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Show 600 feci of a concrete renway, divld-' td Into ponds. The water, as It we iioin the larpo epilogs ami Hows through the 13 acres of company land, has a t ni-perntnro ni-perntnro of 48 degreea, winter and slimmer, which la said to ie normal 16r .the hatchlnp and dcveloin of fish. , . A hntchery hullilinf; ha heeti constructed con-structed of late and. In this Ktriiclure, the expert' expect to place l..ri(.o,U'i IWh e?6 this season, from which to develop the fry that, added to tho "."iO.OOO now there, will complete the utoekluK of the ponds. In one pond are 6fcQ stock i'ish heaii-tlSul heaii-tlSul ppeclmens of the ramitow trout, wtlghlnjf from one to four pounds. The females' will be stripped of their cegs in December. Twenty days after lh.' stripping and fcrtlllzlnc. cjed eggs v ill appear and HO days thereafter the fry will wiggle forth, the aclr-depend-cnt beginning of a rainbow trout. Tho fish are fed on carr- grouud to a pulp by a grinding machine operated operat-ed by a gasoline engine. Tlio carp, ve'ghins trom four to fifteen pounds, aie caught by the ton In me slough of the Bear Klver, to the northwest of Brlghnm. The Maple Creek hatchery is per-hups per-hups the most Interesting sight in t'f-t culture iu the weRt, f.s Ihe trout in its native habitat is 'o be seen In the brook alongside the concrete ponds. At this time of f.v the lish can be observed fannir: the gravel and pebbles of the crystal stream, 1 ;eparlug lor the spawning tcanon, regardless of the well laid plans of the hatchery people to aid nauirc In its lator of propagation. Left, to re-province Its kind, the feninie rainbow would deposit its c-ggs where the body fins, by fanning, hail cleaned a spot among the pebbles. Seth Green, In his book on fish culture, has estimated that only one in 1 -loo eggs thus deposited de-posited develops into a it, attired fish, vhile by man's artificial aid as high a 97 per cent of the eggs are successfully suc-cessfully carried tnrough tne different differ-ent stages the eed egg. the fry. the yearling to maturbj. That is why trout hatcheries aie becoming an attractive tourcc of ia eatigation lid investment, although the industry Is one of nn'old difficulties, and mistakes mis-takes in disregard of deU'ls are fatal tu Buccess. For instance, some have attempted fn-h culture under appar-e appar-e ltly all the conditions of fish in their native habitat, only to f'nd. arter a dismal failure, thai the ennruing of the water over the bouidtrs meant moro than a lullaby song u tho brook, and that thj murmuitr.g of tho ftream was essential to success. Mr. II.ill; the originator of the Maple Creek l.atchery, overlooked this lesson when he began his experiment, but he soon corrected his mistake by allowing the water entering the ponds to have a diop of n foot. This miniature water-fal water-fal now reproduces the music f the brook, but It is not the reproduction of the rhythmic sound that-is aimed it, but the aerating or the wafer the eupplylng 0f air ror the trout From the hatchery, the return trip to Ogdcn was begun tic 2:20 p. m. The Interurbau was boar 'led at 3:30 and at 5 o'clock. in the dot, the cars 6topped at Twenty-fifth street. Going and coming tho cars were loaded. The electric line Is proving popular and Is doing much to bring all that rich territory of orchards and other resources, to the north of this city, in close touch with Oguen. On next Sunday, another little group of Ogdenites will go over the same route, diverging at Brlgham City to seo tho Ogden Tortland Cement company's plant j In operation on the edge of tho most I extensive marl and clay dry-lake bottom bot-tom in tho world. WHERE FISH ARE RAISED BY HAND A party of Ogdcnites, guided by John Nelson, that veteran of veterans, mcde a trip over the inlerurban load to Brlgham City, and from there by i t?ara to Maple Creek, 1 1-2 miles, on Sunday. The journey was touch In Ihe nature of an outing, but at Maple Creek the visitors were shown over the property of the Maple Creek Trout company, where fish culture is developing de-veloping into a most promising commercial com-mercial undertaking, under the man axemen t yof J S. Hull of Brlgham City. There are a number of fish hatch-CHes hatch-CHes which havo sprung up over the state within the last few years, but none have a more ideal or advantageous advan-tageous location than tliH of the Hull companj. Two large springs gush from the base of the mountain and form a be aiitiful brook, flow lug about 8 second feet, or 3,000 gallons, of water a minute. The soli Is gravelly ami the water, rippling over the pebbles' in a 1'iupid stream, is one of the charms of the resort. The place is a natural spawning bed of the trout, converted iito a hatchery by the uilding of |