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Battle Creek, and their size coincided within .06 of an inch of those in 

 Battle Creek, and in view of the fact that a larger number of the salmon 

 in Battle Creek had moved out, we are justified in saying that they 

 came out of Battle Creek. 



On May 4th he found salmon abundant at Redding, ranging from 

 1.8 to 3.65 inches and averaging 2.38 inches. On May 5th at Tehama 

 he found salmon ranging from 2.14 to 2.91 inches and averaging 2.53 

 inches. 



Beginning with the second week in May the United States Commis- 

 sion carried their investigations into the lower Sacramento River and 

 into Suisun and San Pablo bays. In the second week of May young 

 salmon were found at Collinsville and at Benicia, but I have no record 

 of their number, and of their size I only know that it corresponded 

 with those found in the same place later in the same month. 



On May 17th, six were found at Pinole, San Pablo Bay, ranging from 

 2.4 to 3 inches and with an average length of 2.6 inches. On the same 

 day one was caught at Point Richmond, San Pablo Bay, 3.31 inches 

 long. On May 18th, one was taken at Rodeo, San Pablo Bay, 2.4 inches 

 long. On the 20th, 23d, and 24th, five were taken at Benicia, in the 

 strait between Suisun and San Pablo bays, running from 2.06 to 2.56 

 and averaging 2.29 inches in length. On the 30th, three were taken at 

 Rio Vista, in the lower Sacramento, running from 2.03 to 2.18 inches 

 and averaging 2.08 inches. On June 10th, two were taken at Marshall's 

 Landing, near Antioch, the largest being 3.3 and the smallest 2.12 

 inches in length. 



If this small number of salmon taken in salt water represents, as it 

 unquestionably does, the first big movement of young salmon out of the 

 river, it at first appears that more of them should have been found, but 

 when we consider the vast expanse of territory the lower Sacramento 

 covers with its many channels and bayous, to say nothing of San Pablo 

 and Suisun bays, it is not so strange that so few were found in fact, 

 the strange part of it is that so many were found and we can realize 

 the vast number that must have distributed themselves in these waters. 



During the last two weeks of May I accompanied Mr. Rutter on a 

 trip down the Sacramento in a row boat. Our object was to stop and 

 seine the river at every available place, and learn the abundance, size, 

 and movements of the young salmon. At Redding, on May 18th, we 

 found the young salmon abundant, with an average length of 2.43 inches. 

 At this" place, two weeks before, their average length was 2.38 inches. 

 At Red Bluff, on the 20th. we found no salmon whatever, although two 

 weeks before they were very numerous. Just below Red Bluff we found 

 a good many, their average length being 2.16 inches. From here to a 

 point opposite Chico we found the salmon not so abundant. In a haul 

 with our fifty-foot fine-meshed net we usually caught from twenty to 



