Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-10
FISH COMMISSIONERS.
Complaints Against Dam Owners
River as a Spawning Ground

River as Spawning Ground.
The State Board of Fish Commissioners
4 met at their rooms in the Union Hotel yes
terday Present, Commissioners Bueking-
ham and Dibble
A telegram was received from Commits
sioner Redding, saying il would be impos-
sible for him to be present at the meeting
| of the Board
Letters were read from the Lenni Fish
Company, Glen Ellen, Sonoma county
and from the Superintendent of the Nc
Cloud Fishery The former related to fish
eggs to be furnished the State, and the lat
ter informed the Commission that the fish
cry had closed for the season, and gave the
result of the years work.
PJ Rymer of Shasta county under
date of June 9Th writes as follows:
R. A. Campbell, whose Postoffice address is
Shasta Shasta county California, is the owner
of certain dam, situate within said county,
and at point on Clear creek, about one and
oue-half miles below Horsetown; that said dam
is constructed across said creek at said point, |
and that the fish are thereby prevented from
coming up said stream above said point; that
said Campbell has failed to provide fiShways or
ladders such dam as provided by law.
The following petition bearing twenty
two signatures, was received and placed on
file:
We beg to call your attention 10 the fact that |
L. p. Taylor has erected and maintains dam
in connection with his mill on Paper Mill creek,
AT TaylOrville, Marin county. which said dam is |
so constructed as to prevent the passage of |
breeding fish up said creek that though often !
interviewed with reference to the matter, and |
often promising to do what is legal and right in
the premises. Mr.. Taylor has not erected suit |
LODI
ance which will make it possible for fish to pass
above said dam.
We desire further to state that We are all resi- |
dents upon or near the waters imprOperly |
damned by Mr.. Taylor, and particularly |
request your immediate and active attention to |
this infringement upon our rights in order that |
such provision may be made as viii enable this |
years run of fish to reach proper spawning !
grounds /
VOICE FROM SHASTA
a. Carberry. former resident of this
county, but at present of Shasta, by invita-
ton of the Board, was present, and stated |
what he knew about the fishing grounds in
that portion of the State. He said the falls
in Pit river, three miles below the mouth
of Fall river. prevented salmon from going
farther up that stream Some four years
ago the Legislature passed. bill appropriate
ing $4,000 for the purpose of constructing
fish ladders to enable salmon to get over
the ldllS. lie says the ldlIS are TWENTY-FIVE |
feet in high, but are not perpendicular,
and by blasting them out the water could
be made TO descend in zigzag manner.
and then fish of all kinds could ascend
Pit river, from the falls to Goose lake. is a
beautiful stream $50 miles in length, and
would make excellent spawning ground for
salmon. The Commissioners received the
-, 900 appropriation, and if the money had
been expended as intended, the upper Pit
river to-day would be full OF salmon Not
only would this have been the case with Pit,
but Fall river and a large number of
streams tributary to those rivers would
have furnished excellent spawning grounds
for salmon. The amount of work done
was Small-did not exceed in the aggregate
S600-and the residents in that portion of
the State are indignant at the manner in
which the work was let, and claim that
the money was not expended. and that the
Fish Commissioners then in office divided
the money. The contractors who were
to do the work were the Cannon
Brothers, and what became of the S240O
not expended has always been a mystery
and a subject of much conjecture. In his
opinion, the work could be accomplished
too-for 81 800 or one-half
the sum appropriated for that purpose. As
it is now, there is nothing to show for the
work done; i'll fact no trace of the money
expended by the Cannon Brothers can be
seen to-day.
mn.