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The new traps were installed by Mr. Barney Steele, the present foreman of the 

 Anaconda hatchery. They are 80 feet long, 16 feet wide, and the side and walls, 

 4 feet high; well bedded in the ground and protected by large quantities of good 

 sized boulders against the flood waters. The traps are divided into eight com- 

 partments, four on either side of the main alley running the length of the trap. 

 These compartments are usually designated as "live boxes." 



Georgetown Lake is a beautiful artificial body of water, approximately twenty 

 miles of uneven shore line, and is fed by the North Fork of Flint Creek and Stewart 

 Mill Creek, with an occasional overflow from Silver Lake, a magnificent body of 

 water situated some six miles east of Georgetown Lake, on the head waters of 

 Warm Spring Creek. Flint Creek flows to the Southwest and enters the lake on the 

 North boundary line. Stewart Mill Creek flows North and enters the lake on the 

 South boundary. 



At the confluence of Stewart Mill Creek with the waters of Georgetown Lake, 

 there is installed traps, from which are taken Rainbow and native trout eggs during 

 the spring months, and brook trout eggs during the fall months. The Mill Creek 

 station eggs are eyed at the eyeing station located on a large spring at the source of 

 the creek approximately one-half mile south of the spawning traps. 



Flows to Pacific. 



Georgetown Lake is one of two lakes in Montana whose waters flow to the 

 Pacific, the other being Little Bitter Root Lake, located twenty-five miles west 

 of Kalispell in Flathead County, they being the only waters tributary to the 

 Pacific Ocean that Grayling have ever been successfully propagated in. 



The quantity of fish of the different species taken from Georgetown Lake during 

 the year would undoubtedly total many tons. As it is tributary to Anaconda, Butte 

 and Phillipsburg and accessible by splendid auto roads, the sportsmen from all 

 sections of the State make it a point, some time during the fishing season, to 

 visit Georgetown Lake. On many Sundays during the summer months 150 to 200 

 autos may be counted parked about the lake. These cars will undoubtedly average 

 not less than four people to the car, all, or nearly all, busily engaged in catching 

 trout and Grayling. 



There is planted each year by the Commission in the waters of Georgetown a 

 great many thousand fry, as it is quite necessary to protect and keep up the spawn- 

 ing grounds for the benefit of the fishermen. 



At the present writing we have in the Anaconda hatcheries about one million 

 brook trout eggs that have been taken at the Mill Creek station on Georgetown Lake, 

 and will be ready for distribution in the spring months of 1919. 



Native Cut Throat Trout 



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