St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
LOCAL NEWS.
THE NATIONAL HATCHERY.

Col. Marshall Mcdonald, the
United States fish commissioner, has
been in Rutland and Washington
counties the past week looking for
sites and has also visited Roxbury,
the site of the state hatchery. At
Rutland he was interviewed by a
Rutland Herald representative. Col.
Mcdonald said that all he was expect
ed to do was to look over the avail
able sites for the hatchery and later,
probably in October, Mr.. Graham
will return to Vermont and make
detailed survey of the sites, and on
his report a location will be decided
upon by the proper authorities at
Washington.
What are some of the essential fea-
lures for the location OF hatchery ~
was asked.
an the first place." said Col. McDon-
aid, ''there must be an unlimited supply
of water Then, there must be plenty of
territory for building the necessary
ponds, and the water ought not to reach
a temperature nlSHeI LHdH OO
In regard to the amount of money to
be spent Col Mcdonald said that he
thought $4,000 would be fair appro-
priation to make while the yearly ex-
penses would be in the neighborhood
of $4,000 "Of course we can't tell
about that" he said, because we don't
know what Congress will appropriate
when it meets this winter. By that time
we intend to have site selected and all
surveys and estimates made, so that
when the appropriation is made we shall
be ready to begin work at once.
The following letter has been writ
ten to the Burlington Free Press by
Congressman Grout:
Your note relative to appropriation
for United States fish hatchery received:
The item in the sundry civil bill is in
these words: For purchase of site and
establishing a fish hatchery in suitable
place in Vermont $1,000
1t was calculated that this sum would
procure a site and start the work; then
on the United States fish commissioner s
estimate of the several sums of money
for his department for the next fiscal
year the next sundry civil bill will natural
" carry a sum sufficient to complete it,
probably about SIS, 900. The fish hatch
cry VIII De IOCdIGu ny lHS OuIICu
States fish commissioner and will be
wholly under his control through a
superintendent appointed by him and
there will be no directors nor trustees.
The state hatchery, of which you
speak, is an affair entirely separate and
distinct from that of the United States.
The latter is wholly under United States
control and the former wholly a state
institution and sustained at state ex-
pense Of course, the field of the one is
limited to the state, and while the other
NAV, under the direction of the COM
mission, send fish to any state of the
Union, yet, being located in Vermont, we
should naturally get our share of the
benefits, not alone because of location,
but because our pure, sparkling waters
are the natural home of the trout; and
this hatchery, Commissioner Mcdonald
informs me, will be largely, if not exclu-
sive1y, devoted to the culture of this
variety. The field is ample for both
hatcheries, and though entirely distinct,
they may work together; and if provid-
ed with sufficient appropriations and
with efficient management, they ought
speedily to make our streams and ponds
and lakes alive with the fnny tribe and
Vermont the anglers paradise.
Very truly yours,
WILLIAM w. CIRCUIT.
East St. Johnsbury, Aug. TO- 1891.