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Show LONG TRIP FOR THESE BABY FISH rulte a long trip for baby Sep, about an Inch or ao long, haa been startedby about 704,0 from the state gsh hatchery at Murray today. Th tiny 7u "' are going to White Bocks nd vicinity, where they will be planted In tributaries of the Oreen and Duchesne river. Th trip will occupy two night end twe daya. which la quit a kmg while for that aunt-bar aunt-bar of neh to be crowded Into tanks. They will travel by standard gauge railway to Mack. Celo., theaoe by narrow guaga t Dragon, tttah. and thenc by wagon about eighty-fre mile to th tream n which they will be planted. Water wUl have to be changed twice on the trip, bet with reaaonabie care Fred W. Chambers state riah and game warden eapeota that quite a large proportion will eurvlv th nTwhnt slmlUr trip from Colt,, over land for eighty mile, a ahlpment recently waa planted with a loea of but 16 Pr cent. . , Of course the strsams Into which th young fry will be- planted have already been prepared. . That la to aay. the big fish hav been chaaed out ef the atreama, nd then willow tramped Into th bed of the rivulets, ao that th Bah cannot get back again Into the runway where the little fellowa will be planted. The atat planta .at time aa many a tfl.ooo Bah In on Stream, where eondl-tlona eondl-tlona are favorable aa to feed, and the -atream bed la of the right kind, fairly wide with a gravely bottom, and water crsse growing In profusion. Par 40.00 fleh such a atream would be cleared for about a mile, making about eight Bah for each foot of tha couree. |