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Show BEAVER COUNTY IS NAMED FOR A FISH MTCHERY In line with the program of the state fish and game department of establishing small hatcheries on the headwaters oithe principal streams of the state, D. H. Madsen, fish and game commissioner, announced that he would recommend the establishment establish-ment of a hatchery at Beaver and a second at Panguitch. Commissioner Madsen and J. W. Tingey, chief deputy returned Monday Mon-day from a tour over the southern part of the state in the course or which these sites were selected. The site near Beaver is on a small spring a short distance from the heart ot town while the Panguitch site rests between two places, the Tebbs anf! Showalter springs. Tests of the water in the Tebbs and Showalter springs will be made to determine which would be the more suitable. Upwards of 1,000,000 rainbow fingerlings will be available for planting from the Glenwoofl and the Springville hatcheries by September 1. At Fish lake arrangements were made for a new departure in the propagation pro-pagation of fish in Utah. Heretofore all the Mackinaw trout eggs have been secured -from the federal government gov-ernment but the state department is planning on experimenting with a seine to gather a number of these fish this October for stripping them , or their eggs. Inasmuch as the Mackinaw Macki-naw is a deep water fish and inhabits the deep waters of the lake the success suc-cess of the venture is held to be some what dubious by the commissioners. The two hatcheries which are to be built by the department at Panguiten and Beaver, will be used for hatching hatch-ing out only the eyed eggs under the present plans. The principal expense in the propagation of fish in the opinion op-inion of Mr. Madsen is the transportation. transpor-tation. The eggs are to be taxen a-Springville. a-Springville. Murray, Glenwood Springs. Spr-ings. Timpanogos and Logan hatcher lea where they will be eyed and from there shipped to the smaller hatcn-eries hatcn-eries where the hatching out process will be finished and the fish will he raised from the fry to the fingerling size. The eggs ran be shipped at but very little expense from the five central cen-tral hatcheries and from there can be planted when grown to fingerlings to the nearby waters Deseret News |