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money when we asked for it, but we do not wish to ask for it 

 until we can show more tangible results for our past labor than 

 we have yet been able to show. The Legislature hud acted 

 generously in the appropriation of money, and the people of the 

 State had manifested a very deep interest in the work of the 

 Fish Commissioners. The Commissioners had been going 

 along quietly, being mainly occupied in depositing fish received 

 from the State of New York and other places. He had been 

 informed that the salmon-trout received from the New York 

 Commissioners, some two and one-half vears ago, are doing 

 remarkably well in the streams of Chester county, these streams 

 passing through volcanic rock, and being of that pure water, 

 and of that temperature in which trout best thrive. This being 

 a lake-fish, the fact is the more gratifying. We cannot yet, 

 however, say definitely whether we have been successful with 

 them or not. In England and Scotland some of the streams 

 contain salmon-trout, a fine fish sought after as a game-fish, and 

 growing to from four to six pounds. They live in the same 

 streams with the true salmon, and I do not see why they should 

 not here. Whether it is or is not the salmon-trout of our lakes 

 he cannot say. All the other fish distributed in Pennsylvania 

 appear to be doing well. Of the California salmon the Com- 

 missioners cannot yet speak definitely. A few strangers to the 

 fishermen, being probably the laggards that did not go down to 

 the sea, have been caught this year. This fish is expected to 

 return next year, and if the expectation is realized, all the outlay 

 of Pennsylvania will be a hundred-fold compensated for, as no 

 grander achievement could be gained than the permanent 

 introduction of California salmon into the streams of Penn- 

 sylvania. With this end in view it is only necessary to place 

 the fish in the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers, the two main 



