July, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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the creek water was kept flowing even 
at forty degrees below zero. So, with 
a cold spring of a thousand gallons per 
minute, with Bridger creek and the 
warm spring, Bozeman station was, 
possibly, the best equipped station in 
the Bureau for an unfailing and abund- 
ant supply of water. 
|N order to provide for any unseen 
I emergency I connected the creek water 
pond, through a twelve-inch wooden 
pipe, with the main supply pipe from the 
spring, so that they were interchange- 
able, and either or both waters could 
be used. As the creek water, even in 
summer, never rose to a higher temper- 
ature than 60 degrees, and was as clear 
as a crystal for ten months of the year, 
it could have been utilized for hatching 
eggs as well, or perhaps better, than 
the very cold spring water. 
Bozeman station was a mile above 
sea level, and as it was desirable for 
several reasons, to remove to a lower 
altitude, I was therefore transferred in 
October, 1909, to the station at Tupelo, 
Mississippi, a pond culture station for 
large-mouth black bass and allied per- 
coid fishes. This station had been in 
operation for several years, but with 
little success. The water supply con- 
sisted of about a dozen artesian wells, 
some four hundred feet in depth, with a 
temperature of about seventy degrees. 
When first bored they were flowing 
wells, but for a year or two the water 
stood at about twelve feet from the sur- 
face. Only two of the wells were util- 
ized, and two steam pumps were used 
to supply the several ponds, but the 
supply thus furnished was insufficient. 
The greatest output of black bass had 
not exceeded twenty thousand in any one 
season. 
Some alterations were made in the 
ponds and two more wells were put in 
commission with electric motors instead 
of steam power, by which means the 
water supply was abundant. The out- 
put of black bass was increased to sev- 
eral hundred thousand each season, 
and if an appropriation could have 
been secured for additional ponds the 
yearly output could have been increased 
to two or three millions. In addition 
to black bass large numbers of blue 
gills, croppie and warmouth perch were 
distributed, and for cold! sipring ponds 
yellow perch and rock bass were pro- 
vided. Large-mouth black bass were 
supplied to applicants in Mississippi, 
Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and 
Kentucky, and one season a large con- 
signment was shipped to Cuba. Owing 
to the high temperature of the water 
at Tupelo station, and the weedy ponds, 
the small-mouth black bass could not be 
propagated. 
A FTER a service of more than 
seven years at Tupelo station my 
sight began to fail, and which 
finally developed into choroiditis of 
both eyes, wherein the choroid; coats of 
both eyes were seriously affected and 
involved, causing a black spot to ap- 
pear permanently at the center of vision 
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