REPORT OF -TATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS 



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The Glen Alpine people, Mrs. G. W. Pierce & Co., as well as Prof W. W. Price of 

 Camp Agassiz, after consulting Chief Deputy Charles A. Vogelsang with regard to 

 seining trout eggs, decided to build a hatchery at each place. The one at Glen Alpine 

 has a capacity of about 500,000 eggs, and Professor Price's about 100,000. 



The stations were operated very successfully during the season, and the fry dis- 

 tributed in the mountain lakes in that vicinity as per distribution report handed in. 

 Commenced distributing the fry at the different stations in July and continued filling 

 the applications until the buildings were emptied. 



Received instructions to close the different stations as soon as the distribution was 

 over. Glen Alpine was closed July 20th; Professor Price's, August 15th ; Tallac, Sep- 

 tember 24th, after renewing the interior of the building with a new head box and twelve 

 troughs. The Tahoe Hatchery was closed on October 3d, and I reported in the office at 

 San Francisco, took a vacation, and was ordered to report to Mr. W. H. Shebley, Super- 

 intendent (jf Sissuii Hatchery, which I did, arriving there on October 16th, and remained 

 during tfie winter months. 



- lSOD OF 1906. 



I received instructions from your Honorable Board on April 11th to start from Sisson 

 for Tahoe to open the stations fur the season of 1906. Arrived in San Francisco on 

 April 13th with my assistant, S. Montgomery. Was informed by the Lake Tahoe Rail- 

 way and Transportation Company people that they expected to have the road between 



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Truckee and Tahoe open in a few days. Was ordered to be in readiness to leave at a 

 moment's notice. Was awaiting the day to start when the terrible earthquake and fire 

 destroyed San Francisco. Had a chance to leave San Francisco as a refugee, so with my 

 assistant started on April 2id and arrived in Truckee the morning of April 24th, where 

 my other assistants, Messrs. Robinson and Anderson, joined me on the 25th, and 

 remained in Truckee until April .SOth, on which day the first train was run to Tahoe. 

 Owing to the very heavy winter, it was impossible to get to Tahoe any other way. 



April 30th— Arrived in Tahoe, looked over the premises, and found everything in 

 good order, and the hatchery in readiness to be open. Captain Wehrman was in charge 

 of the premises as in previous years, and during the winter added 100 feet of new wharf, 

 which gives us depth enough for all the gasoline launches on Lake Tahoe to land at the 

 hatchery. 



May 1st— Started for Taylor Creek to commence seining operations for spawn fish. 

 Put our living quarters in order and worked on mouth of creek to change the course. 

 Found a big run of trout up the creek. Was informed by parties living at Tallac that 

 the run had been on for about a month. 



May 2d— Cleaned up seining ground and commenced operations with the seine, and 

 continued until June 2d, with varying success. 



The weather was very squally during the month. We caught 606 males and 984 

 females. The males average about 1% pounds, and the females about 1% pounds. 

 Number of females striped, 937, averaging about 1,650 eggs to the fish. The total num- 

 ber of eggs taken was 1,590,000, of which 250,000 were shipped to the Wawona hatchery 

 on June 19th. 



