Sacramento Daily Record Union

THE SALMON INTEREST.

Livingston Stone to Have Charge of the Pacific Station.

Livingston Stone, long connected with the United States Fish Commission, and now Field Superintendent for the Commission for the Pacific coast, has been in the city for several days on business connected with his office. "I am glad to see you," said he to a reporter of this journal yesterday, "for there are some things regarding the Government Commission that I think the people here ought to know. The essential point is that hereafter all the work done by this Commission in this State and on this coast will be conducted solely for the benefit of the coast. Up to present time, while some rivers have been stocked with fish, yet the chief use of the stations here has been for the breeding of fish to be taken to Eastern waters. I have been out here often, but heretofore I have come to get supplies and take them away. Now I am going to be here all the time and do all my work for the Commission in the interest of the coast. This change has resulted since Colonel McDonald became Government Fish Commissioner, succeeding to the office long held by Professor Baird. The organization of the Commission has been changed since Professor Baird's death. I used to be one of the Deputy Commissioners: now there are no Deputy Commissioners, but there are three Field Superintendents--one for the Atlantic, one for the great lakes and one for the Pacific.

"The Government Commission is disposed to do all it can do for this coast. It has always been its policy to act in harmony with the State Commission, and it will do so now, that is, when we can learn exactly who the State Commissioners are. The State Commission will make suggestions, and we will endeavor to carry them out so far as practicable. There are three stations on this coast now: The trout station on the McCloud river in Shasta, the salmon station on the Clackamas in Oregon, and the salmon station on the McCloud. The trout station on the McCloud is to be shut down in a few months, for no more California trout are required in Eastern waters at present. We shall take over 100,000 trout eggs and fish from the station and put them into the McCloud river about September next, and then close the station. About that time we will put thousands of young salmon into the Sacramento and its tributaries. We will also be prepared to send salmon eggs to any of the rivers on the coast where they may be desired. I will make my headquarters at the McCloud river salmon station. Baird is the post-office.

"It is the plan of Colonel McDonald to have eventually a Western distributing agency of the Commission at Denver with me in charge. This he considers will be a central point, although for me to make the circuit of the coast stations from that point I will have to travel over four thousand miles. There is now some talk of bringing lobsters out here, and it may be done before long. I think J. D. Redding should be retained in the State Commission. He is enthusiastic and public-spirited in the work. The Albatross, the steamer of the Government Commission, will be up this way soon. She is now between here and Panama. She has several scientists aboard who will perform work of great value for this coast."--S. F. Bulletin, May 1st.

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