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tinned, we have added 25 per cent, the total being a close approximation 
of the actual catch for the season.” 
The following figures for the years 1893 to 1896, inclusive, were 
taken from the books of dealers and transportation companies and dis¬ 
play the actual catch of those years: 
Years. 
Pounds. 
1893 
1894 
1895 
1896 
3 , 950,373 
4 , 494,618 
4 , 350,375 
3 , 276,587 
It will be observed by reference to the second table that there was 
a decided decrease; but dating from that time a remarkable increase is 
shown, due to larger experience and improved methods; but the most 
important factor was the establishment of more spawning stations, 
beginning with one established by this Commission on Battle Creek, 
Shasta County, in 1895. This station produced in its first year of oper¬ 
ation upwards of 14,000,000 salmon fry, which exceeded the total 
number ever planted in any previous four years and marked the com¬ 
mencement of a new era in salmon propagation. The United States 
Bureau of Fisheries located in 1901 a spawning station on Mill Creek, 
in Tehama County, and also acquired from the State its property and 
righfs on Battle Creek, and has continued to operate with great success 
both stations, delivering to us free of cost practically the entire output 
of these stations and a large proportion of those taken on the McCloud 
River. 
Years. 
Pounds . 
1907 _ __ ___ _ _ 
9 , 111,200 
8 , 001,750 
11 , 211,400 
10 , 256,600 
1908 _ _ _ ___ _ _ 
1909 _ _ _ _ __ 
1910 ___ _ _ ___ _____ _ __ __ 
The third table, submitted by us, is based on the number of tierces 
of salmon actually packed, of which there is a record furnished by 
Mr. F. E. Booth of the Sacramento River Packers’ Association, and to 
which is added an estimate made by dealers of the number of pounds 
of fresh salmon sold in the San Francisco markets. We do not include 
the fresh salmon which is shipped from Tehama and Chico into Oregon 
and Washington, nor from Sacramento to Eastern States, nor that 
which is sold and consumed in the local markets of Sacramento and 
Stockton, which, based on such figures as are obtainable, approximates 
800,000 pounds annually. 
