XXVIII REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



otherwise have died from the exhaustion consequent upon any further 

 ascent of the river. 



Mr. Stone was much disheartened in the early part of the season by 

 getting only young male fish (Grilse) until after the middle of August. 

 The great number of these young males doubtless resulted from the 

 artificially propagated fish which had been turned loose in previous 

 years. Larger salmon, however, made their appearance in consider- 

 able numbers after the first of August, the fishing for the canneries 

 having been stopped at that date by the limitation of the fishing season. 

 The total production of eggs during the season of 1879 was about 

 9,500,000. 



Mr. Stone reports that the Indians seemed much better disposed than 

 in previous years. This change of attitude was possibly caused by the 

 suppression of the revolts by the Army on the frontier. The presence 

 of a detail of soldiers furnished by the commander of the department 

 was most beneficial, not only on account of the moral effect which their 

 presence had on the Indians, but as a restraint on the white marauders. 



In Mr. Stone's report will be found the schedule of the distribution 

 made of the 4,150,000 eggs which were taken to the East, the usual num- 

 ber of eggs and young fish having been reserved to keep up the stock 

 in the McCloud River. 



Besides the eggs distributed as shown iu this table, 150,000 were sent 

 to the Societe dAcclimatation, Paris, France; 100,000 to the Fischerei- 

 Yerein, Germany; 150,000 to the Zoological Society of Amsterdam, Hol- 

 land; and 100,000 to the Dominion of Canada. 



The eggs for distribution in the Eastern States and for shipment to 

 Europe were sent from liedding in a refrigerator car, obtained from the 

 Central Pacific Bailroad. Mr. Fred Mather, one of the assistants of the 

 Commission, having been instructed to meet the car on its arrival in 

 Chicago, for the purpose of overhauling the eggs and re-icing and reship- 

 ping iu accordance with the schedule of distribution given him, did so 

 at G.30 p. m. on the 11th of October. 



The refrigerator was there opened and the eggs for Washington taken 

 out, the chambers refilled with ice and placed in one end of an ordinary 

 baggage car, and in the other end those for Europe, New York, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and New Jersey. The eggs for Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, 

 Ohio, and Canada were left in the refrigerator car, and, after having 

 been re-iced, were delivered to the United States and American Express 

 Companies at three o'clock the following day. 



The baggage car left Chicago at 5.15 on October 12, bound East. On 

 the following day it arrived in Pittsburgh, where the eggs for Pennsyl- 

 vania were delivered to the Adams Express Company, consigned to Mr. 

 S. Weeks, at Corry, Pa. The weather was unusually warm, causing the 

 ice to melt very freely and necessitating re-icing at this point. 



On the arrival of the train at Harrisburg the three crates for Europe 

 and the half crate for New York ; the five crates for New Jersey and the 



