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River. This river has its rise in Lake Tahoe and flows into Pyramid 

 Lake, in Nevada, and has no outlet to the ocean. Some of these 

 salmon are reported to have been taken with the hook in the Truckee 

 River this season, weighing from three and a half to five pounds. 

 The size to which the Sacramento salmon will grow when confined 

 to fresh water depends upon the quantity of food to be found in the 

 lake or stream. A few years after the dam was erected at the San 

 Andreas reservoir salmon were taken in it weighing from six to 

 twelve pounds. In ten years they have multiplied until hardly any 

 other fish are taken, but now do not average to exceed three-fourths 

 of a pound. They now mature their eggs and milt when less than a 

 pound in weight. The land-locked salmon of Maine do not average 

 over six pounds in weight, but they are numerous in the lakes, 

 furnish a large amount of food, and yield much sport to the angler, 

 as they readily take both fly and bait. As they are natives of the 

 cold lakes of Maine we have thought the most appropriate places for 

 the distribution of the young fish would be in our mountain lakes ; 

 but, for purposes of testing their fitness to thrive in warmer waters, 

 a portion were also distributed to lakes in the valley and on the coast, 

 as follows : 



March 16tli, 1878 — Donner Lake and other lakes near the summit 10,000 



March 20tli, 1878 — San Francisquito Creek, Espenosa Lake, etc 10,000 



April 6th, 1878— Tulare Lake 15,000 



April 7th, 1878— San Leandro Creek and Lake 2,500 



Ajjril 8th, 1878— Arroyo Laguna, near Sunol 700 



April 19th, 1878 — Reservoir at Alms House, San Francisco 1,000 



April 30th, 1878— Echo Lake, El Dorado County 250 



EASTERN BROOK TROUT (SALMO FONTINALIs), TACIFIC COAST BROOK 

 TROUT (SALMO IRIDEA), DOLLY VARDEN TROUT (SALMO CAMPBEL- 

 LIl), AND TAHOE TROUT (SALMO TSUPPITCH). 



In January, 1878, and in January, 1879, we received from Wiscon- 

 sin and New Hampshire 70,000 eggs of the Eastern trout. The young 

 fish were hatched at the State hatching-house, San Leandro, and were 

 distributed as follows : 



March 1st, 1878 — Streams in Santa Barbara County 5,000 



March 1 6th, 1878 — North Fork of the American, Prosser Creek, and Truckee River. 10,000 



March 19th, 1878— Kaweha River, Tulare County 5,000 



March 20th, 1878 — Carmel and streams in Monte'rey County 7,000 



March 25th, 1878— Streams in Alameda County 2,000 



Mai-ch 26th, 1878- San Leandro Creek, Alameda County 5,000 



March 30th, 1878 — Russian River and Sulphur Creek, Sonoma County 6,000 



April 5th, 1878- Santa Rosa and Mark West Creeks, Sonoma County 3,000 



April 5th, 1878— Streams in Santa Cruz County 2,000 



April 5th, 1878— Steams in San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties 4,000 



April 8th, 1878 — Alameda Creek and tributaries, Alameda County 2,000 



April 15th, 1878 — Calaveras Creek and small streams, Alameda County 2,000 



March 1st, 1878— North Fork of American, South Yuba, and tributaries of Truckee 



River 20,000 



March 29th, 1878— Yosemite Valley 1,000 



