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10 a. m., when the trays were overhauled, one hundred and thirteen dead lobsters 
were discovered, fifty-nine of this number beiug females and fifty-four males. The 
car arrived at Spokane Falls at 10.10 a. m., and remained there until 7.10 p. m. 
About twelve hours were also lost beyond Spokane Falls on account of damage to 
the railroad track. The temperature during the day ranged from 35° to 38° at the 
bottom, and from 44° to 47° at the toiJ of the tanks. 
January 21 the car arrived at Walla Walla Junction at 10 a. m., the weather beiug 
warmer than on the previous day. The number of dead lobsters removed was 
seventy-six, sixty-one being females and fifteen males. The live lobsters were here 
re-assorted in the trays, on an average two males and four females beiug placed in each, 
to facilitate the handling at the end of the journey. East Portland was reached at 7 
p. m. Mr. E. A. Bensell wa,s to meet the car at this place and take charge of a part of 
the shipment intended for Yaquina Bay, Oregon, but as he did not appear, and delay 
might be fatal to the balance of the stock, the car was taken on to Portland, where Mr. 
Johnson was left with twenty-two trays, containing one hundred and ten lobsters, as 
follows: thirty-two males, twenty-five females with eggs, and fifty-three females 
without eggs. These were planted, in part, off Cape Disappointment, at the mouth of 
the Columbia Eiver, and, in part, about 7 miles farther north in Shoalwater Bay. 
The car arriving at Tacoma the same day, Mr. Trenholm, together with Judge 
James G. Swan, who had made arrangements for the northern planting, left at 7 a. m. 
on the morning of the 22d with the balance of the lot for Port Townsend by steamer. 
From the latter place the following deposits were made the same afternoon, namely : 
In Scow Bay. opposite Port Townsend, twenty-four lobsters ; off Point Hudson, at 
the entrance of Port Townsend Bay, twenty-five lobsters; off Wilson’s Point, three- 
fourths of a mile from the light house, near Port Townsend, seventy-four lobsters, a 
total of one hundred and twenty-three lobsters. The temperature of the water was 
45° Fahr. According to Judge Swan, the summer temperatures in this region range 
from 50° to 55° Fahr. The places selected for making the plants were rocky and 
gravelly bottoms, covered with kelp and rock-weed, and with an abundance of animal 
life. 
Niue females with eggs had died on the way over. Their eggs were saved and were 
deposited in Puget Sound, there being no facilities for hatching them, and the season 
also being unfavorable for their development. 
R^SUIVli OF THK TRIP. 
Car No. 3 left Wood’s Holl, Massachusetts, January 14, 1889, with seven hundred 
and ten lobsters, destined for the coasts of Washington and Oregon. The trip was 
made via the Northern Pacific Railroad in seven days, the plants beiug made on the 
eighth day after leaving Wood’s Holl, namely, January 22. On account of the failure 
of Mr. Bensell to meet the car at Portland it was impossible to make the proposed 
planting on the central part of the Oregon coast, but a small number were left at the 
mouth of the Columbia River, ou the north side. The condition of all the lobsters 
planted was reported good. The results of the shipment are summarized in the fol- 
lowing table: 
