Reports. 



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August 13 concerning the trout in the Kern River section and 

 the good work done by you on your recent trip to that region. 

 I have been away from the city, or would have acknowledged 

 it earlier; besides which I sent it to Mr, M. J. Connell, our 

 new member in Los Angeles, who is a thorough sportsman and 

 has fished and hunted not only throughout the United States, 

 but in all the good hunting and fishing sections of the world. 



There are some excellent suggestions in this report that will 

 have the attention and consideration of the Board. I believe 

 that this report is worthy of a place in our Biennial Report, 

 which will come out some time this fall. I think that yourself 

 and the Club are entitled to have your good work known to the 

 people, not only of this State, but the United States. 



Yours respectfully, Chas. A, Vogelsang, 



Chief Deputy. 



ViSALiA, Cal., August 29, 1908. 

 Mr. Wm. E. Colby, San Francisco, Cal. 



My Dear Mr. Colby: I received two days ago a reply to my 

 letter of inquiry regarding the planting of golden trout in Rock 

 Creek. The same is from M. W. Buffington, County Surveyor 

 of Kern County, California. 



He informs me that on or about August i, 1900, he and James 

 Reynolds of Lone Pine, M. Reynolds of Ventura, R. N. Heyn 

 of Pasadena, Charles Blacker and William Silver of Bakersfield, 

 and a Swede or Norwegian, name unknown and now deceased, 

 caught twenty-one trout in the upper meadow through which 

 Volcano Creek runs, and placed back in the water all that were 

 over four inches long. 



Mr. Buffington and Mr. Heyn each took seven of the trout 

 in a small lard pail and rode as fast as possible to Rock Creek, 

 occasionally stirring the water, and changing three times when 

 passing springs. When about half way between the summit and 

 Rock Creek they turned three trout loose in a tributary of Rock 

 Creek, and the rest (eleven) were carried to the trail crossing 

 on the creek, where they were placd in the water "with some 

 show of ceremony." 



In 1906 two of the party, James Reynolds and R. N. Heyn, 

 caught some fine large golden trout at the same place. 



I was much pleased with your excellent report of the planting 

 of golden and rainbow trout by yourself and others. I think 

 all the lakes and streams of that region of high altitude, east 

 of the Kern, should be planted with golden trout. In a few 

 years all of those bodies of water would become well populated. 

 I believe the golden trout would do better there than species 

 brought from a distance — and they have no equals. 



