XXII.— REPORT OF OPERATIONS DURING 1874 AT THE UNITED 



STATES SALMON-HATCHING ESTABLISHMENT ON 



THE M'CLOUD RIVER, CALIFORNIA. 



By Livingston Stone. 



Charlestown, K. H., April 5, 1875. 

 Hon. Spencer F. Baird : 



I beg leave to report as follows: I arrived at San Francisco with the 

 second California aquarium-car on the 12th day of June, 1874, with the 

 intention of resuming operations at the United States salmon-breeding 

 station on the McCloud Eiver, California, as soon as possible. Congress, 

 however, did not pass the required appropriation for the purpose until 

 the latter part of June. As soon as notice of this appropriation reached 

 me, I proceeded to procure supplies, and on the morning of the 4th 

 of July I left San Francisco, and arrived at the United States camp 

 on the McCloud Eiver on the morning of July 5. The rest of our force 

 arrived on Tuesday, July 7. We then numbered nine white men in all 

 J. G. Woodbury, San Francisco, Cal., foreman ; Eichard D. Hubbard 

 Charlestown, N. H., assistant; E. C. Forbes, Clinton, Mass., assistant 

 Waldo F. Hubbard, Gharlestown, N. H., assistant ; Oliver A. Anderson 

 Eed Bluff, Cal., assistant; Myron Green, High gate, Vt., head fisherman 

 E. Conklin, New York City, photographer; Marshall L. Perrin, Grant 

 ville, Mass., secretary ; Livingston Stone, United States Fish Commis 

 sion, in charge. 



Our force was occasionally increased by an additional man, but was not 

 diminished till the first shipment of eggs was forwarded east. I brought 

 up from San Francisco a Chinese cook, Ah Sing by name, and employed 

 more or less Indians throughout the whole season, the largest number 

 working on any one day being fourteen. At the close of the last sea- 

 son, 1873, it became necessary to remove the hatching- troughs and water- 

 wheel to higher ground, to put them out of the way of the winter fresh- 

 ets, which sometimes raise the water fifteen feet above the summer 

 level. The dwelling-house, although not above high-water mark, was 

 firmly shored up with timbers. This we found standing and in good 

 order. Our first work was to erect the hatching-tanks and replace the 

 wheel. This being done, we proceeded to build an addition to the dwell- 

 ing-house to accommodate the increased force of this year, and when 

 this was finished we went to work on the hatching-apparatus and the 

 fence across the river. The hatching-apparatus consisted of the troughs 

 used last year, with some additional ones, in both of which were placed 



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