28 REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 
the spring of 1918, despite the extreme drought, 1,250,000 eggs were 
secured at this station. 
During the spring of 1918, following out our plan of increasing the 
number of small hatcheries throughout the state, an experimental sta- 
tion was established in Plumas County on the line of the Western 
Pacific Railway on a site selected about a mile from the town of 
Blairsden on Grey Eagle Creek. Steelhead eggs were shipped to the 
station from Snow Mountain Station; black-spotted eggs from Tallae 
Hatchery, and rainbow eggs from Domingo Springs Station; our plan 
being to thoroughly try out this site in order that we might erect a 
permanent hatchery thereon should the water prove to be satisfactory 
for hatchery purposes. From this hatchery all of the trout fry for 
Plumas, Lassen and Modoe counties along the line of the Western 
Pacific, and Nevada, California and Oregon Railways could be hatehed 
and distributed. With the inland territory in the Westwood, Lake 
Almanor and Juniper Lake districts covered by our Almanor and 
Domingo Springs hatcheries, and all railroad deliveries for the three 
counties above mentioned taken care of by the Feather River Hatchery, 
as the plant near Blairsden was to be named, we could have eliminated 
all long hauls to this section from the Mount Shasta Hatchery. Unfor- 
tunately, the water of Grey Eagle Creek did not prove satisfactory for 
hatchery purposes, and it will, therefore, be necessary that we locate a 
hatchery in this section on some other creek. 

Bear Lake, San Bernardino County, California, which furnishes the best trout 
ers ve 5, Woe L In] : 1 1 por wot : : > 4. 
found in southern California. The Bear Valley Hatchery keeps this lake well 
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ages with fish. Photograph by Guy Barry, September 15, 1916. 
