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place more troughs in the hatchery. A cabin will be built for the accom- 

 modation of the help. This station can be improved so that several 

 hundred thousand more esffs can be collected aunuallv. 



JOHNSVILLE EXPERIMENTAL HATCHERY. 



This station was established during- the spring of 1921. It is situated 

 on Jamison Creek, a tributary of the ^Middle Fork of the Feather Eiver, 

 seven miles from Blairsden on the line of the Western I'aeilic Railroad 

 and two miles from the mining town of Johnsville. The site was selected 

 on the propertj^ of the Plumas-Eureka ^Mining Company in a narrow 

 valley lying between Eureka Peak and Blount Washington. The oljject 

 was to establish a hatchery in this region to furnish tlsh for the South 

 Fork of the Feather River, the ^Middle Fork of the Feather and 

 their tributaries, South Fork of Yuba River and tributaries and the 

 lakes in the Gold Lake region, as well as other streams along the line of 



Fig 15. Rack at Camp Creek, a tril)utary of the Klamath River. April 12. 1922. 

 The Camp Creek Egg Collecting Station furnishes many th.>iis.iii(1s nf iMiiihinv 

 trout eggs annually. 



the Western Pacific Railroad. Tlir hatching troughs, forty in niiinbcr 

 were placed in a tent and a temporary tank and Hume foi- fiw water 

 .supply in.stalled. This work was done under great difficulties owing to 

 the depth of the snow. There were (WO.OOO rainbow tront fry ami 

 111,000 steelhead trout fry distributed from this station. Tlii> rainbow 

 fry did not thrive during the early part of the sea.son. TUry were 

 affected with a fungoid disease prol)ably brought to the hatch. 'ry with 

 some shipment of eggs. There was considerable loss among the fry for 

 a time; but as the season advanced the fry inii>iov((l and wi'i-.' |)IaMtcd 

 in good order. 



During the spring of 1922, when our men arrived on th.- uround to 

 begin operations, the snow was from 12 to 15 feet deep on the h'vrl with 

 great mas.ses on the slopes of the adjacent mountains, Ihivatcinng t«> 

 come down in the shape of an avalanche at any time. Tlie work of 



