36 REPORT OP STATE BOARD OF PISH COMMISSIONERS. 



Owing to the very heavy winter the Glen Alpine hatchery was damaged by having 

 the roof cave in from the weight of snow. The station will be rebuilt in the fall and 

 ready for the season of 1907. 



Professor Price did not open his hatchery, as he moved from his old site to the 

 head of Fallen Leaf Lake. He may take up the work again next season. 



I placed 548,000 eggs in each hatchery (Tahoe and Tallac), which were hatched with 

 a small loss. The Tallac hatchery was closed on September 15th. My assistant from 

 that station helped the Glen Alpine people to reset the troughs, etc., in their building 

 and which is now ready for next season's work. 



I will finish up the work at this station on October 5th or 6th and proceed to Carson 

 City, Nevada, and report to the Nevada State Fish Commission as per instructions, to 

 assist in re-establishing their hatchery and collect Eastern Brook eggs from Marlett 

 Lake, received from your Honorable Board. 



You will please find reports for the Tahoe and Tallac hatcheries, also inventories for 

 this season, attached. 



Respectfully submitted. 



(Signed) E. W. HUNT, Superintendent. 



WAWONA HATCHERY. 



For the past two years the trout hatchery located in the Yosemite 

 National Park at Wawona has been successfully operated during the 

 spring and early summer under the direction of M. L. Cross, one of our 

 experienced and capable hatchery employes. There have been hatched 

 and distributed from this station approximately 700,000 trout fry (Cut- 

 throat, Rainbow, and Eastern) during the past three years. The distri- 

 bution work has been greatly facilitated through the personal efforts 

 of Major Harry C. Benson, Fourteenth Cavalry, U. S. A., superintendent 

 of the park, who has always been ready with his pack trains and teams 

 to transport fish wherever a plant seemed necessary. The value of this 

 assistance is better appreciated when the vastness of the region is con- 

 sidered and the numerous bodies of suitable trout waters that are access- 

 ible only by the aid of pack animals over rough mountainous trails. 

 When not engaged in the distribution of fry from the Wawona Hatchery 

 he has made use of our seines and other necessary appliances to capture 

 and transport adult fish, taking them from streams in which they are 

 abundant, and on pack animals transporting them into barren lakes or 

 streams in the higher altitudes. That the work has been skillfully and 

 intelligently done is shown by the results, there being many streams 

 now teeming with trout in the Yosemite region that could not have 

 been reached by us, and the credit for which is due chiefly to Major 

 Benson and the men of his command. 



Messrs. Washburn Brothers, to whom the State is indebted for building 

 and equipping the Wawona Hatchery, have continued to show our 

 employes every courtesy, besides rendering valuable assistance in pro- 

 viding free transportation to and from Yosemite Valley for our employes, 

 for live fish, shipping cans, and all material and supplies that are required, 

 and also for furnishing teams to assist in the distribution of the fry. 

 This can better be appreciated when it is recalled that the hatchery is- 



