The Glenwood post., 1905-01-21
FISH HATCHERY
FOR GLfNWOOD
This the Most Central Point on
the Western Slope for Dis
tributiOn of FRY in Num-
erOuS Streams
FRED GORDON APPROVES OF PLAN


should have the earnest attention of
our people is fish hatchery. AT
present there is no fish hatchery at all
accessible to Glenwood although the
great home of the trout and their nat
ural spawning places are situate with
in easy and accessible distance from
Glenwood while as a distributing
point Glenwood is much hetter sit
uated than any of the present hatcher
les of the state.
The establishment of hatchery at
Steamboat Springs where the spawn
must be gathered from the lakes and
packed across the divides at great eX
pense and loss and the fry carried out
for distribution also at Il loss was GER
tainly an i'll advised legislative move
while the conditions at Gunnison,
Leadville and Durango although hav-
ing an advantage over Steamboat in
the way of railroad facilities, are yet
lacking III many of the natural advan-
tages possessed by Glenwood.
Having long been impressed with
the desirability as well as the practi-
cability of establishing hatchery at
Glenwood Springs, the Post man this
week interviewed Fred A. Gordon,
chief game warden for this district
who is an enthusiast upon the ques-
tion of the location of permanent
hatchery for Glenwood. Mr.. Gordon
consented to give the Post not only
figures which will no doubt prove in
teresting to our readers ans which
are as follows:
'The total distribution of young
trout propagated by the several state
hatcheries for the years 1903 and 1904
have been S,641, 600 of which Eagle,
Garfield and Pitkiu counties have re
ceived only $40, 600.
THE number of trout spawn taken
and transported overland from Trap
pers Lake to the Steamboat Springs
hatchery during the years 1903 and
1904 were 2,5l6, 900, which produced
l,237, 900 fry which were distributed
in the waters in the vicinity of
Steamboat Springs.
Had the water used in the Steam
boat hatchery been of the proper tenn
perature and of purer quality, the
hatch would have been at least % per
cent greater.
Why not have fish hatchery at
Glenwood SpringsI Mr.. J. NJ. Wood
ward, state game and fish commits
sioner, has demonstrated that it is
practicable to take spawn from sta
tions at Trappers and Marvine lakes
and transport them across the fiat tops
to almost any point desired, with only
very small percentage of loss, while
by careful observation it is believed
that the hatch of trout eggs deposited
naturally on the spawning grounds of
Trappers and Marvine lakes do not
produce in fry more than 10 per cent
of the eggs deposited. Thus no harm
can be done to the natural hatch of
eggs deposited at the lakes.
Therefore | am in favor of estab.
fishing hatchery at Glenwood
Springs, which place is as easy of
access to the lakes as any place where
hatchery could be established for
the purpose of propagating trout from
spawn taken from said lakes.
I'm the near vicinity of Glenwood
Springs are several flows of pure
spring water which is of the proper
temperature for the propagation of
trout
In maintaining hatchery at
Glenwood, we are at the door of two
railroad systems which wind through
n country through which runs four of
or large streams, namely the Grand,
Eagle, Fryingpan and Roaring Fork
with their numerous branches consist
ing of large streams of pure mountain
water to the number of at least thirty
These streams mentioned and enumer-
ated are those which are in close
proximity to the railroads, and can be
stocked with little or no trouble or
expense.
"When these streams become fully
stocked. this district will become the
fisherman s paradise in Colorado.
estimate that the building for hatch.
cry of two million egg capacity and
the maintenance of the same will
not exceed %, 600 for the first year -