Falls and four other headwater tributaries of the same stream. Sixteen tributaries of the Kings River, including lakes and streams in Granite Basin, received liberal plants of adult fish. All are ideal trout waters, but heretofore barren of fish life. It is confidently believed that this vast region will in a few years become a fisherman's paradise.

Much credit is due to the officers and members of the Sierra Club, who, under the skillful directions of Secretary Wm. E. Colby, have at their own expense, but under the authorization of this Board, successfully transplanted during the past two years more than 400 adult golden trout in the vicinity of Mount Whitney.

In July and August, 1910, more than 1,800 large golden trout of the two varieties were taken with hook and line by our deputies and distributed among twenty-three lakes and streams in which no fish have heretofore existed. In suitable placesmeadow streams-seines were used to take the fish, but by far the larger number were taken with hook and line.

Some idea of the arduous character of the work is shown by the plants made in Deadman's Cañon, which occupied six days of pack-horse travel over a very rough country. The fish were true type, Salmo Roosevelti, taken with seine at Whitney Meadows and planted with the remarkably low loss percentage of six fish out of 183, all adults.-Twenty-first Biennial Report of the Board of Fish and Game Commissioners of the State of California, 1910.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 8, 1910.

HONORABLE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS,

CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME COMMISSION,

Merchants Exchange Bldg., San Francisco.

Gentlemen: I desire to express to your Honorable Board, on behalf of the Sierra Club, our very great appreciation of the splendid work which has been done in the field by your representatives this year toward the planting of hitherto fishless lakes and streams in the High Sierra region. We have been especially interested in seeing the golden trout spread over a considerable territory, and we are particularly pleased to learn of the splendid work that Mr. Ellis has done in the Kern River region, under the direction of Mr. Ferguson.

I have already had some correspondence with your deputies with reference to one additional planting which we are very anxious should be made. This is to take golden trout from Golden Trout Creek at Whitney Meadows and plant them in the branch of the South Fork of the Kings River just below Center Basin, a stream which we examined this year and found ad

mirably adapted to fish life, and one in which I think the golden trout will retain all their wonderful color, because of its similarity to their native stream. While this plant is being made, I think it would be a comparatively easy matter to also have some of these golden trout taken over Taboose Pass and planted in some of the lakes and streams about the headwaters of the main South Fork of the Kings River. If your Commission will authorize Mr. Ober to do this work, I feel sure that he will be only too glad to undertake it. Our Club has promised to assist in a financial way, but the funds at our disposal are very meager indeed and would only pay a small part of the cost of the work. Our Club will appreciate it if you will authorize this to be done at once, as the season will not long permit the necessary crossing of the mountains.

Assuring your honorable body that our Club stands ready at all times to assist you in your splendid work of stocking the lakes and streams of the High Sierra, I remain,

WM. E. COLBY,

Very truly yours,

WM. E. COLBY.

BIG PINE, INYO COUNTY, CAL., October 4, 1910.

Secretary Sierra Club, San Francisco, Cal.

My Dear Sir:-I beg herewith to submit for your consideration a condensed report of my trip to Volcano Creek, the securing there of a quantity of Salmo Roosevelti (golden trout) and the planting of the same in accordance with plans outlined by your Club and the State Fish and Game Commission in the waters of Center Basin, Bench Lake, and the South Fork of Kings River.

I cannot resist the temptation of prefacing this report with a few words of merited praise for your Sierra Club and its ever willing co-operation with that prime achiever of results, the State Game and Fish Commission. I plead guilty to a modicum of prejudice of opinion, but I honestly believe that there is no enterprise or working body or commission in our State that is in a better position to do, or that actually does accomplish more of real good for the people than does our Fish and Game Commission, ably assisted, however, by your Sierra Club and other organizations who make trips into the High Sierras each year and take interest in the stocking of heretofore fishless waters; this one feature, aside from your deep interest in the National forests should be and is taken as evidence of your endeavor toward the upbuilding of that which will in the future years inure to the good and welfare of the people and of the country. It is pleasant to feel that in the Sierra Club, at least, we have a

coadjutor that takes an active interest in what future generations will point to as work well done; every dollar that your Club expends in a work such as this must bring good results somewhere, sooner or later. Fish and game when properly understood and conserved become a valuable asset, both from a utilitarian standpoint and as an attraction to any community or country.

The State Fish and Game Commission is to be congratulated in having such an ally as the Sierra Club, an organization that takes an active interest in everything pertaining to the upbuilding of the fish and game interests of our great commonwealth, and in this respect your work and assistance cannot be overestimated. Let me thank you and your Club on behalf of the Commission and the people of Inyo County, both of which it is my honor to represent in this matter, for your kind and thoughtful consideration of this section; Inyo County is fast becoming noted for its sporting facilities and more people resort here annually for the fishing and hunting; in the near future, when the railroad from the south connects with us, we expect to see a still larger yearly influx of pleasure seekers and campers who will avail themselves of the many unsurpassed opportunities and natural facilities here.

On my trip for the golden trout I had with me excellent assistants in Mr. S. G. McMurry and Mr. Geo. W. Hall, both of this place. Our outfit consisted of four pack mules and three saddle horses. The fish were packed in four ten-gallon milk cans and our start was made from Big Pine on the morning of September 19th under perfect conditions. We reached Independence, twenty-eight miles south, on the evening of the same day and outfitted there for the trip. At this particular time of the year, especially in the high altitudes, the forage for stock is rather meager and we found it necessary to pack one mule with grain. On the morning of the 20th we left Independence after getting some of our stock shod and passed through Lone Pine, stopping there for lunch. I desire to state here that we paid each town along our route the courtesy of our patronage, so far as possible. The night of the 20th we lit our first camp-fire at the Lubkin ranch, eight miles southwest of Lone Pine; on the morning of the 21st, at 6:00 A. M., we started over the Hockett trail, arriving at Volcano Creek at 6:30 P. M., after a very rigorous and hard trip on both stock and men. The Hockett trail is by no means a good one, and seems to me to have been built in a place where the Almighty never intended that there should be a trail, but had neglected to advertise the fact.

On the morning of the 22d we proceeded to turn a small por