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FACTS OF CURRENT INTEREST. 

 Work on the new $30,000 Tahoe Hatchery was resumed May 1 

 and it will be ready for occupancy August 15. 



Ray Morris of Taft, California, was tried on March 10, 1920, on 

 the charge of having deer in his possession during the closed season. 

 He was sentenced to thirty days in jail and fined $250. 



Floyd E. Baker of Los Angeles was caught by Deputy Ober in 

 Nine Mile Canyon, Inyo County, while attempting to leave the 

 mountains with twenty-four deer hides and nine sets of antlers which 

 he had secured in Tulare County. He was tried April 27, and 

 sentenced to 150 days in jail and a fine of $350. 



Low water conditions have precluded a large take of rainbow 

 trout eggs this season. At some of the best egg collecting stations 

 but small takes of eggs have been secured. 



The Fish and Game Commission has carried its educational cam- 

 paign into the summer resorts of the state. In cooperation with the 

 National Park Service, lectures and field trips are being furnished 

 visitors to Yosemite National Park. 



According to records kept by deputy game commissioners and forest 

 employees, 1243 deer were killed in Trinity County during last year. 

 It is estimated the total number was at least 2000, as many hunters 

 come into the county during the hunting season and kill deer, records 

 of which are never kept. 



