498 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South CaroHna, Georgia, and 

 Pennsylvania. The shipment of fingerling black bass, rock bass, and 

 bream in connection with the trout distribution effected a considerable 

 saving of funds. 



On May 8 the car arrived at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., where 

 it received 54,950 fingerling trout for distribution to applicants in 

 central Pennsylvania. From Pennsylvania it proceeded to Bucks- 

 port, Me,, via Nashua, N. H., receiving at Nashua 60,940 trout and 

 landlocked salmon for delivery to applicants in the southwestern 

 section of Maine. It arrived at Bucksport on May 23, and took up 

 the distribution from the Craig Brook (Me.) station on May 27. 

 Four carload trips and a number of detached messenger shipments 

 with brook trout and landlocked salmon were made, also six carload 

 trips with Atlantic salmon. In the course of the work from this 

 station the car and its messengers covered practically all of the State of 

 Maine and distributed a total of 3,202,145 salmon and trout. 



During the year the car traveled 14,266 miles, made 32 trips, 

 delivered or planted 4,188,801 fish, and filled 1,500 applications. 



CAR NO. 7 



[E. M. Lamon, Captain) 



Car No. 7 was engaged in the shipment of fish from the upper 

 Mississippi River collecting stations between September 29 and the 

 end of November, during which time it distributed 114,100 bass and 

 miscellaneous fishes suitable for pond culture to applicants in Wiscon- 

 sin, Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, 

 and Nevada. At the close of the rescue worK the crew of the car was 

 detailed for duty during the winter at fish-cultural stations of the 

 bureau, and in February it was placed in the shops of the Chicago, 

 Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. for annual repairs. In the course 

 of this work it was outfitted with an electrically driven air compressor, 

 which has given such satisfaction that except in times of emergency 

 the use oi the steam-driven compressor can be entirely dispensed with 

 and a considerable saving in fuel effected thereby. 



About the middle of April the car took up the distribution of trout 

 from the Manchester (Iowa) station, leaving there on April 16 with 

 a load of fish for applicants in northern Wisconsin. After completing 

 this trip the car obtained a load of 300,000 brook trout from the Cedar 

 Island Lodge hatchery at Brule, Wis., and distributed them to appli- 

 cants in the vicinity of Fond du Lac, Wis. It then proceeded to La 

 Crosse, and between April 25 and May 16 distributed from the 

 hatchery at that point 497,800 brook trout, 51,900 Loch Leven trout 

 and 177,100 rainbow trout, delivering them to applicants in Wisconsin 

 and Minnesota. 



On completion of the La Crosse distribution the car resumed its 

 work from the Manchester station, making carload shipments of trout 

 to Madison and Milwaukee, Wis. It then obtained 40,500 young 

 rainbow trout from the Lincoln Park Aq^uarium at Chicago, lit., and 

 distributed them in Wisconsin. Returnmg to Manchester it made a 

 trip with trout to Minocqua, Wis., and then proceeded to Dubuque, 

 Iowa. About this time the work at Manchester was brought to an 

 abrupt close, the destructive flood which occurred on the night of 



