48 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
city and county shall signify its acceptance of this trust, and thereupon 
the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall file in his office a 
plat showing the locus of said Seal Rocks, and said plat shall be the 
evidence of the extent and position of the premises hereby granted. 
Sec. 2. That all acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are 
hereby declared inapplicable to the premises hereby granted. 
Live cars. — In reply to the inquiry of Messrs. Broughton & Freitas, 
of Portugal, Mr. A. Howard Clark, who had charge of such matters at 
the London Exhibition, states, under date of May 27, 1887, that the 
tow-cars employed by the fishermen in transporting the catch from the 
fishing grounds to port are usually in the shape of flat-bottomed, decked 
boats, sharp at both ends, with a hinged opening on top for inserting 
the fish. The sides are pierced with auger holes, to give free circulation 
of water. A common size of tow-car is 5 feet long on top, 3 feet long 
on bottom, 2 feet wide on top amidships, about feet wide on bottom, 
and about 14 inches deep amidships, with considerable sheer fore and 
aft. The marketmen’s cars, moored at the fish wharves, are generally 
of rectangular shape, about 12 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 3 feet deep. 
They are made of 1-inch plank, 6 inches in width, which is nailed to a 
rectangular frame of joist. Spaces of 1J to 2 inches are left between 
the planks. They are either with or without compartments, and are 
opened on top by hinged doors. At some ports these cars are made 
25 feet long, 16 feet wide, and 5 feet deep, and divided into 6 compart- 
ments. Empty casks are sometimes used to buoy them. In the lobster 
fishery, fishermen often use leaky boats, provided with decks, in which 
to keep their lobsters alive. 
Carp, shad, and striped bass in California.— Mr. Charles 
Kaeding, writing from San Francisco on May 18, 1887, stated that carp 
are being taken in great abundance, some weighing 15 pounds. The 
shad are also becoming very plentiful $ while striped bass have been 
caught this year weighing as much as 25 pounds, and appear to be 
doing well on this coast. 
Shad in the Ohio River.— Mr. W. M. Birely, writing from Yance- 
burgh, Ky., on May 16, 1887, stated that in the spring of 1885 he bought 
from a net-fisherman on the Ohio River two genuine Potomac shad, 
one weighing 3 pounds and the other 4 pounds. He added that in the 
Ohio they have what is known as “ hickory shad,’ 7 a fish specifically 
different from the shad above mentioned. 
Whitefish in irrigating ditches. — The irrigating ditches for 
the past two days have been filled with lake whitefish, and the small 
boy has had a good deal of sport ladling them out in tin buckets. Fish 
Commissioner Otto Gramm and Hr. H. J. Maynard planted altogether 
150,000 whitefish in Sloan’s Lake. Water is being drawn from there 
through pipes for irrigating purposes, and as no netting prevents their 
escape, the fish passed through into the ditches in great numbers. 
The fish planted last January are already 3 inches long. [From the 
Cheyenne (Wyo.) Sun, May 25, 1886.] 
