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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 

 into 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 

 its own, and the same year such a station was built upon Hat Creek 

 about 1\ 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. 



In 1895 another hatchery was built by the State near the mouth 

 of Battle Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River. In 1896 and 

 1897 this hatchery was operated jointly by the State and the United 

 States Fish Commission while awaiting the appropriation of money 

 by the Commission to purchase it from the State. 



In the fall of 1897 a hatchery was established by the State on 

 Price Creek, a tributary of Eel River, in Humboldt County, and in 

 1902 this hatchery made the first plant in the State of steelhead 

 trout fry. 



Santa Cruz County has had a hatchery at Brookdale for a number 

 of years. 



OUTPUT. 



The following tables show separately the quantity of eggs, fry, 

 etc., distributed by the United States Fish Commission and the 

 State since the inception of the work. The large quantity of eggs 

 shown by the Commission represents largely the eggs supplied to 

 the State, which hatched and distributed them, and eggs sent to 

 other States and to foreign countries. 



