TWENTY-SEVENTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 47 



either side of the stream and thus tiood their eultivated lands. A 

 law should be passed to prevent this method of irrijjatinfr as it is 

 impossible to screen the water where it is allowed to pour over the 

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

 a piece of land. 



The trap has been suceessfull\- oi)erated durinj? the spring? of 1921 

 and 1922. One million eo:gs Avere collected and shipped to the different 

 hatcheries. 



UKIAH HATCHERY. 



TJkiah Hatchery, the proj^erty of the town of Tkiah, has been opin-ated 

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

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

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

 the Snow ]Mountain Egg-Collecting Station at Cape Horn dam on the 

 South Eel River. The water at Snow ^Mountain Statiou is uot fit for 

 hatching or the eyeing of eggs as soon a,s the warm weather of the 

 spring sets iu. We are now negotiating with the trustees of Ihe 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 hatchery 

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

 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 purchase 

 lands and water rights. The funds of the Commission hav(^ never 

 been adequate to carry on the work of propagating fish and distributing 

 the same and at the same time furnish money enough to ]iurchase land 

 and erect as many suitable hatcheries as the work dciiiaiids. 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 Conunission 

 have a permanent hatchery in that section in v,hich to hatch eggs 

 collected in the South Eel River section. Of the eggs retained and 

 hatched at this hatchery during the last season, there were 512,000 

 fry shipped to the applicants of this region. 



SNOW MOUNTAIN STATION. 



The total take of eggs at Snow ^fountain Station during the two 

 seasons covered by this report were 2,878,000 steelhead trout eggs. 



The drought of 1920 and the excessive fishing in th(> lower readies of 

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

 reached the Snow ^lountain dam. We are plannini:' to have an 

 increased take of steelhead eggs from this section as th(> stopping of 

 commercial fishing in the lower reaches of P]el River will aHow a greater 

 number of spawn fish to reach the station and the holding ol" a portion 

 of the water in Lake Pillsbur\- will give us an oppoi-tiniit.\- to i-ai-c 

 rainbow trout foi- stock fish. 



LAKE PILLSBURY. 



This body of water was made by the Snow .Monnt;ii!i Light and 

 Power Company constructing a dam ju-ross the South Lei Kiver about 

 twelve miles above (.'ai)e Horn dam. The dam is situated Ix-low tlie 

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

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



