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elevation of the springs, one of which is fully fifty feet above 
the hatchery, and the proximity to salt water, which at half tide 
is only two hundred yards away. 
The work atthe station was begun on January rst, 1883, by the 
joint operations of the United States and the New York Fishery 
Commissioners, and has been continued by both commissions 
since. The grounds were given, rent free, by Mr. John D. Jones 
and his brothers Townsend, Samuel and Edward, and the upper 
spring by Dr. O. L. Jones, and in addition to this, Mr. Townsend 
Jones has given stone from the Connecticut quarries to build a 
sea wall to hold the tide at all times. Two old buildings have 
been fitted up as hatcheries, and the work done in the short 
space of time will bear close inspection and comparison with 
older establishments. Maps of the grounds will be found in the 
last report of the New York Fish Commissioners by those who 
care to know more of the station. ‘ 
In the fresh water department the present capacity of the 
house has been nearly taxed by the hatching of 500,000 salmon, 
10,000 landlocked salmon, 38,000 rainbow trout, 50,000 European 
trout and 1,000,000 whitefish. The fact that the European trout 
were in five different lots; which will be enumerated further on, 
rendered it necessary to place them in separate troughs, even 
though as small a lot as 2,000, taken from one English stream, 
were kept separate in a trough which could just as well have 
accommodated 30,000. The whitefish table will hatch’ 4,000,000 
as well as 1,000,000, so that at present we can say that the capac- 
ity of the hatcheries is 800,000 salmon and 4,000,000 whitefish, or 
1,000,000 salmon and the whitefish. This can be increased, if 
necessary. 
TROUT. 
Our native brook trout were formerly plenty in the ponds on 
this place, but owing to a lack of protection, they were very few 
when the land was leased to the Fish Commission; about fifty 
fish being the extent of their number. Eggs of the rainbow 
trout have been received from three different places, viz: Direct 
from the U. S. hatchery, at Baird, Shasta County, California: 
from the U. S. station at Northville, Mich., and from the New 
York station at Caledonia. They have grown well, but are a 
