and resorts to fit the future needs of the United States of America would be in line with the policy under which our first president planned, in 1803, the federal city which now bears his name, without which planning no such civic convenience, beauty, impressiveness, and national dignity as the city of Washington now enjoys would have been possible.

The volume and importance of the work of the supervision of the national parks and resorts under the Secretary of the Interior has passed beyond the stage of satisfactory control by operations carried on with the small force available in the secretary's office.

Additional road construction is greatly needed in the Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant national parks, in California; Mount Rainier National Park, in Washington; Crater Lake National Park, in Oregon; and the Mesa Verde National Park, in Colorado. A carefully planned sewer system is necessary in the Yosemite National Park, as well as increased water and electric power facilities.

During the past year a uniform method of accounting relating to concessionaires in all of the parks has been established and a material increase made in the receipts for the privileges enjoyed by them. It is worthy of comment that the receipts for 1910, in round numbers, were $51,000, as against $22,000 in 1909.

In all of the parks, except the Yellowstone, great difficulty of administration is encountered from the fact that the department has no jurisdiction to punish offenses in violation of its regulations, and I therefore recommend that jurisdiction be given to the department over all offenses, with a provision of suitable penalties for the violation of the regulations of the department, for the protection of game, and to prevent destruction or injury to government property.

In the Mount Rainier, Crater Lake, General Grant, and Wind Cave national parks automobiles have been allowed entrance under license and strict regulations pertaining to travel upon the roads. It is believed that in a measure this privilege may be extended to some of the other national parks without jeopardy to the traveling public.

In some of the national parks mining locations are permitted, but the tendency is to abuse the privilege in order to secure rights which will ultimately have to be bought out by the Government. The department is now exercising the strictest vigilance to prevent speculative locations from ripening into patent or a vested right.

I believe that in the administration of our national parks it may be feasible to use for guides, and possibly for guards in a

limited sense, intelligent Indians, and an effort will be made to give them such employment where they can be used to advantage. The following table shows the number of visitors entering the national parks and resorts during the last five years:

In February of this year I issued a citation to the mayor and supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to show cause why the Hetch Hetchy Valley and reservoir site should not be eliminated from the permit theretofore granted to the city on the 11th day of May, 1908, for a water supply for said city and county. A board of army engineers, at my request, was detailed by the Secretary of War, at your instance, as advisory to the Secretary of the Interior in the disposition of this question. Upon considering the application of the city for the extension of time to secure further data, a continuance was granted for this purpose for one year, and the board of engineers was authorized to receive such data as may be furnished by the city to establish its claim for the necessity of the use of the Hetch Hetchy site and to secure such other necessary data as they may deem advisable. An appropriation in the sum of $12,000 was granted by Congress to defray the expenses of this board. The details of this hearing are fully set out in the published proceedings had before the Secretary of the Interior in May, 1910.-From Annual Report of Secretary of the Interior for Year 1910.

SIERRA CLUB STATIONERY.

The official die of the Sierra Club is now at the store of Paul Elder & Co., 239 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, who are prepared to execute orders for Club stationery.

TROUT PLANTING.

The following correspondence gives evidence of the important work that has recently been accomplished in the High Sierra in the planting of trout in fishless lakes and streams. The Club took up this work several years ago, realizing its value, and it is deeply indebted to the California Fish and Game Commission for most effective co-operation. In a very few years the regions planted will become a veritable "fisherman's paradise." Members of the Club and all lovers of sport are urged to refrain for a period of three years from fishing in the lakes and streams noted as having been planted this past year.-THE EDITORS.

TRANSPLANTING ADULT TROUT IN THE SOUTHERN SIERRAS. During the past two years special attention has been given to stocking barren lakes and streams on both sides of the higher Sierras in Inyo, Tulare, Kern, and Fresno counties with adult fishes-golden, Kern River rainbow, and Loch Leven trout. The two last-named varieties were taken from waters that had been stocked some years before with fry raised at our Sisson Hatchery and which had been transported as far inland as it could be done with safety. The golden and Kern River trout were taken from streams where they are abundant and placed in other waters barren of fish life in the same general locality.

The sum of $1,250.00 was appropriated for the work, which enabled us to equip two pack trains with specially built cans, and other necessary apparatus. Deputy E. H. Ober, assisted by Sheriff Naylor of Inyo County, had charge of the work on the eastern slope, and in the face of many difficulties successfully transferred a large number of golden trout into waters heretofore barren of fish life, but rich in fish food.

District Deputy A. D. Ferguson of Fresno, assisted by Deputy S. L. N. Ellis, directed the pack train work in 1909 and 1910 in the Kern River, Kings, and Kaweah basins on the western slope. Adult golden trout were captured in very satisfactory numbers and successfully transported and planted into Crabtree Fork of Big Kern, North Fork of Kaweah River, and Whitney Creek. Adult rainbow trout were planted in four tributaries of Sugar Loaf Creek and other tributaries to Kings River in 1909. In 1910 Huckleberry Ellen and Spotted Fawn lakes, in Tuolumne County, received 1,400 adult rainbow trout. Adult Loch Leven trout were placed in Rock Creek; Loch Leven fry in eighteen cans distributed by pack trains in Pitman, Coyote, Red Mountain Bear, Shaver, and seven Dinkey lakes.

Adult rainbow trout were taken and distributed in considerable numbers into South Fork of the San Joaquin above Jackass