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Sierra Club Bulletin 



has an elevation of 11,989 feet, but yet is the only point at which animals 

 can be readily taken over the crest of the Sierra between Piute Pass 

 on the north and Taboose Pass on the south. In the early part of the 

 summer it is often blocked by a snow cornice, but later in the season 

 it can easily be crossed by pack animals. It has been used by cattlemen 

 for a few years with varying success. From Bishop Pass a fairly well 

 defined trail leads down on the Inyo side through a very beautiful and 

 interesting chain of lakes to South Lake. South Lake is the reservoir 

 of the Hillside Water Company and is operated in connection with a 

 system of power plants farther down on Bishop Creek. Although the 

 lake is at an elevation of almost ten thousand feet, a wagon road has 

 been built to it from Owens Valley and is being maintained in connec- 

 tion with the operation of the reservoir. 



The scenery in the upper portion of the basin of the South Fork of 

 Bishop Creek is some of the finest I have seen in the Sierra. The 

 view from Bishop Pass is especially fine. To the northwest the crest 

 of the range is visible from this point as far as Mt. Humphreys. Parties 

 crossing by this route will find the first regular settlement on the Inyo 

 side at Andrews Camp five miles below South Lake. At this camp will 

 be found fenced pastures, a store with fairly complete stock of camp 

 equipment, and a pleasantly situated and well managed camp, which is 

 open during all of the summer months and well into autumn, although 

 it is at an elevation of 8,500 feet. W. L. Huber 



Fresno, California, December 10, 1914 



Mr. William E. Colby, 

 Secretary, Sierra Club, 

 San Francisco, Cal. 



My dear Mr. Colby: I submit herewith a brief record of Golden trout 

 plants during the summer of 1914. 



In line with the fixed policy of the Fresno Division of the Fish and 

 Game Commission, we undertook, during the past summer, to reach and 

 stock the headwaters of the more important rivers in this division, 

 using none but Golden trout. On July ist, we put in the field six men 

 and a well-equipped twenty-mule pack-train. In the course of our 

 operations we extended the range of the Golden trout 125 miles north- 

 ward. The waters selected for planting with Golden trout were natu- 

 rally barren of fish life, although well adapted to the existence of fish ; 

 particularly the Golden trout. Cut off by falls, the other species of 

 trout of the lower waters of these streams cannot ascend and mix with 

 the Golden trout of the headwaters, and thus the Golden trout species 

 will always be pure stock. 



On July i8th, having been six days in gathering their load. Deputies 

 EIHs, Smalley, Bullard and Brownlow, assisted by Walter Williams 

 and Ray Ellis, left Whitney Meadows with fourteen mule loads 



