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taken from the summer run at Baird station on the McCloud River. 

 The number of eggs on hand and now in various stages of development 

 at Battle Creek and Mill Creek spawning stations will bring up the 

 total to over 90,000,000, taken from the fall run of salmon; which, 

 with the 10,000,000 from the summer run, makes a grand total of 

 100,000,000 salmon ova handled at our hatcheries in 1904. 



Under date of November 22, 1904, Capt. G. H. Lambson, Superin- 

 tendent of the United States Bureau of Fisheries stations in Califor- 

 nia, says: "The Sacramento River presents the best example of the 

 good results of fish culture and protection of any stream in the country 

 of which I have knowledge. The river is full each year to overflow- 

 ing in spite of the great number of canneries, cold-storage plants, 

 packers, and fresh-fish dealers, and they are increasing every year. I 

 doubt if there were ever more fish running in the river than during the 

 past few years, even in the old days when it was said a man could walk 

 across the river upon their backs. It looks to me as if we will have 

 no more seasons of bad runs, provided we can keep up our pres- 

 ent output, as each year for the past three has been grand. Of course 

 there will be seasons when we will not take so many eggs owing to 

 high water, but the runs will be good." 



Quoting from his letter of December 5, 1904, he states: " There is a 

 large run of fish in both Battle and Mill creeks and there is hardly any 

 limit to be placed upon the number of eggs we could take if we had 

 the room. We could have taken fully eighty to one hundred million 

 at Battle Creek and about sixty million at Mill Creek if we could have 

 fished daily. We have worked but one fishing crew at each place, and 

 then only about two thirds of the time." 



CALIFORNIA FISH COMMISSION. 



December 20, 1904. 



