Cranston. — Fish and Game Laws of Oregon 79 



As mentioned in the early part of this report, practically 

 nothing had been done in the state toward the artificial 

 propagation of native or non-native game fishes up to the 

 time of the creation of the State Board of Fish and Game 

 Commissioners. The judicious expenditure of the funds 

 provided by the payment of anglers' licenses toward the 

 protection and propagation of game fishes was believed by 

 all the commissioners to be one of the chief duties which 

 ought to claim the attention of the Board. After some dis- 

 cussion it was agreed that the first object to be attained 

 was the selection of a location where a large supply of 

 parent or brood fish of game species could be obtained and 

 retained for propagating purposes at a minimum cost. A 

 location in Klamath County on Spring Creek was selected 

 and negotiations have been under way for more than a year 

 in an effort to acquire for the state the necessary ground 

 and water rights to enable a central game-fish egg-taking 

 and hatching station to be established there. The land at 

 this place is within the boundaries of the Klamath Indian 

 Reservation, and up to date the Board has not been success- 

 ful in its efforts to procure the necessary site. Pending 

 the question of the Spring Creek location, it was not deemed 

 wise to do more than prospect for and inspect other loca- 

 tions, and for that reason the results in actual propagation 

 of game fishes by the Board for the first season of its work 

 has not been what it was hoped it might be when first begun. 

 Lacking a plant where wild fish could be captured in any 

 great numbers for spawning and not deeming it wise to 

 start the building of an extensive station for the maintenance 

 of a large school of brood fish as long as there seemed a 

 reasonable prospect of obtaining the site at Spring Creek, 

 it has been forced to the makeshift of getting eggs for 

 propagation work wherever they could be obtained, either 

 by purchasing them from game fish stations in other states 

 or by capturing the wild fish in limited numbers wherever 



