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mirably adapted to fish life, and one in which I think the golden 

 trout will retain all their wonderful color, because of its similarity 

 to their native stream. While this plant is being made, I think 

 it would be a comparatively easy matter to also have some of 

 these golden trout taken over Taboose Pass and planted in some 

 of the lakes and streams about the headwaters of the main South 

 Fork of the Kings River. If your Commission will authorize 

 Mr. Ober to do this work, I feel sure that he will be only too 

 glad to undertake it. Our Club has promised to assist in a 

 financial way, but the funds at our disposal are very meager 

 indeed and would only pay a small part of the cost of the work. 

 Our Club will appreciate it if you will authorize this to be done 

 at once, as the season will not long permit the necessary crossing 

 of the mountains. 



Assuring your honorable body that our Club stands ready at 

 all times to assist you in your splendid work of stocking the lakes 

 and streams of the High Sierra, I remain. 



Very truly yours, Wm. E. Colby. 



Big Pine, Inyo County, Cal., October 4, 1910, 



Wm. E. Colby, 



Secretary Sierra Club, San Francisco, Cal. 

 My Dear Sir: — I beg herewith to submit for your considera- 

 tion a condensed report of my trip to Volcano Creek, the secur- 

 ing there of a quantity of Sahno Roosevelti (golden trout) and 

 the planting of the same in accordance with plans outlined by 

 your Club and the State Fish and Game Commission in the 

 waters of Center Basin, Bench Lake, and the South Fork of 

 Kings River. 



I cannot resist the temptation of prefacing this report with a 

 few words of merited praise for your Sierra Club and its ever 

 willing co-operation with that prime achiever of results, the 

 State Game and Fish Commission. I plead guilty to a modicum 

 of prejudice of opinion, but I honestly beheve that there is no 

 enterprise or working body or commission in our State that is 

 in a better position to do, or that actually does accomplish more 

 of real good for the people than does our Fish and Game Com- 

 mission, ably assisted, however, by your Sierra Club and other 

 organizations who make trips into the High Sierras each year 

 and take interest in the stocking of heretofore fishless waters; 

 this one feature, aside from your deep interest in the National 

 forests should be and is taken as evidence of your endeavor 

 toward the upbuilding of that which will in the future years 

 inure to the good and welfare of the people and of the country. 

 It is pleasant to feel that in the Sierra Club, at least, we have a 



