70 RErortT OF STATK BOARD OF FTSTT rOM^ITSSIONERS. 



Northwestern Railway Company, North Pacific Coast Railway Com- 

 pany, Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company, Nevada- 

 California-Oregon Railway Company, Boca and Loyalton Railway 

 Company. 



To the Spring Valley Water Company of San Francisco we are 

 indebted for a valuable concession, permitting us the free use of water 

 at the Ferry Building to "set up" our shipments of young fish, which 

 requires a considerable amount of running water for a length of time 

 varying from three to twelve hours. 



To A. Christeson, General Manager of Wells, Fargo & Co., J. C. Tice, 

 agent at San Francisco, and all the superintendents, agents, and 

 employes of their company, we are specially indebted for many privi- 

 leges and most courteous treatment. No reasonable request has failed 

 to receive attention, and in many cases voluntary assistance that was 

 of great value to our work has been freely given the deputies of this 

 Board. 



To all employes of the Southern Pacific Company, officials or sub- 

 ordinates, with wlioni our deputies or officers liave come in contact, we 

 are under special obligations for assistance rendered our men when 

 moving fish, eggs, or other material used in our work. 



To the various fish and game protective associations, that have been 

 referred to, we are under obligations, not only for assistance rendered 

 our deputies, but for the upbuilding of public sentiment, which is sucb 

 an important factor in sustaining the fish and game laws. 



For substantial assistance in the form of free transportation for all of 

 our men, the eggs and the fry, and for other courtesies, our thanks are 

 extended to D. L. Bliss, Jr., Superintendent of the Lake Tahoe Railway 

 and Transportation Company. 



To Messrs. Lawrence and Comstock, of Tallac, we are again indebted 

 for free use of teams for hauling fish, eggs, and supplies, and for many 

 privileges. Without the assistance rendered from these gentlemen at 

 Tahoe and Tallac, respectively, our operations would be seriously 

 handicapped. 



During the past two years all the salmon eggs hatched at t)ur 

 stations have been furnished by the United States Bureau of Fish and 

 Fisheries, from Baird on the McCloud River and from their Battle Creek 

 and Mill Creek egg-collecting stations. 



Our thanks are extended to Hon. George M. Bowers, United States 

 Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries; also to his able assistants in 

 Washington, Dr. H. M. Smith and John W. Titcomb; also to Capt. 

 G. H. Lambson, Superintendent of Baird Station. 



For much valuable information and also for interesting papers on 

 the fishes of the Pacific, we are under obligations to Dr. David Starr 

 Jordan, President of Leland Stanford Junior University. 



