The waters swarm with fish, trout, perch, carp, white fish and cat- 

 fish, and many others are to be had. In short throughout the county 

 everywhere that water flows or finds a lodgment fish have followed and 

 established homelife. A most enjoyable week or more can be spent at 

 Buena Vista Lake. It is an ideal place for camping ; but if one so desires 

 good-cheer can be had in farm houses, or by permits obtainable at the head 

 offices in Bakersfield, still better quarters in one of the Miller & Lux or 

 Kern County Land and Water Company's stations near the lake. 



WHITNEY CREEK Visits to the habitat of Golden Trout can be 

 made from two initial points ; the water that has created so royal a fish 

 flowing southerly from an ancient volcanic point near Mount Whitney has 

 cut its channel deeply into a red or orange colored bed of lava, and the mar- 



DOU,Y VARDKN TROUT. 



Salvelinus Malma. 



velous colorings of the fish are in accord with Nature's constant efforts to 

 protect her children. Each of the two approaches to Mount Whitney, after 

 leaving the cars of Southern Pacific Company, require one day of staging to 

 be followed by two days with pack train, and the trip by either of them 

 as a romantic mountain outing, can only be matched by the other. From 

 the extreme south you leave the cars of the railway at Caliente, 336 

 miles from San Francisco, taking the stage every alternate week-day 

 marning, and reaching Weldon at the end of a pleasant nine hours' drive, 

 during which many fine scenes will be enjoyed, and shots by the way to 

 fill a game bag for dinner. 



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