26 REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



FALL CREEK HATCHERY. 



As above mentioned, the Fall Creek Hatchery was constructed and 

 paid for by the California-Oregon Power Company in lieu of construct- 

 ing a fish ladder over their dam at Copco in the Klamath River. 



A site on Fall Creek, a tributary of the Klamath River, at a distance 

 of sixteen miles from the town of Hornbrook and along the line of 

 the old Klamath River railroad was selected. A substantially con- 

 structed hatchery building, with a capacity of one hundred hatching 

 troughs, a cottage for the foreman and living quarters for assistants 

 comprise the equipment. The hatchery, completely equipped for fish- 

 cultural operations and with a capacity sufficient to adequately take 

 care of requirements in that section, was completed and ready for 

 operation in the spring of 1919. The Chinook salmon eggs, taken at 

 the Klamathon Hatchery during the previous fall, were hatched here 

 and the fry reared for distribution in the Klamath River and tributaries 

 during the spring and summer of 1919. 



Five hundred thousand Chinook salmon fry were planted during the 

 early spring months and a large pond was constructed in which were 

 held and reared, to the fingerliDg stage, 648,000 fry. They were released 

 in the stream during the months of October and November. In addition 

 to handling the salmon work during the season of 1919, 670,000 rainbow 

 trout eggs were received from the Bogus Creek Station that spring and 

 were reared and planted in the Klamath River, above and below the dam 

 and in tributary streams, during that summer. A large portion of the 

 rainbow trout eggs taken at the Bogus Creek Station are immediatelj^ 

 transferred to the Fall Creek Hatchery, where they are "eyed" and 

 later all surplus eggs over and above the amount required for stock- 

 ing the Klamath River are shipped to other stations to be hatched and 

 reared for general distribution. 



BOGUS CREEK STATION. 



For a number of years rainbow trout egg collecting operations have 

 been carried on in the Klamath River section by trapping the spawning 

 fish as they ascend Bogus Creek and Camp Creek. The racks, traps 

 and holding tanks in botli oi these creeks were in a very poor state of 

 repair and accordingly, during the fall of 1919, the old egg collecting 

 plant was removed and new equipment installed. 



Spawning operations at these two creeks are carried on by the same 

 crew, as they are but a short distance apart. Bogus Creek being on one 

 side of the Klamath River and Camp Creek a short distance above on 

 the opposite side of the stream. Accordingly, the two camps are oper- 

 ated under the name of Bogus Creek Station. 



In the spring of 1918, 2,000,000 rainbow trout eggs were collected 

 from this station and in 1919, 2,500,000 were taken. During the spring 



