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water. W'c may have to put fences around the pond to keep them from 

 leaping out. They will jump two or three feet if anything is thrown to 

 them, taking food as eagerly as brook trout. It looks as though the 

 silver salmon is a fish that will thrive in our lakes. We feel very much 

 encouraged in this work. 



President: Going Ijack to the origin of the rainbow trout in New 

 York, I know from the records that the first eggs received at Caledonia 

 came from J. B. Campljell, who was in the Shasta resrion. He was at 

 one time an assistant of Mr. Livingston Stone on the McCloud River. 

 That was the source of the first eggs hatched in New York ; and others 

 came from the same region a little later. Since that time New York 

 has received rainbows from the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 

 But the original stock of tish, it appeared to me, showed at least two 

 subspecies. Mr. Frank X. Clark was on the McCloud River in mv 

 company in 1876, I think it was. At that time the rainbow trout were 

 very plentiful in the river, and it seemed to me at least— T don't know 

 whether Mr. Clark will remember it or not — that there were two kinds 

 of rainl)ows in the McCloud River, the common stubby rainl)ow and 

 a sjiniiner hsli. I presume one was a subspecies and the nther was 

 a true iridcus. 



Mr. Frank N. Clark: It is true that in 1876 Dr. Bean and I made 

 a trip to the Sacramento River with shad, then went on up tn the Mc- 

 Cloud River. In 1877 I went to the coast, Mr. Quinn accompanying 

 me. In 1878 I made the same trip with sliad again, and in going to 

 San Francisco I arranged with the proprietor of a private hatchery 

 for a supply of yearling rainbow trout, which we brought back to 

 Northville. The first rainbow eggs ever taken in Michigan were from 

 those fish, but they were not the first rainbow trout planted in Miclii- 

 gan. Previous to 1876 we had eggs; just where we got them I don't 

 remember; but they produced the fry that Mr. Bower mentioned as 

 being the first rainbows planted in the Au Sable River. The next 

 lot of fry came from the yearlings that we I)rought across from the 

 coast in 1878. We started with 125 yearlings from four to twelve 

 inches long and reached Northville with some of the larger fish. We 

 had a small take of eggs from those fish and the fry were planted in the 

 Au Sable River by Mr. Fitzhugh. 



