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The following table shows the shipments In' months f i-oni a single express office, 

 Tahoe City, during four seasons. As stated above, no record was obtained from this 

 office for iyol. 



During the three seasons, 1900, 1903, and 1904, the largest month! j' shipments 

 were made in June and July. In 1903 the largest monthly shipments from the 

 express office at Tallac were made in the months of June and Jul}' and the .same was 

 also true of the shipments from McKinney's in 1900. About nine-tenths of the trout 

 shipped are Tahoe trout, Sril/no Jan.shdiri. 



]Mr. ^Mlliam Boyle informed the writer that the price of these trout has risen 

 in the past twelve years from 10 cents a pound as a minimum to 35 cents per pound 

 in 1903. During June of the past season, 1904, the fishermen received about 30 

 cents per pound. At the above prices the trout shipped in 1903 had a commercial 

 value of $4,891.95, and in 1904, $6,819. Many of the trout that are shipped, how- 

 ever, are not placed on the market, for the successful tourist angler usually ships a 

 large portion of his catch to relatives or friends. The trout shipped by the commer- 

 cial fishermen are marketed chiefly in San Francisco, where they are retailed at 50 

 to 75 cents a pound. A small portion of each year's catch is marketed in Tahoe 

 City, Cal., and Carson City, Nev. 



The above figures, however, do not include two unknown but nevertheless very 

 large elements of each season's catch, the trout used by the resort hotels and tho.se 

 consumed by campers and individuals who have summei- homes around the lake. An 

 attempt was made to olitain some idea of the amount consumed by the large hotels. 

 The average dailv consumption of each hotel during this investigation was obtained 

 and on this basis an estimate was made for a .season of ninet}' days. Tiie sum total 

 of these estimates approximates 10,000 pounds. This, added to thi> trout .shipped 

 from the lake in 1904, gives a total of 28,186 pounds. This sum accoiuits for only 

 two parts of the season's catch. It is impossible to give an estimate of the third 

 part, that is, the local consumption other than that of the hotels. 



Some idea of the "luck" of tiie fishermen may be gained from the following 

 record of two who were located at the outlet of the lake. This shows the number of 

 trout caught bv each on the davs indicated. 



