468 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



GAME. 



The large game, I regret to say, is disappearing from this locality, 

 owing, without doubt, to the approach of the railroad and the increasing 

 facilities which it affords for hunting in this vicinity. I noticed a marked 

 change even in the two years of my experience here. In 1S72 it was a 

 common thing to get a deer in the immediate vicinity of the camp : now 

 it is a rare thing. During our stay on the McCloud fresh bear-tracks 

 were continually seen, and several bears were killed : this year I have 

 not heard of the killing of a single bear, and their tracks are not abun- 

 dant. Only a few years ago grizzly bears used to occupy, almost undis- 

 turbed, a wild, rocky canon not two miles from the site of our camp: 

 now the grizzlies have all retired for several miles. 



Smaller game, as quails and water-fowl, still remain, however; and 

 there are minks and wild-cats enough left to make it very unsafe for 

 poultry. 



EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL. 



1874. 



July 5. — Eeached camp at 3£ a. m. All hands set to work on the 

 fishing-ground. 



July G. — Made a corral for the cow. First haul of the seine. Visit 

 from a Warm Spring Iudiau engaged in the Modoc wax last year. 



July 7. — Mr. Woodbury arrived with Ah Sin, the cook. 



July 8. — Mr. Myron Green caught a salmon with a fly. Supplies 

 arrived at noon. A busy afternoon. 



July 9. — Visit from Conchoolooloo, the Indian chief. Mercury in ther- 

 mometer, in the sun, 159° — in the sand near the house. Chinaman very 

 sick. 



July 1.0. — Mr. Woodbury killed a rattlesnake, making seven that have 

 been killed in the neighborhood this summer. Launched the boat to- 

 day. Target-shooting in the evening. 



July 11. — The Chinaman went out in the boat and was carried over 

 the rapids but not injured. 



Sunday, July 12. — A party of us made the very steep ascent of the 

 lower summit of Mount Persephone. Unpleasantness between the Chi- 

 naman and Indians. United States flag raised to-day. 



July 13. — First photographs taken. All hands went to an Indian 

 dance in the evening. Comet seen to-night for the last time in the 

 evening here. 



July 15. — Timber came to-day and we laid the floor of the new house. 



July 16. — Bought cow and calf. 



July 20. — Moved headquarters to-day to Brush Camp, out of doors. 

 Felled several large trees for the bridge. 



July 21. — Rattlesnake was killed opposite the house. Twenty minutes' 

 exposure to the rays of the sun this afternoon cooked an egg. 



