Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-12-22
OUR FISH COMMISSIONERS.
An Interesting Paper from the
Hon. II. g.. Parker.

Hon. II. &. Parker.
Hon. II. G.. Parker, Fish COMMISSIONS
OF Nevada, was lately made the object Of
attack by some silly correspondent OF the
San Francisco Chronicle. Mr.. Parker's
management Of affairs has been entirely
above criticism. He is a true sportsman.
and has done q valuable work for the State
without remuneration and with the ut
most economy. The following letter is q
candid statement, and contains matters Of
interest to everybody in the State
Editor Pacific Life The sporting niche
OF the San Francisco Chronicle OF Dec. s,
and an article under the lead of "Sports''
in the Morning Call Of Dec. s, contain
such erroneous and evidently intended
assaults on my management as Fish
Commissioner Of Nevada, that / am com
PEELED to refute them and register their
authors as champion psychologists of the
Pacific Coast. Neither am l astonished at
the editor OF the sporting niche Of the
chronicle in maintaining, during the year
1881, his matchless reputation for lack Of
veracity gained in former years.
There is no salary attached to the Office
OF Fish Commissioner in this State; the
statement in the Chronicle that he is paid
$4,000 for his labors is false, and for con-
temptible lying is bounded on the west by
the editors eliminating point in the art
when abiding to the Fish Commissioners
incapacity.
No money is drawn from the State
Treasury to carry on the business Of stock
ing the streams OF this State with fish, I'M
less on vouchers approved by the State
Board Of Examiners.
During the five years / have been Fish
COMMISSIONS there have been 81, 900 ap-
propriated, and up to the present time /
have used only So, 1913 80, with which 1 have
stocked nearly all the public waters in the
State with catfish and Sacramento River
perch-in fact made over 100 plants, many
OF them in the most distant waters of the
State.
AS TO successfully Matching and deposit
ing the fry in the Truckee, Humboldt,
Carson and Walker Rivers, no percentage
equal to mine have l been able to find by
other Commissioners, or those engaged in
the business for other rivers.
In 1877 from $50, 900 McCloud River
salmon eggs ! Matched and successfully
planted 200, 900 fry.
In 1878, Of $500 eggs, / Matched and
planted SO per cent.
In 1880, from 10000 land-locked salmon
from the State Of Maine, / Matched and
deposited in good condition 99k per cent.
OF the $4,000 McCloud River salmon
| eggs received the first days of October last,
l Matched fully 80 per cent, and now have
in the Matching house that number Of good,
healthy young salmon.
On receiving the spawn it appeared in
good condition, but within "a hours there
after a mold or fungus appeared, evidently
on the unimpregnated eggs, and so extern
sive was it among them that l had no hope
OF saving any, and Immediately wrote Prof.
Spencer F. Baird and Hon. b. B. Redding
the condition Of the spawn, and my fears
that the whole shipment would be failure.
Fortunately by carefully and quickly re-
moving the diseased eggs as they appeared,
l managed to save fully one-half.
The 500 900 mentioned by the champion
psychologist l know nothing about.
II. G.. PARKER,
Fish Commissioner Of Nevada.