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REPORT OF BOARD OF FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 
hatching and rearing of trout, particularly the eyeing of the eggs will 
be done in this building, as it can be kept in better condition than the 
buildings with the old style of boxes. 
During the summer and fall of 1909, the troughs in hatcheries “C’ r 
and “D,” having been made out of soft timber, became very spongy, 
except a few that were carbonized a couple of years before, and it was- 
deemed best to remove them, as the fry could not be kept healthy in 
troughs made from such material. I recommended that the troughs be 
changed and better ones substituted. My recommendation was approved 
by your honorable Board. After the salmon fry had been released, I 
tried to get selected lumber from the mills here, but as it was early in 
the spring there was not any chance to get the material necessary here, 
and redwood lumber was used. 
We built 130 new troughs and put them into hatcheries “C” and 
“ D. ” Ninety were put into ‘ 1 C ” and 40 into 4 ‘ D. ’ ’ The other troughs 
in “D” were in good order. 
In June, 1910, we built a straight road from the entrance to the 
hatchery grounds to the county road opposite, a distance of 630 feet. 
A sidewalk was also built of plank running parallel to it for the con¬ 
venience of pedestrians. 
The Sisson Tavern Company removed one of their barns, so that the 
Commission could build the road and walk straight from the hatchery 
to the county road. Owing to the uncertainty of getting rainbow eggs 
from the Shasta River Station, on account of the tremendous floods 
that came down that stream every spring, I determined to put in a 
rack and trap in Bogus Creek, four miles north of Thrall, on the line 
of the Klamath Lake Railroad. I had examined this creek years ago 
for the purpose of collecting rainbow trout eggs, but, owing to the almost 
impassable trail that leads down that canyon, I gave the plan up until 
after the construction of the Klamath Lake Railroad. In January, 
1910, I ordered the material for a rack and trap, had it framed at Sisson, 
and shipped to Bogus Creek, where Mr. A. E. Doney, with the neces¬ 
sary number of assistants, put them in place. 
We also put up a small cabin for the men. Mr. Doney successfully 
handled the trap and other work connected with the station. We se¬ 
cured a lease for the privilege of operating on the creek and land enough 
for the tanks and cabin. The lease gives the Commission the privilege 
of operating an egg-collecting station each season for the period of ten 
years, the station to be closed each season by April 1st. 
This is late enough, for the spawning season on the Klamath River 
and its tributaries is practically over. The work of carrying the eggs 
from the canyon where the trap is located to the railroad bridge was 
very hard work. After the eggs were brought to the railroad track they 
