REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 25 



Middle and South Forks of the American River, as well as the head- 

 waters of other rivers farther south; also, the North Yuba and Feather 

 Rivers could be stocked with these Eastern Brook trout. 



From the Sisson Hatchery, these trout could be planted in the head- 

 waters and branches of the Upper Sacramento and McCloud Rivers, and 

 also in the headwaters of the Trinity and Klamath Rivers. 



It seemed to me to be such a public good that these trout should be 

 systematically planted in all these mountain streams, so that anglers 

 could catch these speckled beauties during their vacations for health 

 and pleasure, that I asked of your honorable Board permission to buy one 

 hundred thousand Eastern Brook trout eggs. They were shipped from 

 Mr. Livingston Stone's trout hatchery, Charleston, N. H. These eggs 

 were hatched out during the past winter at the Sisson Hatchery. From 

 these eggs, which came about four thousand miles, we got about eighty 

 thousand of fine, healthy trout; these were kept in the hatchery for 

 several months waiting for the snow to melt so that the roads could be 

 opened to the McCloud River and other places. As soon as these fish 

 could be shipped, about thirty thousand, were planted in spring brooks 

 which feed the upper McCloud River, near the Horseshoe Bend at the 

 eastern side of Mount Shasta. Twelve thousand were planted on the 

 application of Senator Stanford in Deer Creek, a fine stream which rises 

 in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and empties into the Sacramento 

 River, near Vina. The balance of the trout were planted in the West 

 Fork of the Sacramento River, and also in School House Spring and 

 Kaiser's Creek, branches of the upper Sacramento River; also, in the 

 headwaters of the Shasta River, Griffin's Springs, Wadsworth Springs, 

 Big Springs, and in Shovel Creek, branches of the Klamath River. 

 The Eastern Brook trout cannot but do well in all of these places, as 

 there is plenty of food and the water is cold. I consider that it is 

 worth all the expense and trouble many times over to have the famous 

 McCloud River stocked with these fine fish. In order to get these 

 Avaters well and permanentely stocked with these fish, several years of 

 continuous stocking should be done. 



TEOUT HATCHING AT SHOVEL CREEK, 1890. 



There had been complaints because no trout had been planted in the 

 vicinity of the bay of San Francisco during 1889, but as a food fish was 

 of the first consideration, a hatchery large enough to accommodate the 

 donation of salmon eggs from the United States Government had to be 

 erected. The Tahoe Hatchery was built during the next spring and 

 summer, and the season's work carried on there. This work was all 

 done in hot haste, and, with shipping the Black bass, we had no time to 

 spare. Our help was all engaged and the money getting short. 



To ship trout from Tahoe to streams around the bay would take at 

 least four days' time, and the trip is very expensive, nearly $100 a trip. 



These two large hatcheries, with appointments and quarters for the 

 men, with the large number of salmon and trout distributed, were paid 

 for solely from the regular appropriation. 



To meet the wants of the anglers in having the streams stocked with 

 trout, I began to prospect early in the winter of 1889 for a station where 

 the Rainbow trout could be caught in sufficient numbers to make it an 

 object to build a small hatchery, eye their eggs and then ship these eggs 



