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The fishing- for parent trout in the river is now being continued, in 

 order to add to the stock already in the ponds, which probably contain 

 at present about three tons weight of healthy and line-looking fish. 



I will conclude this report by giving an annual record of the most 

 important events at the two stations of the United States Fish Com- 

 mission on the McCloud Eiver, from the beginning of operations (1872) 

 up to the present time (18S2). 



ANNUAL RECORD OF OPERATIONS AT THE FISII-BREEDINGr STATIONS 

 OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION ON THE MCCLOUD 

 RIVER. 



1872. 



The spawning grounds of the Sacramento salmon discovered in the 

 McCloud Eiver. A small station for taking salmon eggs, tempora- 

 rily established on a stream on the west side of the McCloud. 



Operations were begun too late in the season to accomplish any con- 

 siderable results this year, but 30,000 eggs were sent to the Atlantic 

 coast, and the very important fact was established that salmon eggs 

 could make the overland journey to the Atlantic in safety. 



1873. 



Salmon-breeding station moved to the bank of the McCloud Eiver. 

 Hostile demonstrations were made by the natives to prevent the work 

 from going on. Eeferriug to this, my report for the year says: 



"Our attempt to locate a camp on the river bank was received by the 

 Indians with furious and threatening demonstrations. They had until 

 this time succeeded in keeping white men from the river, with the ex- 

 ception of one settler, a Mr. Crooks, whom they murdered a few weeks 

 after our arrival. Their success thus far in keeping white men off had 

 given them a good deal of assurance, and they evidently entertained 

 the belief that they should continue, like their ancestors before them, 

 to keep the McCloud Eiver from being desecrated by the presence of 

 white men. Their resentment was consequently very violent when they 

 saw us bringing our house and tents and camp-belongings to the edge 

 of the river, and they spent the whole day in resentful demonstrations, 

 or, as Mr. Woodbury expressed it, in trying to drive us off. Had they 

 thought they could have succeeded in driving us off with impunity to 

 themselves, they undoubtedly would have done so, and would have hesi- 

 tated at nothing to accomplish their object; but the terrible punishments 

 which they have suffered from the hands of the whites for past mis- 

 deeds are undoubtedly too fresh in their memories to allow them to 

 attempt any open or punishable violence. So, at night, they went 

 off, and seemed subsequently to accept in general the situation." 



Eaised the water for the hatching-house from the river by means of a 

 current-wheel 12 feet in diameter. Endeavored unsuccessfully to keep 



