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Many fines have also been collected as a result of prosecutions commenced by the 

 •emmission. 



Other large companies which have complied with our requests, or demands, with- 

 ent prosecution, are as follows : 



Standard Oil Company $500,000 00 



Southern Pacific Company -_ 26,000 00 



Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company 5,000 00 



Coast Counties Gas and Electric Company 5,000 00 



Coast Valleys Gas and Electric Company 3,000 00 



Pacific States Refining Company 2,000 00 



Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company 2,000 00 



Western States Gas and Electric Company 5,000 00 



$548,000 00 

 Brought forward 318,000 00 



Grand total- $860,000 00 



And in addition a large number of smaller companies and individuals have been 

 compelled to cease pollution where such existed. In all cases where pei'sons, firms 

 or corporations have failed to comply with our demands they have been taken into 

 court. !jl i 



Three cases are now pending in the courts of San Luis Obispo County, two 

 against the Union Oil Company for pollution of San Luis Bay, and one against 

 the Tiber Pacific Company. 



11. Screens. Prior to 1912 no systematic effort was made to cause the installa- 

 tion of screens and ladders. At that time the present commission created a depart- 

 ment of screens and ladders and detailed two men to attend to this work under the 

 supervision of the Superintendent of Hatcheries. Since that time, despite the fact 

 that the law has been found defective in some I'espects, 862 surveys have been made 

 and notices served on the owners of ditches to install suitable screens. At this date 

 518 screens have been reported as being installed and in effective working condition. 

 Before May 15 of this year between fifty and sixty screens have been installed at 

 the expense of several thousand dollars. For instance, the screens installed by the 

 Sacramento-West Side Canal Company, the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation Com- 

 pany and the Southern California Edison Company, cost many thousands of dollars 

 each. 



The work of installing screens in ditches is being pushed as rapidly and as vigorously 

 as conditions will permit. 



Under the law as amended in 1917, at the suggestion of the commission, the 

 California Oregon Power Company has, at an expense of $20,000, built a hatchery 

 at the Copco dam on the Klamath River, and last month conveyed it to the state, 

 together with dwellings, traps and other equipment necessary to operate the station. 



12. Ladders. The present Fish and Game Commission in 1912 began a systematic 

 survey in order to determine where fish ladders should be installed. As stated under 

 the head of "Screens" (point 11), two men were detailed under the supervision of the 

 Hatchery Superintendent to make these surveys and to draft plans to be given 

 the owners or occupiers of the dam. Numerous ladders and screens were installed ; 

 under the law 47 hearings as to the necessity of the installation of screens and 

 ladders were held by the commission and findings made and orders issued by the board 

 compelling the installation of fishways and screens. To date a total of 209 surveys 

 of dams have been made and the owners have been legally notified to install fish ladders 

 in accordance with the plans submitted. Of this number 131 fishways have been 

 constructed and have been accepted as being effective. The other cases are being 

 pushed vigorously and in some instances actions have been commenced to compel 

 obedience to the orders of the board. 



13. At the 1917 session of the Legislature, the commission was instrumental in 

 having sixteen large areas within national forests set aside as game refuges, aggre- 

 gating 839,180 acres. Besides this, the commission has now established seven game 

 refuges on privately owned land in sections where hunting is intensive and game needed 

 such protection. Within the last six months, over 60,000 acres of private holdings 

 have been set aside for this purpose. 



The commission is now asking the Legislature that two new game refuges be 

 created, one around Lick Observatory, the other in Kern County. 



14. The branch office established at Fresno was abolished because the work done by 

 that office could be more efficiently and economically handled by the San Francisco 

 office. The officer who had been in charge of the Fresno office was retained in the 

 service of the commission until he voluntarily asked to be given a furlough in order 

 that he could operate a mine which he owned and also attend to his agricultural 

 interests which demanded his attention. 



15. The game farm at Hayward, California, was established in 1908, prior to the 

 appointment of the present board. The grounds were leased for a period of ten years. 

 This commission was willing to cancel the lease at any time, had it been able to make 

 suitable terms with the owner. When the owner of the land sued the commission to 



