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The above is substantially a copy of the order given us by the 
following named railroads, with perhaps some slight variations in a 
few instances: 
List of Railroads Giving Permits. 
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy R. R. Co. 
Ohio and Mississippi R. R. Co. 
Chicago and Alton R. R. Co. 
Indianapolis and St. Louis R. Rh. Co. 
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific R. R. Co. 
Louisville and Nashville R. R. Co. 
Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Rh. R. Co. 
Illinois Central R. R. Co. 
Lake Erie and Western R. R. Co. 
Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific R. R. Co. 
Chicago and Northwestern R. R. Co. 
Of the results of our distribution of previous years, we have but | 
to say that the good accomplished must be manifest to every one © 
who takes an interest in such matters. 
Along the Mississippi River, early this spring, as soon as ice had 
moved, pickerel from one to two years of age were moving up the | 
stream, as is their habit, by the thousands. At the water-works | 
well, at Quincy, a rocky prominence extending some feet out into 
the river, a great many were caught with dip-nets, by the Water 
Works Company, for stocking their reservoir. This circumstance, of 
itself, would amount to nothing, but for the fact that for a creat 
number of years pike and pickerel have been practically extinct, | 
and that until the river and its tributaries were stocked with pick- | 
erel obtained from the lakes, such an occurrence as just mentioned | 
was unknown. 
Beside this, the lakes and sloughs tributary to the river are fill- | 
ing up with the ‘Ringed Perch,” a specie of fish rarely caught here | 
until introduced by the Commission from the lakes. | 
Hon. Don Morrison received a letter from a friend at Carlyle, on 
Okaw River, saying that hundreds of young pickerel (found to be — 
wall-eyed pike) were caught this spring while trying to get over the 
dam, and that they were comparatively new to that region. 
Mr. F. Wood, Secretary of Decatur Fishing Club, writes us that 
they had caught a number of fine wall-eyed pike in the Sangamon 
River, near Decatur, last season, the first caught there for years. 
We believe that these and others reported from various points are 
the product of our planting some four years ago. 
In October, the Mississippi River, contrary to its usual custom, 
swelled sufficiently to overflow its banks and released a large ma- 
jority of the young fish confined in the holes and levee pits, doing 
our work for us to some extent, but preventing our obtaining a 
sufficient supply to extend our work of distribution as intended and 
as the fine weather of the month and season seemed to warrant, 
our resources being confined to such places inside of the levees as 
overflow could not reach. » 
