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oitlier side of the stre;iiii ami thus llnod their cultivated lands. A 

 law shoidd he passed to prevent tliis met hod of irrii,'atin<r as it is 

 ini]>ossi])le to screen llie waler where it is allowed to pom- over the 

 hanks of a stream for a distance of several hundred feet, to flood 

 a piece of land. 



The trap has l)een successfully operalcd durjuL: the s|)fint; of II'L'I 

 and 1022. One million eL;'<_;s were collected and shipped to the dilVei-eiit 

 Jiateheries. 



UKIAH HATCHERY. 



llkiali Hatchery, the property (d' the town of fkiali, has Ix-en operated 

 under a lease for the last two seasons as in former years. Tins small 

 station is a very valuahle one for our purpose. It furnishes fry for the 

 local district as well as providing for the eyeing of eggs coliected at 

 the Snow IMonntain Egg-Collecting Station at Cape TTorn dam on the 

 South Eel River. The water at Snow ^Mountain Station is not lit for 

 liatehing or the eyeing of eggs as soon as the warm we<ither of the 

 spring sets in. We are now negotiating with the trustees of the town 

 of Ukiah for a lease for a term of years so that needed improvements 

 can be made at this station. The state should own all its hat(;hery 

 sites and not be compelled to operate on leased lands. The ma.jority 

 of the egg-collecting stations and small hatcheries are on leased land 

 owing to the fact that the commission has not had the funds to piirchase 

 lands and water rights. The funds of the Commission have never 

 l)een adequate to carry on the work of propagating fish and distributing 

 the same and at the same time furnish money enough to purchase land 

 and erect as many suitable hatcheries as the woi-k demands. If the 

 lease on Ukiah Hatchery can not be renewed, another site in that 

 section will have to be selected as it is necessary that the Conuuission 

 have a permanent hatchery in that section in which to hatch eirgs 

 collected in the South Eel River section. Of the egg's retaim-d and 

 hatched at this hatchery during the last season, there were .')! 2.000 

 fry shipped to the applicants of this region. 



SNOW MOUNTAIN STATION. 



The total take of eggs at Snow Mountain Station during the two 

 seasons covered by this report were 2,873,000 steelhead trout eggs. 



The drought of 1920 and the excessive fishing in the lower reaches of 

 the river caused a falling off of the number of spawning fish that 

 reached the Snow ]\rouiitain dam. AVe are planning to have an 

 increased take of steelhead eggs from this section as the stopping of 

 commercial fishing in the lower reaches of P^el River will alhnv a greater 

 number of spawn fish to reach the station and tlu' holding of a portion 

 of the water in Lake Pillslmry will give us ,in opportunit.v to raise 

 rainbow trout for stock fish. 



LAKE PILLSBURY. 



This body of water was made by the Snow ^fountain Light and 

 Power Company constructing a dam aeross the South Eel River about 

 twelve miles above Cape Horn dam. The dam is situated below the 

 junction of the Rice Fork of the Eel River, Salmon Creek and the main 

 South Eel River. The dam is over one hundred feet high and the 



