PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 925 
at first paid part of the expense, and the Commission hatched and 
planted a portion of the take in the McCloud River. Later, part of 
the eggs were turned over to the State, which hatched and planted 
the salmon in local waters. 
In 1881 the station buildings were washed away in a freshet, but 
were immediately rebuilt. From 1884 to 1887, both inclusive, all 
operations were suspended. 
In 1889 a hatchery was established at Fort Gaston, on the Army 
reservation in the Hoopa Indian Reservation in Humboldt County, 
but it was not put into operation until 1890. As the reservation 
was abolished on July 1, 1892, the Commission took complete charge 
of the plant, and in 1893 established a tributary station on Redwood 
Creek. The same year Korbel station was established about one- 
half mile above Korbel, on Mad River, in Humboldt County. Owing 
to the lack of money this station was closed in the fiscal year 1896, 
but was reopened during the fiscal year 1897. 
That same year the Commission erected, on ground owned by the 
State, a hatchery at Battle Creek in Tehama County and also took 
charge of and operated the hatchery erected at this place by the 
State fish commission the previous year. Under the terms of an 
agreement the Commission was to deliver to the State as many eyed 
spawn as the latter could hatch at Sisson, its own station. 
Owing to their inaccessibility the Fort Gaston hatchery and its 
substations were abandoned in 1898. The same year an experi- 
mental station was established at Olema, Bear Valley, in Marin 
County, whence eggs were transferred from Baird station, hatched 
out here, and planted in Olema Creek in order to see if they could 
not be domesticated here, where they had not been found pre- 
viously. 
During the fiscal year 1902 a substation was established on Mill 
Creek, a stream which has its source in the foothills of the Sierra 
Mountains, in the northeastern part of Tehama County, and empties 
nto the Sacramento River from the east about a mile above the 
town of Tehama. The eggs are retained here until eyed and then 
shipped to other hatcheries. 
As stated above, the State aided the work of the United States 
Fish Commission in a financial way and'also by hatching and dis- 
tributing the eggs turned over to its care. In 1885 the State Legis- 
lature passed a bill authorizing the establishment of a hatchery of 
‘ts own, and the same year such a station was built upon Hat Creek 
about 24 miles above its junction with Pitt River, a tributary of 
the Sacramento River. As the work of the first few seasons devel- 
. oped that the location was unsuitable, the hatchery was removed 
in 1888 to Sisson, in Siskiyou County. The work of this hatchery 
was to handle the eggs turned over to it by the United States Fish 
Commission. * 
