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luted water, as that in which the test water was placed, and in procuring and 

 making these tests a witness was used. 



W. B. RECTOR, 

 Chief Deputy Warden. 



July 29th, 1911. 

 HON. GEO. M. BOWERS. 



United States Fish Commissioner, 

 Washington, D. C. 



DEAR SIR: I beg to thank you for your letter of the 27th inst,, with tests 

 of samples of water sent you some days ago. I have sent you several samples 

 in the last week, but of course, if you cannot make tests of them, it will be 

 all right. 



I have conceived the idea of making my own tests, at the point where the 

 pollution flows into the different streams, and have been doing this for the 

 past two weeks with minnows and such other fish as I have been able to 

 catch; in this way, I think that I will be able to make some prosecutions which 

 will be effective, but to be sure that I was right in making tLese tests, I 

 decided to have you make tests of the same waters and see how they would 

 correspond. I find but little difference in the samples already tested, except 

 the difference in time of killing the fish, but as some of these samples where 

 we made the test, contained warm water right from the industry plants, it 

 would be natural that it would kill fish quicker than if the water was reduced 

 in temperature. 



If it is conveient, I would like to have a test made of the water from tannery 

 at Elkins, as I intend to indict this company at the next term of our court. 

 ^Ve made a test of this water at the same time we sent you the samples, and it 

 killed fish for us in two and one-half minutes. 



Thanking you very much for your help in the past, I am, 



Yours very truly, 



J. A. VlQUESNEY, 



Warden. 



July 31, 1911. 

 MR. J. A. VIQUESNEY, 



Forest, Game and Fish Warden, 



Belington, West Virginia. 



SIR: In reply to your letter of ( July 29 you are informed that the Bureau 

 has no means of 'determining whether the specimens of water already examined 

 include that from the tannery at Elkins, but in any event it will be impossible 

 for the Bureau to make further experiments at this time. 



Respectfully, 



GEO. M. BOWERS, 



Co-mmfa&ioner . 



