638 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



enough left of good water when the expedition started to furnish an 

 abundant supply for the journey. " 



The necessary supply of ocean water having been arranged for, I next 

 proceeded to secure the striped bass, and with this end in view I wrote 

 to Mr. Eugene Blackford on the subject, and was met by him with a spirit 

 of cordial co-operation. At his suggestion I engaged Mr. Fred. Mather 

 to take charge of getting the bass. I went to New York and saw Mr. 

 Mather, and was informed by him that six-inch bass could be obtained, 

 but none smaller. I told Mr. Mather to go on and get a supply of that 

 size to take to California, and he made arrangements for doing so ; but 

 about a week after I received a letter from Mr. Throckmorton contain- 

 ing explicit directions to take only very small bass, and to go in search 

 of them myself. I immediately went to New York a second time, and 

 from there to the Neversink Eiver, New Jersey, and found the place where 

 the young bass could be procured. After making such preliminary ar- 

 rangements as could be made at that time, I returned to Boston to give 

 my attention to procuring the lobsters and eels. For the remainder of 

 the work of getting the striped bass I reTer you to the very excellent 

 report, herewith appended, of Mr. H. W. Mason, who afterwards pro- 

 cured the bass from the Neversink Kiver and accompanied the expedition 

 to California. 



I must add here that it being the close season for striped bass in New 

 Jersey, I applied to the fish commission of that State for permission to 

 catch bass in the Neversink, and immediately received the following 

 permit, accompanied by a very cordial personal letter from Mr. Ander- 

 son, expressing great interest in the expedition and conveying his best 

 wishes for its success. 



[Commissioners: Benj. P. Howell, Woodbury; E. J. Anderson, Trenton; Theo. Mor- 



ford, Newton.] 



State of New Jersey Commissioners of Fisheries, 



Trenton, May 21, 1879. 

 Mr. Livingston Stone, United States deputy fish commissioner, is 

 hereby granted permission to take striped bass from the Neversink 

 River for the purpose of transferring them to the Pacific coast. This 

 authority extends to any of the accredited agents of Mr. Stone, and in- 

 cludes fishing in any manner that he or they may see fit, notwithstand- 

 ing anything to the contrary in the laws of this State regulating the 

 times and modes of taking fish. 



E. J. ANDERSON, 

 Commissioner of Fisheries of New Jersey. 



On arriving at Boston, I at once applied to Mr. S. M. Johnson and 

 Mr. J. R. Johnson of the firm of Johnson & Young, lobster dealers, War- 

 ren Bridge, Boston, whose co-operation I had found on several similar 

 occasions of the greatest value, and I take this opportunity to say that 

 from first to last these gentlemen were untiring in their efforts to assist 



