
6,04 
indeed planned and executed by a Master 
hand. Every color imaginable may be 
seen, from the brighest crimson to the most 
delicate cream. These colors generally run 
parallel to the river in great broad bands, 
delicately interblending. Yonder is a beau- 
teous patch of coloring that I can liken to 
nothing but the sheen of a dove’s breast. 
Well, finish the picture. We have tarried 
RECREATION. 
long, oblivious of time. The Great Falls 
in the distance, the fantastic shaped pre- 
cipitous and wondrously colored sides, with 
here and there jets of escaping steam, find 
a fitting frame work beneath the waving 
pines on the brink above, the snow cap, 
ped mountains just discernible in the dis- 
tance, surmounted by the blue dome of 
heaven itself. 


PHOTO BY CARCHESTER- UKIAH, CALIF 
A PISH (JAM ON WEE LEYeS sR Eke 
I send you a photograph of a recent 
fish jam, on Kelsey creek, Lake county, 
California. As we have the camera to 
back the story I have no fear of its be- 
ing questioned. 
Kelsey creek flows into Clear lake, 
which is 30 miles long and several miles 
wide. The creek widens out at its mouth 
and is shallow, the bottom being coarse 
gravel through which the stream perco- 
lates into the lake, at low water, leaving 
a gravel bar. During the spring rains 
these fish run up the creek to their spawn- 
ing beds in countless numbers, return- 
ing with the first flood after depositing 
their spawn. 
It sometimes happens that May is a 
dry month and the waters recede rapidly, 
leaving a gravel bar at the mouth. In 
such cases the fish on their downward 
passage get stranded in. immense num- 
bers and pile up sometimes 3 or 4 feet 
deep over a considerable area. 
In the jam shown in the picture there 
are supposed to be 60 to Ioo tons of fish. 
They are composed of several varieties. 
The “Hitch” (so-called by the Indians), 
“Chipall,’ or hard mouths, and several 
others. They are largely consumed by 
the Indians who dry them by the ton, for 
winter food. The whites seldom use these 
fish, as they are very boney, although the 
meat is sweet. The fish are evidently pro- 
lific as these jamsarenotof infrequent oc- 
currence, yet the supovly does not seem to 
decrease. If the surrounding farmers were 
more provident the fish could be advan- 
tageously used as a fertilizer, yet few are 
ever used in this way. 
Alfred V. LaMotte, Ukiah, Calif. 

