Trout Planting. 



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TROUT PLANTING. 



Golden Trout Carried in State Car to Sisson. 

 Warden Ferguson returned home on the fish car yesterday 

 afternoon after an absence since the first of the month, and says 

 that this transplanting of golden trout is one of the most notable 

 achievements of the fish commission in the transportation of 

 fish of any kind, but particularly in the line of golden trout, 

 because success has not attended previous efforts, State or Federal 

 whereas success has attended every step in the present expedition 

 and fish of extraordinary growth and size moreover have been 

 secured. 



Warden Ferguson left on the first of the month to join his 

 picked pack train crew at Big Meadows, which is in Tulare 

 County, near the Fresno line, and about twelve miles southeast 

 of Hume. In the crew are Deputy Wardens Ellis, Hughes, and 

 Bullard, who as experts in the work were chosen for the deHcate 

 work of transplanting the rare and beautiful golden trout. The 

 pack train consisted of nineteen animals, the outfit was the best, 

 the start from Big Meadows was made on the seventh and on 

 the eleventh the train after crossing the mountain ranges arrived 

 at its destination at Volcano Creek in Tulare County at the base 

 of Mt. Whitney, which is the habitat of the golden trout. No- 

 where else is this beautiful game fish found. 



Little Whitney Creek, an arm of the Volcano, was turned and 

 here the wardens filled up their cans with 1,300 adult specimen 

 of the brilliant hued golden trout, ranging in size from three 

 to eight inches. The principal object of the expedition having 

 been accomplished, the pack train with its fish consignment 

 proceeded leisurely to Lone Pine where the car awaited it, but 

 on Cottonwood Creek on the trail. Warden Ferguson learned 

 of transplanted golden trout in Cottonwood Lake in Inyo County, 

 fis^ of extraordinary size, it was reported. A halt was made to 

 investigate the report that the fish there had grown to a weight 

 of three pounds. 



A two days' halt followed and the big golden trout out of 

 the lakes were readily taken, and the pack train was sent on to 

 Carrell Creek at the foot of the mountain on the Inyo side, 

 nine miles from Lone Pine, with orders to hold the 1,300 

 stream trout until the larger ones from the lake could be secured. 

 Ten cans from the pack train were sent up to the lake, and thirty 

 odd golden trout were secured, twelve to twenty inches in length, 

 transported to the fish car awaiting at Lone Pine and delivered 

 on Monday evening. 



