PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES 645 



111 the fall of 1807 a hatchery was ostablisliod by the State at 

 Grizzly Bluff, on ]^ncc Creek, a tributary of Eel River, in Humboldt 

 County, and in 1902 this hatchery made the first plant in the State 

 of steelhead trout fry. In 1916 it was moved to a point on Eel 

 River near Fort Seward. 



Santa Cruz County has had a hatchery at Brookdale for a number 

 of years. In 1911 it was leased to the State and operated by the 

 latter during the seasons of 1911 and 1912. In 1913 the State gave 

 up the lease and entered into a contract to purchase the eggs pro- 

 duced from this hatchery. The price agreed upon was that the 

 State commission was to pay $1.50 per thousand for the eyed steel- 

 head eggs, up to the number of 2,000,000, and $1 per thousand for all 

 eggs up to 3,000,000, provided that the eggs were collected and eyed 

 by a skilled fish culturist and would pass inspection before they were 

 accepted. In 1916 the State leased the plant for a term of years. 



A hatchery was established by the United States Bureau of Fish- 

 eries at Hornbrook, on Klamath River, in 1913. At first this hatchery 

 was devoted to rainbow-trout work, but later the collection and 

 distribution of silver and chinook salmon was taken up. 



During the fall of 1911 the State established an experimental 

 station at Sacrainento in order to carry on a series of experiments to 

 determine whether the eggs of the quinnat salmon could be success- 

 fully hatched and the fry reared near the city of Sacramento. Of 

 the fish hatched at this station 50,000 were marked. 



Nearly all of the fry that were liberated in the Sacramento River 

 were floated in a screen cage by boat into the middle of the stream 

 and there released. N. B. Scofield took 500 in a floating box down 

 the river, where they were held and fed for several weeks in brackish 

 and salt water. They were apparently not affected by the changes 

 in the salinity of the water. 



Experiments were carried on until the summer of 1913, when 

 they were abandoned due to the killing of the embryos by the min- 

 eral substances in the water used at the station. 



During the fiscal year 1912 the Mill Creek hatchery of the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries was operated by the California Commission. 



Some years ago the town of Ukiah, Mendocino County, established a 

 hatchery 1 mile from the town, and on Russian River. For some years 

 it was operated as a trout station, but eventually became an impor- 

 tant steelhead hatchery. It was not operated in 1913. In 1914 the 

 State Fish Commission collected steelhead eggs at the Eel River dam 

 of the Snow Mountain Water & Power Co., and having secured permis- 

 sion from the town of Ukiah, hatched them out in its hatchery. 



As the Hornbrook hatchery on Klamath River was on private 

 property, the United States Bureau of Fisheries in 1915 removed the 

 buildings from the old location on the south side to property owned 

 by the Government on the north side of the river. 



In 1915 new hatchery buildings were erected at the Mill Creek 

 hatchery. 



In 1917 the State of California began operations for the coHection 

 of salmon eggs at Klamathon, on the Klamath River. This station 

 was previously operated by the Bureau of Fisheries and has been 

 operated with fair success to the present time. The eggs taken have 

 been hatched at the Mount Shasta and Fall Creek hatcheries. The 

 Fall Creek hatcherj'- began operations in 1920, and is located on Fall 

 Creek, a tributary of the Klamath in Siskiyou County. 



