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built under the "the Rogers plan": the
pass is shown in red on the plan.
If the main dam above
of only 5 feet to [surmount
?] [?] make
[?] for fish to [?] over they
could pass up [?] to [Walkerton?]
a distance of sixty miles without
any obstruction whatever: at [Walkerton?]
I was informed a dam covered the
whole width of the river whether a
pass has been built in this dam
I cannot say but should the
difficulty be overcome at [?]
dam sixty miles of feeding and
breeding found would be thrown
open for all fish indigenous to the
stream and thereby giving opportunity
for the inhabitants along the whole
[?] of the 60 miles to partake of
the benefits family and legitimately
due to them; but which by [?]
dam and the insufficiency of the
fish-pass by wrong locations they
are now wholly debarred from
enjoying and the Indians and other
inhabitants living below [Dennies?]
dam are permitted to kill [and?]
[?] all fish which on their up -
[ward?] migration from the lake [con?] -
[gregate?] in great numbers below the
dam. | 80
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[Bleeding through from previous page]
[Recto]
built under the "Rogers place": the
pass is shown in red on the place.
If the main dam above
of only 5 feet to [surmount
?] [?] make
[?] for fish to [?] over they
could pass up [?] to [Walkerton?]
a distance of sixty miles without
any obstruction whatever: at [Walkerton?]
I was informed a dam covered the
whole width of the river whether a
pass has been built in this dam
I cannot say but should the
difficulty be overcome at [?]
dam sixty miles of feeding and
breeding found would be thrown
open for all fish indigenous to the
stream and thereby giving opportunity
for the inhabitants along the whole
[?] of the 60 miles to partake of
the benefits family and legitimately
due to them; but which by [?]
dam and the insufficiency of the
fish-pass by wrong locations they
are now wholly debarred from
enjoying and the Indians and other
inhabitants living below [Dennies?]
dam are permitted to kill [and?]
[?] all fish which on their up -
[ward?] migration from the lake [con?] -
[gregate?] in great numbers below the
dam. |