154 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting. 
A report upon this golden trout and its relatives, will be 
published by the bureau shortly. 
(Great applause. ) 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Clark: As Mr. Ward Bower is here, and as he brought 
out the trout to take to the Portland Exposition, I would like to 
have him describe to the Society, how he brought those fishes 
from the creek to the railroad point. 
Mr. Ward Bower: Mr. President, I do not know that I can 
say anything of interest in this matter, as I had no intimation 
that | was to be called upon, but in company with a party that 
camped on Volcano Creek this spring, we had no difficulty in 
catching the trout with hook and line; in fact, one man went out 
in three hours fishing in the forenoon took 166 with a hook and 
line, with a small piece of bacon for bait. They would take most 
anything. Even a bare hook, I am quite sure, would catch the 
golden trout at times. We first attempted to take them in a 
seine, but were not successful. We found no difficulty in hold- 
ing them. Our object was to obtain eggs, but we found we 
were too late. The fish had spawned. 
There is a direct trail from Lone Pine over to Volcano Creek 
a distance of thirty-four miles, to where we established our 
headquarters, but owing to the height of the pass, about 11,000 
feet, where it is necessary to cross in order to take this direct 
trail, and to the depth of the snow (this was on May 25th) we 
were forced to take a roundabout trail, requiring four days’ time 

and a journey of sixty miles, crossing the divide at an elevation 
of 8,000 feet. Although supposed to be the easier though lonzer 
trail, it was necessary to make numerous detours on account of 
the snow and the bogs. 
After getting fish and holding them for a time, and finding 
it impossible to obtain eggs, we started down for Lone Pine 
with them, by the direct or shortest trail, the object being to 
transport them to Portland for exhibition purposes. We had 
rectangular pack cans that were made especially for carrying 
fish by pack train, loaned by the California Fish Commission. 
The train included five men, ten animals, a live car, cans, ete. 
The cans held about nine gallons each, and were carried two 
