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luxury, to the rich man's table at a distance, so long as these streams shall flow 

 'from the mountain to the sea.' " 



From the report of Mr. Haswell on the Truckee River and Lake Tahoe we 

 make the following extracts. He says : 



"Under your appointment, and in accordance with your instructions, I pro- 

 ceeded to that point on the Truckee River where it crosses our State line on its 

 way to Pyramid Lake, in the State of Nevada. From thence I followed it up to 

 its head, in Lake Tahoe. I also examined the California part of that lake; also 

 Donner Lake and Donner Creek ; but from want of sufficient time could only make 

 Inquiries about the Little Truckee and its sources, Webber Lake, and Lake Inde- 

 pendence, though prior to my appointment I had visited them all for health and 

 pleasure. 



"During this official visit I heard and saw so much that requires the most 

 stringent legislation in both states thai I scarce know where to commence my report. 

 But as a preliminary I suggest that carefully drawn laws, precisely similar in all 

 respects, except the mere verbiage thai is accessary to designate which State enacted 

 them, be passed by each State, and that, if such a law "is not unconstitutional, each 

 ait shall authorize the officers of the other Stair, armed with a proper writ from 

 it, and any citizen of the other State who has seen the offense committed within 

 its borders, to cross the line and make the necessary arrest, and without further 

 ceremony take the prisoners back for trial. This seems arbitrary, but if it can be 

 constitutionally made a law it will be found to be one of the greatest safeguards to 

 the joint fisheries. 



"Trout commence running up the Truckee, from Nevada, with the first sufficient 

 rise of the river. The date of this, as also that of their return, is of course variable. 

 Thej retire towards Pyramid Lake as the water recedes in the summer or fall. 



•■from the obstructions hitherto placed in this river and the various means 

 used to tut rap the fish before they reach the shallow, gravelly streams, together with 

 the wholesale waste of them and die criminal distraction of their spawn, I believe 

 that in a very few years the great hikes of both states will be entirely without brown 

 trout, and certainly very few silver ones, unless the two state governments concur 

 in some such law as that above suggested. But to return to my starting point — the 

 Truckee at the boundary line. 



"The first mill and dam (all the mills on this river are for Bawing lumber) on 

 the Truckee in California, is that of Pray & Bragg. At presenl i! is little or no 

 obstruction to tin- free run of the fish, and its owners have agreed that if it becomes 

 one they will either open the dam itself or construct proper fish ways and ladders. 

 "The Boca Mill Company CO rt. Mr. Doane, the resident partner, is 



about as enthusiastic on the suhject of letting the trout have a clear passage to and 

 fro between the lake and streams of this State and those of Nevada, as the members 

 of your body themselves. At this dam there are two good fish ways — one on a plan 

 recommended by yourselves, and the other built upon a design which Mr. Doane 

 and the other members of the company think superior to it. 



"The dam of the Marysville Company follows, then that of the Geissendoffer 

 Mill Company, then in succession two others known as Proctor's. Neither one of 

 these four is an impediment now. The mills have been removed, the sluiceways are 

 open, and the dams themselves are all so dilapidated that the fish can pass through 

 either of them. 



"Succeeding the upper Proctor mill come five dams belonging to the Truckee 

 Lumber Company. Four of these are mere dams to catch water when the river is 

 low. They cause no hindrance whatever. The other one has an excellent and very 

 efficient passageway, hut a log got entangled in it and carried off a portion of the 

 crossbars or resting places. The owners said that the necessary repairs should be 

 made forthwith ; and as they seem to take as much pride as the owners of the Boca 

 Mill do in giving the trout fair play, I do not consider that it requires any further 

 attention. 



"I am sorry that I can not say the same of the next place — Rusch's Mill. 

 Here is a so-called fish way which is of no possible use if it was constructed with a 



