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lem, nothing more, nothing less; and to the solution of 
this problem the veteran band of fishculturists, with the 
appliances at hand, and with a will and courage equal to 
every conceivable emergency, have gone to work, resolved 
not to lay down their tools till every promise of theirs is 
redeemed and every prophecy fulfilled.”’ 
The appropriation for the first two years was seventy- 
five hundred dollars a year. With this fund the Commis- 
sion established a State hatchery at Crystal Springs, Poka- 
gon, Cass County, on the Methodist camp-meeting grounds, 
and built a hatchery 20 by 60 feet, one story high, with a 
roomy attic, and a small residence for the overseer. The 
earlier efforts of the Commission were devoted somewhat 
to the propagation and planting of several kinds of foreign 
fish—the Atlantic salmon, the land-locked salmon, the 
California salmon and the shad ; and we are constrained to 
believe that much faith and enthusiasm, as well as labor 
and money, was wasted in the effort to acclimate these for- 
eigners to the waters of Michigan. The whitefish, how- 
ever, was never overlooked or neglected. 
The first plant of whitefish was in the spring of 1874, and 
it exceeded a million and a half, which was greater than 
the plant of all other kinds. These whitefish were hatched 
at the hatchery of N. W. Clark, at Clarkston, Oakland 
County. 
In the spring of 1875, there were hatched at the State 
hatchery at Pokagon about 150,000 whitefish, and about 
two millions were bought of N.W. Clark & Son, of North- 
ville, at the price of one dollar a thousand. The plant 
was upwards of twenty-two hundred thousand. 
In the fall of 1876 a small whitefish hatchery, 20 by 50 
feet, was built on a leased lot near the water works on At- 
water Street, in Detroit, and the experiment tried of using 
the city water. Oren M. Chase was put in charge of this 
hatchery. The hatching was done at first in the Holton 
