<4 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



extended for most generous treatment in the free transportation of our 

 employes and supplies, and the distrihution of fish and eggs, without 

 which our efforts would have heen so restricted as to have been of little 

 value to the State. 



We are especially indebted to A. Christeson, General Manager of 

 Wells, Fargo & Co., and all of the superintendents, agents, and other 

 employes of their company, for many privileges and most courteous 

 treatment. No reasonable request has failed to receive consideration, 

 and in many instances voluntary assistance has been rendered that 

 proved of great value to our work. 



To the Pacific Coast Steamship Company we are indebted for the 

 free transportation of salmon eggs and live fish between San Francisco 

 and Eureka. 



Thanks are due to all the employes of the Southern Pacific Company, 

 officials or subordinates, with whom our deputies have come in con- 

 tact, for assistance rendered our fish distributors when transporting 

 fish, eggs, or other material necessary to our work. 



We have also to thank Mr. D. L. Biiss, Jr., superintendent of the Lake 

 Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company, for most courteous and 

 liberal treatment with respect to transportation of our men and dis- 

 tribution of fish on the lines over which he has control in the Tahoe 

 region. 



To Messrs. Lawrence and Comstock at Tallac we are under obliga- 

 tions for many privileges and also for the free use of teams in hauling 

 fish, eggs and supplies; without these substantial concessions our opera- 

 tions would have been seriously handicapped. 



Our thanks are also due to the U. S. Army officers stationed in the 

 Yosemite National Park; especially to Major Harry C. Benson, Super- 

 intendent of the Park. 



In submitting this record of the work accomplished during the past 

 two years, we are confident that it will meet with the approval of your- 

 self and all fair-minded citizens, and trust that the recommendations 

 made by us, which represent our best judgment, based on our experi- 

 ence and observation of the various subjects, will be enacted into laws, 

 to still better enable us to carry out the important reasons for which 

 this Commission was created. 



Yours respectfully, 



W. W. VAN ARSDALE, 



W. E. GERBER, 



JOHN BERMINGHAM, Jr., 



Fish Commissioners. 

 San Francisco, Cal., September, 1906. 



