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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, were made
accessible for fish get over, they
could pass up river 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 Dennies
Dam, sixty miles of feeding, and
breeding ground would be thrown
open for all fish indigenous to the
stream; and thereby giving opportunity
for the inhabitants along the whole
extent of the 60 miles to partake of
the benefits fairly, and legitimately
due to them; but which by Dennies
Dam, and the insufficiency of the
fish-pass by wrong location, they
are now wholly debarred from
enjoying: -- and the Indians, and other
inhabitants living below Dennies
Dam, are permitted to kill, and
destroy, all fish which on their up-
ward migration from the Lake con-
gregate in great numbers below the dam,

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