Medford Mail Tribune.

Chinook Salmon Eggs Total 6,500,000
Silverside 2,000,000 and Steelhead Trout Expected to Reach 3,000,000
--To Be Liberated at Elk Creek

Steelhead Larger Average Than In Years--Rainbow Eggs to Be Taken at Spencer Creek, Klamath County

"Approximately 6,500,000 salmon fry and in the vicinity of 3,000,000 steelhead and rainbow trout fry will be hatched at the Elk creek hatchery and liberated this spring and summer in the Rogue river and its tributaries," states Henry O'Malley, superintendent of the U. S. bureau of fisheries, who spent Thursday in Medford on his way to inspect the Elk creek hatchery.

Continuing he said:

"In the neighborhood of 5,500,000 early chinook salmon eggs were taken last fall at the Elk creek hatchery. Approximately 1,000,000 chinook salmon eggs were taken at the Ament dam and 2,000,000 silversides.

Already 400,000 steelhead trout eggs have been taken at the Applegate station, and 2000 trout are being held for ripening. We should take at least 3,000,000 trout eggs.

"This trout work is all done at state expense, the state fish and game commission furnish the funds. The Macleays own the hatchery and the government operates it. We are preparing to take rainbow trout eggs in the Klamath country, particularly at Spencer creek, which will be hatched and liberated in the Rogue. We will not operate in Fish lake in the Umpquas this year.

"All of our fish are being held until they reach the fingerling stage, and we confidently expect, within a few years, to make the Rogue the best stocked trout stream in the country.

"The steelhead taken this year are the largest we have ever had, averaging over 12 pounds in weight. The cessation of commercial fishing for steelheads is beginning to tell in increased quantity and size of fish."