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to their former spawning grounds. This work on the salmon station 

 has been held up until it was demonstrated that enough salmon would 

 ascend the river to justify the expense of having the racks, traps and 

 small hatchery installed if the road to Burney Creek Hatchery was not 

 built to the site or the roads through the flat woods country were not 

 passable. An examination made this spring indicated that there is a 

 run of salmon in the spring months that ascends the river, but they do 

 not spawn until late summer or fall. Therefore the Commission is 

 justified in demanding that the power company construct racks and 

 traps this fall so as to have them in readiness for next season's opera- 

 tions. 



We understand that there will be no further developments by the 

 power company for several years, so we would recommend that racks 

 and traps be installed by the power company at the dam known as 

 Pit 4 dam. The salmon eggs could be collected at this point and con- 

 veyed to the Burney Creek Hatchery and the resulting fry carried by 

 truck or over the tram railroad to points below the dam and there 

 planted. 



Fig 14. The new Kaweah Hatchery at Hammond, which has replaced an 

 old temporary structure. Photograph by Edward Clessen. 



Burney Creek Hatchery is now in operation. The extremely high 

 water during the latter part of March, 1928, washed out the pipe line 

 that supplies the hatchery with water and it was a difficult matter to 

 make temporary repairs. In consequence the fish that were then in 

 the hatchery suffered from a shortage of water as well as not being able 

 to feed for a period of over a week owing to the roily conditions of the 

 water and other unavoidable conditions, consequently there was a loss 

 of nearly 40 per cent before the fish were in a normal condition again. 

 As soon as the fish are all distributed, permanent repairs must be made 

 on the supply pipe. 



MT. WHITNEY HATCHERY 



The same conditions have prevailed at this station as in former years. 

 The fish make a rapid growth and are always in good condition at the 

 time of distribution. The usual repairs to maintain the hatchery in 



