14 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. _ 
average loss of less than 10 per cent. This is worthy of note, not only 
because it is probable that these eggs were transported a greater dis- 
tance than has heretofore been recorded in the history of fish culture, 
but also from the fact that they were taken across the equator, and 
then carried by team 300 miles over the hot sands of the territory of 
Neuquen, to be hatched at just the opposite season of the year to that 
in which they would naturally have hatched in their home waters. 
The eggs sent to the New Zealand government were also in charge 
of aBureauagent. The white-fish eggs were in course of transportation 
thirty-four days and the salmon eggs twenty-seven days, a journey of 
2,600 and 250 miles, respectively, by rail, and 6,600 miles by steamer, 
during which they were transhipped eighteen times in wagons, railway 
cars, and vessels before reaching their destination. The salmon eggs 
were delivered to the New Zealand inspector of fisheries at Auckland 
with an actual loss of less than one-half of 1 per cent, while the white- 
fish eggs were delivered at the same point with a loss of 10 per cent; 
in the reshipment from Auckland to Wellington by steamer there was 
a further loss of 10 per cent in the white-fish and a fraction of 1 per 
cent in the salmon eggs, probably due to the fact that they had to be 
transported during the final journey at a rather high temperature, 
there being no cold-storage facilities on board the steamer. 
NEW STATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS. 
The purchase of the land selected for the new station at Mammoth 
Spring, Ark., was consummated June 24, 1904, and the preliminary 
topographical survey was at once begun. The site contains 15.52 
acres, is in the town a short distance from the railroad station, and is 
thus conveniently located for shipping fish and handling supplies. 
The water is obtained from a large lake or reservoir formed by dam- 
ming Mammoth Spring, which is a remarkable outflow of cold, pure 
water admirably suited to the propagation of fish. The deed of sale 
carries the right of drawing a maximum quantity of 1,200 gallons a 
minute from this reservoir. 
At Tupelo, Miss., two stock ponds, each 3} to 43 feet in depth and 
about 14 acres in area, have been completed, together with six cement 
rearing ponds ranging from 50 to 60 feet in length and 8 feet in 
width. These ponds are supplied with water from the wells by an 
open conduit. A foreman’s cottage, a frame building 50 by 29 feet 
and containing eight rooms, has been built, the grounds have been 
fenced and graded, roadways begun, and shrubbery set out. 
Owing to the exceptional advantages offered at Boothbay, Me., for 
the propagation of both lobsters and cod, it was decided to build and 
equip the station in the most modern and complete manner. The site is 
a rocky point of land, and stone quarried on the spot has entered largely 
into the construction of the new buildings, which are not only sub- 
