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REPORT OF STATE FISH AVAUDEN \V. D. IIODGSOX. NEW BOHTOX. ELL. 



Appointed May 19, 1890. Have notified seventy-five or more persons re- 

 garding fisli laws. Have talcen up no nets. Have made thirteen ar- 

 rests and secured seven convictions. Otiier cases not yet tried, but will 

 be when wc can secure the State's Attorney's attention to them. Have 

 served no fishway notices. There are three dams as yet unprovided with 

 fishwaj's in this county. Two are on v^ry small streams, and the other 

 is a very low dam which over flows with three or four feet rise. 



Yiolations are very frequent, though a great deal more seldom than 

 before my appointment. There are but three streams in this county, viz : 

 Edwards river, which runs through Henry and Mercer counties, Pope 

 creek, which runs through this county, and Eliza creek which runs 

 nearly through. 



REPORT OF STATE FISH WARDEN J. P. CAMPBELL, BROWNING, ILL. 



Date of appointment July 8, 1890. Have notified all fishermen in the 

 county to obey law. Have taken up or removed no nets. Have made no 

 arrests. Have secured no convictions. Have served no fishway notices. 

 No fishways have been put in. There are no dams in the county un- 

 provided with fishways. to my knowledge. The streams in our county 

 are Illinois river and Crooked creek. 



REPORT OF STATE FISH WARDEN C. A. WOODRUFF, RIVERSIDE, ILL. 



Appointed May 1, 1890. Have notified about twenty persons to obey 

 the law. Have taken up no nets. Have made no arrests. Have secured 

 no convictions. Have served one fishway notice. One fishway to go in 

 by March next. There is one dam in county unprovided with fishway. 



Yiolations along the Des Plaines are diminished since appointment, and 

 all parties seem interested in the protection of fish. I hear of no com- 

 plaints along the Calumet river in any way. 



REPORT OF STATE FISH WARDEN JOHN DICKSON, STERLING, "WHITESIDE 



COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



Was appointed June 6, 1890. Have notified fifteen persons to obey the 

 law. Have taken up no nets. Have made twelve arrests. Have secured 

 eleven convictions. Have served one fishway notice. No fishway put in. 

 There are five dams unprovided with fishways in our county. The viola- 

 tions are somewhat lessened since my appointment. The sale of fish 

 taken by seine has i)een entirely stopped, in this town. The streams are 

 Mississippi river. Rock creek, Elkhorn creek. Rock river. Sugar creek. 

 Spring creek and Green river. 



TRANSPORTATION. 



The facilities given us for moving; the cars in making- our dis- 

 tribution, have been of such Hberal character as to deserve-more 

 recognition than simple mention. Not only have our cars been 

 hauled free over all roads, but assistance of any kind that would 

 help us in our work has been generously given us at all times, 

 and to the various railroads of this State, more than to any- 

 thing else, is due the success of our large distribution. And this 

 assistance has not been given grudgingly, but in such a way as 

 t'o make it almost a pleasui-e to ask ifor favors: and the man- 

 agements have, in a number of instances, been pleased to say 

 that they regard tlu^ work as a good one, and of so much bene- 



