REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 23 



[Under date of February 15, 1892.] 



I do not visit the markets at any regular time, so that the dealers 



may not expect me. There were a few Tahoe trout shown by 



during the week, but they had been in cold storage since last season. 



They are shriveled and uninviting specimens, and trade in them cannot 



amount to much. The question of cold storage, however, may some 



time become a matter of great annoyance to the Board. * * * 



The only deer hides I found during the week were from Colorado. I 



took the address of the shipper, and have written the Colorado Game 



Commissioners, informing them that hides were being shipped into this 



State. 



[ Under date of February 29, 1892.] 



Mr. George Denison, of Boulder Creek, called at headquarters this 



morning. He gives a fine report of the workings of the fish ladders in 



all the dams near his place. He says the Perry dam at Boulder Creek 



has a fine ladder that works well, and the one that he has put in his 



own dam was a success in every way; that he had seen hundreds of fish 



pass over it, and that he had never seen so many or such large fish in 



Boulder Creek. 



[Under date of Jiine 5, 1892.] 



Went over the hatchery and buildings at Tahoe. Everything was in 



good order, save the nets, which the field mice seemed to have ruined. 



J. A. McKenney, of Tahoe City, made application to me for the use of 



the house and grounds connected with the hatchery. He agrees to take 



good care of the same, rent free. I would recommend that his request 



be granted. 



[Under date of June 6, 1892.] 



We visited the Pacific Lumber and Wood Company's Mill at Burk- 

 halter Station. They have as fine a fish ladder in their dam as I saw 

 anywhere in the Truckee River, and their arrangements for disposing 

 of their sawdust are by far the best I have seen in the State. Their 

 furnace and conveyors cost over $8,000. 



[Under date of June 7, 1892.] 



The Truckee Lumber Company have a bulkhead on the opposite side 

 of the river from their mill, where they dump their sawdust. They 

 claim to have spent $10,000 on it. It takes good care of all the sawdust 

 from the ixiill, but the shavings from their door, sash, and blind factory 

 are, however, all dumped into the river. I protested against this, and 

 am in hopes that we may yet come to a satisfactory conclusion in the 

 matter. The Legislature should be petitioned to prohibit the dumping 

 of shavings as well as sawdust into streams of the State. * * * 



The Sierra Nevada Sportsman Club, recently organized in Truckee, 

 has a membership of over thirty. Stewart McKay is the President, and 

 Wm. O'Neill is the Secretary, and all the local fishermen — not profes- 

 sionals — are members. They have printed notices of the fish and game 

 laws stuck up all around the lakes and rivers in that vicinity, and seem 

 to be organized for business. 



