XIV REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



General Warren, of the Engineer Bureau, allowed the use of the 

 schooner belonging to his office, during a period of several months in 

 the summer, when not required by him, the Commission, of course, pay- 

 ing the running expenses. 



The Signal Office lent the wire and cable together with the instruments 

 necessary to effect telegraphic communication between Havre de Grace 

 and the barges of the Commission at the Head of Chesapeake Bay. Gen- 

 eral Meyer also directed his observers to take special note of water tem- 

 peratures at all the stations along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, sup- 

 plying thermometers to the observers already referred to, on the light- 

 ships and at the light-houses. The blank was furnished by the Com- 

 mission. 



A detail of a military guard at the salmon-hatching station on the 

 McCloud Eiver by General McDowell was of great importance in pro- 

 tecting the property of the government against a crowd of lawless Indians 

 and whites. An illustration of the value of this service is shown in the 

 accompanying letter from Mr. Stone, in charge of the station.* 



The Railroads.— All the railroads of the country to which application 

 was made for the favor furnished circulars to agents and baggage-mas- 

 ters, instructing them to facilitate in every possible way the operations 

 of the Commission, especially by accepting government orders for trans- 

 portation and authorizing the carrying in baggage cars, without any 

 charge, the cans containing young fish. 



A list of the routes referred to will be found in the appendix. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Company in addition furnished a car, free 

 of charge, for the transportation of all the eggs of California salmon 

 from Chicago to Washington. The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti- 

 more Bailroad also rendered a similar favor in connection with the move- 

 ment of young shad to various parts of the country. 



Ocean Steamers. — The offer of free transportation of messengers and 

 fish was made by the North German Lloyds, between Bremen and New 

 York, and by the Royal Mail Steamship Company, between New York 

 and Boston and Liverpool. 



Telegraph Companies. — The Western Union Telegraph Company 

 granted permission to stretch a telephone wire on its poles between 

 Havre de Grace and Aberdeen, beyond which to the hatching station 

 barges it was sustained by the flying poles of the Signal Office. 



(•Extract from a letter written by Mr. Livingston Stone, September 23, 1879, United States Fishery, 

 Baird, Shasta County, California.] 



The value of our military guard was well illustrated this week, as follows : Some ill-fa- 

 vored fellows had been hanging around here for some time, and one day they appeared 

 with a horse and wagon. I felt sure that they meant to steal our salmon, and, indeed, 

 the next morning, just at day -break, the soldiers caught them in the very act of taking 

 the spawning-salmon out of the corral. They undoubtedly meant to take a wagou 

 load. They met with pretty rough treatment from the soldiers, as they deserved, and 

 the circumstance is worth a great deal to the fishery, from the effect that it will have 

 in the community around us, upon both Indians and white men. 



