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A site was selected on Fall Creek, a tributary of the Klamath River, 

 at a distance of fourteen miles from the town of Hombrook and along 

 the line of the old Klamath River Railroad. A substantially con- 

 structed hatchery building, with a capacity of 100 hatching troughs, a 

 cottage for the foreman and living quarters for assistants, comprise the 

 equipment. The hatchery, completely equipped for fishcultural opera- 

 tions and with a capacity sufficient to adequately take care of require- 

 ments in that section, was completed and ready for operation in the 

 spring of 1919. The Chinook salmon eggs, taken at the Klamathon 

 Hatchery during the previous fall, were hatched here and the fry reared 

 for distribution in the Klamath River and tributaries during the spring 

 and summer of 1919. 



A large portion of the rainbow trout eggs taken at the Bogus Creek 

 station are immediately transferred to the Fall Creek Hatchery, where 

 they are "eyed," and later all surplus eggs over and above the amount 

 required for stocking the Klamath River are shipped to other stations 

 to be hatched and reared for general distribution. The racks and traps 

 are located at Klamathon, where successful egg-collecting operations 

 have been carried on by the California Fish and Game Commission and 

 the United States Bureau of Fisheries for several years. The hatcbery 

 on Fall Creek is but twelve miles from the racks at Klamathon. 



BOGUS AND CAMP CREEK EGG-COLLECTING STATIONS. 



Since 1910, rainbow trout egg-collecting operations have been carried 

 on in the Klamath River section by trapping the spawning fish as they 

 ascend Bogus Creek and Camp Creek. The raclvs, traps and holding 

 tanks in both of these creeks were in a very poor state of repair by 

 ]919, and accordingly, in the fall of that year, the old egg-collecting 

 plant was removed and new equipment installed. The success of 

 operations after the new equipment was installed was very marked. 



The spawning operations at these two creeks are carried on by the 

 same crew, as they are but a short distance apart. Bogus Creek being on 

 one side of the Klamath River and Camp Creek a short distance above 

 on the opposite side of the stream. Accordingly the two camps are 

 operated under the name of Bogus Creek station. 



KLAMATHON HATCHERY. 



In order that the run of Chinook salmon in the Klamath River might 

 be properly maintained, it was deemed essential that the department 

 increase the extent of its operations with reference to this locality. 



For many years past the Klamath River has been stocked each season 

 with Chinook or king salmon fry, the supply being principally obtained 

 from eggs taken from the Saeramento River. The United States 

 Bureau of Fisheries had operated the egg-collecting station at Klam- 

 athon, and the eggs here taken were mostly shipped to Sisson, where 

 they were hatched, reared, shipped back and |)lanted in the Klamath 

 River. The bureau also hatched some fry at Klamathon, and these fry 

 were planted early in the spring. However, the station was not well 

 equipped for general operations, the water supply was poor and 

 uncertain, and consequently the extent of the operations was limited 

 and the results obtained were far from adequate. After a careful 



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