Show SHAD S oa of ef them put into utah laki lake SALT LAKE CITY june 15 am editor deseret news for the delectation of your brainy readers please give ve place to the following genuine fish story based upon facts at 5 p in wednesday the esth dinst the united states fish commissioners car no 1 2 in command of captain wm A dunnington left philadelphia pa for utah utah with 2829 delaware river shad eggs on board they had been gathered eatn ered by the ahal united states steamer fish brawk a and from it transferred direct to the hatch ery awaiting them on the fish ash car when incubation inca bation at once commenced and continued till the last were hatched batched out oat on an tuesday morning last at the utah central depot which point the car reached on sunday evening the instant the total loss it was estimated by professor W F page in charge of the hatchery did not exceed ten per cent which left a margin of over young fry tor for utah aake where we planted them on monday ana tuesday last from the transfer car of the D R G W railroad at dattle battle creek station at which point the road skirts the lake within a few yards if the safe estimate estima teof of twenty five per cent of these shad five alie and thrive as it is believed they will this consignment sign ment in two years means pounds or tons of fish food the aati eating g quality of which is but very little jf 1 any below our mountain trout to these totals we should add the fruits of last years plant in the jordan river of try and we have a grand aggregation of wholesome food which the people of utah will appreciate when it reaches their tables it if not before col mcdonald prof bairas bairds successor promises another consignment of young shad next year which we expect act to plant in jear lake and should ge be send us still another lot in I 1 1890 it is M proposed that they be put pat into the weber eber river biver so that all the streams emptying into salt lake may have a chance to test their shad propagating qualities I 1 am in communication with eastern parties on the subject of introducing the LAKE SUPERIOR WHITE FISH which is a fresh afresh water fish ash and very much like shad in food qualities etc A three year old white fish produces from 40 to 60 eggs a shad produces from rom to eggs A quart will contain of the latter eggs while white fish ash eggs fill all the same name measure the reason why way suckers are so very numerous is because of their great multiplying qualities one female yielding eggs on the other hand trout produce but to eggs hence their comparative scarcity ity professor page tells me it may be three years before we will see any of the 8 shad jears ad planted in our waters it was this long a time he says before they were seen in sacramento river biver and now from a small plant made near sacramento city is a few years ago they are found in all the streams from san francisco bay to puget paget sound thanks are due to the local chiefs of the utah central and the D R W railroads for free transportation from ogden to battle creek station and return A MILTON MUSSER |