STONE SALMON-BREEDING STATION, M'CLOUD RIVER, I879-. 690 



is being gathered, and consequently -will be inexhaustible if the supply 

 is not drawn on any faster in the future than it has been during the 

 eight seasons that we have used it. The ice-car was employed as usual 

 to convey the eggs from Eedding to Chicago. The entire space not 

 taken up by the crates of eggs was filled full of ice and all the eggs, 

 with possibly the exception of one crate, arrived at Chicago in first rate 

 condition. From here the more northern consignments were distributed 

 by the exprfss companies, while the southern eggs were shipped into a 

 regular refrigerator car and forwarded to Washington, whence they 

 were sent by express to their destinations. 



YOUNG SALMON FOR THE SACRAMENTO. 



Two and one-half millions of eggs for California were left at the fish- 

 ery, where they were hatched out at the expense of the California Fish 

 Commission and the young fish placed in the tributaries of the Sacra- 

 mento. 



THE INDIANS. 



It will be remembered, perhaps, that last year a good deal of uneasi- 

 ness was caused at the fishery and in the neighboring settlements by 

 the threatened attitude of some of the Indians to the north and east of 

 the McCloud River. Nothing was apprehended from the Indians in the 

 immediate vicinity of the fishery; but there were others at no great 

 distance from us who were inciting their companions to make an out- 

 break, and we heard of frequent threats of mischief being made by the 

 northern and eastern Indians, and by some restless spirits nearer home; 

 and although the actual danger of an attack might have been very slight, 

 it was perfectly apparent that the hostility to the whites, which then 

 extended from the Sierra Nevada range to the Missouri Eiver, had 

 reached the McCloud, and that many Indians not far from us had caught 

 the infection. All this was entirely changed this year. It could be seen 

 in the faces of the Indians. The universal uprising of all the Indians 

 between the Sierras and the Missouri, which had been so long contem- 

 plated, and which was to have culminated in July, 1878, having been 

 checked by the vigilance of the War Department, the project seems to 

 have been given up for the present, and the effect of it was felt even at 

 this distance. The Indians who advocated an uprising last year were 

 silent on the subject this year, and the air of insolence among the more 

 lawless ones last season had entirely disappeared this season. Indeed, 

 the Indians were never better behaved or more manageable than they 

 were this year ; and it is only justice to them to say that much of the 

 success of our work here is due to their assistance. A large number 

 (between twenty and thirty) of them are employed at the fishery every 

 year, and they are very efficient and valuable assistants, particularly in 



