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REPORT OF BOARD OF FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 
REPORTS OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SISSON HATCHERY, SEASONS 1908 
AND 1909* 
Sisson, Cal., November 30, 1908. 
Honorable Board of Fish Commissioners, for the State of California. 
Gentlemen : In accordance with the instructions of your honorable 
Board, I herewith submit a brief report of the work done at Sisson 
Station during the years 1907-1908. It is with pleasure that I can 
report the station in a prosperous condition—due in a great measure 
to the able support given to me by your honorable Board and Chief 
Deputy. I will endeavor to outline the principal work that has been 
done at this station in the last two years. During the period since my 
last report the necessary repairs have been kept up, new ponds con¬ 
structed, a pumping plant for irrigating the grounds and for washing 
the ponds with water under pressure (through a hose and nozzle), the 
erection of a poacher proof fence around the grounds, the construction 
of a new hatchery for salmon work, the building of a raceway below 
the ponds, are among the main improvements. 
The electric lighting plant has been enlarged by the installation of a 
new dynamo, and a new set of carbonized troughs has been set up in 
the hatchery “C.” The source of our water supply has been changed 
to a point lower down on Spring Creek. When the Commission pur¬ 
chased the ‘‘Watson Tract” of land a water right and ditch went 
with it. The head of this ditch was in Spring Creek, a couple of hun¬ 
dred yards below the head of the old canal. The ground slopes on an 
even incline toward the hatchery, and the two ditches approach each 
other until they are parallel at a point a quarter of a mile from the 
hatchery. There we turned the lower ditch into the old canal. This 
was done to secure a steadier flow of water. At the source of the old 
canal are two other ditches that all have their source in the same dam, 
and as the flow was increased or decreased by the owners of these 
ditches, it caused us more or less trouble at the hatcheries, as we must 
have a steady flow of water. This change did not interfere with the 
flow of water in the old ditch or canal. The same amount has been in 
use at this station for the past seven years. 
Several of the ponds were changed and new ones built to accommo¬ 
date our increasing stock of brood fish. We now have at this station 
45 ponds and four hatcheries for the rearing of fish. The hatcheries 
contain 300 troughs that are in almost constant use. A team of horses 
