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line. Ferguson at this time procured twelve or thirteen Salmo agua- 
bomta golden trout from Cottonwood Lakes and Creek. All of the 
trout were delivered to the Fish and Game Commission’s fish car at 
Lone Pine and were shipped to the Sisson Hatchery. A few of the 
Salmo agua-bonita were exhibited in Sacramento. Deputy Bullard, 
who had helped with the pack, took, in the course of the return trip, 
a hundred trout from Voleano Creek, which he planted in the North 
Fork of the Kaweah, Indian Basin and Traweek Creek. 
Those who visited this great wonderland of the southern Sierra 
Nevada began to find not only the ordinarily beautiful trout, but in 
previously uninhabited streams they saw darting forms of gold and 
silver, and the fishermen rejoiced. However, in order that the pleasure 
of golden trout fishing might be better assured to the ever-increasing 
numbers of fishermen, the law which is incorporated in the penal code 
is as follows: 
‘*633. Every person who, at any time between the first day of 
October and the thirtieth day of June of the succeeding year, takes, 
catches, kills, destroys, or has in his possession, any variety of golden 
trout; or who, at any time, takes, catches, kills, or destroys, any variety 
of golden trout other than with hook or line ; or who, at any time, 
takes, catches, kills, destroys, or has in his possession, during one ¢é alen- 
dar day, more than twenty golden trout, or has in his possession any 
variety of golden trout of less than five inches in length, is guilty of a 
misdemeanor, Ev ery person found guilty of any violation of any of 
the provisions of this section must be fined in a sum not less than twenty 
dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail, in the county in which 
the conviction shall be had, not less than ten days, or be punished by 
beth such fine and imprisonment, and all fines collected for any viola- 
tion .of any of the provisions of this section must be paid into the 
state treasury to the credit of the fish commission fund. Nothing in 
this section shall prohibit the Fish Commission of this state from taking 
at all times such golden trout as they deem necessary for the purpose 
of propagation or for scientific purposes.’’ 
In 1912 the packhorse distribution work was confined to Madera and 
Tuolumne counties, so that it was not until 1913 that Deputies Ellis 
and Smalley, with a splendidly equipped pack train, proceeded with 
the program for the transplanting of the golden trout. On Septem- 
ber 1, Ellis and Smalley left Whitney Meadows with 821 Salmo 
roosevelti to plant Roaring River and tributaries. It had been an 
unusually rainy season in the mountains, and all during their previous 
golden trout plants they had been handicapped by finding trails 
obstructed and streams swollen. The fish, too, were difficult to catch. 
But undaunted they left Whitney Meadows with the 821 trout, 
descended the Kern River Canyon, crossed the Kern-Kaweah Divide 
to Mineral King, ascended Timber Gap, descended again to the Kaweah 
Canyon, and on over the Kings-Kaweah Divide via Elizabeth Pass to 
Roaring River. Some of the trout had been in the cans fourteen 
days, yet despite the hard travel and circuitous route only five trout 
were lost. At the close of the season 87 plants had been made of 
the species and with no exception the species used by the Commission in 
the golden trout plants had been the Salmo rooseveltt. 
