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detached messengers traveled 297,950 miles, of which 14,262 miles 

 and 113,701 miles, respectively, were free. The amount of the rail 

 road transportation required is a fair index of t he activity and growth 

 of the fish-cultural work, and it will be noted that in 1905 the increase 

 over 1901 was 26 percent in mileage of cars and 188 per cent in mile- 

 age of messengers. 



DISTRIBUTION IN THE VARIOUS STATES. 



The work of the Bureau in increasing the fish supply now extends 

 to every state and territory except Alaska, and will include that 

 territory in the fiscal year 1900. The extent to which the various 

 states were recipients in the distribution of food and game fishes is 

 here shown. Owing chiefly to the existence of local hatcheries and to 

 the extent of the local fisheries, California, Maine, Maryland, Massa- 

 chusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and 

 Virginia have received the largest number of fish, although it must be 

 borne in mind that fish deposited in the Great Lakes and interstate 

 waters ma} T benefit other states quite as much as those in which the 

 plants are originally made. 



Distribution offish and eggs in states and territories in 1905. 



State or territory. 



Alabama 



Arizona 



Arkansas 



California 



Colorado 



Connecticut 



Delaware 



District of < )< ilumbia 



Florida 



Georgia 



[daho 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Indian Territory 



Iowa 



Kansas 



Kentucky 



Louisiana 



Maine 



Maryland 



Massachusetts 



Michigan 



Minnesota 



Mississippi 



Missouri 



Montana 



Number of 



fish and eggs. 



137. 

 159. 

 370, 

 222. 

 9, 



10 



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State or territory. 



Nebraska 



Nevada 



New Hampshire . 



New Jersey 



New Mexico 



New York 



North Carolina . 



North Dakota 



Ohio 



Oklahoma 



Oregon 



Pennsylvania . . . 



Rhode Island 



South Carolina.. 



South Dakota 



Tennessee 



Texas , 



Utah 



Vermont 



Virginia 



Washington 



West Virginia 



Wisconsin 



Wyoming 



Number of 



fish and eggs. 



Total 1, 757, 419, 039 



15, 



362, 



117. 



137, 765 

 7,000 

 006, 655 

 511,300 

 125,650 

 486, 700 

 557,698 



54,903 

 365,783 



11', 100 



951.147 



549. 145 

 201,200 



71,040 

 tiT'.t, 100 



92,651 

 1-29. 148 

 SIS, 975 



908,206 

 810,699 



195. 1 19 



124,930 

 348,731 



7'_>0. 550 



RELATIONS WITH THK STATES. 



The usual friendly relations and mutually beneficial cooperation 

 between the Bureau and the fishery authorities of the various states 

 have been maintained. One line of policy that has been adopted, 

 which will minimize the possibility of injury as a result of the intro- 

 duction of nonindigeuous fishes into given waters, is that the Bureau 



