146 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 
named after the naturalist, Theodore Roosevelt, who at that time was 
president of the United States. 
The United States Bureau of Fisheries made an extended study of 
the trout, and in 1905 an attempt was made to establish a temporary 
hatchery station on’ Voleano Creek in order that the eggs of the golden 
trout might be obtained. But the spawning season was over before 
operations could be started: Two hundred and sixty-four trout were 
taken during the season to the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland, 
but as the result of an accident the entire lot was lost. Aside from the 
year-round, closed seasons for the golden trout adopted at a later date, 
the general program suggested was as follows: (1) The catch of 
eolden trout should be limited to less than the number allowed for 
other trout. (2) Fish culture should be promoted, and (3) the 
limits of the Whitney Military Reservation should be extended to 
include the whole of Volcano Creek. . 
That the fish is a hardy fish seems to have been rather well demon- 
strated in 1906. In March of that year the Fish and Game Commis- 
sion undertook to collect some specimens of the fish for exhibition 
purposes at the ‘‘Forest, Fish and Game Exhibit,’’ held in San Fran- 
cisco. About fifty specimens of the trout, Salmo agwa-bonita were 
taken from Cottonwood Creek, a stream the temperature of which is 
about 38°, and were transferred to water which was about 60° in 
temperature. They lived in their new environment for some two weeks 
or more. But at the end of the exhibition period, when the fish were 
sent to the Sisson Hatchery, about three-fourths of them died, evidently 
due to the added travel and the more or less depleted condition of 
the fish. Another instance of their adaptability and hardiness was 
reported by A. D. Ferguson. In 1913, he investigated a plant made 
by Deputy Bullard, in 1911. Bullard had stocked a small creek at 
Traweeks, in Fresno County, with golden trout. The stream is at 
an elevation of 3500 feet and the temperature during the summer 
months reaches about 75°. Mr. Ferguson says, ‘‘I found golden trout 
of various sizes in considerable numbers in this creek. A specimen 
some twelve inches in length, I judged to be one of the original plant.”’ 
In 1908 the Sierra Club did some splendid work. The club in 
making their plants used two ten-gallon Buhl cans with airholes in the 
covers. On July 7, they caught 110 trout with hook and line, the 
trout ranging in length from four to six inches. They were secured 
at the head of Long Meadow on Voleano Creek and were packed for 
about three hours to a lake in Rocky Basin. Only one fish was found 
to be dead and that was due to the way in which it had been hooked. 
On July 15, the head Sierra Club packer, Mr. J. Robinson, and his 
family caught 54 trout in Rock Creek averaging from 10 to 12 inches 
in length. They had undoubtedly been planted in the creek several 
years before. These were taken to a lake at the head of one of the 
branches of Rock Creek. ‘The third plant, made under the supervision 
of Mr. Wm. E. Colby, Deputy Fish Commissioner, was of 50 trout from 
the above named creek. They were planted in Whitney Creek. 
According to Mr. A. H. Hogue, forest supervisor of the Inyo National 
Forest, 600 golden trout from Little Whitney or Long Meadows were 
taken to Gardner Creek during the same season. 
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