24 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



[Under date of June 11, 1892.] 



From the mill we drove to Griff's Creek, a tributary of Lake Tahoe. 

 O'Neill had located an Indian fish trap on the creek several days before, 

 but was in doubt as to his powers in the matter. We found the trap in 

 place. It was a most ingenious contrivance for catching fish, made from 

 Avoven green willows. The Indians who were working this engine of 

 destruction for numberless spawn fish, were camped beside the creek. 

 We ordered them to leave the lake and took out their trap. We worked 

 over an hour and a half to get it out of the water. The Indians made 

 no objection, as O'Neill told them that I was a Government man, and 

 would put them in jail if they did not leave. 



[Under date of June 16, 1892.J 



This endless round of the markets each day is, of course, very neces- 

 sary, but it has been without result for months, other than to keep 

 them free from game and illegally caught fish. 



[Under date of June 23, 1892.] 



In the launch " Rustler," in company with a " Call " reporter, I visited 

 the shrimp-fishing station at San Pedro. We overhauled some ten fish- 

 ing junks. They were full of shrimp, but contained no small fish. The 

 drying beds on the hillsides at this large station are without shrimp or 

 fish. The " Call " man said I had proved to him that the Chinese could 

 catch shrimp without taking small fish. 



[Under date of June 29, 1892.J 



I went to Hunter's Point in the launch "Rustler." We first over- 

 hauled a Chinese boat, with sturgeon lines and fresh sturgeon. Tunstead 

 accompanied this junk to the city. After he left the launch I overhauled 

 another junk, and arrested the five Chinese fishermen it contained for 

 having caught the young of fish. After a good deal of a row, I landed 

 them in the county jail in San Francisco. This is the first time that 

 I have found at Hunter's Point Chinese with the young of fish in their 



boats. 



[Under date of July 5, 1892.] 



I called upon JVIr. Smurr, of the Southern Pacific, and he assures me 



that the railroad will not move the deer skins for , or any one 



else, without a permit from the Commission. No such permit should 

 be granted, as the position the railroad people have taken will be of 

 great help to the Commission. 



[Under date of July 21, 1892.] 



Spent the day in the markets, and went to Harbor View. One may 

 visit these places every day, and so long as there are no arrests to make 

 one cannot do more than mention that the places were visited; from the 

 fact that nothing else is reported, seems sufficient to cover our action. 

 The market men know that some time during the day we will carefully 

 inspect their stalls, and that knowledge has the desired effect. 



