30 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OP FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



hatched out and planted in the Truckee River below the dam at the 

 outlet of Lake Tahoe. 



The balance of the eggs, about one million, was shipped to the Sisson 

 Hatchery; these eggs and the young fish did finely in the cold water at 

 Sisson. They have been fed in the troughs for several months awaiting 

 shipment. 



After the eggs were all taken at Shovel Creek, Mr. Richardson began 

 shipping these fish from Sisson for distribution, taking ten cans at a 

 trip, and about three thousand fish in a can, or thirty thousand to each 

 trip, which are as many as it is safe to handle on a trip in hot midsum- 

 mer, the round journey averaging about eight hundred miles, and taking 

 about three days' time. 



A trip with this number has been made to Lagunitas Lake, Marin 

 County, and to about five miles down the Lagunitas Creek, below the 

 dam; also, to the following places: to Crystal Springs Reservoir, San 

 Mateo County; to Alminitos Creek, near the New Almaden Mines; the 

 Guadaloupe Creek, Saratoga Creek, and to Smith Creek, near Mount 

 Hamilton, a branch of the Calaveras Creek; to the Arroyo Mocho, twelve 

 miles south of Livermore, and the Calaveras and the Alameda Creeks, 

 near Sunol; to Monterey County, for branches of the Salinas River, 

 near Salinas and Soledad; to Bowlder Creek and other branches of the 

 San Lorenzo Creek, in Santa Cruz County; to Almao for the Los Gatos 

 Creek, in Santa Clara County; to the San Gregorio Creek, over the 

 mountains from Redwood City; to Gilroy, for the Uvas Creek; to the 

 Lagunitas or Paper Mill Creek; to Napa City, for branches of the Napa 

 Creek; and to a small creek, near Santa Rosa, a branch of the Russian 

 River. 



Arrangements have been made to ship these trout to Dr. Smith, of 

 Placerville, for the American River; also, to Judge McD. R. Venable, in 

 San Luis Obispo County, for streams there; to the Sonoma Creek, Cache 

 Creek, in Yolo County, and other places. We shall continue to ship 

 these trout until their trough room will be needed for the salmon at 

 Sisson, or until we are admonished to quit shipping to save funds for our 

 winter and spring work. These which are not shipped to the central 

 and southern parts of the State, will be planted in the Sacramento 

 River. There have been already planted during August, 1890, in 

 branches of the Sacramento, one hundred and fifteen thousand, distrib- 

 uted thus: West Fork, Sulloway's Creek, Cold Creek, School House 

 Spring Creek, and near Peter Klink's place. The balance for the Sacra- 

 mento will be distributed below the eighteenth crossing. 



During both seasons of our work at Lake Tahoe, in 1889 and 1890, 

 Commodore Todman has been exceedingly generous in his aid to advance 

 the work of the Fish Commission by giving at all times free transporta- 

 tion on the steamer Tod Goodwin to all parts of the lake, shipping our 

 racks for traps, fish cars, seines, towing the boats to the different streams, 

 shipping our supplies, and also giving almost daily passage for the men 

 in their traveling to the creeks where the traps were, for eggs, and in 

 shipping the trout for distribution. 



Captain Wherman and his men on the Tod Goodwin have also been 

 very kind and willing in helping us, by doing many errands at distant 

 points of the lake. Mr. Lawrence, of the Tallac House, and Captain 

 Holt, also generously gave us free passage on the steamer Tallac. The 

 citizens around the lake gave us many accommodations. 



