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Florida, but thought it would be in bet- 
ter taste, and more dignified to make 
the application through another party. 
I therefore wrote to an acquaintance, 
a member of Congress from Mr. Car- 
lisle’s district, asking him to request 
my appointment. I received a very 
friendly and even cordial reply, saying 
that it would give him great pleasure 
to accede to my wishes, and to be of 
any assistance in the matter, especially 
as he knew that I was well qualified for 
the position. Soon afterward I re- 
ceived another letter from my friend, 
Mr. Logan Carlisle, containing some 
words so hot that it was a wonder that 
the epistle had not been consumed from 
spontaneous combustion. He concluded 
by saying: 
“I am sorry you did not apply .per- 
sonally to the Secretary, for the son 
of your intermediary has been appoint- 
ed Inspector of Salmon Fisheries in 
Alaska, and all he knows about salmon 
is when he sees the name printed on the 
menu of a hotel. The inference is self- 
evident and plain, so that he who runs 
may read: Put not your trust in princes, 
nor yet in politicians.” 
Soon after this I received a letter 
from U. S. Fish Commissioner Brice 
asking me to re-enter the Commission, 
but added that as the Commission had 
been placed under Civil Service regula- 
tions, it would be necessary to undergo 
an examination. Accordingly I passed 
the several examinations for superin- 
tendent of the four classes of fish cul- 
ture embracing the propagation of 
salmon, trout, shad, whitefish and the 
pond culture of black bass and allied 
species. I was given the choice of three 
new stations, Texas, Iowa and Mon- 
tana. I took the Montana station at 
Bozeman, as I wished to try to solve the 
problem of grayling culture, inasmuch 
as it had proved a failure in Michigan 
for many years. 
I arrived in Bozeman during the 
first week in January, 1897, and found 
a foot or two of snow, with the ther- 
mometer at twenty degrees below zero, 
after leaving the roses in bloom in 
Tampa. For several weeks I traveled 
in a sleigh more than a hundred miles, 
in several directions, from Bozeman, 
in search of localities where the eggs 
of cut-throat trout and grayling could 
be collected. Finally I established a 
station for grayling at Elk Creek, trib- 
utary to Red Rock Lake, the principal 
source of Jeiferson River. Just over 
the Continental Divide in Idaho, I es- 
tablished a station for collecting eggs 
of the cut-throat trout on Henrys Lake 
Both stations proved to be all that 
could be desired during my stay at 
Bozeman hatchery for thirteen years. 
T HE propagation of brook trout, 
rainbow and steelhead trout, being 
a very simple matter, the output of 
the station each year was double the 
estimated capacity of the hatchery. But 
the propagation of the grayling was 
another story. In Michigan, for many 
years, experiments with grayling eggs 
were pursued along the same lines as 
with brook trout eggs, and the result- 
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