REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 17 



EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS OF DEPUTIES. 



Under the organization of the departments of the Commission, orders 

 were given to each one of the deputies to file a weekly report with the 

 Board, covering their actions and doings for that time. Such reports 

 have been filed with the Board every week since its organization. A 

 great many of them are of a confidential nature, partaking of detective 

 work, and we do not think it advisable to publish them in full. They 

 are, of course, open at all times to the inspection of the proper State 

 officials. They show exactly where each and all of our deputies were 

 upon every day since they have been in our employ, and are complete 

 records of the work of the Patrol and Hatchery Departments during 

 that time. 



REPORT OF THOMAS TUNSTEAD. 



[Under date of July 29, 1891.] 



We visited every fishing camp on the Sacramento River from Nicolaus 

 to Vallejo, a distance of about one hundred and fifty miles, and found 

 the salmon run very small. At Feather River and vicinity I saw about 

 one hundred fike nets, but they were not in use. These nets, when in 

 use, are a permanent contrivance, which is a misdemeanor. We have 

 no authority under the law to seize these nets. Of the men that I 

 arrested on the 16tli for extending their nets more than one third across 

 the river, two were fined $50 each, and in the cases of the other two 

 the jury disagreed, and upon the advice of the District Attorney, I con- 

 sented to the dismissal of their cases. 



[Under date of August 26, 1891.] 



I started on the 28th to San Pablo Bay in search of Chinese, in com- 

 pany with Deputy Babcock. We saw a number of boats on the drift, 

 but they w^ere not working, and they did not work during the thirty-six 

 hours that we lay at anchor in plain view of them. 



[Under date of September 29, 1892.] 



Visited Belmont, San Mateo County, investigating the reports concern- 

 ing the trapping of quail, and in company with Mr. Lindsey, the local 

 deputy, I visited the following places: Spanish Town, or Halfmoon Bay, 

 Wrights Creek, Purisima Creek, San Gregorio, Lobitas, Corte Madera, 

 Tornitas, Pescadero, Yazzos, Buteno, White Creek, New Year Creek, 

 and Wardell Creek. We found and destroyed a number of traps at 

 these places, but could not find the persons who set them. At one ranch 

 we found a number of live quail, which the people claimed they had 

 hatched. We released the birds but made no arrests. 



At Wardell Creek we made the acquaintance of a former deputy. He 

 reported that he had made a number of arrests in his district while he 

 was connected with the Board, and had prosecuted the cases. After- 



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