REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XXXV 
LEADVILLE STATION, COLORADO. 
A station for breeding and rearing trout in the Bocky Mountain 
region having become a necessity, the Commissioner made a careful 
examination of the country available for the purpose and decided to 
locate the station in Colorado. The site selected is in Lake County, 
near Evergreen Lakes and about 6 miles west of the city of Lead- 
ville. By act of Congress approved March 2, 1889, the sum of $15,000 
was appropriated for the purpose of erecting a hatchery building in 
Colorado. A Government reservation for the use of the U. S. Fish 
Commission was created by proclamation of President Harrison dated 
April 1G, 1889, and consists of 1,935 acres, beginning on the western 
edge of the Arkansas Valley and extending to the top of Mount Marcy, 
14,298 feet above tide water, so as to include the upper valley of Bock 
Creek, which has its sources iu an extensive permanent ice and snow 
field, lying in a depression on the flank of the mountain. Detailed 
plans and specifications have been prepared, and the work will be con- 
tracted for at an early date. 
BAIRD STATION, CALIFORNIA. 
Bo active fish-cultural operations were carried on at this station from 
1883 to 1888. The work had been undertaken chiefly with the object 
of procuring the eggs of the California salmon for the purpose of stock- 
ing our eastern rivers flowing into the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mex- 
ico. Jt was thought probable that this species would thrive in rivers 
south of the Hudson, in which the Atlantic salmon does not occur nat- 
urally and in which the attempts by the Federal and State commissions 
to introduce the species have not proved successful. These experi- 
ments were undertaken on*a scale unprecedented in the history of fish- 
culture. Millions of eggs were transferred to the eastern stations, 
hatched out, and the fry planted in nearly every one of the larger 
rivers south of the Hudson. In no single case did the experiment 
prove satisfactory, and the Commissioner was forced reluctantly to 
abandon an experiment which, reasoning from a priori considerations, 
gave fair promise of success, and which, had it succeeded, would have 
given us a new and valuable fishery in the Atlantic rivers. 
The work was resumed in 1888, with Mr. G. B. Williams as superin- 
tendent, with the definite purpose of aiding in the maintenance of the 
salmon fisheries of the Sacramento Biver, which had been for several 
years rapidly deteriorating. All necessary preparations for work were 
completed by the middle of August, when the capture of gravid salmon 
began and continued until September 24, when the first run of salmon 
ceased. The second run began October 29 and continued until Decem- 
ber 15, when the fishing ceased. The total number of eggs taken was 
5,500,000, the second run of fish furnishing 4,000,000 of these (in pre- 
vious years the eggs were obtained entirely from the first or August 
