256 



Sierra Club Bulletin. 



of water and fish, one hanging on either side of the pack saddle 

 of mule, donkey or burro. The cans are of galvanized iron re- 

 inforced with hardwood strips to stand the wear and tear and 

 hard knocks that they are subjected to on one of these mountain- 

 eering jaunts, where as before said, the trails are so narrow and 

 precipitous that the cans frequently scrape along the rocky 

 mountain side. In this manner fish may be transported over long 

 distances for days at a time without trouble or even appreciable 

 loss. The cans are provided with screen tops so that they may 

 be submerged over night in a nearby stream and the fish given 

 fresh water of a temperature such as it is accustomed, and hkely 

 to live in when finally liberated to work out its own salvation. 



While three and four pack trains will thus be engaged in the 

 busy summer's work, the intention is to distribute the young fish 

 in such widely separated regions as to stock eventually every 

 stream suitable for trout in Fresno, Tulare, and a part of Madera 

 counties. 



Besides the above work. Deputy Warden Elhs has with the 

 special approval of the United States Bureau of Fisheries been 

 authorized to work in the Kern River region and plant fish in 

 the streams flowing from the east into the big Kern River. 

 For this work he will have three species of golden trout to 

 distribute, the agtia bonita in the south fork, the Roosevelti in 

 Volcano Creek and the whitei in Soda Creek, also stocking 

 streams flowing from the west into the Big Kern with so-called 

 Kern River trout. 



Yet another commission has been entrusted to Deputy Fish 

 Commissioner Ober in Inyo with the co-operation of stockmen to 

 plant fish in the headwaters of the Kings in the rougher and 

 more inaccessible mountain regions yet more approachable from 

 the Inyo County side than from Fresno. This work will make 

 use of the fourth pack train. The third will ascend to the middle 

 and south forks of the Kings and the fourth will distribute fish 

 in the north fork of the Kings and south fork of the San Joaquin 

 sections. 



"It is the intention," said Warden Ferguson, "to bring trout 

 from Rock Creek on the Mono side to stock the waters in the 

 neighborhood of Mount Goddard on this side of the Sierra, and 

 complete a work which I undertook in 1897, when I took fish out 

 of Rock Creek to stock waters across the summit to the Mono, a 

 tributary of the south fork of the Kings, a work in fish trans- 

 planting which has exceeded the fondest expectations, for the 

 fish have thriven and multiplied. The Rock Creek trout is a 

 beautifully marked specimen of the brook trout. Its stock was 

 originally from Colorado, imported probably twenty-eight years 

 ago. 



