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England streams, but it would be exceedingly interesting, I 
think, to take some of the fish from Volcano Creek, and make a 
plant of them in some small mountain stream in the east, and 
note the effect it would have upon the coloration, Of course the 
peculiar colors of the fish are due largely, or wholly, to its en- 
vironment, and the environment of its ancestors. Volcano 
Creek is made up largely of granite sand, gravel, volcanic sand, 
and volcanic tufa, which resulted from various volcanic erup- 
tions occurring here, all of which have a yellowish white color, 
and in many places the bed of the stream is yellowish white, 
and when these fish are lying close to the bottom it is sometimes 
difficult to extinguish the fish if it is quiet, from the general 
color of the bottom. But that is what you would expect, as 
just such factors as those have had much to do with the colors 
of all fishes and other animals. 
There are two ways of getting to the Kern River. A good 
way is to go by the Southern Pacific, or Santa Fe to Visalia, 
then by stage to Redstone Park or Threerivers, and outfit there. 
If you go for angling you will get two or three introduced spec- 
imens, the common rainbow, the Shasta rainbow, and the cut- 
throat trout, also the Soda Creek trout, the golden trout of Vol- 
cano Creek, and the golden trout of the South Fork of the Kern. 
You will find a larger number of fishes, and in a setting perhaps 
not surpassed anywhere in the United States, for beauty and 
grandeur. 
I should like to repeat again, and there is no field that I 
know of where fish cultural operations can be extended to better 
advantage than in the headwaters of the Kern, and certain head- 
waters of the Kaweah and Kings Rivers. There are large num- 
bers of small mountain streams, and high mountain lakes, which 
are well supplied with trout food, and which are now entirely 
without fish of any kind, and these regions are sure to come into 
greater and greater prominence year by year, as more tourists 
go there. 
Ordinarily it is said that it does not rain in this region in 
the summer time, and we went in taking that statement at its 
face value; but it rained on us every day for fourteen days, but 
fortunately the majority of the rains were not heavy enough to 
cause us inconvenience. 
