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and replacing' the dead salmon with live ones, so that we had no lack of 

 eggs, and obtained in the end the full two millions at which number I had 

 set my limit. Nothing further occurred to intercept our steady progress. 

 We continued to take eggs every twenty-four hours, both night and da^*, 

 and the number in the troughs increased rapidl^^ 



On the 10th of September, at noon, we had a million eggs laid down. 

 On the 14th of September, at daylight, we had a million and a half, and 

 on the 22d, at daylight, the quota of two millions was complete. On the 

 12th of September the first eye spots were visible in the eggs taken on 

 the 26th of August, making sixteen days for the interval between the 

 extrusion of the eggs and the appearance of the eye spots, (the formation 

 of the choroid pigment.) The water in the river had a temperature of 53 

 degrees at sunrise, when the first eggs were taken, but it always rose in 

 the hatching troughs during the day, sometimes to 58 degrees, and some- 

 times as high as 64 degrees, so that the exact average temperature of the 

 water for the whole time cannot be stated. 



On the 20th of September I sent 300,000 eggs to the Atlantic coast, 

 and on the 30th of September I went east myself with 600,000 more, 

 leaving the camp in charge of Mr. Woodbur3\ On the 6th of October 

 Mr. M3a-on Green left camp with a third lot of a quarter of a million, and 

 about a week later Mr. Woodbury forwarded the balance of the eggs, 

 amounting to another quarter of a million or more. 



RESULTS. 



The results in detail of these shipments have been given in the papers 

 several times, so I will only make the following brief statement here : 

 Of the 2,000,000 eggs taken and laid down in the hatching troughs, 

 nearly one million and a half were shipped eastward and consigned in 

 various proportions to Dr. J. H. Slack, New Jersey ; Seth Green, New 

 York ; James Duffy, Pennsylvania ; George H. Jerome, Michigan ; F. W. 

 Webber, Charlestown, N. H. ; Charles G. Atkins, Maine ; R. G. Pike, 

 Connecticut ; A. P. Rockwood, Utah ; E. A. Brackett, Massachusetts ; 

 Dr. J. H. Slack receiving the largest number. Nearly a million arrived 

 at their destination alive, and a large proportion of the fish hatched from 

 them have since been distributed in various streams and lakes throughout 

 the United States. 



PACKING AND SHIPPING THE EGGS 



The taking of the eggs and the maturing of them for shipment was a 

 marked success. Indeed, I have never seen a finer lot of salmon eggs 

 than we had in the hatching troughs under the mammoth tent at the 

 McCloud. Nothing could be wished for, more happy and prosperous than 

 our progress up to this point of shipping the eggs. But here came a 



