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entire 4,000 were destroyed by our operations, it would be but a small 

 fraction of the millions of Cutthroat trout that inhabit Lake Tahoe. 



The following figures are furnished us by Professor Juday, of the State 

 University, who had l)een sent by the Federal Government to study 

 certain problems regarding the supply of food fish in the Tahoe region. 

 The figures were taken from the books of Wells, Fargo & Co. at Tallac 

 and Tahoe City, and represent the actual number of fish shipped out in 

 IHOo, aggregating 12,261 i3ounds,or upward of six tons of trout shipped 

 during the months of June, July, August, and September. This does 

 not take into account the enormous quantity consumed at the different 

 resorts and by the thousands of campers who visit the Tahoe region 

 each summer. The amount shipped in .June, 1904 (one month), exceeds 

 7,000 pounds, or three and a half tons of trout, which indicates a decided 

 gain over previous years. We consider the foregoing statement a suffi- 

 cient answer to any criticisms of the value of our work in the Tahoe 

 region. 



We are indebted to Messrs. Comstock and Lawrence of Tallac and 

 D. L. Bliss & Sons of Tahoe, also to Mrs. George W. Pierce of Glen 

 Alpine Sjirings, for substantial assistance. We have had free trans- 

 portation for our employes and the free use of teams and pack animals 

 for distributing the young fish. 



We are pleased to commend again the tireless efforts of Prof. W. ^^^ 

 Price of Alta. His work has been so skillfully and intelligently done 

 and his achievements so marked, that we feel that the value of his work 

 should l)e known to all our people. Each season he has made the 

 Tahoe region the vacation grounds for the young men and boys of his 

 school, and they have contributed their services and time to stocking 

 l)arren lakes, carrying fish on pack animals or by hand to waters other- 

 wise inaccessible. In that region there are upward of forty lakes, rang- 

 ing in area from a few acres up to two hundred. Professor Price has 

 stocked eighteen lakes this season, seven of them for the first time this 

 year. 



Through the joint efforts of Mrs. Pierce and Professor Price, a small 

 hatchery has been completed at Glen Alpine, with a capacity of 1,000,000 

 eggs. It will be in operation for the first time next season, and we have 

 no doubt the results will justify the time and expense that have been 

 given and will result in making that region one of tlie best fishing 

 grounds in the State. 



For the past two seasons w^e have, for the first time, been able to 

 maintain a patrol throughout the summer months on each side of Lake 

 Tahoe and the streams tributary thereto, and have largely checked the 

 depredations of the Nevada Indians. James Stout was the mounted 

 patrol on the Tallac side during 1903. Harry Warr succeeded him in 

 1904. William Boyle has patroled the country from Tahoe City nortli 



