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Falls and four other headwater tributaries of the same stream. 

 Sixteen tributaries of the Kings River, including lakes and 

 streams in Granite Basin, received liberal plants of adult fish. 

 All are ideal trout waters, but heretofore barren of fish life. It 

 is confidently beheved that this vast region will in a few years 

 become a fisherman's paradise. 



Much credit is due to the officers and members of the Sierra 

 Club, who, under the skillful directions of Secretary Wm. E. 

 Colby, have at their own expense, but under the authorization 

 of this Board, successfully transplanted during the past two 

 years more than 400 adult golden trout in the vicinity of Mount 

 Whitney. 



In July and August, 1910, more than 1,800 large golden trout 

 of the two varieties were taken with hook and line by our 

 deputies and distributed among twenty-three lakes and streams 

 in which no fish have heretofore existed. In suitable places — 

 meadow streams — seines were used to take the fish, but by far the 

 larger number were taken with hook and line. 



Some idea of the arduous character of the work is shown by 

 the plants made in Deadman's Canon, which occupied six days 

 of pack-horse travel over a very rough country. The fish were 

 true type, Salmo Roosevelti, i^ak^n with, seine at Whitney Meadows 

 and planted with the remarkably low loss percentage of six fish 

 out of 183, all adults. — Twenty-Hrst Biennial Report of the Board 

 of Fish and Game Commissioners of the State of California, 1910. 



San Francisco, September 8, 1910. 

 Honorable Board of Commissioners, 



California Fish and Game Commission, 



Merchants Exchange Bldg., San Francisco. 



Gentlemen: I desire to express to your Honorable Board, on 

 behalf of the Sierra Club, our very great appreciation of the 

 splendid work which has been done in the field by your repre- 

 sentatives this year toward the planting of hitherto fishless lakes 

 and streams in the High Sierra region. We have been especially 

 interested in seeing the golden trout spread over a considerable 

 territory, and we are particularly pleased to learn of the splendid 

 work that Mr. Ellis has done in the Kern River region, under 

 the direction of Mr. Ferguson. 



I have already had some correspondence with your deputies 

 with reference to one additional planting which we are very 

 anxious should be made. This is to take golden trout from 

 Golden Trout Creek at Whitney Meadows and plant them in the 

 branch of the South Fork of the Kings River just below Center 

 Basin, a stream which we examined this year and found ad- 



