previously m e n tioncd, observations indicate that the pattern of seasonal runoff Influences the rate of migration of spring chinook and steclhcad. In other words the fish seem able to predict what the1 water flows will be two or three months Inter. Frantic Rush In the spring prior to a summer with below average water flows, these fish mnke a frantic rush to holding areas PRE- CHRISTMAS SPECIAL ONE 8x10 and 12 Portrait Christmas Cards $Q95 SPECIAL PRICES ON FAMILY GROUPS FULL SELECTION OF PROOFS MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT NOWI For All Your Photographic Needs lis . . . CAMERAS PHOTOGRAPHS 120 East Main St in the headwaters. , On good water seasons they take their own sweet time getting there, lingering In the t holes and riffles along the way. A question frequently asked by uprivcr fishermen is how long will it take a spring sal mon to arrive from Gold Beach., The height of the river, temperature of the wat er, and turbidity will shorten or lengthen that time. With average flows in the spring, at least three weeks is gen erally required between Gold Beach and Robertson bridge. The rate of migration, or progress the fish make in miles per day, is governed largely by climb in altitude. The faster the climb, the slow er the rate of travel in miles per day. As an example, a spring salmon migrating up the Umpqua river appears at Winchester dam in much less time than it takes for a spring chinook moving up the Rogue to aavage Kapids. The distance In river miles is the same, but In altitude the fish on the Rogue must climb twice as high. The 50 degree fahrenheit line of wat er temperature is, of course, more or less associated with altitude too. The rate of tra vel is also reduced after the fish negotiate a ladder system at a dam. Fall Chinook Salmon Kali-run chinook and sil vers start to develop sexual maturity at sea, and they make a wild dash up the Rogue. They start entering river in early September with the bulk of fish coming in after the first showers In early October. Some chlnook continue coming Into the ri ver as late as January. incse tan salmon prepare lo spawn almost Immediately upon reaching the gravel of their choice. The term 'choice" is used loosely be cause there Is evidence that they will spawn wherever mo turnity stops them or water conditions permit them to mi grate. The bulk of the fall chinook spawn in the main channel of the Rogue from points over lapping those used by strag glers of the spring run down river to bars located close to tidewater. A segment of the fall -clii-nook run migrates into the Applegate river, but during most years they must wait in the Rogue for a rise in water level before they can enter. These fish, over a period of years, have adapted them selves to this waiting period, and some of the latest spawn ing chlnook In Oregon are spawning In January and early February. Another race of fall chinook uses the Illinois river. The delayed access to preferred spawning areas occurs here, too, at the Illinois Falls. A greater range to more suit able spawning areas will be possible for these fish with the completion of the new Il linois Falls flshway. Nearly all of the fall chi nook taken in the Rogue sys tem are caught at the jaws of the river and at the mouth of the Illinois. The average an nual catch is about 4,000 fish Total numbers entering the river average about 52,000. Silvers enter the Rosue with the fall chinook. Most of the catch is made in the low er 30 miles of the river. Some concentrated effort is spent for them on the Illinois river in the vicinity of the Illinois falls. The total annual run of silvers entering the Rogue is csumatca to be 8,000, with the annual each about 800 fish. Most silver salmon on the Pacific coast make short mi grations into 'river systems. The runs using the Rogue are unique In that they migrate 10 me Headwaters of the An- plegate (130 miles) up Little Butte creek (147 miles), and a few go 165 miles into Big oimc creek and Elk creek, More characteristic of the typical silver migration are those fish using the Illinois system. Even though many silvers depend upon the main Rogue channel for spawning they definitely prefer tributary streams. This preference for small tributaries Is an im portant factor relating to the conditions of the stocks of sil vers in the Rogue ' system Tributaries have been abused and are rarely ,ln good condi tion for spawning in Decem ber and January. The subject of sa)mon will continued in the next article appearing in this, series. Lodge, Wife Leave For Virgin Islands New York -0IPD- Henry Cab ot Lodge, former ambassador to the United Nations and de feated vice presidential can didate, left by plane Wednes day accompanied by M r s. Lodge for a one week vaca tion In the Virgin Islands. Lodge refused to discuss his future plans. He said only that any possibility of a posi tion In the Kennedy adminis tration was "a new idea" to More Flexible Margin Controls Sought in Stock Market Buying By HENRY J. BECHTOLD UPI Financial Editor New York-UIPD - Every so often we read about the stock market margin being cut or raised. The effects of such a move on the stock market usual ly are appar ent immedi- a t e 1 y, but what it means to the econo my generally is never re ported. Two New Henry Becntolo York Univers ity professors decided to rem edy this situation, and, under a grant from the New York Stock Exchange, made an ob jective Investigation of the role of stock market margin In the economy. The results have been published in a 194- page book, "Security Credit Its Economic Role and Regu lation." Margin Is the amount paid by the customer when he uses credit to buy a security, the balance being advanced by the broker. Under Federal Re serve regulations, the initial margin required in the past 20 years has ranged from 40 per cent of the purchase price all the way to 100 per cent. It presently is at 70 per cent. Lir. jutes I. Bogen and Her- Dr. Wells Tells 01 Africa Trip At Chamber Lunch Ashland - Dr. Wayne Wells spoke to the Ashland Cham ber of Commerce on his trav els in Africa at a Tuesday luncheon of the chamber in the Mark Antony hotel. Wells recently spent nine months traveling in all areas of the continent, including The Congo. Some of Wells observations Included the fol lowing: i ... "What Is happening In The Congo ia what should be ex pected. The people have no education, so they believe any thing that is told to them." May Stay Thar , "Most of the English people I talked to in Africa seem to think they will remain there, in spite of the recent problems." 'English universities In Af rica are generally very good. However,- native schools are n't as good. Most of the stu dents in native schools go two or three years and then drop out." Wells described various Af rican cities,1 and noted that most of them are quite mo dern. In cities where large English populations exist. segregation is rigidly . en forced, he said. In describing The Congo, Wells noted that outside of large cities, the death rate Is between 27 and 30 per cent. He said many of The Congo's problems are due to lack of communication between the various Congolese. man E. Krooss, professors of finance and economics, respec tively, at NYU's Graduate School of Business Adminis tration, favor more flexible margin controls. They conclude in their study that a quarter-century s ex perience with federal margin controls suggests that margl changes in the future jould well be held within a narrow er range. They found that small margin, increases have proved to be as effective as large increases in -influencing the trend of customer borrow ing Other key points among the authors conclusions are -Security credit has made a far greater contribution to economic growth than is In dicated by the average vol ume of such loans about per cent of all bank loans du ing the 1950s. "Wholesale' security credit finances new flotations and they are listed inventories by those who make markets in out- stanaing issues: 'retail' se curity" credit broadens the market for both new and old issues by expanding the num ber of individuals who can buy or carry securities -The economic benefits of security credit have been pro vided by a volume of loans that has not been large enough to adversely affect either the stability of the economy or the effectiveness of general credit control. '. -The rapid expansion of consumer, business and mort gage loans has been respon sible for the adoption of re strictive quantitative credit policies by the Federal Re serve in the past decade. Se curity loans have not been factor in the adoption of such policies. -Selective control of secur ity loans was adopted, fol lowing the experience, before and after 1929, to make gen eral credit control more ef fective, and yet retain the benefits for the capital mar kets and . the . economy ..thai. security credit provides :-An - -Income in security credit rates results In an ex pansion of funds available for business or consumer spend Ing; a decrease produces much the opposite effect, The Bogen and Krooss book also studies the evolution of security credit regulation, which was first proposed fol lowing the financial panics that occurred prior to the Hunt for Pendleton Aviator Called Off Cheyenne, Wyo. -0IPD- Wy oming aero nautics offcials have called off the search for a missing light plane follow ing a flight Monday over the area south of Rawlins, Wyo The plane, -carrying James E. Green, 29, of Pendleton, O r e., disappeared Oct. 29 while en route' from Oregon to Oklahoma City. Green made his last radio contact at Rawlins and was reported seen in the area south of Rawlins about an hour later. '"i'Sw, n' m ft& i'.-t. n I ,W'ViiifiVT"V. r A establishment of the Federal Reserve System in 1913. It notes that the New York Stock Exchange took the first step towards such regulation in 1913 when members were called upon to require "prop er and adequate" margin in customer's accounts. The Federal Reserve Act en acted later that year sought to make security loans less attractive to member banks by denying the rediscount privilege to such loans. Stock market credit was regulated during World War I, but solely to prevent hamp ering of the Treasury's war financing, according to the book. This regulation, effect ed through bank lending quotas, was terminated soon after the war, but it did set a precedent for selective con trol of security credit. The great expansion of stock market credit during the late 1920s resulted in pro visions for Federal Reserve Board margin regulations in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Elmer Biegel, Dull Get Honors Salem-tUPD-The League of Oregon Cities, meeting In its annual convention here, has honored 10 veteran city of ficials. James A. Gallagher, city councilman of Corvallls, was saluted as the veteran city of ficial in the group. His mu nicipal service dates to May, 1906, when he was appointed fire chief and city marshall at Yamhill. Other veteran officials fet ed were Ed Boatwright, re tired Portland fire chief, whose service began in 1914; Ivan Peterson, 45 years Mc Minnville fire chief; Robert Mills, Salem fire chief, 1917; Wayne Osterby, Astoria fire chief, 1920; Salem engineer Coast Guard Recruiter Plans Medford Visit Lonnie K. Johnson, BT1, Coast Guard recruiting offi cer, will be in Medford Tues day, Nov. 22, at the Navy re cruiting station in the post office building. Anyone interested in the Coast Guard may talk with the recruiter during regular office hours Tuesday. T. H. Davis, 1922; Alfred Mundt, Salem city recorder, 1923; Elmer Biegel, Ashland city administration, 1924; Walter Vandervelden, Forest Grove fire chief, 1924, and Robert Duff, Medford city manager, 1925. BEWARE or IMITATIONS ' LOOK tOK THI HAPPY umi ooo TOPS IN QUALITY! LOW IN PRICE To Get kins 5T (?...; ;- .- -yAO lo Bit Pie FRUIT MOM! They love the bri the crisp shapes, the good, good taste! gm colors, found her. A few ar still him. 1 i 1
