OPERATIONS ON THE m'CLOUD RIVER IN 1875 923 



If necessary, I could have pushed the work so as to have taken 

 10,000,000 eggs, but I did not do this because it had not been made ap- 

 parent that there would be a demand for so large a number. As it 

 actually turned out, there were just enough eggs to fill the orders, be- 

 sides having 2,000,000 to turn over to the California fish commission 

 for California waters. Sixteen hundred and fifty thousand of these were 

 hatched at the fishery and placed in the McCloud River. 



The success in maturing the eggs was quite equal to the success ex- 

 perienced in taking them. Mr. Woodbury, who had special charge of 

 the hatching-troughs, estimates that 4 per cent, only were lost in pre- 

 paring the eggs for shipment. The condition of the eggs was excep- 

 tionally good. Nothing could be conceived more faultless than they 

 appeared, and they were as healthy, in point of fact, as they seemed 

 clean and wholesome in outward appearance. 



The eye-spots showed in the first eggs on the 18th day of September, 

 nineteen days after they were taken. 



. 2. — Shipment of the eggs. 



On the 29th of September the first shipment to the east was made. 



This lot was made up from eggs taken on the 6th, 7th, and 8th days 

 of September, which were, consequently, twenty-one, twenty-two, and 

 twenty-three days old, the eggs gathered previous to these dates, to the 

 number of 2,500,000, having been reserved for California waters. 



The first shipment was as follows : 



To C. L. Ditman, Stillwater, Minn 200,000 



To S. S. Watkins, Redwing, Minn 200,000 



To B. F. Shaw, Anamosa, Iowa 300,000 



To N. W. Clark, North ville, Mich '. 268,000 



The second shipment was made on the 1st of October, and is as fol- 

 lows: 



To A. Palmer, Boscobel, Wis 80,000 



To N. W. Clark, North ville, Mich 480,000 



To Geo. H. Jerome, Niles, Mich 800,000 



The third shipment was made on the 4th of October, as follows: 



To T. B. Ferguson, Baltimore, Md 560,000 



James Duffy, Marietta, Pa 480,000 



Mrs. Dr. J. H. Slack, Bloomsbury, N. J 320,000 



The fourth shipment was made on the 7th of October, as follows: 



To Professor Ellzey, Christiansburg, Va 160,000 



William B. Robertson, Lynchburg, Va. - . . 160,000 



W. H. Cushmau, Georgetown, Col 240,000 



E. M. Lees, Westport, Conn 480,000 



Waldo Hubbard, Truckee, Cal. 240,000 



Myron Green, Kern River, Cal 240,000 



