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Sequoia National Park. Lieutenant Deane detailed two of his men, 
Sergeant Moffitt and Private Scholberg, to take the fish to Mineral 
King. There the party was met by J. Sub Johnson and M. L. Weaver, 
who were members of the club and residents of Visalia. These two 
men took the fish in a spring wagon to Visalia, and from there they 
were shipped by train to San Francisco and were delivered to the 
Fish and Game Commission. The plan was to send the fish to the 
hatchery at Sisson. However, before the trout were sent on the last 
lap of their journey, they were exhibited not only at the Midwinter 
Fair but at Golcher Brothers store in San Francisco. Thirty-six fine 
specimens were finally shipped to the Sisson hatchery, twenty-one 
reaching their destination in good condition, but the experiment was 
not considered satisfactory. 
In 1896, the first plant of the true golden trout, Salmo roosevelti, 
was made. All previous plantings had been either of the Salmo agua- 
bonita or Salmo whitei variety. During the summer of this year 
Mr. 8S. L. N. Ellis, accompanied by his son, L. L. Ellis, and a friend, 
F. J. Hill, planted the North Fork of the Kaweah—known as Dorst 
Creek—with fish taken from Volcano Creek, the original home of 
Salmo roosevelti. In the same season, Mr. Ellis in attempting to 
carry some of the fish from Voléano Creek to the North Fork of 
Kaweah, found that the trout were not standing the trip well and so 
decided to plant some of them in the Kaweah near Mineral King, and 
about twenty-five others, which were sick, in Silliman Creek and 
Willow Meadow. Nothing was ever heard of the latter plants. When 
in Mineral King, Mr. Ellis met the artist, Petrie, and showed him the 
golden trout, which were the first that the painter had seen. He was 
so charmed by their rare beauty that he soon afterwards used the 
fish as the subject for a painting. 
The following year an unsuccessful plant of the golden trout was 
made by Mr. J. M. Nelson, in Nelson Creek, a tributory of the Tule 
River. Also some cattle men carried fish from Whitney Meadows and 
planted them in Rock Creek. Another plant of trout was made in 
Rock Creek in August, 1900, by Mr. M. W. Buffington, county surveyor 
of Kern County. He wrote Major George W. Stewart of Visalia that 
he and a party of other men carried the trout in small lard cans—about 
seven in each can—to Rock Creek and turned some of them loose; the 
rest they carried to the trail crossing and placed them there. 
From 1897 to 1908 no authentic information regarding the planting 
of golden trout seems to be available, and that regarding the seasons 
of 1897 and 1900 seems to be rather incomplete. However, it was at 
this time that the government became actively interested in the protec- 
tion of the golden trout. In 1903, according to Dr. Barton W. Ever- 
mann, Stewart Edward White, impressed with the possibility of the 
extermination of these trout, wrote to George M. Bowers of the Com- 
mission of Fisheries and to the President of the United States calling 
their attention to the matter, and on July 13, 1904, Barton Warren 
Evermann, Assistant in charge of the Division of Scientifie Inquiry, 
Bureau of Fisheries, with a party outfitted at Redstone Park, Tulare 
County, left for the Whitney country to investigate the trout of the 
Kern River region. As a result of the investigation, the true golden 
trout of Voleano Creek was recognized as a new species, and was 
