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HUNTING AND FISHING IN MONTANA 



Outlet Lake McDonald 



McAllister: This station belongs to the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries 

 and the State Commission is allowed the use of it for hatching eggs 

 during the spring and summer. In the spirit of co-operation the gov- 

 ernment donates a certain per cent of their collections of rainbow eggs 

 dt this point and the state hatches half of the number received and 

 plants them back into the lake, it being to the mutual benefit of both 

 Commissions that every effort be made to increase the number of fish 

 in the lake. 



Somers: This station and its sub-stations will in the future be one 

 of the largest egg producing stations operated by the Commission. 

 There is not enough ground available at the Somers station for the 

 constructing of rearing ponds, and another serious handicap is the 

 water supply. By the installation of several hundred feet of drainage 

 pipe at the source of the water supply it is believed that this will be 

 remedied and in the future there will be no cause for alarm on account 

 of a shortage in the water supply at any time of the year. A new 

 whitefish or grayling battery with a capacity of 12,500,000 eggs will 

 be installed during the winter. Xew baskets have been made, new 

 cement walls supporting the banks surrounding the station grounds 

 have been constructed. A beautiful water fountain has been erected 

 on the grounds and add to the general attractiveness of the station's 

 ai)pi'arance. With the exception of all the buildings being in need of 

 repainting, the station is in A 1 condition. 



Salmon Lake: This station and a building suitable for living quar- 

 ters for an attiMidant and all necessary eciuipment was built by the 

 Western Montana Fish and Game Association of JMissoula and donated 

 to the State Commission. The hatchery has the same capacity of the 

 one at Emigrant. l)otli containing twelve troughs. A tract of land ad- 



