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hatching-works $2.G6 a thousand. I think in future, with the experi- 

 ence that has been acquired and with the work that has already been, 

 accomplished, that' it is highly probable that the eggs can be got out at 

 a still less expense ;■ and I should not be surprised, in the event of the 

 undertaking being repeated on the McCloud Eiver another year, if 

 5,000,000 eggs could be secured at a cost of $5,000, gold, or at the rate 

 of $1 a thousand,. 



10.— JOURNAL OF OVERLAND TRIP WITH SALMON-EGGS. 



Below will be found an account of an overland trip with one lot of 

 California-salmon eggs : 



At 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, September 30, 1873, all the eggs 

 for one shipment, to the number of 600,000, having been packed in three 

 large crates, we began moving them to the wagon which was to carry 

 them to the railroad-station at Eedding, Cal. The crates containing 

 the eggs averaged in weight about 300 pounds apiece, and it was a. 

 difficult job, in the burning sun, to get them up the long, steep hill to? 

 the stage-road where the wagon was waiting. With the help of half a 

 dozen Indians, it was accomplished at last, however, and at about 5 

 o'clock I started for Eedding, distant twenty-two miles. So rough and 

 difficult is the road that we did not reach our destination till 1 o'clock 

 in the morning. I had previously arranged to have 200 pounds of ice 

 provided at Eedding, which I distributed on the crates. 



The eggs were consigued as follows: To Seth Green, Eochester, 

 N. Y., 3 boxes, 200,000; E. G. Pike, Middletown, Conn., 2 boxes, 

 150,000 ; F. W. Webber, Cold Spring trout-ponds, Charlestown, K H., 

 1 box, 50,000; E. A. Brackett, Winchester, Mass., 1 box, 50,000; C. G. 

 Atkins, Bucksport, Me., 1 box, 50,000. 



The train left Eedding at 3 o'clock a. in., on Wednesday, October 1, for 

 Sacramento City, which I reached safely at 1 p. m., the crates apparently in 

 good order. I left Sacramento on the Central Pacific Eailroad on the 

 train going east at 2 p. m. the same day ; the eggs being in Wells & 

 Fargo's express-car. The morning was warm ; the night had been quite 

 cool. The next morning, Thursday, October 2, I telegraphed for ice at 

 Carlin, which was furnished when the train reached that point, and 

 which I broke up and put on the crates. 



On Friday morning, October 3, at 7 a. m., we reached Ogden, and the 

 crates were transferred to the express-car of the Union Pacific Eailroad 

 train, which connects here withthe Central Pacific Eailroad. During the 

 afternoon of Friday I opened one of the crates, and examined the top 

 layer of eggs. They were in perfect order, and looked precisely as well 

 as when they were first packed. I put on more ice and left them till 

 morning. On Saturday morning, October 4, 1 got up early, and went to 

 the express-car to examine the crates. The night had been cool, but 

 the express-messenger had kept a hot coal-fire iu the car and it was very 

 hot. I procured a lot of ice at Cheyenne, Wyo., which I used at once, 



