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hatchery. The contract was given to Mr. Matt Green during the sum- 

 mer of 1919. Work was begun on the new hatchery that fall and was 

 completed in the fall of 1920. 



The new hatchery contains 61 troughs and has a capacity of about 

 two and a half million trout. Provision has also been made for breed- 

 ing ponds and nursery ponds and a superintendent's cottage. This new 

 h'atchery was made the more necessary because of the lack of water at 

 the Tallac Hatchery during the past few years. The new Tahoe Hatcli- 

 ery is of sufficient size to handle practically all of the black-spotted trout 

 operations. 



At the request of Governor Stephens and the citizens of Placer 

 County, the old hatchery grounds were converted into a public camp- 

 ing ground by an act of the legislature during 1918, and the manage- 

 ment of this public park was placed with the Fish and Game Commis- 

 sion, which has improved and maintained it from the funds collected 

 from hunting and angling licenses. 



MOUNT TALLAC HATCHERY. 



In 1895 Lawrence and Comstock erected a temporary hatchery near 

 Tallac, about two miles from the mouth of Taylor Creek, and placed it 

 under the control of the commission. The following year operations 

 were moved to Tallac Creek. For a number of years a good proportion 

 of the eggs taken in the vicinity were hatched at this station and dis- 

 tributed in the public waters of that region. However, owing to the 

 distance from the spawning grounds and the small supply of water, it 

 was decided in the fall of 1908 to abandon this hatchery and erect a 

 substantial modern building on Taylor Creek near Tallac, where a large 

 supply could be obtained and where the work of hauling the eggs to 

 the hatchery in the early spring, when the country is covered deep with 

 snow, would not be so difficult. After securing a lease for a term of 

 years from Mrs. Anita M. Baldwin, the new building, 40 by 70 feet, 

 was erected. It has a capacity of 3,000,000 eggs and is splendidly 

 equipped. Since a dam was erected on the stream above the hatchery, 

 however, water conditions have not been so good. 



GLEN ALPINE HATCHERY. 



Through the joint efforts of Mrs. George Pierce of Glen Alpine 

 Springs, and Professor W. W. Price of Alta, a small hatchery was com- 

 pleted at Glen Alpine in 1905 and was operated as an auxiliary to the 

 other two Tahoe stations until 1912. It was only a small building, the 

 property of the Glen Alpine Hotel Company, having a capacity of 

 1,000,000 eggs, and was used by the commission to hatch out a few 

 hundred thousand eggs to save the cost of transportation of the fry. 



BEAR VALLEY HATCHERY. 



To satisfy the feeling of necessity for a hatcliery in the vicinity of 

 San Francisco, and after careful examination of the waters of the 

 neighboring counties, Bear Valley, in ^larin County, was finally selected 

 as the site for this hatchery, which was erected in the fall of 1891. It 

 Avas operated as a trout station during the seasons of 1892 and 1893, 

 but was closed for trout work in 1894. Owing to the limited supply of 



