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SALMON-HATCHING ESTABLISHMENT, M'CLOUD EIVER, CAL. 4.G1 



McCloud ; they never once flinched at the severity of their work or hesi- 

 tated to do anything that was required of them. Tall, stalwart, and 

 muscular, they added a good deal to our reputation with the aborigines 

 of the McCloud by throwing their champion wrestlers, while their 

 strength, at the same time, when turned, as, indeed, it always was with 

 undauntable resolution and energy, to the work of the camp, rendered 

 their services invaluable. 



By singling out these two, I do not mean to disparage the others, for 

 all worked well, and the Hubbard boys typified rather than contrasted 

 with the work that was done by*all. As an illustration, I will quote 

 the following paragraph from the Sacramanto Record of August 29, 

 1874: 



" They (the party at the McCloud canip) have demonstrated that, for 

 rapidity of action, endurance, hard labor, and practical accomplish- 

 ments, their physical training is of a high order. Sleeping upon the 

 rough planks of the living-room ; draped in coarse woolen shirts and 

 heavy pantaloons; with bare feet, or in jack-boots or moccasins; arms 

 and breasts bared ; tanned brown ; muscles wrought up like iron, and 

 all grim with the marks of labor, Mr. Stone has a party about him of 

 both brain and muscle, proving that hard and serious labor can be 

 evoked from students' arms, and that cultured intelligence and horny 

 hands may meet in harmony. Look about the camp ; every artificial 

 thing is their handiwork; they are at once plumbers, fitters, carpenters, 

 tailors, fishermen, geologists, chemists, artists, blacksmiths, lumbermen, 

 loggers, and so on." 



At the busiest part of the season the work was distributed somewhat 

 as follows : 



September 28. — Total number of hands employed, 24. 



Picking over moss 4 



In the hatching-house 7 



In kitchen and about buildings 3 



Hauling seine « 5 



Spawning salmon u 3 



In office and superintending , 2 



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The nature of our labors did not cut us off wholly from recreations, 

 for which all found some time on summer evenings and on Sundays. 

 There being no church within fifty miles, the time on Sundays was usu- 

 ally taken up with excursions to neighboring points of interest. Some- 

 times we went to Copper City, a settlement of two houses and five men, 

 about fourteen miles from the McCloud River. Sometimes we went to the 

 iron mountain, two miles distant, where a vast deposit of iron-ore has 

 been recently discovered. Sometimes we went up the river to hunt for 

 game, or climbed the steep-pinnacled rocks of Mount Persephone, just 

 opposite the camp. The summit of these extremely interesting lime- 



