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the only requirements being that each attendant be provided with a 

 first-class fare and the number of cans carried in a shipment be 

 limited to 20. However, several railroads have recently volunteered 

 free transportation for the bureau's distribution cars when engaged 

 in planting fish in waters contiguous to their lines. The following 

 extract from a letter received from the vice president and director 

 of traffic of the Great Northern Railway is indicative of the attitude 

 of one of the great railroad companies of the country toward this 

 branch of the bureau's work : 



St. Paul, Minn., May 1, 1922. 

 Mr. H. F. MooBE, 



Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 

 Dear Sir : We are very glad, indeed, to cooperate with your bureau in the 

 development of fish culture in waters along our line. I am sure that the work 

 done by your bureau is productive of much good at all points and is something 

 that we feel should be encouraged. You may be assured in the future, as in 

 the past, of our active cooperation at all times and thank you sincerely for 

 writing me on the subject. 

 Yours very truly, 



W. P. Kenney. 



The Oregon Short Line, Lehigh Valley, Pere Marquette, Michig^an 

 Central, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Cliicago & North Western, 

 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Bangor & Aroostook, and the Maine 

 Central are other railroads that have extended courtesies in the way 

 of free transportation or reduced rates to the bureau's cars or to 

 messengers in charge of living fish. 



This cooperation demonstrates the value that the large railroad 

 systems of the country place upon having the streams in the vicinity 

 through which they pass well stocked with fish. Such streams not 

 only afford pleasure for the tourist, but increase transportation over 

 the roads and have a tendency to make such sections more attractive 

 to settlers. 



ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS. 



Without the excellent spirit of cooperation shown by organiza- 

 tions and individuals and the valuable information received from 

 anglers' clubs and others interested in fishing, the bureau, with its 

 limited funds, could not undertake more than 75 per cent of the 

 work it now accomplishes in interior waters. Although the bureau 

 makes deliveries of fish at the railroad station of the applicant free 

 of charge, the expense of hauling the consignment to suitable waters 

 is no small item. This part of the cost is borne by the applicant, 

 frequently an organization. Shipments of fish are sometimes met 

 by 25 or 30 members of an organization and the consignment divided 

 among them and planted in the waters most suitable for the par- 

 ticular species involved. These organizations are also of inestimable 

 value in promoting sentiment for the enforcement of fisheries regu- 

 lations and possibly serve to increase the supply of fish in streams by 

 this more than by making plants of fish. The bureau desires to 

 encourage the formation of such societies as will foster the supply 

 of fish, and it is willing to render any advice that may be needed 

 to attain that end. Applications for fish will be furnished such 

 organizations when it is shown that the waters are in need of re- 

 stocking. 



