30 REPOKT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



of the streams and lakes of eastern Montana. During tlie spring of 

 1900 over 50,000 eggs were collected from fish taken in Bridger Creek, 

 and Mr. J. A. Davies, of Butte, Mont., reports that steelheads from 9 

 to 12 Inches long were taken from a mountain lake in Madison County 

 which had been stocked the previous year. 



A member of the Catlin Land and Live-stock Company, near White 

 Sulphur Springs, Meagher County, writes as follows: 



The 5,000 steelhead trout sent ns in October, 1898, were put in our spring creek, 

 grown up with watercress and containing a good supply of snails, water-bugs, 

 and worms. This creek empties into a reservoir of 5 or 6 acres, 6 to 8 feet deep, 

 from which we have caught several varying in length from 9 to 12 inches. The 

 flesh is pink or salmon-colored, and of good quality. 



As these fish were only a year old when caught, it would seem that 

 they are admirably adapted to the waters of that section. 



Henry Gilmer, of Lewisburg, W. Va., under date of June 19, reports 

 the capture of a rainbow trout weighing a pound in Howard Creek, 

 near Lewisburg, which stream was stocked by the Commission in 1898. 

 Mr. A. H. Gibboney, of Marion, Va., captured a rainbow trout 23 

 inches long, weighing 4 pounds 9 ounces, in Staley Creek, in August, 

 1900, and he reports that several hundred have been captured by Dr. 

 Z. V. Sherrell, of the same place, since April 15, some measuring 14 

 to 23 inches in length, and one weighing 3^ pounds. 



It has been the general impression that rainbow trout will not 

 thrive in New England waters, but Hon. H. O. Stanley, of the Maine 

 Fish Commission, under date of June 26, 1900, reports that a large 

 number of these fish entered the trap of the State hatchery at Lake 

 Auburn the previous spring and that eggs were collected from them. 

 They weighed from 6 to 9 pounds, and were supposed to have escaped 

 into Lake Auburn from the State hatchery several years ago, when it 

 had been supplied with eggs by the U. S. Fish Commission. 



Mr. J. D. Patton, of Cleveland, Tenn., states that rainbow trout are 

 found in Jack River and Mitchell Creek as a result of plants made 

 in those waters. Mr. William G. De Witt, of the Adirondack League 

 Club of New York, forwarded two specimens of Swiss trout on July 29, 

 1900, taken in a lake controlled by the club, which had been stocked 

 with a consignment furnished by this Commission. 



Reports have reached the Comrhission from time to time of the cap- 

 ture of quinnat salmon in Lake Ontario and its tributaries. During 

 the past year two specimens have been secured and identified by Mr. 

 Livingston Stone, superintendent of the Cape Vincent Station, one of 

 which was ripe and weighed 12.^^ pounds, the capture being made near 

 Tibbetts Point light-house in a sturgeon net. 



Several years ago the Commission liberated in the tributaries of the 

 Potomac River 200 crappie and 200 large-mouthed black bass, and as 

 a consequence, from January 1 to August, 1900 (excluding April and 

 May), 47,795 pounds of bass were sold in Washington from the Potomac 



