The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-07-22
STREAMS ARE
WELL STOCKED
PARTIES TRAVEL TO REMOTE LAKES
Hood River Game Protective Association
and State Commission are Doing
Good Work


Nimrods rejoice.
Those who enojy the sport of casting
for the wary trout in the mountain
| streams of the Hood River valley may
well rejoice The efforts of the State
I Game and Fish Commission and of the
| Hood River County Game Protective
Association are far reaching. Hood
/ River streams and Hood River lakes
are being well stocked. Last week
members of the latter organization
made history, penetrating into the
| wilderness as far as Watum Lake.
North Lake and Lake Defiance, their
wagons loaded with cans of little fishes
! fIom the Bonneville State Hatchery.
of all the states institutions there
| is not any so busy at this season of the
year as the great fish hatchery at Bon-
neyville. The great commonwealth of
! Oregon may be compared TO giant
loom the Rainbow, the distributing car
of the State Fish and Game Commits
sion, a shuttle. And this Shuttle is
constantly being shunted from one end
of the state to the other. The little
minnows that it carries may be termed
the woof and the states many streams
the warp. The work of the Commits
sion and allied associations, those SINH
lar to the local organization, result in
finished cloth, so to speak, that fish
ermen like to think of.
This simie of the woof and warp
may be far fetched, but when one fol-
lows the criss crossings of the RAINBOW
he may comprehend why such like
ness is conjured up. Rarely week
passes that the Rainbow is not seen
passing through Hood River. The fish
car is usually attached to one of the
local passenger trains. 1t penetrates
remote districts of eastern Oregon. In
a few days afterward it may be heard
of down on the S. 7. line in southern
Oregon.
"We are constantly on the go" says
| I. j. Craig, who for the past several
years has been in charge of the well
equipped distributing car.
ls Wednesday of last week the Rainbow
was here, having been switched from
the O.-W. K. & N. track to the line
of the Mount Hood Railway Co. 1t
was taken to Dee, where ranchers and
business men, with teams and atuomo-
biles met the car. The day before Mr..
Craig and his assistants, George Cornie
and James Hogan, had been at Mosier,
where 1T cans of fry had been distrib-
uted. They passed through Hood
River, bound for Bonneville, on Tues
day afternoon at 2. 45. They were ie-
turned here on late night train. On
Thursday they were again seen, bound
for Pendleton, and such is the daily
task of the fish car men.
When the car went up to Dee last
week it was accompanied by d. Nc
Donald, president of the local game
protective association, and W. O. Had
ley, of The Dalles. deputy game war
den, the latter going III to the mountain
lakes. When Dee was reached Mr..
Craig was a very badly disappointed
/ man. Not a wagon was seen at the
station to meet the fish car. A rain
had prevailed the night before and Mr..
Craig, turning to MIR. Mcdonald said
"We are up against it. This rain
proved too much for the fellows that
were going to take the fish out. :"
Mr.. Mcdonald, however, just smiled
Ashley Wilson, superintendent of the
Mount Hood line, had informed HIM
| on the day before as to where the fsf
| car was to be spotted. "You just
| wait" he said with bis little smile,
| known by his friends to mean so much.
| AS the car was pushed down in the
lumber yards of the Oregon Lumber
/ Co., and as the huge piles of lumber
i were rounded, the awaiting teamstert
were seen. MIR. Craig threw off hls
hat and shouted. And in just a few
! minutes every fish was on the way tt
the new homes in the crystal stream!
| or lakes. 81 never saw quicker
| work." said MIR. Craig.
Hood River has no liver organization
than the Hood River County Gam'
| Protective association. One often hear
! of Rod and Gun clubs of other places
/ The name is high sounding one, ant
| that is usually the extent of the organ
| ization. The local association Is or
| ganized along lines that will be pro
] ductive of benefits to the county. a
| far reaching educational campaign hal
already resulted. 1t is said that viola
| tions of the game laws are negligible
| here. The country people, for 1t Is To-
| the most part country peoples or
ganization - they who are vital!
| affected by the activities of such al
/ organization-have taken hold and arr
lending the club their best efforts.
MIR. Mcdonald, president of the as
sociation, merchant. banker, fisher
man, usually puts his whole soul int
any undertaking in which he becomes
interested. No better citizen coult
have been found to take the helm 0
the Hood River Game Protective asso
citation, and to his individual effort
must be given credit for large par
of the organization beneficial actlv
ties.
| "We are glad to come in contac
with an organization like that In Hoo'
River" says Mr.. Craig. This stock
Hing of the streams of Oregon will
game fish is a big thing. 1t is goini
to mean much to the state. We ar
mighty glad to see the work you folk
j are accomplishing.
Many Hood River people have Wis
Z tied the distributing car. 1t is wort
II while to see the methods used to kee
II the little fish alive and vigorous in tn
II can in which they are transported
II Ice is always carried aboard the car
II and the temperature of the water |
II kept low. An air COMPRISING ma
II chine is kept busy in one end of tn
II Rainbow, and pipe lines carry the al
II along the sides, hoses leading to ever
can. Thus oxygen is supplied to tn
fry. They would soon die otherwise
II When the cans are placed abosr
II wagons and automobiles to be trans
II ported to lakes or streams, the motto
II of the vehicle keeps the water In me
II ton and thus aerates it.
II A sportsman delights in visit t
II the Rainbow. Mounted specimens o
III the Northwestern wilds. birds an
II beasts, are seen on the walls. Glas
II Jars contain specimens of the ditferen
III species of fish that may be found /
III the waters of Oregon. Bunks are pre-
II vided for the cars attendants, an
II they snatch a nap whenever they car
II for they are often up late at nigh