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COMMISSIONER’S REPORT.

To His Excellency, Hon. Chas. S. Deneen, Governor of Illinois:

Dear Sir—We have the honor to submit herewith our report as
State Board of Fish Commissioners from Oct. I, 1904 to Sept. 30,
1906.

The seasons that have passed since our last report Sept. 30, 1904,
have been fairly successful; that of 1905 was an ideal one for the dis-
tribution of fish, while that of 1906 was not nearly so good. The
conditions of a season in the stage of the water, and the length of
time of continued high water have very much to do with the success of
our work of collection. If the water comes up early and the adult
fish can come from the rivers into the lakes and sloughs and deposit
their spawn and return to the rivers, we are usually sure of a good
output, but if the water remains high, both adults and fry go back into
the river, and we are not apt to get good results in our collection. In
this event, however, the situation so far as local conditions are con-
cerned is probably better on the whole, as it now gets a longer supply, .
but the distribution suffers a decrease as our collections from the over-
flows are naturally reduced and it is from this that the applicants for
fish are supplied. The demand for fish throughout the State is greatly
on the increase, and the number of applicants is far in excess of any-
thing we have ever had before. Much more attention is being paid
to private preserves than heretofore, and it will only be a short time
until all the bottom lands along the [Illinois river with the lakes and
sloughs will be taken up and protected. This will involve much dis-
cussion as it will abridge the privileges in fishing for the market to a
great extent, and compel them to use the more proper for all com-
mercial fishing. A very large amount of money is now and will
be invested in such preserves. Expensive club houses are being put
up, and the owners of course will insist on exclusive privileges to the
land and water acquired by purchase and lease, and the result will be
for some time at least to produce a clash between those who have, for
years, used the inland lakes and sloughs for fishing purposes and those
who are trying to protect the waters from such invasions. Several
important suits have already been before the courts and fought hard
testing the question of the legal right of owners or lessees to keep
commercial fishermen out of such acquired possessions. The tendency
of most of the lakes which are flat and subject to high temperature
is to promote the growth of the softer fish, such as buffalo and carp,
and their increase is so great that unless they are limited in numbers
by frequent removal, an over production for the water is sure to re-
sult. Then, too, if fish are left undisturbed in these waters there is
danger of their total destruction in severe winters the water freezing

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to such depth as to smother all in the shallow waters. Under present
conditions most of such fish are as a rule taken by seines and marketed.
We have had a great deal of complaining along this line, and the ar-
gument is frequently used that we have not done our full duty in not
insisting on the removal of such fish. Just how far our jurisdiction
may extend in the matter of private preserves, more than to insist
that only legal methods be used in taking these fish, is problematical,
as we might be trespassers if we insisted on removing them ourselves.
The whole question has much that is debatable in it, and for the good
of the work and its results in the future, should be carefully consid-
ered. The Illinois river is now a well traveled thoroughfare, and is
rapidly becoming known as one of the most beautiful and productive
streams in the country. Motor boats by the hundreds go over every
mile of it daily, and the attention of people all over the country is be-
ing attracted to its beauty and advantages. The time must come when
it will be utilized as a deep water way, and an impetus to business
will be given to a very important part of the State through such in-
creased business facilities.

PROTECTIVE LAWS.

As it has always been, the enforcement of the protective fish laws
remains a knotty problem. True, as each year passes public sentiment
grows more favorable to a better enforcement of these laws, and each
- succeeding legislature gives us better laws, yet it seems as if no other
code of laws meets with so much opposition, both in the enactment and
enforcement as do those for the protection of fish, and those whom
one would think are the most directly benefitted by them of all, the men
engaged in fishing for the market. There would seem no possible
ground for argument on the subject since, without proper protection,
the fish supply would soon become practically extinct and their occupa-
tion gone. Yet many of those who have large amounts of capital in-
vested in the business, persist in fighting the most important provis-
ions of these laws. Remembering the results of the improvident and
wastful methods used in former years, before the enactment of pro-
tective laws, and the almost total depletion of the waters of our State
of some of our best market fish by such practices as were then in vogue,
it would seem that no other argument in favor of the protection could
be advanced than the increase in the product of these waters since
the advent of better production and the resultant betterment to the fish
industry itself. We have referred in former reports to the conditions
that existed on the Illinois and Mississippi rivers some thirty years
ago, when the wholesale destruction of the buffalo, then the great
market fish, was at its height. At the “rolling” or spawning season,
when the fish came into the shoal waters to deposit their spawn, they
were so easily taken and in such immense numbers, that they gradually
decreased until the output of the Illinois river went down from many
millions of pounds a year to less than one million. Most of these fish
were sent to St. Louis or other foreign markets, and in such quantities
that the markets were gutted, and being sent to sell on commission the

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returns frequently would not pay the freight. The fish were usually
packed in sugar hogsheads and sent by boat to St. Louis, and it was
not unusual to see more of these hogsheads offered at the landing
than the boats could take. Taken during spawning season the loss to
the waters naturally involved not only those taken but their natural
increase and meant the destruction of a possible future supply, and
so the catch of each succeeding year became less and less till the var-
iety became nearly extinct, and even now after thirty years the nat-
ural increase from the survivors has not been able to nearly repair the
wholesale destruction of those improvident years. The first law passed
for the protection of fish or of any other close season met with univer-
sal opposition from the river districts, and any attempt to enforce their
provisions meant a fight either legal or physical, perhaps both. How-
ever, as time wore on it became apparent that the campaign of educa-
tion, and the object lesson of decreased supply began to have the de-
sired effect, and the fish were given a chance to breed and deposit
their spawn and now have at least an equal fighting chance with every-
thing else in nature depending on the law of reproduction for the con-
tinuance of the species.

The introduction of the carp and its adaptability to the waters of
Iilinois has been dwelt on so often as to be an old story. They came,
multiplied, proved good citizens and were taken into account as one
of the assets of the waters, and have practically taken the place of the
almost extinct buffalo.

A better understanding of the conditions and requirements neces-
sary to the best results among the more thoughtful men engaged in the
fishing industry has enabled us, finally, to get better laws upon our
statutes, though we still find many who consider all fish public prop-
erty subject to private demand at any time and in any way, regard-
less of the future, or the rights of others. The fact that the State
plants, protects and matures the crop without cost to the individual,
asking only that the crop be gathered in accordance with its reason-
able regulations and limitations, seems to be lightly appreciated and
its right to protect the property so produced from universal and wan-
ton waste is either questioned or ignored. This State of Illinois is
of vast extent, and it is almost surrounded by water subject to such
diversity of conditions as to make it difficult to form laws that will do
equal justice to all. For instance what would properly protect such
regions as the Fox Lake locality might work hardship to the extreme
southern portions of the State. Yet our laws must treat all sections
alike, without discrimination, hence is it not strange if seeming hard-
ship to some results. Taken as a whole, however, we have now a fair
law upon our books, and with proper officers to enforce it the inter-
ests of all should be fairly well protected.

A reduction of the required mesh of seines was a step in the right
direction, as it seemed to be demanded in order that the fishermen
could take the bull-heads, a fish that finds ready sale, and not be pro-
hibited by the size limit also for the taking of the gars which infest our
water, and which, from their construction could not be held by a
seine of two inch mesh. Under our law fishermen are required to

destroy all gars taken in nets, a proposition which means much in the
protection of the fish, as gars are particularly destructive to spawn and
fry of all varieties. The close season during which it is unlawful to
ship fish caught in Illinois waters, has proven one of the most practi-
cal provisions yet given us. It covers a period in which most of the
fish are spawning and when the law is properly enforced fish are not
accepted by the transportation companies, hence there is no incentive
to catch them for market and they receive the best of protection for
forty-five days.

The patrol of the rivers, and taking of nets and seines used unlaw-
fully, is also quite effective. While a number of nets have been taken
and by due process of law destroyed, yet the number as compared with
former seasons was not large when the great extent of the State is
considered,

In justice to the responsible members of the fishing industry, it
should be said that a better feeling exists than formerly, as the com-
mission has endeavored to demonstrate that the laws, as made, must
be enforced for the protection equally of the commercial fishermen and
the anglers.

That Illinois is not alone in its efforts to solve this problem we take
the liberty of adding herewith an extract from a paper read before the
American Fisheries Society, by Oregon Milton Dennis, secretary and
counsel Maryland State Game and Fish Protective Association, assis--

tant State Game Warden:

Great difficulty is at once apparent, especially to you, gentlemen, of pre
suming to suggest a solution of this great question of fish protection. This
condition is brought about, first, by the belief that he the fisherman, has an
inherent and inalienable right of fishery, which has come to him through a
long line of ancestry in the same way in which an estate entail operated at
common law, and a right which neither his fellow citizens, land owners or
the State can take from him, or in any sense abrogate. That the right of
the state to legislate for the protection of fish was settled as far back as
the Magna Charta is of small concern to him.

The first problem then is the education of the takers of fish as to the right
of the State to legislate for their protection and to make him understand
and believe that the only interest that the state has in passing legislation
for their protection is for increase of fish in the waters within its boundaries,
but the proceeds thereof go directly to the fishermen.

Then again fish protection does not appeal to the fisherman as does game
and bird protection to the hunter and sportsman. *The absence of sentiment
and the aplication of the senses of sight and sound which appeal to the
aesthetic nature of men as well as of women whose early morning slumbers
are brought to an end by the beautiful songs and warblings of the song
birds, the beauty of their plumage to the sight, the steady arm and true aim
of the sportsman who kills his pheasant or his quail or his deer or his rabbit—
none of these things appeal to the fisherman, who throws his net. trusting
to Providence or good luck to fill it with the finny tribe—not that any of his
senses shall be gratified or his troubled brain soothed by the song, but how
much will the catch be worth. This is the only sentiment that controls the
market fisherman. He cares not for his fellowmen nor his state, but how.
much is there in it for him, that is all. Hence the difficulty in enforcing
laws, even after proper ones are passed by the state for fish protection.

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That this sentiment alone controls him—that this is tne reason that he will
not aid in the protection of fish—goes without denial. And even if you try to
prove to him that by seeking and taking undersized fish, or by the destruction
of spawn he will exterminate them, and if he will let them grow, he will se-
cure a larger increase in the revenue from the industry, it is not believed by
him. I have used this argument time and time again. A few weeks ago at
a trial of some cases at Rock Hall, Maryland, and at which I secured the
conviction of a number’of fisherman for violating the fish laws, I made this
argument: In the Baltimore markets this past spring perch of the size of
about eight or nine inches, could not be had at less than fifty cents per bunch
of six or seven, while fish of a size prohibited by law in our state, to-wit,
seven inches, sold and could be had in plenty for some ten to fifteen cents
per bunch of eight or ten. I apealed to them on the ground of a cold-blooded
financial proposition, showing the difference between securing twelve cents
for a commodity which undisturbed would bring fifty cents within a single
year, but as usual a deaf ear was turned to all my arguments, and they are at
this time daily violating the law.

I do not refer to the angler’s destruction of fish in this paper because he
plays but a small part in fish destruction, for in my state I really believe that
a good haul of one purse net destroys more fish than all the fish taken by all
the anglers in a season.

Therefore, while the education of the finer sensibilities of the children, the
women and the sportsmen will bring about the natural protection to a large
extent of the song and game birds, the market fishermen refuse to be educated
on these lines, hence the first problem. The fisherman must be educated
on other lines—the mercenary ones. Appeals must be made to his pocket
rather than to his heart or brain. He must be taught to believe—which is a
fact—that he is killing the goose that is laying for him the golden egg; that
he is putting at defiance the better wisdom of the state which passes for the
protection of a commercial commodity for his sole benefit; he must be edu-
cated up to the fact that fish are the sustenance of life as well as palatable
to the taste; that notwithstanding the artificial propagation of fish the state’s
propagation cannot keep up with his unnatural destruction of them.

From time immemorial the market fisherman has racked his brain to
create some device by which he can take the largest number of fish with the
least trouble, expense and work to him. From the primeval means of the
Indian who used his spear, we have now come to the system of nets with the
use of which in a short time in many of the states, many species of food
fish will be entirely exterminated. The market demands for fish can never
at this day be filled with the natural supply, hence I take it that this was
the reason that the United States government inaugurated the artificial
propagation of fish and which has resulted in the formation of the American
Fisheries Society, when at least once a year its members may get together
to discuss means for the better and more effective propagation of fish.”

WARDEN SERVICE.

The enforcement of the law is under the supervision of Hon. Nat.
Cohen, president of the Illinois Fish Commission, and with the limited
number of wardens and immense territory to cover, the work has
been extremely difficult and taken much of his time.

The State of Illinois is practically surrounded with water and to
properly care for it with efficient service would require more wardens
than we have. So a few men are inadequate to cope with the situa-
tion and give entirely satisfactory services. Complaints of all kinds
are frequent, many of them of a trifling nature and immedite action
demanded while very many of them should have been taken care of
locally. Chicago is a great fish market and draws not only on Illinois

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waters but on the whole country for its supply, and needs constant
supervision of one of the wardens.

The temptation to sell undersized fish is great and without daily in-
spection of the various fish markets, dealers are apt to undertake to
handle small fish. The wholesale dealers are discouraging the ship-
ment of small and undersized fish but when a shipment is received are
apt to try and unload it. ’

Then there are a large number of fish sent into the State from out-
side where it is legal to ship smaller fish and such fish now and then
find a market with the small dealers. Nothing but constant super-
vision of a warden will prevent their sale.

Out in the county then, four men are expected to cover the whole
State. The Illinois river is 250 miles in length and is the great source
of our State fish supply and it takes the attention of two of them at
least, leaving an immense territory to be looked after by two wardens.

The wardens are paid a fixed salary of $75 per month and expenses,
and as a whole are a good body of men. The duties imposed on them
are unpleasant and at times dangerous, but. we have only words of
praise for them.

The present force of wardens is as follows:

E. E. Caldwell, Havana, III.

Geo. B. Klemman, Chicago, III.

A. Sites, Homer, IIl.

Geo. Rohweder, Geneseo, III.
F. A. Whitman, Macomb, Ill.

In appendix will be found a report of the wardens.

USE OF SEINE.

Not many years ago the use of the seine in taking fish was general
and everything that could be reached was taken at any season and in
any way. The result was an almost entire depletion of the waters of
all kinds of fish. Buffalo, once the predominating market fish, became
almost extinct and all varieties suffered proportionally. Gradually the
season for the use of the seine was shortened by succeeding Legisla-
tures until fully half the season was exempt. Now, the fishermen
themselves are agitating the question of a further cutting off of the
seine in open season. This now begins July Ist, and during the heated
months of July and August the waste of fish is tremendous. Fish
taken with the seine are badly handled and with the market over sup-
plied, the absolute loss in dead fish thrown away will cover a large per-
centage of fish taken. Some of the results of this wholesale loss come
directly under the observation of your commissioners several times
during each year, and while we are powerless to control these condi-
tions as they have undoubtedly the legal right to take the fish, and to
throw them away if they died on their hands, yet we have repeatedly
remonstrated against the methods used. We have seen portions of
the surface of the Illinois river covered with dead fish, floating down
the stream, thrown out of live boxes or ponds where they had been
stored, killed by the treatment in the seine or the crowded condition

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in boxes or ponds. After consulting with many of the commercial
fishermen along the Illinois river, we have concluded to ask for the
abolition of the seine until the 1st day of October, and then permit
fishing under the ice, thus deriving the benefit of the output without
the loss occasioned during hot weather. We think, from what we
have gathered from the fishermen, that such a law will meet with
general approval. Of course there will be some protests, as there
are many fishermen who live for today and let tomorrow take care of
itself, a poor policy always, but practically fatal to the increase of fish.*

The use of the trammel net, while contrary to law, is persisted in
in all parts of the State, and while we do what we can to control it,
with our limited resources of help, the ease with which it can be got-
ten into and out of the water makes it a hard proposition to handle.
We think the law should be amended so as to permit us to take tram-
mel nets whenever found whether in use or not. It is a very difficult
matter to take men while using one; they are light.and can be easily
carried in boat or wagon, can be quickly used, and if parties are dis-
turbed, the nets can be quickly gotten out of the way.

It is not an unusual thing to find a half dozen trammel nets stretched
out to dry in almost any locality in plain view without pretence of
hiding. These nets should be treated as are burglars’ tools and taken
whenever or wherever they are found.

Ponp FIsH.

The number of applications received at this office for fish to stock
ponds or lakes for private preserves is very large, and we supply these
applications according to their requests as far as possible, and as our
money and supply permit, after the public waters have received at-
tention. We desire to treat briefly of this question of supply for pri-
vate ponds, in order that there may be a better understanding of what
is necessary to successful stocking of the ponds and lakes covered by
our applications.

The principal demand is for black bass. And while under proper
conditions black bass are a fine variety, yet under the conditions existing
in almost all of the small ponds and lakes, they can not be considered a
profitable or successful fish for the purpose of culture. The reasons
are several. First, they are destructive and voracious feeders, and un-
less plenty of other food abounds, will destroy each other; certainly
everything produced in the pond that they can eat will be eaten by
them. Then, black bass need a large pond or lake with deep water
and plenty of natural growth of water plants, long enough in the
water to have produced the food supply, and which is always found in
their native habitats. There the ratio of bass to the softer rayed fishes
should be about 15 per cent to 85 per cent of the latter. Under these
conditions a successful bass pond may result, but small bodies of water
have but little chance for success even though the necessary conditions
are partially supplied. Our experience has taught that some of the

* Since this report was prepared. but before it was printed, important amendments to the
law have been made. A synopsis of the law now in force will be found on page 52.

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best varieties for small lakes or ponds are rock bass, ambloplites rupes-
tris blue gill, and catfish, and if water is deep the crappie.

Rock bass are variously known as red eye, red eye perch and goggle
eye. It is abundant in upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers and is
found in almost all the creeks adjacent to these rivers. It reaches a
length of eleven or twelve inches and a weight of from one-half to
one and one-half pounds. It is a spring spawner, and like the bass,
builds in gravel bed if it can be had. It takes the hook readily and
with a rush. Any kind of bait is a lure, worms, minnows, grubs or at
times the fly. It is one of the best, if not the best, pond fish we have.

The sunfishes are next and they consitute a long list. The best and
most frequently caught of the true sunfishes is the blue gill, lepomis
pallidus; according to Dr. Hugh Smith they are also known as blue
bream, blue sunfish and other names, chiefly local. It is among the
largest of the sunfishes, specimens having been taken twelve inches
in length. The average weight is from six to eight ounces. As a good
fish it has few equals. And as a panfish finds a good market. Ever-
mase says: “It is excelled only by the yellow perch. Its flesh is firm
and flakey and preserves a delicious flavor and among all the sunfishes
it holds the highest rank as a game fish.” It bites well any time sum-
mer or winter, being particularly ravenous during summer months.
- It will take any sort of bait; angle worms are perhaps the best.
It is very prolific carrying for its spawn and is very hardy. Not to
be despised, however, and a good fish for small ponds, is the common
sunfish, pumpkin seed eupomofis gibbosus. It does not grow as large
as the blue gill, but is prolific and a fine biter on any bait, very com-
mon to our Illinois waters.

The catfish, particularly the ameirus nebulosus or bull head is gound
in great numbers in all Illinois waters, and is valuable for pond cul-
ture.

George W. Peck in the “Milwaukee Sun” says: “The bull head
never went back on a friend. To catch the bull head it is not neces-
sary to tempt his appetite with porter house steak, or to display an
expensive lot of fishing tackle. A pin hook, a piece of liver and a cis-
tern pole is all the capital required to catch a bull head.”

When taken from clear cold water the flesh is excellent and it finds
a place in market at a greatly increased price over other varieties.

The yellow or ringed perch perca flavescens is a perfect pond fish,
a great biter on any kind of bait, from worm to fly at any time of the
year, and anybody can catch them. The usual. weight is from one-fourth
to one and one-half pounds. Jordan says: “As a pan fish we do not
know of any better among American fresh water fishes. We have
experimented with the yellow perch and several other species, includ-
ing both species of black bass, the blue gill, wall-eyed-pike and rock
bass, eating each for several days in succession, and found the yellow
perch the sweetest and most delicious of them all. One does not tire
of it so soon as of the other kinds. Several other persons who tried the
same experiment reached the same conclusion.”

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Any or all of these fishes will give satisfaction and insure better re-
sults from their culture that the exclusive propagation of black bass
could give in small bodies of water.

But a careful selection of the fish supply is not the only essential to
success. The pond and its surroundings must also receive intelligent
thought and preparation. We have frequent reports of failures in
attempts at fish culture, in small ponds or lakes, and so in most in-
stances, an investigation shows that failure was due to the improper
conditions in the pond. Either it was used for stock purposes or left
open to the invasion of muskrats, turtles and other enemies of the fish
or both conditions existed. If fish are given equal care with hogs and
chickens the results will be as satisfactory, and the effort amply re-
paid.

The commissioners will cheerfully answer or give any information
in their possession regarding pond culture or the building of ponds.

CARP.

This is probably a worn out caption in our reports and no doubt
finds plenty of objectors. Yet, when considered from a purely finan-
cial standpoint, we have no fish that is its equal as a money producer,
and there are no better waters in the country, if in the world, to pro-
duce the carp than those of Illinois.

The output is simply enormous and ever increasing. They are now
prized highly by fishermen and find a ready market. We have failed
this season to get a report from the Illinois River Fishermen’s Asso-
ciation. But from what we can get from the dealers, the output for
the past two seasons is greater than for any other seasons. We need
not discuss the question of carp killing out other fish. The practical
evidence that this is not so, is to be seen. Bass are more plentiful than
ever, increasing and they will increase as long as so much food is
furnished them by the increase in the softer rayed fish.

Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Assistant U. S. Fish Commissioner, in his
“Our Fish Immigrants” has the following to say about carp, and as our
State is mentioned as the “Carp State” by so eminent an authority, I
reproduce the article, as it.contains much valuable information.

“The best-known, most widely distributed and most important of our fish
immigrants is the carp, usually called the German carp, a native of Asia,
but cultivated for many centuries in Europe, whence were brought to this
country about 30 years ago the improved varieties—the leather carp, blue
carp and mirror carp.

The carp has received an extraordinary amount of criticism, mostly un-
favorable, during recent years; no other fish, in fact, has ever come in for
so much vituperation. In some communities the carp question has at times
overshadowed the tariff, the trusts and high finance; and there are places
where it is almost as much as a man’s life is worth to raise his voice or lift
his pen in favor of this Mongolian alien. Without entering into a discussion
of the carp question and without undertaking to make any apology for the
carp, it may be said that most of the attacks on its reputation have been un-
fair, and that a better knowledge of the objects and results of the introduction
of the fish into American waters would greatly reduce the number of people
who place the carp in the same category of nuisances as the English sparrow.
Although small numbers of carp were imported by private individuals before

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’ the introduction and distribution of the species by the general government,
the latter was solely responsible for the present continental distribution of
the fish, and to it, as represented by the National Fish Commission, must be
ascribed whatever credit or blame is due. In his 1878 report to Congress,
Professor Baird said: ;

“The carp has been domesticated in Europe from time immemorial, and
represents among the finny tribe the place occupied by poultry among birds.
It is a fish adapted to the farmer’s ponds and to mill-dams, less so to clear,
gravelly rivers with a strong current. “Where there is quiet water, with
muddy bottom and abundant vegetation, there is the home of the carp;
there it will grow with great rapidity, sometimes attaining a weight of three
to four pounds in as many years. It-is a vegetable feeder and not dependent
upon man for its sustenance. As an article of food, the better varieties rank
in Europe with the trout and bring the same price per pound.”

The limitations of the carp, as thus defined and as recognized and
acknowledged at the time of its introduction, have been to. a great
extent overlooked or ignored, and.to this is to be attributed much of
the carp’s disrepute. It has been planted under conditions as inap-
propriate as would be the stocking of a gamebird preserve with foxes
or the raising of rabbits in a meadow overrun with hounds.

The indictment against the carp in-America-is long and formidable.
It is charged with being unfit for human food, with being very in-
jurious to other and better fishes, and with being very destructive to
ducks and other wild fowl by nprootiug the wild celery on which they
feed, to say nothing of various minor accusations. mt
- It is not necessary to’ discuss these points, and it will suffice to say
(1) that special investigation has shown the carp does exceedingly
little harm to any other fish, as any one would expect from its known
habits and anatomical peculiarities; (2) that the injury done to the
feeding grounds of wild fowl has been grossly exaggerated; on one
hand, a scarcity of ducks may occur entirely independently of the
presence of carp, and, on the other, a great abundance of carp may be
coexistent with the undiminished growth of wild celery; and (3) that
the carp is a food fish of very great importance, and to say anything
to the contrary.is to ignore facts.

We may profitably dwell a little on this last point, because few
people are aware of the economic value of this fish at the present time
or appreciate the role it must inevitably continue to play in this country,
for the carp is already the most widely distributed American fish ; it
can no longer be regarded as an alien; and it is here to stay.

As a food fish the carp has many superiors. I do not eat it and see
no reason why people so favorbly situated as are those who live on the
seaboards, the Great Lakes, and the various interior waters should eat
carp; but there are millions of our people who can not obtain the de-
licious trout, shad, salmon, black bass, striped bass, halibut, mackerel,
or smelt; or who, if they ever see these fish, find them, like the peas
porridge of the nursery rhyme, “nine days old” or more, and nine times
inferior to a fresh carp. It is to the many people who must eat carp
or no fish, or no better fish, that this food comes as a special boon,
although the consumption, even in many of the eastern sea coast towns,
is surprisingly large.

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“The proof of the pudding is the eating’—one of the proofs of a fish
is the price people are willing to pay in order to eat it. Judged by this
standard, the carp is to be reckoned among the leading fishes of the
United States. It is regularly exposed for sale in every large city and
in innumerable small towns; and the fishermen find such ready sale
for it at such good prices that in at least fifteen states special carp
fisheries are carried on, and in thirty-five states it is regularly taken for
market. At this time the annual carp. catch amounts .to about
20,000,000 pounds, for which the fishermen receive $500,000.00.

Tlinois is not only the “sucker state,’ it is preéminently the “carp
state,” and is not ashamed of the fact. It produces twice as many
carp.as any other state, and its fishermen have for years been reaping
a golden harvest, finding a ready sale in the west and also sending
large consignments to New York in special cars. The next important
center is the western end of Lake Erie, in Ohio and Michigan, where
large special ponds have been constructed. and a peculiar form of
cultivation has sprung up. The ponds are designed primarily for
retaining carp that have been seined in open waters until the price
warrants: shipment, and some of them have to be kept at a proper
level by pumping or by the use of water elevators., The expense in-
volved in the construction and maintenance of such works shows how
remunerative the carp is. Other important carp states are Colorado,
Delaware, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York,
Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin.

It is not as a great market fish, however, that the carp is destined
to attain its highest importance among us, but as a fish for private
culture and home consumption. The number of farmers and small
land owners who are alive to the benefits of private fish ponds is
increasing at a very rapid rate, and hundreds of thousands of such
in all parts of the country, but particularly in the great central region,
will find in the carp the species best adapted to their needs and con-
ditions.

It is probable that the commercial value of carp is insignificant
compared with its importance as a food for other fishes. It is ex-
tensively eaten by many of our most highly esteemed food fishes and is
the chief pabulum of some of them in some places. In a number of the
best black bass streams, like the Potomac and the Illinois, the carp is
very abundant and is a favorite food of the young and adult bass,
while in California the introduced striped bass has from the outset
subsisted largely on carp and may owe its remarkable increase to the
presence of this food.

The consumption of carp is certainly destined to increase greatly,
but even if the catch reaches no higher point, the introduction of the
carp into the United States will remain the leading achievement in
fish acclimatization in recent times, and, with the exception of the
original introduction of the same fish into Europe from Asia, the most
important the world has known.

American anglers for bass and trout and salmon, as a rule, have
only contempt for the carp, and there is nothing so calculated to dis-
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the mention of carp. It is my firm conviction that the true basis for
most of the unfriendly feeling toward the carp is the fact that this
fish does not habitually rise to a fly and is not fitted by nature to
inhabit the purling brook, the foaming cataract, the glacier-fed rivers,
and the bottomless lakes, where the fly caster is wont to go. And yet
to hold that the carp is beneath the attention of sportsmen is to ignore
well known facts and to acknowledge indifference to the classical tenets
of angling. From earliest times the carp has been a favorite with the
anglers of Germany and England; Isaak Walton himself devoted a
chapter to it, and called it “queen of rivers, a stately, a good and a
very subtle fish ;” Cholmondeley-Pennell has shown that it is at times
as fastidious a biter as a trout or bass; and Professor Goode has pro-
tested against the dictum of New World authorities in excluding from -
the class of game fishes the carp, the dace, the roach and other pets
of the father of angling, classical in sportsmen’s literature, and af-
fording “sport which in. England tens of thousands enjoy to every
one who gets the chance to whip a salmon or trout line over preserved
waters.”

I add—and take pleasure in doing so—an article written by Mr.
John T. Bramhall, of Chicago Press Club, who has been for many
years my friend and for as many years a friend and believer in the
carp—and who has been largely instrumental in getting it before the
people as an article or food: =

ISAAK WALTON AND THE CARP. is

The carp was a stranger in England three hundred years ago, as he is
now in America, and he was not regarded by the generality of anglers with
any more good will than here, for England had her trout, her grayling, her
salmon, and many other better fish than the carp. Good Isaak Walton, how-
ever, who seldom had a bad word for any fish, or anybody, had some good
words for the interloper. “The carp,” he says, “is the queen of rivers; a
stately, a good and a very subtle fish; that was not at first bred, nor hath
been long in England, but is now naturalised.” And then he quotes the
chronicle of Sir Richard Baker,

‘‘Hops and turkeys, carps and beer,
Came to England all in a year.”

It is difficult to imagine old England without her hops and beer, and
Dickens, we remember, served a turkey for the Christmas dinner in the
Carol. Doubtless the carp is now as fully naturalized as the turkey. Be that
as it may, the most delightful of anglers and gossips holds entertaining
discourse of the carp, and quotes Sir Francis Bacon and the German natur-
alist, Gesner, on the great age of this fish (the latter observing that he had
been known to live in the Palatine above a hundred years, and as to the
famous carps’ tongues of the Roman epicures, that carps have no tongue,
but “fa piece of flesh-like fish in their mouth like to a tongue, but should be
called a palate; but it is certain that it is choicely good.” Walton testifies
that the carp is worthy of the angler’s rod. Here is his counsel:

“And my first direction is, that if you will fish for a carp, you must put on
a very large measure of patience, especially to fish for a river carp: I have
known a very good fisher to angle diligently four or six hours in a day, for
three or four days together, for a river carp, and not have a bite.” There
is game for you! Then, after some talk of ponds and rivers, and the color
of the water, he goes on to say: ‘“‘And therefore, being possessed of that hope

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and patience which I wish to all fishers, especially to the carp angler, I
shall tell you with what bait to fish for him.” His directions for preparing
the bait are clever and interesting, but of no value here, and we will pass on
to his recipe for cooking this ‘queen of rivers.” ‘I will tell you,” he quaintly
says, “how to make this carp, that is so curious to be caught, so curious a
dish of meat, as shall make him worth all your labor and patience and
though it is not without some trouble and charges, yet it will recompense
both.” Here is the recipe:

“Take a carp, alive, if possible, scour him, and rub him clean with water
and salt, but scale him not; then open him, and put him, with his blood and
his liver, which you must save when you open him, into a small pot or
kettle; then .take sweet marjoram, thyme, and parsley, of each half a
handful; a sprig of rosemary, and another of savory, bind them into two or
three small bundles, and put them to your carp, with four or five whole
onions, twenty pickled oysters and three anchovies. Then pour upon your
carp as much claret wine as will only cover him, and season your claret well
with salt, cloves and mace, and the rinds of oranges and lemons; that done
cover your pot and set it on a quick fire till it be sufficiently boiled; then
take out the carp and lay it with the broth into the dish, and pour upon it
a quarter of a pound of the best fresh butter, melted and beaten with half
a dozen spoonfuls of the broth, the yolks of two or three eggs, and some of
the herbs shred; garnish your dish with lemons, and so serve it up, and
much good do you.”

I have never had the good fortune to eat a carp cooked after this noble
recipe, but I trust I may before I die. I have no doubt that it is “dish fit
to set before the king.”

FRESH WATER CLAMS.

‘A rapidly growing industry is noted on the Illinois river in the
taking of the mussel or fresh water clam for the manufacture of
buttons from its shell. The Illinois river has extensive beds of these
clams, they are easily taken and there is a ready market for them.
A large number make a business fishing for them. There is quite a
large variety of species, and their value is in proportion to the size
and consequent amount of surface of shell for cutting the blanks for
buttons. Prices range from $4.00 to $14.00 per ton on the banks
where gathered. The method of taking them is simple, cheap and effec-
tive. A flat boat with scow bow and ends is generally used, and on the
gunwale are placed standards from three to four feet high. The utensils
consist of an iron bar, usually iron pipe, along which is attached a
succession of hooks and lines, the hooks being made of bent wire
without barbs. The clams lie on the bottom of the stream, usually
with their shells open. The bar is thrown overboard and drawn along
the bottom of the river, the boat towing propelled by the current.
At the touch of the hooks the clams close their shells and hold on,
and the outfit is pulled up and the bar laid across the standards and
the clams are detached, are thrown into the boat and the process is
repeated. A man with a boat can make from $2.00 to $7.00 a day, at
this work and as his catch can be turned over for cash each night,
the business is a profitable one, even with this phase alone, but what
adds to the fascination as well as the profit is the possibility at any time
of finding a valuable pearl in the flesh of the clam. After the shells
are unloaded they are put into a large galvanized iron vessel and boiled

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or steamed until the shells open and the flesh can be removed, and
this is when the pearls may be looked for, and many very fine ones have
been taken.

This industry, comparatively new on the Illinois river, is of long
standing in other rivers of the country. The Wabash, Tennessee,
Cumberland and many other rivers have been fished out, and hundreds
of people are now coming to the Illinois river to engage in the work.
We call attention to this matter for several reasons, first, the con-
tinuous drain on the supply will deplete the rivers of these mollusk
in a few years, and some restriction should be placed on the catch and
the spawning season should be protected. Then a license for non-
resident fishermen should be exacted, as the influx from other states
is great and increasing, and other states require such license. Hundreds
of men now at work fishing for clams in this State are non-resident.
Having depleted the rivers of their own state they are now working
ours and we hold that our own people should be given the preference
if possible, at least they should be protected by the requirement of a
good license for non-residents. Efforts are being made by the U. S.
Fish Commission to determine the life, habits, spawning season, and
other data’ of the mollusks, and give the states and other interests
reliable details on which to frame proper legislative restrictions as to
taking them.

Our NATIVE FIsH.

Very few people throughout the State are acquainted with the fish
our waters produce, and we have been asked to name them.

Prof. S. A. Forbes, of the State University, has from time to time
issued a bulletin giving names and descriptions of such fish as are
found in Illinois. Prof. Forbes is oné of the best authorities on fish
and fish life in the country, and our list given here will be compiled
from it, giving those.most commonly taken, and such as are usually
brought into general use:

BASSES.

Large Mouth Black Bass.
Very plentiful in Illinois river, the tributaries and lakes adjoining. Highly
praised by the angler and the flesh considered first class. .

Small Mouth Black Bass.
Very few in Illinois river. They are more plentiful in the clearer rivers
and lakes.

Rock Bass.
Not very plentiful. A good biter and table fish.

Striped Bass. Yellow Bass.
Takes minnows. Not very abundant. Good flesh.

Drk Crappie, Calico Bass.
Very plentiful. Good biters. Flesh excellent. All deep water on Illinois
river affords good sport.

Pale Crappie. :
Very plentiful. Caught in large numbers under all the dams and drifts.

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Pike-Pickerel.
Not plentiful. Last season quite a number of the young fish were noted.
Quite a number of young pike taken while making collections.

Little Pickerel. Grass Pike.
Scarce. Early, very plentiful in the lakes adjoining the Illinois river.

Wall-Eyed Pike.

In former years very plentiful in Mississippi and Illinois rivers. Growth
quite large. Frequently weighing seven or eight pounds. We have dis-
tributed a large number of the fry in past two seasons. A splendid fish for
the angler and few better for the table.

PERCH.
Sauger. Jack Salmon.
But few adults taken in Illinois water. More frequent in Mississippi river
than in Illinois. Everman says: The length seldom exceeding 10 inches to a
foot. Frequently mistaken for a wall-eyed pike.

Common Ringed Perch.

Very plentiful now in Illinois river. Early, quite plenty in almost all
lakes and streams in Illinois. In Illinois river from five to ten inches in
length. One of the best pan fish our waters produce.

White Perch. Sheepshead.
Will bite on worms, good flesh and taken in quantities for the market.

Common Sunfish.

Red Spotted Sunfish.

Red Eye, Blue Spotted Sunfish.
Warmouth Red Eye Bream.

SUCKERS.
Red Horse.
Common Sucker.
Native Carp. River Carp.
Quill Back Buffalo.
SHAD.

Hickory Shad. Gizzard Shad.
Very plentiful. Fit only for food for other fishes.

Shovel Fish.

Used extensively for food. Sold usually as cat fish, although not a cat
fish. It is commonly known as paddle fish.

Now and then an example of lake herring is found. A few eel. Of course
we have the dog fish and gar. The dog fish, however, are finding a market
and are now saved when caught. The gar are still waiting a market, and
under our statute destroyed when taken from the water.

POLLUTION OF THE WATERS.

While we as fish commissioners may not have any direct supervision
over the waters of the State, so far as regards their pollution, yet we
feel we have a right to interpose an objection to any course that tends
to destroy or interfere with our work. That the various water courses
of the State are fast becoming merely conveniences for sewage pur-

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poses is, unfortunately an obvious fact. We recall a number of the
smaller rivers which were once clear, clean streams, but which are
now only the outlets for the refuse of manufacturing establishments
or for sewerage of towns along their banks. Personal observation
has shown a deposit in them that is not only a menace to the fish life
of the stream, but the breeding place of diseases that destroy human life
as well.

On Calumet Lake the refuse from one of the large paint works so
discolors the water as to be noticeable a mile distant in Calumet river,
and resulting from such pollution the killing of fish on both lake and
river is marked. A great many complaints reach us in regard to the
matter, but we can only reply that it is a matter that must be dealt
with by the officials of the county or city, as a nuisance, as it does not
come under any of the provisions of our laws. As we have stated in
former reports, if there were no other method of taking care of the
refuse and sewage except by turning them into these streams, there
might be room for argument against an interference with the neces-
sities of the manufacturing interests, but with the appliances now in
practical and successful use, it can easily be destroyed without turning
it into the streams to endanger the health of the public, for pollution
of the waters to the extent of killing fish must surely present such a
menace to the health of citizens, and vigorous efforts should be put
forth to arrest and prevent further danger from such causes. The or-
dinary sewage from towns emptied into the rivers is enough in itself
to endanger life and health, but when to it is added acids and other
poisonous matter it would seem that the conditions call for legislative
interference.

COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION.

The distribution of fish to public waters and private applicants has
been carried on as usual, though unfavorable conditions have prevented
as extended work as we had intended to do. As has been stated, the
success of our work depends largely on the conditions along the rivers,
the stage of water and time and continuance of overflow, our supply
of fish being taken from those left in the shallow waters after the
overflow has subsided. Along the Illinois river the shallow ponds and
lakes contain a very much larger ratio of the coarse or softer rayed
fishes than do those farther north, where the water is colder, the game
fishes in the former being only about 15 per cent of the whole. Great
care has to be taken in the handling of the fish in the process of collect-
ing to prevent injury. The great mass of fish taken in the seine renders
the separation of game fishes both difficult and slow, and as most of
this work is done during very hot weather much care is necessary in
getting them to the river or live boxes; gars and adult fishes often do
great injury to the small fish in their efforts to escape from the seine.
Even afer they are all extricated from the seine the danger-is not
over, as the difference in temperature between the water from which
they are taken and that of the river or holding ponds is so great that
a sudden introduction of the small fish into the colder water would
quickly kill them. So they have to be gradually accustomed to the

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change by lowering the temperature of the water in which they are
held until it is nearly the same as that in which they are to be placed.
As the season advances the water gets low in the ponds from which
they are taken, the growth of the fish is very rapid and it is not un-
usual to find bass that were spawned in May weighing half a pound
and measuring seven inches in October. As the size increases the
number that can be transported in a can is of course reduced corres-
pondingly, and while we can carry 250 small bass in a ten gallon can
in June, we can carry perhaps 50 or 60 in October, and for this reason
it makes a very unsatisfactory season when we can not begin work in
the shallow waters early, though of course when the rivers remain
high and the fish go back into the river, they are not lost, but go to in-
crease the local supply of the river.

Our report elsewhere shows a very good distribution to public
waters, though not so good as to private applicants for the past two
seasons, owing to the unfavorable conditions existing during the time
covered. We have in contemplation the building of a small hatching
plant, and obtaining the eggs of the wall-eyed pike and yellow perch
from the U. S. Fish Commission. These eggs could be hatched on
the Illinois river and utilized for public waters and to help out in our
short seasons. The U. S. Commission is very liberal in aid of the
various state commissions and working with us have made it possible
for us to make muc more extended distribution than we could have
made if depending upon the ordinary method of messenger in baggage
cars of trains. We have not, however, been able to obtain the use of
the U. S. cars easily in either season and in making our first distribu-
tion had to depend upon our own messengers, which is both expensive
and unsatisfactory, in trying to cover so large a territory. The best
results are noted from the plants of former seasons, and the interest
in private reservoirs and ponds is constantly increasing. The fish taken
for distribution covers but a limited portion of the fish taken
from the shallow ponds and lakes. As before stated the game fishes
are only about 15 per cent of the whole taken and whenever it can be
done and save the fish those not used for distribution are taken to the
river or nearest deep water.

All fish used would, if left where they are found, perish during the
season either by drying up of ponds or freezing out in winter, so that
as a rule all localities worked are the gainer by a large number of food
fish rescued from these ponds and lakes. We cannot make anything
like and accurate estimate of amount so saved.

Black bass distributed to public waters during season of 1904-1905:

Public Waters. County. Number.
eT COTLVEL 6 ccc eters oo easier WWE a2 Saree eee acta ten 5 Ses Le 500
WISI IEA ae Dl VEL. Peru state sie atte tcle Semele cies MCLG ALT rota a tals mietel Shed ole 500
STEVE TOTO TN ao eh (CY Ree AIG iota kc oa Sale ONMIearcaeare clo. oc) e-o,< sare clea 600
RVUs CHRIST @IDE hr. cea, crate cna och mueisielaad’s, eelensle VIA S ONS creer rar cinis 0s «aba oroeravovenebats 500
WeRGOMpin: | CLCOksac,. sceic< cebicla ciate ics asvele (COW Cerrar oh ec vone nytnes os eve ehelasar ctor 400
SSA OINIOM a EUV Gmail ta ares chet cr emiaere wteralaves IMIGTIE Att le i ed Ot IS area Me Bchae 1,000
WETNITITOM TUVGIS cls sta s cus crsyeuetete eras) sielene MrT oA SS LOM ue chests te adie cts © tele aac creaere 350
12 DEL BINA EES Sia Cee ee ae ROGERS TAT hen caee are huche ce kese rants «fs 600

MASSISSID Dl Dives cecicciscmee se oe 6.5 GUUS. tote aic) ai oka a Meso ORTS © 2 ut 1,000

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Public Waters County. Number.
POpesereehn’: Aejcccret to. lebe eta cleats ote kates KONOK sy ix: < 0, state ode pny a 200
TUTTO Se MLV CX ors 5 tole oie ine eN ses cy teeters Morgan: | x. «52:0 017.3) 3:0 sateen 5,000
(ATIC THCYOCGKK.)5 o:s'e cite trate ravelede icles GTEC ooo. w:2 0.6 0.0 nus ueatealg pene 300
Hendersomeriver. ts occ cee bens aeaeneee Henderson '.2....2>.cusee ee eee 500
Wdwardsh river. kee kits wee eles ctr eietere Mercer «i... 0: deseo eee 400
Crooked “creek. © sveicissrelete oievels sashes oe eMC DONOUgh, ...: Lcic\s~)cseie eee 500
SPOON ITIVED wc tires bial: ete ee eee Gilt) ree eee to 400
Desplaines. Pivetae cao eaee eee eee COOK oe oe aie oc 2 8 2 hou aloe ae 500
DWPaee reds ation ctnsiesreletetere cloterete DUPAse ease Sees ee ao eee 1,000
BOX srivieriyy., ds icicte ete chooks orcleietete oivioeiae Kane 9. o2e0 is .02 dent eee 1,000
Blackberry icCreekityrs steccre te evekehstelets eicuersis KANG | hai.0 2 & > ow 0 leiere sete 100
Vermilion Creek ..o.stseta-'e sete ere eee Danville .....<-4.«).+«ss5) =e 1,000
SOLGICTZSHELOIME). ste cis 1- creteverslateteicke cieteisioe Danville .....0%0::0.0 2 aes eee 1,000
RUCSETVOIT OPAL cis faetere clotters inte atete oles tele Wdgar i000 sao c ink eee eee 500
TAC AG COTE: cece penne etic reel Kmox) 32).'.1 ssi hes eee 500

Wall-eyed pike. Season of 1904-1905:

From St. Louis Exposition.

Mississippi iver mear mouth Of Mlinoise... eee ee eee eee eee 1,000,000
Hilinoisy river above sMered OSias 1-1. cia cre cleiele cic acele< elereienearoteneeee eee 600,000
HOR priVer MEAT. sATTOLA. <<<, co cress wie oherote cra jo.ste us.0.c iste </oke el eee 500,000
Kankakee: river mear Kankakees../..2)....\..c:cs oc «10 clcleie © ieee eer 50,000

These fish were hatched at St. Louis exposition by the U. S. Fish
Commission and turned over to the State Fish Commissioners for dis-
tribution.

CRAPPIE DISTRIBUTED DURING SEASON OF 1904-1905:

Owing to difficulty in transportation of crappie all or nearly so had to be
planted quickly and in nearest deep water. Two or three hours ride was all
they could stand and frequently we were compelied to utilize them at once
in river near where they were taken which will explain the frequent plants
along Illinois and Mississippi rivers.

Bay,’ vt Mered Ostia vars oc a s.oe Gice cele oe eniole Cee weit Co een tee 15,000
[llinois iriver “near Naples. .becagi7ae. esis s osle Ride oes bee 3,000
Md aM: seTEe kei yere aif apajalers. Sas bw Reale linn NOS a Rote tere ST os im re 1,000
Perkins®, » Lake's’ 6c. s.0 rete sav torches hes ers saps By Ors ee ee ee eee 2,500
linoismriver near. Hawanean cc.vcc omiccciarcraee bers is cho ciety ree 2,500
Illinois! river “near Pekin ec ee sects c cicisie a alee eis hie eie ee ee 2,500
Hlinoissriver near HaGranze WocksSee. «csc aes ccs ccieeie cee es Cee 5,000
Hllinois# river, sMmouth of /Saneamoneeen cere ciccic nice celee es erate eee 4,000
Sangamon--river;. Decatur... Jisca.c « qelenic «ese Ac een ee ei 500
Sangamon. ‘river; + Decatur at’. foc cice other c cero oh otek tie See 350
Mississippi river mear Quincy... socn..<. se cuk ce ue eee oer ee 20,000
Mississipp! river near Hannibal s. ao ae ceeiec: cc cere cic cnencnae ee 5,000
MISSISSippi river near Hamburg ayes ciiee cic cect arena eee 5,000
Sni Ecarte, near “Hanibalh)! 2cohc. eee Cee cities eter sc acne 5,000
Sni>Hearte, near Hast Hani balls. cts - cxmierocrc cece certs otic ene a crea ana 425

Aside from these plants a number of shipments of adult crappie
were made to private applicants carrying from 35 to 75 in each Io gal-
lon can.

Cat fish:
PSPINSACUDIA OTT Mmm DLV. Leben cfeesc1 citeye ais is. s: sics ich chee tudvaverarsceve: ienete caret cimemena ie akaia deo Sie 2,500
IPLOER TAINVGVR Gia ce ini Seog IGig CERO AOC ST CLBLO EEO CCIE HELD ROE ren: © t-te we 1,000
Eerate Kamal VOl ete cycicta Revere es sree aie sic tGerele te cud oes tele a eMcieie ale ahercheverd oad avelers 1,000
[DYES 5 SEPSIS Eitcrrieo SiC ceEREE CONG DIGG DITO, CRIs REE Meira inch eee ie pea ee erg 500
Meee COMET LV. Close. cerars arsvciataleiyehasestlel cha) «: siue Bro. She Sue es TS De ner ae ranete 1,000
PREC SET LVCI. VeabLOUS! DOIMUGE mreccteyoic s\o)sicvels ae cl eccheucds oo lols evebone Shae Mialays 20,000
See CSU Ti UO Pnayar seers se olelecete ovsie ec roudl Gry OTe ve ays wiclicl oo ce eleva diclielebor 6 ue e¥enavane atdlete 1,000
Me MTUULOMesTUVeT : (CS nD LATUES \larcc syyiciors ilies ols, ca! sc avatere Sieveliel ello clade rafete orci era 1,500
CAPO SG!» CIRENS LR BRING ERRIGIGLE C1O:0 OO ORCIOTCRGICR CIE RECO ee irl tema marae nn ar 1,000
SS SCAEREIMMBE IVC Lota epecey ners pcilcten ¢echer neve MeT ov Gusie ive scare are cneraot oa’ s Merton gveterans 1,000
NOrMNE ETT CCRT VGT cc cpesray cwel ofa yore reson dete veurcE ode totev cis, oo suereie sitevare avtre ee sib iiwuveve ies 1,000
acc San lua Lee me COLIC Yaa terarena ch ste tole fatenene y, +/6\c. chet oekeie eseye ve vere 4608 @ Siere ere 5,000
MISSES PD Uebel mVALIOUS: DOIMUS, aciaiete cele sieeve os @ oeleig ss ere Bin evals austere 15,000

These cat fish were all of the bullhead species Amerius nebulosus and about
114 inches in length.
Private applicants supplied during season 1904-1905:

Belleville, South Park, Bloomington, West Park, Chicago, South Park,
Chicago, Baylis, Carlinville, Belleville, Millstadt, Greenville, Carbondale,
Godfrey, Quincy, E. Hannibal, Decatur, Homer, Franklin, Waverly, Golden,
West Point and 65 by U. S. Fish Commission cars.

Crappie distributed to public waters during season of 1904-1905:

Public Waters. County. No.
OXSBTVEL- oieiscta. se Mess eae gas oeee \ESGH Kee OL Git Sie GOGO eet cele broke 1,000
ETON S PEL ViCIy se isytctel aes sieiaus io Seis. we. anaale WENPIOWR (NOMS coocedsccencdace 10,000
MISSISSIDDieIVEDs . cis clove o aicte crethins exons Quineyabayee ne nae eee 1,000
MATa CuI VET rac) shone avd alo ands areverso axe SW allie © Onysepen es cevacrcieacae oe eee 1,000
SH STON M OT MVE Te sec oe ators c-elcte cis aahieice Sala ON tye cin a eee 1,000
IRDUELE TGP S AR SRS eee OOD eer arcs 1a eens Sits Mey ORE eee tine ae 1,000
JNU “CHER Ae ee IC eee GreECHeIii3 ASA hes one 600
COO RCOMmIGECC Kei ci.) cise certs ogisiee waa WMOIDOMOICWEIN Socaccoosse Oe eer 500
CUSTSIGH GRC iets AE eaten aa mee ee ea NiKG) SIS MOOR aie Kiloe craic eo abe 500
STH Soh GE SpS Sines ee eee Gallop: Caras etree chon oe 500
MBAS OMe reise: 3s Asie deb ea coos wowe ee DWE AE CUM evel i ietarete talent aciete 700
SMa ONMENIVeT 4 Srey nce tobe cieveusce Ma COM Peni rae ie ots aakenee 500

Native fish distributed in public waters in Illinois during season of
1905-1906:

BLACK BASS.

Public Waters. County. No.
SI GTTIOM ® 4 Std 0:6 7 ORME OO CHOC DIRS JeTEN AR avec Ole OES Ue ao Mees Ce ot ae 250
SHUEY CAYO La SSE Cae een ee ee AMIE Na) cla edo cris OO OK one eee 500
ET aE TAG eee baee eep ects, aac uate ree oe WaiwLOnGGe veces cay ces ree om aaa 400
DVASETET UNE OTIGEIS shee sschebevs, wiciescueldsteisven Ft LAV UES TOMS aA acca oye ty ersireetoooie ceva 250
LESH igi RED RYE: 13 SRN Re BS ei co eI ene eR Willi cnevarctcr-aevstathcr Pa crahure ethno 500
ESET 0." CN ea eit eee SIA Obe otis eae arena etree try bees 500
SHOOMMEUVET ean ck ilo Groicm sie oes «1c TIONG Ar pu Ner ete ancl trascbaiere aetna es >. 600
EVCRET VOLE WO EG YO ek yo iccs Wiel eit ee Kim Os tag ede ea ae one eame ee 1,000
WICKEO UOT, Sorc’ Aare Ooi OS CIC RR eee Macouping aoe cccicialeisnreis ohare oe 400
Sia! [BENG SIRS SG Ol CECE SAREE REECE Pik CMe eavircl Wir hee a on nie ieakecna 500
IPOS. TOAMGIGOS Seeeeche,S cad Brcko Cena Eien WAN Chic cite aPt bc cickbe seas nealaw ois 1,000
MDMA VCIncterc’. 5, ¢, oheWeone:cucr hace eels cue are thee DD Ue ae On terrae ce Wa creke ol crcrere «iy Socpnie 500
IPOS VORA o NM Oe OOS CO eee Wend ailligepeetercc. srcey ene «-chsrcuaye oc eae 500
LLSEILERS) | sh a RA SAVER See cao eg ae IM GRiea ner tn oe tots, ocicte oslo Somes 600
TR OTELE. TINY) Og Broke. Chol tie ante ino i PERE AWATLUCST Cees aiettctestale-cclasce woes 500
TREGYELES MTD AMC e Se ceORRNN EGE ICR ie ERR LOY AS Mie a) eet OAS 500
Ie WIG Nee SS tection oe 6 HER ater EMCTSOMM Eso cerioe cicins Cece 500
SY UIP Cpe erin t sforcpircs wc cereale, occ, sieroncte DURA Oe wrt cr cxsiais wees erecta aes 200

RGD GR eis ee Sey a a ee ee CATT Curae: cieerotsrocret an ot ae ne oe 500

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Public Waters County. Number.
SAMPAIO eta atas otanatetehobe lets tees tele velte tole CASS isi. c2b cde doves eee 250
Nhe hil=2h 00X0) «at Ce Ae OE re cen Cuenca Sangamon: s5.2560052 52 ae 500
MAGCOUDINI (CTCCl su A Nanette aisle! ood GIECNC «06 6 vei soho oa te 8 500
Crooked, -ercekk.t ..c ots t row tee ace a Hancock «.:26/ a: 6asies eee 500
SPOON TL Veles)..¢ ce seeia cies e ec e ee McDonough *.....:+-s)+eeeee eee 500
SPOON sPIVOL: ¢s cide: Raele oe aie exe CPs Se Fulton «<...).. 3.5 eee 500
VERGE TL A Wie chor ctor et at tetete sake Soiatetslebetetetele iets Tazewell ..cddccssceea depen 500
SEU IEC ee norco CoG moO aoe OUe aon Mason 60346022 «see cen ene 200
PTOOUWOLS: <5. acca ne diet on as cutee aoe oes [roquois: ;.<ic2.%s 0s sen eee 250
TO SAN CLOCK tee anerne alate oki lemetetehe vie rotate Iroquois: «::.4ss«s3153 000 ee 250
SLOWED so ais cig Oe ole dal io nee iat eterentte ate Madison. <o/2:.:./0/s/0ie o-0tesaloteto ae 300
WOME Makes Ho sers a cera s oes meat ee as M@GISOD: «..6.0:0.4 oie ole eters eee 250
GCS Wie AS age das aeyaitre, qyarseeendieye euedrae Clays 22.45%. 2524 355. ee 250
RUGSCHVONE WDA. oe crease cceeiele eels arias Sangamon. <.: 005.61 20 > oem eee 500
SHG aliGreGles Oras were tril tot stoke Bond 2253.0... 5.505 Ae 300
EDO AGRASS'S 00s Aeeepne eroretcyeloneacee cher ooo eee ree Cumberland .....3J3Soeceeseee 250
COAIMEREO ies | Pe aise aterel cutie aprteve ca tetenoee BRUTCAW oo, 5 6.0 = sim ann, el 300
Kankakee: east fonkiasc. stesveteucrs ore ate ele Marion. «.'.'. 2 « ««.+ cceuws's ieee 300
Wermiliont sche: cites conte ee a ae eet Vermilion 350% J... toe eee 300
NEA KCIMPAM Te dre SUNS IEE Be AR ee ae TAGs. eee * 1. wee 2,500
@rystalh Taker hie kee hone tere cnseerhenhe MéHenry :\\ . j3'2.4« a «de 1,000
RGSERVOIT MpPAnkenieccmcic nese pee eee PNASAL! ss ss creverele delete eet 1,000
SNiMCarte Club s soins vesercrele ew wells ie (ensues te PIC oe cere s ohate anes ort creo 1,000

Private applicants supplied during season of 1905-1906:

Bloomington, Belleville, Beaver Dam Lake, Round Lake, Biggsville,
Quincey, Alton, Carbondale, Clear Lake, Carrollton, Danville, SniEcarte,
Decatur and 81 by U. S. Fish Commission cars.

Cat FIsH.
MAISSISSIP pl) LiVier. WaATLOUSe OTMES) ores cic icic eave jouslloveneneloleteletalcrsrsteneneten aaa 10,000
Mlinoiseriver, Varlous’ POINTS... cs om c/s Gee ene ele loys creteverereveterere tate 20,000
SmirMCarter #0 Facto Seetere star eeha ete et oie ve © Sis See Tales eile fe re eles eee 1,000
SOOM), TLVETIN Gy oc cce scctsiale ciel Sa ec eee, eae ra teac Sala cote ete hale tal Shevare AER tet eeean 5,000
Vermilion TIVETS 242% wk lot os © een oisidla ol levareigie is 6 Sialace nate ne 1,600
HUORAD AIVIOT fe ccuc toahe chelsea s Grease ehailate © Ma Atshe chetet al oletal onctdieromo } aeerat cae oe 1,000

Black bass distributed in Illinois by U. S. Fish Commission cars,

1904:

Snowflakes Pond; Dahleren..c. 3. skies acceso sare ck eee eee ee 80
Mairerounds lakes Sprimgheldiyas = acc etic csc cries eicusiene siete ances saan 240
Sansamony Livers] DeCAtUIP Sse ac tcc e Cat eel we ee Cene ceeie oe eee 360
Nairlawie dake Decature wooo. ac oe wcidig 0 bene oeye tee cictene ie Sigh eIe a aa 10u
Springdale lake, Oalslamde seins 2s ceva cies ctu cee so ee cee 80
Reservoir’ lakes) Parison eb oe ccd teccteee eee eae aera imate taarey tinh cane ee 200
Miller” (Park lake) BIloominS tons micjccies ce cle ercle les crekelesc su crete ene 100
Brickyard pond, GollinsvillOs: ots... aces eete chen oo ae Ne Fs 208
Hish “ponds” Harmer City vere oc. Gane «arta eee wee nie oie oe cree enon 100
(Ga]0)=(0)) « are PRPC CRMC TER Since MME NBN CAINE rNEYRIA ES Pye CLR AR SIM Ne 100
Marshall ) Ponds Whitehall: <i <ccos. vac ccs chro cere oat eres <c ee cee 40
Suburban lake, Whitehall............ ea ee : 40
Meredosia. Baiy,, .Meredostac cc.c..s cugein tees re © s nreie ercic ve sich tere 1,700
Monee: Reservoir, MOneess.. ve. kink co erew icone & vies es ORE Cnn 240
UGloembhalohi: Ianststyaayhey UeGhhembhaGh 5 oqo 455555555550 05uo sees os gals 120
Bois Reservoir, Boiss. tie hiss crseienerelcee eo ictolere e-cieie cre crear 120

Coulterville” Wesérvoins “Coulterville jen eerie etcens ce erene treater aera °120

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Crappie distributed in Illinois by U. S. Fish Commission cars, 1904:

aH ELCTLO Me EO LLG WELL Gyula sic, she: s. 01 bores oi orm mciciern Fea a cteeale « Relais Sreye 2 100
MAENCSa Vee NON, eS CLLOVAIIC. «. «scare, vc. acer oct thelersdel sic sla ersiesaule wrelae a « 100
BETH IRE UICO RES CLL O Vi LLGi,< 8 yeh ieissecusncveuele sessuouous ieee sonsavhnsoysneadivian se uepetede mie dlp suane 400
PEEING OTOL Cag EXCULGVLLLC is 1a) far set er'st sree ee) ole everclnneiata = «4; 5 Sepa slopes ayale 400
MINESEC CHRTIONC ESC LLEVA ITC: orci ieie ie uc seu seus io neue ie vs ese wee skh Sh.e + Sepa ce fees 400
aI AIK Oso) LAGE: , SUsp IOUS so oe) ea 5) ec cecdieveia srg tial.e ate, Matalds 2688 Susl v'eiQh She 200
MATa INO ACU IT OTN Sie rar ctt tera nctss erie cis oo eter one) ad wr Sip, aiiesie:tbriave SeablSteyt o albial ahaberere 1,200
RUMOR TT TMe UCONN CICSON VL LO ire eo, oo aie ee/2) ore viluerer'es e's oven Dra Whsle ceke Vel Shaye tele, eu 1,500
MUNRO ete Yes MLCT OG OST cers crea, cievai/oi s, sais) olla ach ch cy ei oven erie AAERURES ovchbe eure. ores 1,400
SMM CaM eeCU TUL Men ear tee nsec keane cies ca Pokercast oulsicifoscncate ceiie 8 cous ceusigs) baa date MB a ar ayers 100
Rock bass distributed in Illinois by U. S. Fish Commission cars,
1904: ; ;
EET TOL O MES CLE VIUT GI ac. cre save eve a) cueidiatar olka erevetstioncyedere evers.c 6 the ties, 60's cyelen.s % 100
ERS ETT ENC MRC OUT TNT Lavy yoke) ce terres ol ck ie teus te he tueke ae orereiale oe ehapeus wikte aussie 100
BUM MONG ee Ole vad lle troretete cote eters ees retake ete cole bia cou ono oeielejseelee 100
aaa OFA Cems COMI D1, crckc- atatec sieve: ave ol cle-a) esehoraeurencleleiep sable ep thevs, ela Tere ele 100
Ve Met eRe MAIN. 71.5 sre c's ewe EO IA eR Pac ieee PIER nk tle 100
are eA Tamm) ONT Cope PANU E) crsoes ose cy stavareecrer aisle tere, ieee fe lene, ene’ hele nites etn cede awe 100
STOR MMeMO TC ESCLLE WLI’ sare arene vstecse coher care Keio che.o. a6 6 eles ae ones ciel. aiynde our 150
Ene Ome en ESC II VILE, ace wc eve ous Siore 6 ecneis epee oes 6.4 sie cl cuore aterehaie 100
Ake comer din ArDONGAle. os ssciwlsiece «3 store 6 c's vec s)cie enous eee d Come 100
PED PUG eU LN EC MMM EaW My eveuc ene o1 oie ay oyexc's Greravare) ove Jo's ¢ wievdraler #rele.s)cusve wiaveleanaisisye'e gc. ans 1,100

Bream distributed in Illinois by U. S. Fish Commission cars, 1904:
MeETCdOSIameD Aye © VICTEG OSTA! six. <relee este vieke oc bce cw steers siete aac eles 1,000

Large-mouth Black Bass distributed in Illinois by U. S. Fish Com-
mission cars, 1905:

MI TOTMEOICKVATGO GONG. ssc crows oS ster cce ores Swine a's Fsshereous 3 tka! is 100
ENTNING, TUTE -(QIRO TUG IS) EN AO eaercra pier ane Gia clOks nce cP eOICIEE IONS Choc ice IAA ences 100
ATRTGED, LLORES EIEN LCR Sei tS CISC oItC ICL CR as a ine ae bs eee hire ee 150
SUE A REMINISCE ere ais ara las cBene ye ests, onerel,©) she daxe stg coy caens cedeee acess I eee 2 150
J2UUROIPR, TRGB MRI CA CHRIS OIG OSTEO NOTE OES OEE Ea I Jee 1,000
ESTADO TIME DOE Ge tt sey 3, Setreree a ctal c cioree cc erevale Datole oles stole ehebu s ersuawin ee cties 190
BelvI Genome SMwallikeCe. LEVI?) <rsnya Sicinia orate busiiplo ne wleelate lod ape eteleie shave 400
EMG aeVIESSISSED DT MRLVEI Sc ocr ectos eile crete waiccta case Uh a okoat clas 1,000
Marhondalews GNEAthOuUse: SAKE). .s% 1.1 wre icincrsie ae wnie apaueneee Mek Sule Mee oos 150
PICA moO Meehan pla KOS esc c).so6 16 oct iciiove Ne Ee eee ea eee 600
WhiGHXOMmWiCSE PEAT LAKeCSSsascc ce ee och bas Soe oe ees near 1,000
CHIT S val CAD Chay ATC y DOM Ciaci.ne sxccercibac crete ehttesclaucee SAP AR oR leis 100
VSD me Maken Oryst alma Kes arom ds wiac wee o slo ccepsititele Pe sietee? back Wied 390
Deen iis: SIRS Ses Gabe ate Petr etn Oe Geen IIE cee meen oer ee eee 300
WECM ArkomeHIMeTallts lal wes asin cain aarerrtis «ria ioe 3 os Sette 195
IDES) IEEE) | oyerete ly Ae AG on Oe OR OMA O EEA CAPO bicuy RAM aeR Oke) mes 95
TD TES era IT © Toa a6 bag a i ee Sea ae Paya deena Sn SE CPLA: ONE Ms tg igs Be 75
HAS OIDUGUE,| MISSISSIPpI sTiVer:.. oc cle acts nso com enes oe ee ee 2,000
Binivmane sivall Lesa VEIT OTe a LK Gis is ceca. 0 91 Gcoieee oid.cvere & le wane ae es Be 150
emir tia IM SANs PlG aS 5< caus ve ces oes Chee ot ae ee et. ee! 500
Meee nee DUT ema KOs a S50 oa acs dice Coe ed dic Sere oe es 300
RameARRI a OU Aa AAT AOA eS See ase oh Oey care ee eae me cle 100
RHA VLSSISSID Dl ullvielnescanen tise sos bias Sia ee i, Dee 4,000
CISTI NAR Moi y PAS SE Sn See a ees See A ee a re 300
CieaeeikcmGrays lakewe nme 1. thee ocr cities Oo eine ook cl ee 200
EMESHOnOmeplisg@ lake uaen usw, 75 «ots cao biee eee | tee. ou 100
EAMES DOnORIGLEYAALESOLVOLES Ae sec ions 8 Scan ee ee wale Sh Sulg - 200
BURL EIOU Om sh CHP cycesecrs VEE et AS oj ok On ony NV A Chee ae 200
MESES SECC eM bis lly aon <3 62) Sof den totarcl otvhW AeA ee oe Otek 150

ERMC IBESE CS. [OSG tae er nthe tc ete Vici ck pete Ne ievo », tic oecinghide Cowal 100

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Large Mouth Black Bass Distributed—Concluded.

Hillsboro, SeyMOur: DONG oieve/. cis: crore totes (cru jafoloselete oiats oro fo coe ee 450
AoOunson City, Richardson MOGs eisiieicereye ucts olor stelle 200
Foliet;’ ponds: (3) ees ces occ «omiwie o ctw <n a opele ows ~ woe wots ee pen 800
POSE QUATTY YP OMG aie cavess (sz :- cops re Potaeva\ wrekohnjolssetss ovoxotsvoie tre bel onthe 400
Tione Tree, Lone. ‘Tree lake... c sccccicies 00 0.0 vcr > J 0 nlslcn es ea 200
hong Lake,, Long) Jake. vc scr. sf0,0iee1sie10 6.0 x/ors)s/ovele o \mlo! 2 0 o)s oho er 250
Millstadt, . Meker@ WO soo, ce xcse1e.e teXetoxenoye rovsis 0) sie loyorayehs (ora aho) pee 100
Millstadt. Millers pom drrrlsreepclnnevereet oo 06; 6) 0010101 ovata: tole staat eee 100
Millstadt; Wirth. DONG)... jecc5.cie.:6 ojevete jovevesarayoie\ 3) >)». «antchaserele laa ee 100
Naperville, :Glen lake: .:. ais bic 6% sisnesehesete)ofeiaia seis viele « o\0ia <0 6s Sn 200
Oneida, “Thayers Jakke...) oc bcesieis vrardlz oyeie wlohe se =. o\xie:> 7/0 + 10,5 100
OSWELO; MOR oTUVOT. 6o.iio 5a doe eo, ore co Sitiete ie Sea ie oni the else) soln a> ke 290
COMBINE TONS soGaaad boo dor fale. <aiase oidiehetawiele leupyoue ©. ae pratensis (ste 295
Princeville, ‘Spring? pOmde 2. sects scteictets ercicre 2 +. inele 2 eee 100
Raymond, POWs 2\s disre.syerc ole o.0 o's essie o1s/6,cuelereseyelch sie ievs"et) ous: eich pee ann 75
Rockefeller, Diamond Take! ./si<:s: sieveisisisie sya le.015 ¢/s/c 010 =) 3) so/ ei aie 200
Found Lakes Talkie ass sb cate reteseaeiose ave evereitele e's svete e/ eee “a jay (ee 250
Salem; Deer Lick pond .2....< 3% evtsice.cciele,c'sies 6 0\s\6 «eo 6/euepeia eee 200
Salen... POmdS) (2) ini wc ciccers.& wie o's 0 feyehepeteveysieexe sveleve\oleie ohe)s is ke heeet et aaa 50
Savanna. IMaISSISSippl: TIVEr..\.% «cc. dec cle lle lei ole eieve ole nie oie aiehe eee 4,500
CIM CAlsy MIO OUNG cre cite oreo on cheelolads tol oot el oe onetetadelaio ho) eke k= iee iota 195
Sheridan; DOW seis. (ee '05s evs, o.01 0 were teie-sheueseie 010 «6/2 6.01 ayzhareco.s ops) eee 290
Smithboro; lakes: (2) ick cies stele onsie cise s soos esn oe ete eects ae cle 75
Waverly: DONG iio See ae 8s ito ce eis eters eteline <6 ele ere etOhe lore 150
Wheaton, -Butterfield, lakes. ones sa.0 0 <ievereis-s ste nirunt «2 0 ches = 200

Rock Bass distributed in Illinois by U. S. Fish Commission cars,
1905:

ATT OTA; WOX LIVE sivas wie Gisds, pio aise vse wielave oe ccs elem: ciicre ale eye eter 300
Greenup;- Waldem, -DOTWE! fled ccs cis: oer ets svete visto eietetele. «) dies eel gine eee 100
Hillsboro; Glen PONG. sb... oe Rels Steers wicjes © eielve ecerera eel ore eee 300
Hillsboro; Maddox: Lak@i. ec, ccactevevelenerateucleye. vidielet beret ote cetateta te eee 150
Milford, ‘Silver’ Mere: lakes... 00:05 0.0050 c beh cece soe tk ehik Geen 100
FRAY MONG. DONG s.cj2\ccstcherezpcccolere atesevesc oteleneWore ololetelaletedelete ct cictctohc tate tena ea anmnanEE 100

Crappie distributed in Illinois by U. S. Fish Commission cars, 1905:

Golumbia,, Ahrens’ jake@weitei. ccs cp en's os «ote nee ciole eee 200
Hast Dubuque; Iississippl rivers... occ cc ce cisierelciere aierere eee 40,000
Galena; Mississippi Wier) heye6 diescaidi weldin ests wie os ol are ee 85,000
Hillsboro, “Bogue's, Lake. wicc..i.% 0 ic c1sys wie clive wiv clos Unetele «mle sre ene eeaeaan 150
Hillsboro; Glens Stretch creelk. <6 05. ccc que cine oes ele cee < Se eee 200
Hillsboro; Hillsboro dake. fo Sais wyesilaiaie ase wie orcs bss weyers 200
EVRIISDOTO, DONG: yoo ise oh cies onsveoc ene, obs ses euwiss’olioyele: Skee) Siise) CRSP One suc neeeaea 100
Lone Tree; Lione Tree: lake... .. ic ceccs winsisie ses a sn ms ie ee ene 200
Millstadt, “Pistor'’s) DOM: 1... Asicicreiens le cieisseieteneretete clete cin) Ce re ere ie eee 100
Millstadt: Om. os. feo cenctes cates se notte asacieucrcrstesciewer ene fc iss Wisc Soleil ahnlonee Sie 150
Millstadt, Richland <pomdsc.c5c.ohicic:c bpesccic.tsere.«, wbey~ cee Scere eer 100
Monmouth; (Cloverdale) ponds... cnc. cence cleciere Cais cee 100
Paris): Wish ‘Clutby lake oo). csvacc coco espera, serene nye eye arele ce Ue cih ce PeneSee ae 200
Savanna, Mississippi TIVE ss << <j0.,<epsieveseie 010 0) «0:0 «cols 6s (0, <.vi0perel ene 66,000

Pike distributed in Illinos by U. S. Fish Commission cars, 1905:

Blanding, Mississippi © TIVeT., ofc, 5, cc. cjescpereis iets, 0 «cc ws 3 eee eee 8,000
Hast, Dubuque, MiISSISSIpPpl TVRs cpeein sicle cctrelciniciate ns Grelele sie ee 5,000
Galena, Mississippi Plier <<... .co.s;. sie .sie oveeegeueie sso snce icles SIC ee 9,000

savanna, “MissISSippl® Ghive4.. ci w.ccie piece nies as ARIS Ee ee 5,500

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Yellow Pearch distributed in Illinois by U. S. Fish Commission
cars, 1905:

SPOT EME VIISSISSIP IIe LLVGIis sae o/c tise ciere clave cre aetersieie: c's e ee'sl delaratele eieiere 10,000
Haste DUCIe. AVISSISSIPDL -TIVET Hl hoo... as eo cet ess ee sledevereie nies 10,000
Pert VIESSLSS HOPI) PLM OKs fo aiticiae, oh ciel eleva cel elel orci aabteteetecdle. al aebonoe! slshatiehe-6 45,000
SeRPEeEE VII SSISSIP Dig) CLV CLicc elertie tye dice Od siosexe ed's -svoidier sc wiereets wiete ofeumteraie 60,000

Sunfish or Bream distributed in Illinois by U. S. Fish Commission
cars, 1905:

PULTE C OM VEL SSISSID PIs ODL VCT cers <iclale te itie ects ate gpele one's oceieie aisle esis clots sere 20,000
REICH ME SOUL ES aricer AKG els o nucle vc chant) stele sochsral Sletsiaveve aba ehsralels Gale: oate bee 275
PS MN UGUE MIVSSISSED DL) TUVET a ocere. o arai<.2) set oto vere sev ejs che Susleiclecre.sie 6 «one 20,000
OT MEVLISSI SSID DU TLVCI sy sre ne tie, « + clove eicie wid evere) eves die slefenersis ¢.86010,0 66 50,000
SUMAN A aS SISSI PDL ELV ET rcs co os cnstere © Serclcre chore stele se scores 6 s cevetw arciere eis 45,000

Catfish distributed in Illinois by U. S. Fish Commission cars, 1905:

PAM ECMBESTES SS om OLN CLS iar) ote to) atctetn oie ier elatcrav ere tale otel che ralietareloneuevove asjleveleatieve'cuolerevells 200
SHE ome OA Ce DON Ge 3 vars aravevere sees, 015 0,95) Stavorenetoyeleiomr sie) aisle 5G) OS 501s 100
Ese Tem VES SI SSID Us sE1VCTrats wicse.c close cies se) sie aleilehevel ara). & tayah ad hcbacers tose, oce 30,000
RUANC VAM TavLG Wi LIKES Ian eo ouanefayshere orerehsr a are. w sieaciavere ae oll ote eveha ove iid racers ate 100
ASG MUDUCUCS WISSISSIPpPI TLVET.\'..cc4 c cco so elere s Cisieee siSlodlerele s elelce ore 20,000
IDIMEIOGITHE. | LENT USINET D7 010000 [eet aes RR en 3 Re Eee er reese ee eee 100
CMH A MVESSISSID Divell VCIV) 5 3) sieiete role eisrcra s(eNe's.0; spe oh alors! © ereie Taishi elovere auei ele aroke 45,000
AMV SSISSUD Dem TLV Clos scclens cvoscreeie ono 6h skeret cio avers sceleusraiticis slaseheveio cle 30,000
Buffalo fish distributed in Illinois by U. S. Fish Commission cars:
1905:
EACH eVMISSISSID DL erlVEl sts otic tres ole. o caressa cieuas ees seis oe ote wee ¢ 5,000
PASE TDUCGUe MVIISSISSIP PL TIVEL/..2o., hilne ciotere 00 cola eileis love's folerectne 10,000
AVAIL VEL SSISSUD Di ee PL VCDs rahe xis e. slots tafe aleve wo sieial os. WieiSiaye eles aie ’ele a ar etbve 23,000
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

To Governor Deneen we are very much indebted for the interest
taken in our work, giving us his assistance when needed. He has
again given personal investigation of the extent of value of the fish
industry on Illinois and Mississippi rivers and from such observation
has suggested needed legislation.

To the Attorney General, Hon. W. H. Stead we are under obliga-
tions for frequent favors from his office in assisting the commissioners
in properly interpreting the laws.

To the press generally throughout the State which has given our
work attention and by publicity called attention to the value, and at
times to such defects, in the administration of our affairs as seemed
best, we are indebted.

To the various railroad managements, they have as usual given us
such assistance as possible, in allowing use of baggage cars, for lim-
ited shipments of fish for distribution.

We desire also to acknowledge the assistance given us by the express
companies of the State in preventing the shipment of fish in the State
during our close season from April 15th to June Ist.

The U. S. Fish Commission has given us our full share of the dis-
tribution of the U. S. Fish Commission, and the use of the cars to make
distribution, and has so far as practicable joined with us in the work
of collection and distribution. We are indebted to them for liberal as-
sistance and favors.

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SUMMARY.

Taken altogether we do not feel that these two past seasons have
been barren of results. Public attention has been called to the Illinois
river by the water way agitation and practical men have gone over it
with a view to investingating its posibilities; not once but probably
scores of times, we have heard men exclaim that they had not known
that such a beautiful river existed in Illinois, and the most favorable
comments are made as to its possibilities for the future. While look-
ing over the river for other purposes all have noticed and called at-
tention to the great number of men, boats, and outfits engaged in the
fishing industry. At every city, town and landing along its whole
length are seen cabin boats fitted up for shipping of fish and well
equipped boats, some of them of a very expensive type, fitted up for
fishing purposes. At almost every high point on the river hundreds
of nets were seen stretched out to dry waiting for the water to subside
enough to be able to use them. At almost every bend of the river is a
cabin boat occupied by some fisherman and his family, and all are pros-
perous. It is a river two hundred and fifty miles in length, with wide
bottom lands extending miles between the river and the bluffs, and
along these bottoms is stretched a large chain of beautiful lakes, some
of them of spring water, all of them perfect breeding places for fish.
The industry is large, and it is the poor man’s opportunity. The waters
are stocked and protected by the State, the seed sown and crop grown
-so to speak and the worker has but to go and gather it and if this is
done under proper restrictions it will be ever increasing and everlast-
ing. The observance of the law has been better than in former sea-
sons. Men are becoming more rational, and taught by experience
aided by the strong arm of the law, have begun to see that tomorrow
will not take care of itself in the matter of increase of fish, and that
only proper protection during the spawning periods can assure a con-
tinuance of the supply.

The General Assembly has aided the commission in its work by giv-
ing us such amendments as have been known to be necessary, and we
are pleased to be able to say that the fishermen themselves are adyo-
cating a shorter period for the use of the seine, to cut off some of the
hottest months. This would add thousands of dollars to their income
in time, and save from absolute waste hundreds of pounds of fish now
caught during the hot weather. A campaign of education has been our
work. It has taken years to accomplish it but those most interested,
the fishermen, are beginning to see the practicability of closer seasons,
from the standpoint of self interest.

The Steamer Illinois is proving a very important help to our work,
and being fast is enabled to get over the river frequently and as a
patrol has kept down a large amount of illegal fishing. The responsi-
ble men engaged in the business do not need watching, but there are
yet hundreds who take but little thought for the fuure of the busi-
ness, but let each day take care of itself, and take what they can get
whenever they can get it.

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The price of Illinois fish is, as a rule better than that from other
sections of the country and buyers are scattered all along the Illinois
river, taking fish for New York, Boston and Philadelphia markets.

From the angler’s standpoint there are no better streams than the
Illinois; better black bass fishing can be had along this river than in
any of the so-called gnat resorts. Great catches, by expert fly casters
are made all the time during the season, and, as for the smaller var-
ieties, “anybody catch fish.”

The increased interest throughout the State in fish protection is very
gratifying and other states heretofore lax in protective laws, are com-
ing to the front and giving their people more strenuous laws than we
have yet dared to ask for. They are taking it in time, before their
supply is diminished too far by waste and lack of care.

We have been severely critized often and have our full share of
abuse for not doing better, but we can only say that we have done our
best with the resources at our command and “angels can do more.”

Respectfully submitted,
Nat H. Cowen, President,
S. P, BARTLETT, Sec y.and Supt.

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Financial Statement Illinois State Fish Commission Expenditures.

Expenditures by the Illinois State Fish Commission for personal ex-
penses, enforcing fish laws, etc. from Oct. 1, 1904 to Sept. 30, 1906,
Vouchers, etc., on file in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts.

APPROPRIATIONS.

To balance of appropriation of 1903, Oct. 1, 1904..................... $7, 663 18)
ADDLOPLIaAlOMAVallaDler sd ULyM el OU oner ced cee see ieeicetsee eee serene 7,500 00.
appropriation available July 1, 1906........................ seeee 7,500 00.

ee
DOG S sieveaceccessiee =, oitlore vieiaigjasalecad ste orate sereicieleie rotcldieloi@isroiaies laseiele Siete ctl lets aes Oa | $24,663 18
EXPENDITURES.

By expenditures as per vouchers on file for October, 1904........... $ 291 85)
expenditures as per vouchers on tile for November, 1904........ 387 51.
expenditures as per vouchers on file for December, 1904......... 320 59
expenditures as per vouchers on file for January, 1905........... 248 28
expenditures as per vouchers on file for February, 1905......... 302 66
expenditures as per vouchers on file for March, 1905............. 544 61
expenditures as per vouchers on file for April, 1905.............. 859 54
expenditures as per vouchers on file for May, 1905............... 1, 256 64)
expenditures as per vouchers on file for June. 1905.............. 1,560 97
expenditures as per vouchers on file for July, 1905.............. 1,320 05
expenditures as per vouchers on file for August, 1905 ........... 1,186 01
expenditures as per vouchers on file for September, 1905........ 1,167 03
expenditures as per vouchers on file for October, 1905........... 455 18
expenditures as per vouchers on file for November, 1905........ 343 74
expenditures as per vouchers on file for December, 1905......... 430 36
expenditures as per vouchers on file for January, 1906.......... 720 47
expenditures as per vouchers on file for February, 1906......... 633 24
expenditures as per vouchers on tile for March, 1906 ............ 570 22
expenditures as per vouchers on file for April, 1906.............. 554 43
expenditures as per vouchers on file for May, 1906............... 747 45
expenditures as per vouchers on file for June, 1906.............. 680 33
expenditures as per vouchers on tile for July, 1906............... 355 67
expenditures as per vouchers on file for August, 1906............ 444 O04
expenditures as per vouchers on file for September, 1906........ 519 69

Dotale Podeaeci tee Berea c ee lelagto Wlas Powis eee Wares ala Cee Rios) ORs a Weick ore] | Ce er 15,900 56

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Expenditures by the Illinois State Fish Commission for maintenance
of Steamer Illinots, from Oct. 1, 1904 to Sept. 390, 1906. Vouchers,
etc., on file in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts.

APPROPRIATIONS.

To balance of appropriation of 1903, Oct. 1, 1904..................05- $3,096 15
Sppropriathion available July 11905). 0... cc cet cc cwccieeiciee ccieees 5, 000 00
appropriation available July 1, 1906...... 2.00... ..... ec ceeee eee es 5, 000 00

BRASH SU cte Tort ctovaicrstatctats sla svelafe's's)s\ «is isiayatePalcichs olate setefousiclace v oidiclele asin ciele! feicicivioiela'ses ae wale $13,096 15
EXPENDITURES.

By expenditures as per vouchers on file for October, 1904........... $559 15
expenditures as per vouchers on file for November, 1904........ 674 30
expenditures as per vouchers on tile for December, 1904........ 236 44
expenditures as per vouchers on file for January, 1905.......... 809 72) ,
expenditures as per vouchers on file for February, 1905......... 354 89
expenditures as per vouchers on file for March, 1905............. 461 65
expenditures as per vouchers on file for November, 1905........ 707 01
expenditures as per vouchers on file for December, 1905......... 477 95
expenditures as per vouchers on file for January, 1906.......... 413 11
expenditures as per vouchers on file for February, 1906.......... 258 25
expenditures as per vouchers on file for March, 1906............ 294 80
expenditures as per vouchers on file for April, 1906............. 397 87
expenditures as per vouchers on file for May, 1906... BEOO 823 45
expenditures as per vouchers on file for June, 1906.............. 810 03
expenditures as per vouchers on file for July, 1906.............. 637 88
expenditures as per vouchers on file for August, 1906............ 770 32
expenditures as per vouchers on file for September, 1906........ 704 37

BIRO EU ease t essere cis aie cis is ar ere isc Coes oe Sie loietns tee cpa fotos Slaia sisraieieoncle. slesstavelorcvells@vereypicharsis.eye at oletens 9,391 19
IBLE, Ove Hh oj oyea) arora Ons Is INH Oa0n5 aces adenos aanolloeeere onuosacone $3, 704 96

Expenditures by the Illinois State Fish Commission for Boiler Repairs
on Steamer Illinois from July 1, 1905, to September 30, 1906,
Vouchers, etc., on File in the Office of the Auditor of Public
Accounts.

APPROPRIATIONS.
MoripproprialOMiavallaple uly Weyl GOD me cascuisccssreciswieicie ese cresorctl| asks eaviee sis «cris $3,500 00
EXPENDITURES,
By payments tor repairs; ete:, July, 1905-2 co sc 2 sce Sec, cc scceccns $ 166 25
payments tor repairs, ete:, July, 1905. ..5555 0.05. wn cccecccess mace 37 75}
payments for repairs, etc., August, 1905. .:.... 02.0.0. .ccsceeccees 56 33)
payments for repairs, etc., August, 1905. ........ cereus cc ceee 147 00
payments for repairs, etc., September, 1905.......... .......... 19 00
payments for repairs, etc., November, 1905........... .......... 1,810 00
payments for repairs, etc., December, 1905................seee- 96 10
payments for repairs, etc., January, 1906.............-...e cece 174 11
payments for repairs, etc.. February, 1906.....................5 65 87
payments for repairs, etc., April, 1906... 0.55.5... cece cece wees 271 04
payments for repairs, etc., May, 1906.........................2-. 43 48
payments for repairs, C6c:,, June; 190G hace ook one cette weve cele nes 154 64
payments for repairs, etc., August, 1906. ...... 0.2... 02.2.2 00000. 126 22
payments for repairs, etc., September, -1906..................... 156 68
QUEL o on tre ans oS ween souwene nena Wscidareerinoes fee eictoteeaaicial as area's | ore view a¥e¥s eraaie vee e'e 3,324 47
Balance of appropriation Oct. 1, 1906..................... Pee 5 cteia Sara verte $175 53

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Expenditures by the Illinois State Fish Commission for General Ex-
penses, Collecting and Distributing Fish, Etc., from October 1, 1904,
to September 30, 1906. Vouchers on file in the Office of the Auditor
of Public Accounts.

APPROPRIATIONS.
:

To balance of appropriation of 1908, Oct. 1, 1904..+.................. $8, 494 88
appropriation available Iilyil) loom. vucdsics tbe ccs ves sislecees coeee 7,500 00
appropriation available July 1, 1906. 3.2... 20.6 cece cv cscs seco , 500 00

otal eins crawicetshe costes deinnrate deepens Gio ate oe seat teins ees seers
EXPENDITURES.

By expenditures as per vouchers on file for October, 1904........... $ 711 27
expenditures as per vouchers on file for November, 1904........ 438 98
expenditures as per vouchers on file for December, 1904. . a 436 72
expenditures as per vouchers on file for January, 1905... a 503 95
expenditures as per vouchers on file for February, 1905......... 353 19)
expenditures as per vouchers on file for March, 1905............. 456 84
expenditures as per vouchers on file for April, 1905.............. 587 92)
expenditures as per vouchers on file for May, 1905............... 714 12)
expenditures as per vouchers on file for June, 1905.............. 693 38)
expenditures as per vouchers on file for July, 1905.............. 484 46
expenditures as per vouchers on file for August, 1905............ 737 07)
expenditures as per vouchers on file for September, 1905....... 801 05,
expenditures as per vouchers on file for October, 1905........... 1,173 17)
expenditures as per vouchers on file for November, 1905........ 404 69.
expenditures as per vouchers on file for December, 1905......... 351 88)
expenditures as per vouchers on file for January, 1906.. ........ 277 47)
expenditures as per vouchers on file for February, 1906......... 244 09°
expenditures as per vouchers on file for March, 1906............. 401 15.
expenditures as per vouchers on file for April, 1906.............. 322 29
expenditures as per vouchers on file for May, 1906............... 395 04
expenditures as per vouchers on file for June, 1906.............. 547 10
expenditures as per vouchers on file for July, 1906............... 458 88
expenditures as per vouchers on file for August, 1906............ 503 68.
expenditures as per vouchers on file for September, 1906........ 333 68

$23, 494 88

12, 332 07

$11,162 81

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WARDENS’ REPORTS.

Report or A. Sires, FisH WARDEN, FROM JANUARY 1, 1903.

Vas ——— 5

over to Sheriff Clay at Pekin, with those taken at Pekin. At Peoria iifted
seven nets.

June 12, 1903—Visited Mt. Carmel. Found no violations in my jurisdic-
tion.

Aug. 2, 19083—Trip to Jasper county. Made five arrests and secured two
fines; $47.25 each.

Aug. 17, 1903—Three days on the Sangamon river. Found five wooden
traps and destroyed them. I investigated the river from Centerville to
Mahomet.

Trip to Thomasboro Sept. 1, 1903—I investigated the violations as directed.
I saw John Clements.

Trip to St. Joseph Sept. 3, 1903—I went to St. Joseph and investigated
the violation. No evidence obtainable.

Trip to Peoria and Spring Lake Sept. 26, 1903—-At Peoria investigated all
the fisheries and found them all right. At Spring Lake found many viola-
tions. Took two trammel nets; turned them over to sheriff at Pekin. I col-
lected evidence that will convict four that used the nets three different
times. Will have warden at Havana prosecute them. The sheriff will
assist any one. The sheriff made complaint and arrests for fishing under
the ice last January.

Oct. 31, 1903—-Twenty-two arrests, sixteen convictions, six discharged,
eighty-four nets taken. There are thirteen convictions under the new law,
two at Pekin before George Seibert, J. P., and eleven at Urbana before the
circuit court at the September term of 1903. The balance were under the
old law.

Noy. 14, 1903—-Two arrests, one conviction, one discharged; $25.00 fine

paid. I have liberated about 140,000 pounds of all sizes of carp and buffalo
fish out of a crib in Swan lake, in Greene county. The fine was paid to
Wesley C. Chapin, police magistrate, at While Hall, Greene county. I also
took a box of fish from the express company at Jacksonville. They were not
billed properly. They were shipped from Chicago to Jacksonville.
' Nov. 21, 1903—Three trammel nets taken. I made trip to Pekin, Mossville,
Rome, Chillicothe and Henry. I found no small fish until I got to Henry.
I found a barrel above the ice house and I went to Henry to get a dray.
While I was gone they disappeared. I got two trammel nets near Moss-
ville; two at Peoria.

Nov. 28, 1903—-Three trammel nets taken. At Spring lake found one
trammel net, which I took and delivered to the sheriff at Pekin . Then I went
to Hennepin lake. I found a great many violations, but by request of the
State’s attorney and the club I did not interfere with them, as they want to
get all the charges against them that they can, as they have their nets out

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in the lake and are frozen in and they want them left until they lift them.
They want to take them for fishing under the ice. At Henry took two
trammel nets and delivered them to the sheriff at Lacon. I found a barrel
of fish at the express office in Peoria not properly billed.

Dec. 26, 1903—One trammel net taken on Spring lake. Put back into
Spring lake 200 pounds of undersized sunfish and crappies. I put in the
week on Spring lake and Pekin lake. —

Jan. 2, 1904—One arrest, $100.00; one conviction; one trammel net taken.
One fish basket turned over to sheriff at Pekin. Took 500 pounds of sunfish
and crappie at Pekin. I put in the week on Spring lake and Clatin and
Pekin lakes. I got the trammel net and basket in Spring lake.

Dec. 12, 190838—One trammel net taken. I put in the week on Spring lake
in the interest of the fishermen in regard to finding out who to give per-
mits to fish under the ice and iooking after the fishing industry in general.
I found everything in very good shape. There were a lot of nets in, but
frozen over, and could not see that there was any of them lifted, since they
were covered with ice. I would recommend seventeen applications be
granted to fish under the ice. There is no fishing in Pekin lake.

Dec. 19, 1908—I put the week in on Spring lake looking after the viola-
tions and giving out seventeen applications to the parties directed by N. H.
Cohen, president. I found no violations.

Jan. 3, 1904—I was on Spring lake and saw them raise their nets. I saw
that they put back the game fish.

Jan. 9, 1904—I went to Pekin and Spring lake. The weather was so bad
and so much snow on the ice that the fishermen could not raise their nets,
but I made them pay $5.00 for two days.

Jan. 16, 1904—I put the week in on Spring lake and Pekin lake. There
was too much snow and the ice was so “rotten” that they did not raise.
I made them pay $5.00 for two days.

June 11, 1904—Two arrests. I put in four days along the Illinois river
from Chillicothe to Pekin. I found no violations. I went to Spring lake.
I found two trammel nets on the bank. I went to take them: was resisted
and threats made to shoot me. I left them there and went to Pekin and
had them arrested for resisting an officer.

June 25, 1904—Two discharged. Made two arrests for dynamiting in the
Salt Fork creek. I had a good case, but the justice discharged them.

July 1, 1904—Nine nets and traps taken. I put in two and one-half days
on the Sangamon river near Decatur. I find that there are a great many
violations going on there, but I find they are done on Saturday nicht and
Sunday. The parties who do the violations work all week in the shops and
go to the river on Saturday nights and stay until Sunday. The river is in
bad condition below the dam, caused from the tar from the gas house. I
then went to Pekin and Peoria and saw Mr. Hurley, as you instructed me.
I found everything very quiet there. Mr. Hurley laid it on account of the
State boat having just been there. I was at Dixon’s boat and notified him
not to use that dip net any more, as you said it was not a legal trap. He
said he did not think it was legal and he would not use it again. I found
everything on his boat all right and very few fish on hand.

Sept. 10, 1904—Six arrests, two convictions, $50.00 fines. Three days San-
gamon; caught six parties seining and they asked for time to consult their
attorney. They. are all responsible parties and I released them till Sept.
27, at which date they were to meet me at Monticello, Ill. Two parties
arrested at Homer, Ill. Two violators were brought before C. M. C. Elder,
police magistrate, and were fined $25.00 each; fines paid in court. The fines
sent to the State Treasurer.

Sept. 24, 1904—Three days at Pekin, Tremont and Peoria. Found no yio-
lations at Tremont. Made complaint against three persons for resisting and
assaulting an officer. They were held to bail in the sum of $200.00 each.

Oct. 15, 1904—I put in three days at Potomac investigating a dynamiting
case.

Oct. 29, 1904—I went to Bement and tried case of illegal seining; I con-
victed five. They were fined $25.00 each and costs before "Squire Hammond.

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Week ending Dec. 3—Put in three days at Potomac.

Week ending Nov. 26—I put in three days at Pekin and Peoria. I found
no violations there.

Week ending Dec. 10, 1904—I put in three days’ time attending the grand
jury at Pekin, and I was in Peoria and along the river. I found no violations
along the river.

Week ending Jan. 28, 1905—I put in three days at Pekin, Spring lake and
Peoria and at Chillicothe. I found things in fair shape.

Week ending Jan. 14, 1905—I put in two days at Pekin and Peoria and
found everything all right.

Week ending Feb. 1i, 1905—I put in four days at Joliet, Lockport and
along the DuPage river, and I found no violations there.

Week ending March 4, 1905—I put in four days at Peoria, Pekin and
Spring lake.

Week ending March 18, 1905—I put in four days at Havana, Pekin, Spring
jake, Peoria and Kingston. I have the evidence against six violators.

Week ending April 1, 1905. I put in four days on the Kankakee river. I
found no violations. We also went down the river below the stone quarries
where violations have been reported, but found nothing.

Week ending April 15, 1905—Five arrests, three convictions, $75.00 fines
paid. I put in two days attending the trial at Monticello. Three of the
parties pleaded guilty and were fined $25.00 and costs each. I then spent
two days in Pekin, commencing action against four parties for violating the
fish laws by fishing with trammel nets in Spring lake.

Week ending April 29, 1905—I attended irial at Pekin Monday, the 24th,
but the case was continued until April 29. On the 29th I returned to Pekin
to attend the trial. The case was then put off until May 15. On informa-
tion of the sheriff I went six miies south of Tremont, on the Mackinaw river,
and got the names of six men who knew of parties who had dynamited the
river at this point.

Week ending May 6, 1905—I went to Danville and investigated the dyna-
mite case from Fairmount. I found that the parties had left the State and
that there was but one witness whe had seen it and he is hidden away some
place. I also found a dam on North Fork without a fishway, which is needed
very badly. I also notified all parties through the paper in regard to fishing
within 400 feet below the dam.

Week ending May 13, 1905—I put in the week at Quincy, on Quincy bay,
and I also investigated all the lakes and sloughs from Goose lake to Sand
slough, near Marble Head. I found no violations, as the waters were too high.
But I found that there had been violations before the waters raised.

Week ending May 20, 1905—I went to Pekin to attend the trial of alleged
violators. Yt was a hard fought trial. We had a good case, but the jury
decided against us. I then went to Bernadotte in Fulton county. I stayed
two and one-half days among the violators; saw them netting fish within
thirty feet of the dam. I coliected the witnesses and got the violators’
names. I took their nets and turned them over to the sheriff of Fulton
county at Lewistown. I also made complaint against the violators, but we
could not try it on account of the court being in session there, and the
State’s attorney’s time was taken up with the court. I then went to Peoria
and found a barrel of fish on the trucks at the union depot not billed accord-
ing to law. I confiscated them. Four arests, four nets taken.

Week ending May 27, 1905—I was along Salt Fork, Worth Fork and Middle
Fork rivers and found everything in fair shape. Two parties I caught ille-
gally fishing at Bernadotte plead guilty at Lewistown, the county seat of
Fulton county, and were fined $25.00 and costs.

Week ending June 3, 1905—I was along Salt Fork river and secured evi-
cence against two offenders.

Week ending June 10, 1905—I was along the Illinois river from Pekin
to Chillicothe and found everything in fair shape.

Week ending June 17, 1905—I put in the week at Fish, Big, Fehrers and
Ab lakes and Rowan pond. I found no violations.

Week ending June 24, 1905—Number of arrests, 6; number of convictions,
6; fines paid, $25.00 each; total, $150.00. Nets taken, one trammel. I spent
the week in Randolph county with the above results. The trammel net I

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expressed to the sheriff at Chester. These violations were committed on
the Mary’s river, in Randolph county, near Welgo, and I took the parties to
Sparta for trial.

Week ending July 1, 1905—Number of arrests, 5. I went to Mackinaw to
investigate complaints of seining at that point. I found that there had been
violations, but could not get the necessary evidence. I then went to Con-
gerville and made five arrests. Against each of the five parties I made two
charges, one for dynamiting fish and the other for having in their posses-
sion fish killed contrary to the law. July 8 fines of $25.00 and costs were
assessed against each party.

Week ending July 8, 1905—-Number of arrests, 7; number of convictions,
6; number of discharged, 1. Nets taken, 1. I put in the week at St.
Joseph, in Champaign county, and at Congerville, in Woodford county, in-
vestigating the illegal fishing. At St. Joseph I made complaint against two
parties for seining in Salt Fork, near St. Joseph. They plead guilty and
were fined $25.00 each and costs; total, $50.00. I also got the seine, which
I turned over to Sheriff Clark at Urbana. I also destroyed five fish traps
that I found in the Mackinaw river near Congerville.

Week ending July 15, 1905—One net taken. I went to Danville Monday
and made complaint against two parties for dynamiting and for having fish
in their possession, caught contrary to the law. They were fined $25.06
each. I put in two days along the Sangamon river, but found no violations.
The balance of the week I put in along Salt Fork river, in Vermilion county. I
found a seine about eight feet high and eighty feet long in the Liner and
confiscated it and sent it to Sheriff Whitlock at Danville.

Week ending July 22, 1905—I put in the week on Salt Fork river.

Week ending July 29, 1905—I went to Aurora to investigate complaints.
I ran the river from Aurora to Elgin, Carpentersville, Algonquin, Carey
Station and Crystal lake. I found no violations.

Aug. 5, 1905—I put in the week at Carmi, White county, and at Murphys-
boro, Jackson county, to answer two complaints. I went from Murphysboro,
where I learned that there had been a great deal of illegal fishing at that
point. Two fines of $25.00 each were assessed and parties served jail sen-
tences.

Aug. 12, 1905—I went to Decatur, and at the Wabash express office I con-
fiscated two barrels and two boxes that were not billed according to law.

Aug. 26, 1905—Number of arrests, 1; number of convictions, 1; fines paid,
$100.00; nets taken, 2. I went to Fairmount, made an arrest and had fine
of $200.00 and the costs, which were $15.00, assessed against party for
having in his possession fish caught contrary to law. Seven miles north
of Danville, on the Middle Fork river, got two set nets, which I turned over
to Sheriff Whitlock at Danville. Visited Decatur, Champaign and Bloom-
ington and investigated the shipments there. I found everything all right,
except at Bloomington. There I took twenty-four pounds of black bass. The
vi was marked carp, cat and sunfish, but there were no sunfish in the

arrel.

Sept. 2, 1905—Number of arrests, 1; number of convictions, 1; fines paid,
$25.00. I went to Urbana, made an arrest for seining in Salt Fork river, at
St. Joseph, and secured fine of $25.00. Went to Bloomington, Clinton and
Decatur to examine the shippage there and found everything in good shape.

Sept. 16, 1905—Number of arrests, two; two convictions; two discharged
at Joliet. Fines paid, $50.00 and $25.00 each. Undersized fish disposed of,
about 200 pounds. Went to Chicago and commenced action against parties
for shipping fish not labeled according to law. Took about 1,000 pounds of
fish. I delivered them to the Hanneman and Provident hospitals.

Sept. 20, 1905—Number of arrests, four; three convictions; one suit pend-
ing; $75.00 fine paid. I put in the week at Springfield, Beardstown and
Winchester. One party at Rushville was fined $25.00.

Week ending Oct. 7, 1905—One arrest, one conviction, $25.00 fine paid and
costs. I went to Effingham to investigate a complaint from there. I found
the [ittle Wabash river, about twelve miles southwest of Effingham, com-
pletely shut off with a dam across it, with a large trap in the center. I hired

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aman and we destroyed the dam and trap, and I arrested the man who
owned and controlled it and he was fined $25.00 and costs.

Oct. 21, 1905—Three arrests; one seine taken. I went to Monticello and
investigated poisoning of fish in the Sangamon river at Monticello, Made
several arrests, but evidence not sufficient to secure conviction. I captured
a sixty-foot seine in Vermilion county, on the Salt Fork river, and turned
it over to Hardy Whitlock, sheriff of Vermilion county, at Danville, and
have receipt for same.

Oct. 28, 1905—Four arrests; four convictions; $50.00 fimes paid; two of
$25.00 each. At Medina, in Stark county, arrested two parties for dynamiting
in the Spoon river; two for seining at about the same place. I took them
to Toulon, the county seat of Stark county, before P. M. Blair, J. P., who
fined the latter $25.00 and costs each. The former plead guilty to the
dynamiting and were bound over in the sum of $500.00 each to appear be-
fore the February term of grand jury.

Dec. 2, 1905—I examined the shipments to Decatur and found them all
right.

Noy. 26, 1905—One arrest; one conviction. I went to Effingham to inves-
tigate the complaint from there. I found the party who paid a fine of $25.00
on the 3d day of last October for having a dam and fish trap in the Little
Wabash river, and which I had destroyed at that time, had rebuilt the
dam and put in a new trap. I made him destroy it and then took him to
Effingham before J. P. Jones, a J. P., who fined him $25.00. Went to Mon-
ticello and made complaint before A. T. Piffer, J. P., against five parties for
seining in the Sangamon river north of Monticello. Went to Bloomington
and examined the shipments at that place; found them all right. Then I
went to Decatur and examined the shipments there. I found two shipments
of black bass, all of which I confiscated and distributed to charitable people
in. Decatur. I also notified the Water Works Company at Effingham to put
in a fish way at the water works dam across the Little Wabash river, .three
miles west of Effingham.

Dec. 16, 1905—One arrest; one conviction; $25.00 fines paid. I went to
Peoria and investigated the river up to Chillicothe, Rome and Henry. I
found fishermen wanting permits to fish through the ice. Made arrest at
Chillicothe for having black bass caught with a net; fine, $25.00 and costs;
total, $35.45. Went to Bloomington and found no violations there. At
Springfield found undersized fish at two markets. The shipper was after-
wards fined $25.00 and costs for this offense.

Dec. 23, 1905—One arrest; one conviction; $25.00 fine paid. At Springfield
found thirty pounds of black bass that were shipped from Bath. I found
them in the bottom of the barrel with 125 pounds of buffalo and twenty-five
pounds of crappies on top. I also took a small amount of striped bass from
a fish market in Decatur.

Dec. 26, 1905—One arrest; one conviction; $25.00 fine paid, this for sein-
ing under ice at Suatchwine lake. Found about 25,000 fish in the seine and
crib, that I returned to the water.

Jan. 6, 1906—One arrest; one conviction; $25.00 fines paid and costs; this
for shipping black bass.

Jan. 13, 1906—Two arrests for fishing with trap in Little Wabash river.
One conviction; one discharged; $24.00 fines paid and costs.

Feb. 3, 1906—One arrest; one conviction; for having fish in possession
caught contrary to law; fine, $200.00 and costs.

Feb. 10, 1906—One trammel net taken near Peru.

Feb. 24, 1906—One net taken at Kelsey lake.

March 10, 1906—One arrest; one conviction at Pekin; $25.00 fines paid and
seventy-five pounds of undersized fish disposed of.

April 14, 1906—Sixteen and one-half pounds of undersized fish disposed of.
I went to Pekin, Peoria and along the river as far as Havana and notified
the express companies in regard to shipping fish in the closed season. T
also notified the fishermen that there would be no fish allowed to be shipped
during closed season.

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April 21, 1906—Thirteen traps taken. At Naples thirteen pounds under-
sized fish disposed of.

Week ending April 28, 1906—At Champaign seized a lot of black bass and
crappies that had been shipped from Pekin.

Week ending May 5, 1906—One arrest; one conviction; $25.00 and costs;
fine paid. One hundred fifty pounds of undersized fish disposed of. Con-
fiscated ten pounds of black bass at Decatur.

Week ending May 12, 1906—I went to Springfield to commence action for
selling fish out of season. Went to Burlington, Dubuque and Clinton, lowa,
and investigated the shipments from this State to the above points.

Week ending May 19, 1906—One arrest, one conviction, at Springfield;
$25.00 and costs; fines paid. One hundred fifty pounds of undersized fish dis-
posed of. I went to Springfield and made complaint before Robert Can-
nolly, police miagistrate, against Thomas McHurley, one of the firm of the
firm of the Boston Market of that place, for having and selling fish caught
before the closed season. He was fined $25.00 and costs.

Week ending June 2, 1906—I put in the week in Chicago assisting Warden
Klemman. We made about sixteen arrests and destroyed a number of dip
nets and also took about seventy-five pounds of illegal sized fish.

June 16, 1906—Eleven pounds of black bass disposed of; shipped contrary
to law.

June 30, 1906—One hundred twenty-five pounds disposed of; billed con-
trary to law. Found two billings that were contrary to the law, so I took
them and turned them over to the Wabash hospital, from which I hold a
receipt for the fish.

July 14, 1906—Six arrests for using hoop nets. One conviction at Ram-
sey; ohne discharged. Went to Ramsey to attend trial of S. C. and David
Shiveley. Succeeded in convicting S. C. Shiveley. He was fined $25.00
before Charles W. Shutt, J. P., at Ramsey. David Shiveley was acquitted.
At Sullivan destroyed twenty wooden traps on my trip.

July 21, 1906—Eleven arrests. Fifteen pounds undersized fish disposed of.
At Champaign confiscated one barrel of mixed fish, the barrel haying in it
twenty-five pounds of black bass, and they were not marked on the address
side of the package, and twenty-four lake trout that weighed fifteen pounds.

July 28, 1906—Five pounds of fish disposed of. At Decatur found a ship-
ment of fish. It contained cat fish, buffalo, sunfish and drum perch, and there
was neither on the address side of the package. They were confiscated.

Aug. 11, 1906—Twenty-five dollars fines paid at Ramsey.

Aug. 18, 1906—About sevtnty-five pounds fish disposed of. At Decatur,
at Pacific express office, I took one box of fish that was not billed according
to law.

Aug. 25, 1906—Three arrests; three convictions; $75.00 fines paid at
Ramsey.

Sept. 1, 1906—At Mt. Pulaski attended the trial of party charged with
dynamiting fish. Case was tried by a jury and they found the party guilty
and assessed his fine at $75.00 and costs, which amounted to $101.90.

Sept. 8, 1906—Sixty-five pounds of fish disposed of. At Champaign con-
fiscated a barrel with thirty-five pounds of fish not billed according to law.

Week ending Sept. 15, 1906—Five convictions; $125.00 fines paid, Five of
the parties implicated in dynamiting fish fined $25.00 and costs each.

Week ending Sept. 22, 1906—Ten arrests; two convictions; $50.00 fines
paid.

Week ending Sept. 29, 1906—Eighty pounds of fish confiscated and dis-
posed of at Decatur.

Report or E. E. Catpwett, Fish WARDEN.
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Week ending Aug. 8, 1903—Took nine baskets and three traps. The river
is now clear of baskets as far north as Liverpool and as far south as
Matanzas.

Week ending Aug. 29, 1908--On the 25th I went to Spoon river, near
Waterford, and destroyed some wire netting across the mouth of a little lake
to keep the fish in. I also went up to Cedar Island, as requested, and looked

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over the ground as to the destruction of the fish in Lost lake. It is con*
trolled by the Duck Island Club, and in case there is any danger of their
dying they will take them out.

Week ending Oct. 23, 1903—For the past two weeks I have been busy with
the Lacy tevee and drainage district. We have taken from the ditch and
put in the river something like 20,000 small carp, crappie and streakers and
a few smali bass and about 500 large bass.

Week ending Oct. 31, 19083—Five baskets taken. Mr. Sites and I ran the
river from Havana to Peoria the 28th, 29th and 30th and looked the ground
over very carefully, and everything we saw was five baskets, which we
turned over to the sheriff at Pekin.

April 30, 1904—Took in all the lakes from Pekin to Peoria and back to
Spring lake. Have been in all the lakes from there to the lower end of
Grand Island. In all our running we have not seen more than a dozen nets
in the water, and only three of these were fishing.

July 16, 1904—Spent five days on the Illinois river. At Joliet confiscated
about 700 pounds of fish. In DuPage river found a party using a trammel
net in the river. They abandoned the boat and outfit and I captured the
boat, trammel net, clothing and about 200 pounds of fish in the boat. I
disposed of the fish to the poor of Joliet and delivered the net to the sheriff
at Joliet. I spent some time along the DuPage river near Lockport, Rome-
ville and Lemont.

Aug. 13, 1904—-One net taken. I put in five days on the Sangamon river.
I found no violations, with the exception of a few traps, which I broke up.
I confiscated one trammel net on Salt Fork creek, near Sidney, about sixty
yards long, and turned it over to C. N. Clark, sheriff of Champaign county.

Aug. 27, 1904—One net and one seine taken. I put in five days at Peoria,
Pekin, Spring lake and Havana. At Pekin lake I confiscated one 180 yards
seine, one-fourth inch mesh. I turned it over to Robert Clay, sheriff of
Tazewell county. At Spring lake I found 150 yard trammel and turned it
ever to Robert Clay, sheriff of Tazewell county. At Havana found about
250 pounds of undersized crappies and striped bass.

Report oF F. A. WHITMAN, FISH WARDEN.

Jan. 20, 1906—Ten arrests; ten discharged for want of good case.

Jan. 27, 1906—Three arrests at Beardstown; one conviction; $25.00 fines
paid.

Feb. 24, 1906—Eleven arrests; one conviction; one discharged; $25.00
costs; fines paid.

April 26, 1906—Thirteen fish baskets, one hoop net, one dip net taken.
Have patrolled the river from Havana to Valley City and find the nets all-
out, and believe fishermen are obeying the law to a large extent.

June and July, 1906—Two arrests; two convictions; 300 foot trammel nets,
twenty-four baskets taken. Trammel nets turned over to the sheriff of Taze-
well county. Baskets destroyed. Arrests made were for fishing within
one-half mile of dam in Spring lake.

Sept. 29, 1906—Herewith submit report as fish warden from Noy. 6, 1905,
to date. I have patrolled the Illinois river from Peoria to Valley City this
summer and find the majority of the fishermen are obéying the fish law to
a large extent. I have seized forty-nine fish baskets, four hoop nets, one
dip net and 300 foot trammel net. Have returned about 500 pounds of ille-
gally caught fish to the water. I have made ten arrests for seining under
the ice last winter. I assisted Warden Klemman in making fourteen arrests
in Chicago. Also have assisted Warden Caldwell in collecting statistics of
fish shipments from various towns along the Illinois river. Considering the
small number of wardens allowed your commission, I think you are to be
congratulated upon the small amount of illegal fishing in the State.

REPORT OF GEORGE ROHWEDER, Fisu WARDEN.

Feb. 11, 1905—One net taken. With Warden Sites I worked over my terri-

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tory from Henry to LaSalle and found it in good shape. We took one tram-
mel net at Peru. Sent it to sheriff at Ottawa.

Feb. 24, 1906—At Spring Valley found four small mesh nets. Took them
and tagged them for the sheriff. Where we got them loaded a bunch of
Italians took them off the wagon and showed me how to measure them so
they would measure one and one-half inches, and dared me to take them
away. I left them for the present, but am going back there and get them
and a lol more.

March 3, 1906—Five nets taken. I got five small nets at LaSalle. There
are more up there, but owners have also trammel nets, and want to get them
all at the same time. Went to Rock Island and Moline to investigate small
fish being sold there. Found some ocean cat fish. Don’t think that our
laws cover them.

March 10, 1906—One net taken. I worked from Lacon to LaSalle. Found
‘one seine at Peru, one inch mesh; sent same to sheriff at Ottawa.

March 17, 1906—One arrest; one discharged; two nets taken. I took
two small mesh nets at Spring Valley this week. Made one arrest at Moline
for selling short crappies, but I lost the case.

April 7, 1906—Three trammel nets taken. I examined the fish way in the
dam at Sterling. It needs repairing. We watched the markets at Peoria very
closely and find no violations.

May 5, 1906—Three arrests; three convictions; two nets taken. I arrested
three for fishing with dip nets at Peru and convicted them. They got $25.00
and costs each. They went to the jail at Ottawa. The case was brought
before Judge Aaron Huber at Peru. Sent two nets to sheriff, who will send
receipt for them next week.

May 20, 1906—Monday and Tuesday I worked Green river north of here
on complaints of seining. Wednesday and Thursday worked Rock river
between Sterling and Erie, also Rock creek, which was reported full of nets;
found no nets. I worked Milan and mouth of Rock river. Saturday night
and Sunday was out at Barstow, on Rock river.

May 25, 1906—Seven arrests; one net taken. I got out warrants for three
at Morrison for seining, two at Sterling and two at Oregon.

June 9, 1906—Four arrests; four convictions; $300.00 fines paid for dyna-
miting.

June 2, 1906—One conviction; two discharged.

REPORT OF GEORGE KLEMMAN, FISH WARDEN.

Feb. 24, 1906—Three arrests; three convictions; $75.00 fines paid. Four
nets taken. Five hundred forty pounds fish disnosed of. These cases were
tried by Justice Prenderville, 124 Clark street, Chicago, III.

March 17, 1906—Four arrests; three discharged by jury. One barrel of
fish disposed of.

April 20, 1996—Amount of fines, $25.00: for fishing out of season.

May 26, 1906—Ten arrests; eight convictions; seven discharged on pay-
ment of costs. Fifteen thousand pounds of fish disposed of.

June 4, 1906—Seventeen arrests; seven convictions; nine discharged;
$50.00 fines paid to Justice Wolff and $100.00 to Prenderville, J. P. Twenty
nets taken. One man was fined $50.00 and could not pay and was sent to jail
and the other man left the court room before the cases were continued and
did not return the next day.

June 23, 1906—Seven arrests; six convictions; four fines paid; twenty-
one nets taken. One case was continued and three of them took the twenty
days for an appeal. Those cases were before Justice Prenderville, Chicago.

June 21, 1906—Section 6 violated. Judge Prenderville, 124 Clark street,
Chicago. Decision, guilty; $25.00. Same paid and sent to State Treasurer.
Fined for selling small fish.

June 21, 1906—Section 6 violated. Before Judge Prenderville, 124 Clark
street, Chicago. Decision, guiltv. Fines. $25.00. Same collected. Sent to
State Treasurer. Fined for selling small fish.

June 22, 1906—Section 6 violated. Before Judge Prenderville, 124 Clark

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street, Chicago. Decision, guilty; $25.00 fines; same collected. Fined for
selling small fish.

June 22, 1906—Section 6 violated. Judge Prenderville, 124 Clark street,
Chicago. Decision, guilty; $25.00 fines; same collected and sent to State
Treasurer. Fined for selling trout.

June 25, 1906—Section 18 violated. Judge Callahan of South Chicago.
Decision, guilty; amount of fines, $25.00. Same collected and sent to State
Treasurer. Fined for fishing out of season.

June 25, 1906—Section 18 violated. Judge Callahan, South Chicago. De-
cision, guilty; amount of fine, $25.00. Same sent to State Treasurer. Two
thousand fish disposed of. Fined for fishing out of season.

June 26, 1906—Section 18 violated. Judge Foster of South Chicago. De-
cision, guilty; amount of fine, $25.00. Same collected and sent to State
Treasurer. Fined for fishing out of season.

July 5, 1906—Section 6 violated. Judge Cochran, 124 Clark street. Deci-
sion, not guilty; by jury.

July 5, 1906—Section 6 violated. Judge Cochran, 124 Clark street. De-
cision, not guilty; by jury.

July 6, 1906—Section 1 violated. Judge Callahan, South Chicago. Deci-
sion, guilty; amount of fine, $25.00. Same collected and sent to State Treas-
urer. Fined for fishing in waters not used for navigation.

July 12, 1906—Section 1 violated. Judge Foster, South Chicago. Deci-
sion, guilty; amount of fine, $25.00. Same collected and sent to State Treas-
urer. Fined for fishing in Calumet lake.

July 12, 1906—Section 1 violated. Judge Foster, South Chicago. Deci-
sion, guilty; amount of fine, $25.00. Same collected and sent to State Treas-
urer. Fined fer fishing in Calumet lake.

June 26, 1906—Section 18 violated. Judge Foster, South Chicago. Deci-
sion, guilty; fines, $25.00. One thousand pounds of fish disposed of. Fined
for fishing out of season.

Aug. 7, 1906—Section 6 violated. Judge Wolff, 122 Clark street, Chicago.
Decision, guilty; amount of fine, $25.00. Will appeal.

Aug. 15, 1906—Section 6 violated. Judge Prenderville, 124 Clark street,
Chicago. Decision, guilty; amount of fines, $25.¢0; collected and sent to
State Treasurer. Fined for selling No. 2 trout.

Aug. 29, 1906—Section 1 violated. Act governing fishing in Lake Michigan.
Judge Prenderville, 124 Clark street, Chicago. Decision, guilty; amount of
fine, $25.00. Promised to pay in twenty days. Fishing with dip net,

Aug. 30, 1906—Section 1 violated. Act governing fishing in Lake Michigan.
Judge Prenderville, 124 Clark street, Chicago. Decision, guilty; amount of
fine, $25.00; same collected and sent to State Treasurer. Two nets taken.
Fined for fishing with dip net.

Report oF R. A. CASSELL, FISH WARDEN.

Week ending Feb. 29, 1904—One net destroyed.
March 31, 1904—One arrest. One seine taken. Fish in seine, fifty pounds.
May 31, 1904—One trammel net. No owner of net found.

Report oF A. MARANVILLE, FISH WARDEN.

Jan. 12—One arrest at Beardstown. Section 1 of law violated; fishing
under ice. Decision, guilty; amount of fine, $25.00; collected $25.00. Amount,
$25.00 sent to State Treasurer. Number of nets taken: nine seines, two
trammel nets, one gill net; 313 baskets and traps destroyed, all the seines,
one very small mesh; also all the baskets.

REPORT OF EUGENE MANLEY, WARDEN.

June 6, 1906—One arrest; one conviction; paid fine and discharged. Fines
paid, $25.00 and costs.

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Report oF ERNEST M. Cox, WARDEN.

Month ending March 31, 1906—Four arrests; number of convictions, none.
Case dismissed. Case at Hennepin, Ill., on March 6, 1906, dismissed. Con-
stable had selected as jurors men who had been or were at time making
living as fishermen.

Report or JosepH J. MUELLER, GREENVILLE, ILL., THREE MonTHS ENDING
JUNE 30, 1906.

May 6, 1906—One arrest; for setting trout line near mill dam. Taken
before Samuel McGoun, J. P., Greenville. Plea of guilty; fined $25.00, which
he paid. =

May 25, 1906—One arrest; for setting hoop net in creek. Taken before
Harry Compton, J. P., Sorento. Plead guilty; fine, $25.00, which he paid.

Report of three months ending Sept. 30, 1906—No arrest for these three
months. A few violations alleged to have been committed, but as yet I could
get no evidence or proof.

REPORT OF CHARLES B. SNOOK, WARDEN.

Month ending May 3i, 1906—One arrest; one conviction; one discharged:
one fine paid to Justice Allen, Pekin, IJ]. Three trammel nets taken; five
pieces of web. I have five of the seven cases waiting for trial. Removed
two obstructions that were put in to shut off Scot lake and Hawkus slough.

Month ending June 30, 1906—One trammel net taken. Receipt enclosed.

Report of Henry Kleine, Oct. 24, 1903, to March 5, 1904, of carp
taken from Fox Lake for which we received 34 cents per pound:

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THE STEAMER ILLINOIS.

To Board of Fish Commissioners:

Herewith please find my report of work and mileage of Steamer
Illinois for seasons from Oct. 1, 1904, to Sept. 30, 1906.

Latter part of season of 1904 was taken up in taking fish to St.
Louis exposition and collection for that purpose. During winter of
1904 and 1905 boat was laid up in Quincy bay at regular dock and
such repairs made as required. Log covering that period follows:

Log or STEAMER ILLINOIS From Oct. 1, 1904, ro Nov. 15, 1904.

Oct. 1—Left Quincy 4:30 for St. Louis with load of fish for exposition;
arrived 4:50 p. m.; 165 miles.

Oct. 5—Left St. Louis 6:00 a. m.; Meredosia, 9:30 p. m.; laid up: 135
miles.

Oct. 8—Let Meredosia 6:10 a. m.; load of fish for exposition; arrived
St. Louis at 5:00 p. m.; 135 miles.

Oct. 11—Left St. Louis at 7:30; Grafton 11:30 a. m.; laid up; forty-five
miles.

Oct. 12—Left Grafton 7:00 a. m.; Meredosia 6:00 p. m.; laid up; ninety
miles.

Oct. 13—Left Meredosia at 6:00 a. m.; arrived at St. Louis at 5:55 p. m.;
load of fish for exposition; 135 miles.

Oct. 18—Left St. Louis 7:45; arrived Quincy 1:30 a. m.; laid up; 165 miles.

Oct. 19—Left Quincy, Prison Congress on board, at 2:15 p. m.; Quincy
5:30 p. m.; laid up; thirty-four miles.

Oct. 30—Left Quincy at 5:18 a. m.; St. Louis 6:05 p. m.; 165 miles.

Oct. 23—Left St. Louis 9:50; Grafton 2:45 p. m.; Kampsville lock 6:38;
locked through; Kampsville 7:05; laid up; ninety-five miles.

Oct. 24—Left Kampville at 5:00 p. m.; LaGrange locks 10:02 a. m.; Beards-
town 11:26 a..m.; LaGrange locks 2:30 p. m.; Meredosia 3:15; laid up;
eighty miles.

Oct. 26—Left Meredosia 8:40 a. m.; Kampsville lock 12:25 p. m.; Alton
4:50 p. m.; laid up; ninety-eight miles.

Oct. 27—Left Alton 6:40 a. m.; St. Louis 8:20 a. m.; twenty-five miles.

Nov. 1—Left St. Louis 8:20 a. m.; Hamburg 6:45 p. m.; laid up; ninety
miles.

Nov. 2—Left Hamburg 6:00 a. m.; Louisiana 10:48 a. m.; Quincey 4:15
p. m.; seventy-five miles.

Nov. 3—Quincy bay, for winter quarters.

Boat went out of commission Noy. 15, 1904.

Boat went into commission April 15, 1905, after a thorough over-
hauling, painting, etc. Left Quincy for Illinois river and time devoted
-to calling in at all fishing camps and landings and notifying fishermen,
looking over the lakes and river proper for violation of the law.

Log covering season from April 15th to November 15th, when boat
was laid up for the winter at Quincy bay, follows:

Loc oF STEAMER ILLINOIS From Aprit, 15, 1905, ro Nov. 15, 1905.

April 15—Boat went into commission April 15, 1905. At stock yards
waiting orders.

April 19—Left Quincy bay for levee. Coaled up and went back to dock in
Quincy bay.

April 20—Left Quincy at 12:55 a. m.; Louisiana, Mo., 4:30 p. m.; laid up;
fifty miies.

April 21—Left Louisiana, Mo., at 6:35; Grafton 11:30 a. m.; six mile
light, 2:04 p. m.; Otter creek, 2:49 p. m.; Hardin, 3:45 p. m.; head Diamond
Island, 4:40 p. m.; Kampsville locks, 5:20 p. m.; locked through Kampsville,
5:40; laid up; 110 miles; stops to notify fishermen.

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April 22—Left Kampsville 7:40 a. m.; Pearl, 8:20 a. m.; Bedford, 9:15
a. m.; Naples, 11:18 a. m.; Meredosia, 2:40 p. m.; LaGrange locks, 3:38 p.
m.; Beardstown, 5:05 p. m.; sixty miles. Laid up and cleaned boiler on
23d (Sunday).

April 24—Left Beardstown 3:20 p. m.; Frederick, 3:43 p. m.; Sugar creek,
4:05 p. m.; Browning, 4:24 p. m.; Nick Olds, 5:20 p. m.; Bath, 6:00 p. m.;
Havana, 7:10 p. m.; laid up; forty-three miles.

April 25—Left Havana 8:43 a. m.; Quiver lake, 9:00 a. m.; Spring lake
canal, 11:05 a. m.; Lancaster landing, ihe :28 a. m.; Pekin, 3:15 D. m.; Peoria,
4:50 p. m.; laid up; fifty miles.

April 26—Left Peoria 9:00 a. m.; Chillicothe, 10:37 a. m.; Henry, 12:15
p. m.; Peoria, 4:20 p. m.; laid up; eighty miles.

April 27—Left Peoria 5:05 a. m.; Lancaster, 6:35 a. m.; Havana, 10:22
a. m.; Beardstown, 2:00 p. m.; LaGrange locks, 3:50 a. m.; Meredosia, 4:30
p. m.; laid up; 113 miles.

April 28—Left Meredosia, 9:15 a. m.; Naples, 9:48 a. m.; Griggsville land-
ing, 10:38 a. m.; Big Blue, 10:58 a. m.; Harris, 11:15 a. m.; Florence, 11:25;
Fire drill, 12:23; got water in twenty-two seconds. Opposite Little Blue,
12:35 p. m.; Montazuma, 12:58 p. m.; Bedford, 1:18 p. m.; Meredosia, 3:50
p. m.; laid up; sixty miles.

April 29—Left Meredosia, 8:54 p. m.; Camp creek, 9:22 a. m.; LaGrange,
locks, 9:50 a. m.; Indian creek, 10:13 a. m.; LaGrange, 10:45 a. m.; Crooked
creek, 11:20 a. m.; Turtle schute, 11:50; Beardstown, 12:08; laid up; twenty
miles.

May 1—Left Beardstown, 7:23 a. m.; Sugar creek, 8:00 a. m.; Sangamon
bay, 8:15 a. m.; Browning, 8:15 a. m.; above Browning, 9:09 a. m.; Sanga-
mon river, 9:40 a. m.; Hickory island, 9:55 a. m.; Nick Ohls, 11:05 a. m.;
Butler’s landing, 11:30 a. m.; Willow Bar, 12:40 p. m.; Moscow, 1:05 p. m.;
Deep slough, 2:05 p. m.; Havana, 3:35 p. m.; stops to examine sloughs for
illegal fishing; laid up; forty-five miles.

May 2—Left Havana at 6:35 a. m.; Mud Lake slough, 7:00 a. m.; Copperas
creek lock, 8:30 a. m.; Canton landing, 8:50 a. m.; Spring lake canal, 1:03
p. m.; Lancaster landing, 2:05 p. m.; Kingston, 4:35 p. m.; Peoria, 7:30
p. m.; laid up; fifty miles.

May 4—Left Peoria, 7:39 a. m.; foot of Turkey island, 8:13; below Pekin,
9:05; Lancaster, 10:10 a. m.; Havana, 1:40 p. m.; laid up; fifty miles.

May 5—Left Havana, 6:56; Sni-Ecarte slough, 8:09 a. m.; Hickory island,
8:45 a. m.; Sangamon river, 10:25 a. m.; Beardstown, 5:00 p. m.; laid up;
fifty miles.

May 6—Left Beardstown, 10:30; LaGrange locks, 4:30; Meredosia, 5:15
p. m.; laid up; twenty miles.

May 8—Left Meredosia at 3:25 p. m.; LaGrange locks, 4:05 p. m.; Perkins
locks, 4:28 p. m. Havana, 9:00 p. m.; laid up; sixty-three miles.

May 9—Left Havana at 6:35 a. m.; Lancaster landing, 9:12 a. m.; Peoria,
1:17 p. m.; laid up; fifty miles.

_ May 10—Left Peoria at 5:24 a. m.; Lake Depue, 10:20 a. m.; Peru, 3:00
p. m.; Henry, 9:00 p. m.; laid up; 100 miles.

May 11—Left Henry, 7: 10 a. m.; Peoria, 10:10 a. m.; laid up; forty miles.

May 12—Left Peoria, 6:08; Lancaster landing, 7:45 a. m.; Havana, 11:50
a. m.; Hickory island, 1:35 p. m.; head of Duck island, 7: 25 p. m.; Havana,
9:15 p. m.; laid up; 141 miles.

May 13—Left Havana, 6:25 a. m.; Beardstown, 9:00 a. m.; LaGrange lock;
12:47 p. m.; Meredosia, 1:30 p. m.; laid up; sixty-three miles.

May 15—Left Meredosia, 7:39 a. m.; Camp creek, 8:08; LaGrange lock,
8:40; Indian creek, 9:04; Mill slough, 9:52; Crooked creek, 11:15; Beards-
town, 12:54 p. m.; laid up; twenty miles.

May 16—Left Beardstown, 6:48 a. m.; Sugar creek, 7:30 a. m.; Bath,
10:18 a. m.; Havana, 7:20 p. m.; laid up; forty-three miles.

May 17—Left Havana, 5:55 a. m.; Lancaster, 8:25 a. m.; Spring lake
slough, 11:15 a. m.; Havana, 2:13 p. m.; laid up; sixty miles.

May 19—Left Havana, 6:25 a. m.; Peoria, 11:00 a. m.; Peru, 8:30 p. m.;
laid up; 120 miles.

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May 20—Left Peru, 5:20 a. m.; Peoria 10:13 a. m.; Lancaster, 2:40 p. m.;
Havana, 6:00 p. m.; LaGrange lock, 10:25 p. m.; Meredosia, 11:08 p. m.;
laid up; 185 miles. :

May 23—Left Meredosia, 9:40 a. m.; head Diamond island, 2:50 p. m.;
Hardin, 4:00 p. m.; laid up; fifty miles.

May 24—Left Hardin, 7:50 a. m.; Upper Grafton, 9:15 a. m.; Grafton,
10:20 a. m.; laid up; twenty miles.

May 25—Left Grafton, 5:05 a. m.; Upper Grafton, 5:15 a. m.; Meredosia,
12:45 p. m.; laid up; seventy miles.

May 29—Left landing opposite Meredosia, 10:15 a. m.; Meredosia, 10:22
a. m.; laid up.

May 31—Left Meredosia, 7:35 p. m.; turned at Lag lock, 8:15 p. m.; Mere-
dosia, 9:10 p. m.; laid up; fourteen miles.

June 4—Left Meredosia, 11:21 a. m.; Bedford, 1:10 p. m.; Grafton, 5:40
p. m.; Chautauqua, 6:13 p. m.; laid up; seventy-five miles.

June 5—Left Chautauqua, 7:00 a. m.; Grafton, 7:15 a. m.; Beck’s landing,
10:50 a. m.; Grafton, 1:08 p. m.; below Alton, 3:00 p. m.; St. Louis, 5:30
p. m.; laid up; eighty-five miles.

June 6—Left St. Louis, 12:15 p. m.; Grafton, 4:50 p. m.; Hardin, 7:15
p. m.; laid up; sixty-five miles. ;

June 7—Left Hardin, 5:50 a. m.; Meredosia, 11:15; laid up; fifty miles.

June 12—Left Meredosia, 2:25 p. m.; Beardstown, 4:20 p. m.; Havana, 8:10
p. m.; laid up; sixty-three miles.

June 13—Left Havana, 5:00 a. m.; Lancaster landing, 7:25 a. m.; Peoria,
11:55 a. m.; laid up; fifty miles.

June 14—Left Peoria, 3:37 p. m.; Havana, (:05 p. m.; laid up; fifty miles.

June 15—Left Havana, 6:05 a. m.; Beardstown, 8:34 p. m.; Meredosia,
10:15 p. m.; Hardin, 3:15 a. m.; laid up; 1138 miles.

June 16—Left Hardin, 4:10 a. m.; Alton, 6:59 a. m.; Grafton, 8:49 a. m.;
Hardin, 10:58 a. m.; Meredosia, 4:10 p. m.; laid up; 130 miles.

June 17—Left Meredosia, 5:05 a. m.; Beardstown, 6:53 a. m.; Duck island,
11:50 a. m.; Lancaster landing, 1:25 p. m.; Peoria, 2:15 p. m.; laid up;
1138 miles.

June 18—Left Peoria, 8:10 a. m.; Pekin, 9:15 a. m.; turned Copperas
creek dam, 11:30 a. m.; turned at Spring bay at 4:00 p. m.; Peoria, 5:15
p. m.; laid up; eighty-four miles.

June 20—Left Peoria, 7:50 a. m.; below Pekin, 8:50 a. m.; Lancaster land-
ing, 10:00 a. m.; Quiver beach, 2:00 p. m.; Havana, 2:40 p. m.; laid up;
fifty miles.

June 22—Left Havana, 6:15 p. m.; Quiver beach, 6:30 p. m.; laid up;
three miles.

June 23—Left Quiver, 10:44 a. m.; Havana, 11:00 a. m.; Beardstown, 1:35
Be Meredosia, 4:28 p. m.; Beardstown, 9:35 p. m.; laid up; eighty-three
miles.

June 24—Left Beardstown, 6:05 a. m.; Havana, 9:32 a. m.; Quiver beach,
11:10 a. m.; laid up; forty-six miles.

June 26—Left Quiver, 1:45 p. m.; turned at S. L. canal, 4:30 p. m.; Liver-
ate 6:30 p. m.; Havana, 7:35 p. m.; Quiver, 8:26 p. m.; laid up; fifty-six
miles.

June 27—Left Quiver beach, 9:35 a. m.; Havana, 9:50 a. m.; Liverpool,
10:40 a. m.; Havana, 11:23 a. m.; Quiver lake, 1:20 p. m.; Lancaster landing,
4:25 p.m.; Peoria, 7:23 p. m.; laid up; fifty miles.

June 28—Left Peoria, 7:50 a. m.; Peru, 1:55 p. m.; laid up; seventy miles.

June 29—Left Peru, 5:50 a. m.; Peoria, 11:10. a. m.; Lancaster landing,
1:53 p. m.; Havana, 5:20 p. m.; laid up; 120 miles.

June 30—Left Havana, 4:05 a. m.; Peoria, 8:37 a. m.; judges left waiting
orders; fifty miles.

July 1—Left Peoria, 12:00; Peru, 5:57; laid up; seventy miles.

July 2—Left Peru, 6:13 a. m.; Henry, 8:30 a. m.; Peoria, 11:40 a. m.:
Lancaster landing, 1:50 p. m.; Havana, 5:15 p. m.; Beardstown, 7:55 p. m.;
laid up; 160 miles.

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July 3—Left Beardstown, 4:15 a. m.; Meredosia, 5:40 a. m.; hatchery,
7:40 a. m.; turned head of bay, 8:33 a. m.; turned at Florence, 11:30. a;:m.;
Meredosia, 1:20 p. m.; laid up; ‘ifty-four miles.

July 6—Left Meredosia, 6:38 a. m.; LaGrange lock, 7:21 a. m.; Havana,
{2:15 p. m.; laid up; sixty-three miles.

July 9—Left Havana, 2:25 p. m.; Quiver beach, 2:40 p. m.; Havana, 6:25
p. m.; laid up; six miles.

July 10—Left Havana, 5:10 a. m.; Lancaster landing, 8:00 a. m.; Peoria,
1:00 p. m.; laid up; fifty miles.

July 11—Left Peoria, 9:15 a. m.; Henry, 12:27 p. m.; Peoria, 4:55 p. m.;
laid up; eighty miles.

July 12—Left Peoria, 8:55 a. m.; Copperas creek dam, 11:30 a. m.; Havana,
1:00 p. m.; Quiver beach, 2:10 p. m.; Havana, 5:25 p. m.; laid up; sixty-six
miles.

July 13—Left Havana, 10:10 a. m.; Quiver beach, 10:30 a. m.; Copperas
creek dam, 12:00 p. m.; Lancaster landing, 1:20 p. m.; Pekin, 3:55 p. m.;
Peoria, 5:02 p. m.; Al Fresco park, 5:40 p. m.; Peoria, 9:30 p. m.; laid up;
sixty-four miles.

July 18—Left Peoria, 7:40 a. m.; Dead lake, 8:40 a. m.; opposite Pekin,
9:20-a. m.; Gar slough, 11:55 a. m.; Pekin, 5:20 p. m.; laid up; twenty miles.

July 19—Left Pekin, 7:00 a. m.; opposite Pekin, 7:05 a. m.; Gar slough,
11:20 a. m.; Pekin, 4:40 p. m.; laid up; eight miles.

July 20—Left Pekin, 6:00 a. m.; Peoria, 7:05 a. m.; laid up; eight miles.

July 21—Lelt Peoria, 12:05 p. m.; Chillicothe, 1:52 p. m.; Al Fresco park,
3:30 p. m.; Peoria, 5:25 p. m.; laid up; forty miles.

July 22 Left Peoria, 9:50 a. m.; Lancaster landing, 11:35 a. m.; Hayana,
4:00 p. m.; LaGrange lock, 8:05 p. m.; Meredosia, 8: 58 Dp. m.; laid: apsstis -
miles.

July 23—Leit Meredosia, 7:45 a. m.; Kampsville lock, 11:25 a. m.; turned
up Mississippi, 3:20 p. m.; turned at mouth Missouri river, 6:15 p. m.;
, Alton, 7:15 pb. m.; laid uv; 140 miles.

July 24—Left Alton, 6:05 a. m.; Grafton, 7:50 a. m.; Kampsville lock,
11:25 a. m.; Meredosia, 4:20 p. m.; laid up; 100 miles.

Aug. 12—Left Meredosia, 5:25 p. m.; LaGrange lock, 6:10 p. m.; Beards-
town, 7:40 p. m.; laid un; forty miles.

Aug. 13—Left Beardstown, 7:50 ue mes LaGrange lock, 8:50 a. m.; Mere-
dosia, 9:50 a. m.; Kampsville lock, 2-00 p. m.; Portage island, 5:30 p. m.;
Alton, 6:30 p. m.: laid up; 120 miles.

Aug. 14—Left. Alton, 12:50 p. m.; Chautauqua, 2:20 p. m.; Grafton, 3:05
Dy mis Harding 5:50. psa. laid: aps ‘forty -four miles.

Aug. 15—Left Hardin, 6:30 a. m.; Kampsville, 7:45 a. m.; Meredosia, 1:20
p. m.; laid up; fifty-five miles.

Aug. 31—Left Meredosia, 11:20 p. m.; LaGrange lock, 12:10 a. m.; Beards-
town, 1:40 a. m.; laid up; twenty miles.

Sept. 1—Left Beardstown, 4:45 p. m.; LaGrange lock, 6:00 p. m.; Meredo-
sia, 6:50 p. m.; laid up; twenty miles.

Sept. 6—Left Meredosia, 3:30 p. m.; LaGrange lock, 4:08 p. m.; Beards-
town, 5:40 p. m.; laid up; twenty miles.

Sept. 7—Left Beardstown, 4:20 a. m.; Copperas creek lock, 10:00 a. m.;
Peoria, 1:15 p. m.; laid up; ninety-three miles.

Sept. 8—Left Peoria, 9:20 a. m.; Copperas creek lock, 11:20 a. m.> Havana,
1:20 p. m.; turned below Bath; Havana, 4:15 p. m.; laid up: seventy miles.

Sept. 9—Left Havana, 9:45 a. m.; Beardstown, 1:15 p. m.; Havana, 6:40
p. m.; laid up; eighty-six miles.

Sept. 10—Left Havana, 6:25 a. m.; Peoria, 12:07 a. m.; turned at Spring
bay; Peoria, 2:50 p. m.; laid up; seventy-four miles.

Sept. 11—Left Peoria, 8:00 a. m.; opposite Pekin, 9:00; laid up; twelve
miles.

Sept. 12—Left opposite Pekin, 5:05 p. m.; Pekin, 5:10 p. m.; laid up.

Sept. 183—Left Pekin, 8:25 a. m.; Kingston Mines, 9:05 a. m.; Havana,
2:35 p. m.; Browning, 6:40 p. m.; laid up; seventy miles.

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Sept. 14—Left Browning, 6:35 a. m.; Beardstown, 8:00 a. m.; LaGrange
lock, 11:55 a. m.; Meredosia, 12:42 p. m.; laid up; thirty-two miles.

Sept. 283—Left Meredosia, 8:55 a. m.; Kampsville lock, 12:30 p. m.; Grafton,
3:20 p. m.; Alton, 6:02 p. m.; Grafton, 7:35 p. m.; laid up; 110 miles.

Sept. 24—Left Grafton 5:05 a. m.; Clarksville, 11:40 a. m.; Hannibal, 4:10
p. m.; Quincy, 8:10 p. m.; laid up; 120 miles.

Sept. 28—Left Quincy, 9:20 a. m.; Quincy, 11:05 a. m.; Louisiana, 3:20
p. m.; Clarksville, 4:55:p. m.; laid up; sixty miles.

Sept. 29—Left Clarksville, 8:05 a. m.; Hamburg, 9:20 a. m.; Grafton, 1:05
Dp. m.; St. Louis, 4:28 p. m.; laid up; 100 miles.

Sept. 30—Left St. Louis, 4:50 a. m.; Louisiana, 4:50 p. m.; laid up; 110
miles.

Oct. 1—Left Louisiana, 5:30 a. m.; Quincy, 11:00 a. m.; laid up; fifty miles.

Oct. 2—Left Quincy levee, 11:45 a. m.; Quincy bay, 11:55 a. m.

Oct. 6—Left Quincy, 9:40 a. m.; Hannibal, 11:10 a. m.; Hickory island,
1:15 p. m.; Louisiana, 5:15 p. m.; laid up; fifty miles.

Oct. 7—Left Louisiana, 7:50 a. m.; opposite Ashburn, 9:35 a. m.; Hannibal,
1:20 p. m.; Whitney Crossing, 2:35 p. m.; Marion City, 3:15 p. m.; Quincy,
5:50 p. m.; laid up; fifty miles.

Oct. 9—Left Quincy, 2:00 p. m.; Clarksville, 6:35 p. m.; laid up; sixty
miles. -

Oct. 10—Left Clarksville, 5:25 a. m.; Grafton, 9:55 a. m.; Kampsville lock,
1:40 p. m.; Meredosia, 6:45 p. m.; laid up, 130 miles.

Oct. 11—Left Meredosia, 9:20 p. m.; Griggsville bridge, 10:42 p. m.; Mere-
dosia, 12:00 p. m.; laid up; twenty-four miles.

Oct. 13—Left Meredosia, 8:30 a. m.; LaGrange lock, 9:15 a. m.; Beards-
town, 10:40 a. m.; Bath, 6:40 p. m.; laid un; fifty-three miles.

Oct. 14—Left Bath, 6:25 a. m.; Kneaders landing, 6:35 a. m.; Anderson
slough, 12:00 a. m.; Havana, 4:10 p. m.; laid up; eighteen miles.

Oct. 15—Left Havana, 12:40 p. m.; Copperas creek lock, 2:38 p. m.; Pekin,
4:30 p. m.; opposite Pekin, 4:38 p. m.; laid up; forty miles. /

Oct. 17—Left Pekin, 11:15 a. m.; Kingston Mines, 1:10 p. m.; Copperas
creek lock, 3:40 p. m.; Havana, 5:40 p. m.; laid up; forty miles.

Oct. 18—Left Havana, 6:05 a. m.; Beardstown, 9:05 a. m.; LaGrange lock,
11:20 a. m.; Meredosia, 12:10 p. m.; laid up; sixty-three miles.

Oct. 283—Left Meredosia, 7:20 a. m.; LaGrange lock, 8:05 a. m.; Beards-
town, 9:30 a. m.; Copperas creek lock, 3:40 p. m.; Kingston Mines, 4:55
Dee weeny (240) pe m.: laiG. wos 00) milest

Oct. 24—Left Pekin, 7:15 a. m.; Dead lake, 7:25 a. m.: break in levee,
7:50; above Pekin, 12:20 p. m.; opposite Pekin, 2:20 p. m.: laid up:
ten miles. ;

Oct. 26—Left Pekin, 7:00 a. m.; Dead lake, 7:10 a. m.; break in levee, 7:35
a. m.; Kingston Mines, 3:30 p. m.; Copperas creek lock, 4:25 p. m.; Havana,
6:05 p. m.; laid up; forty miles.

Oct. 27—Left Havana, 5:40 a. m.; Hickory island, 7:30 a. m.; LaGrange
lock, 9:25 a. m.; Meredosia, 10:20 a. m.; laid up; sixty-three miles.

Oct. 29—Left Meredosia, 4:00 a. m.; Kampsville lock, 7:48 a. m.; Hardin,
9:00 a. m.; above Hardin, 9:50 a. m.; Grafton, 12:20 p. m.; St. Louis, 3:25
p. m.; laid up; 125 miles.

Nov. 11—Left St. Louis, 9:05 a. m.; Alton, 11:45 a. m.; Grafton, 1:35 p. m.:
Clarksville, 8:05 p. m.; laid ‘up; 100 miles.

Nov. 12—Left Clarksville, 5:40 a. m.; Quincy bay, 11:55 a. m.:; laid up;
sixty miles.

Boat went into commission April 15, 1905, and on April 17 went to Keokuk
into dry docks for some repairs, returning to Quincy, and when painting was
finished, left Quincy April 26 for the Illinois river, taking on the Illinois
Internal Improvement Commission at Grafton for a trip over Illinois river,
and leaving party at Henry.

On May 2 Mr. C. V. Carpenter, assistant to general manager C., B. & Q. R.
R. Co., was taken on board, and while at Meredosia was taken very sick.
We made a quick run to Peoria and he was taken to the hospital, where he
died next day, May 7.

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On May 31 we took on at Peru the Deep Water Way Commissioners and
took them to St. Louis, when they left the boat.

During June and July we had wardens on board and took up such illegal,
nets as we found, turning them over to proper parties as ordered. We also
made such collections of small fish as conditions of watér made possible.

On June 15 we had the West Park Commissioners and party of State
Senators on board and took them to St. Louis. ,

On June 26 to 29 we had the Supreme Court judges, with Mr. Cohen and
wife, on board.

On July 1 we had a party of State Senators and members of Legislature on
board.

July 16 to Aug. 6 we were fishing the ponds and sloughs left by receding
water during this time. Aug. 2 we had Mr. John W. Titcomb, Assistant U.
S. Fish Commissioner on board inspecting the work.

We were inspected Aug. 6 at Beardstown by the U. S. Local Inspectors and
passed as No. 1 as to condition and equipment.

Aug. 11 to Aug 17 we were fishing the shallow ponds and lakes.

Aug, 28 and 29 we had on board State Association of Circuit Clerks and
Recorders.

Sept. 19 to 30 patrolling rivers.

Log covering period from April 15 to Sept 30, 1906 follows.

Log STEAMER ILLINOIS FROM AprRIL 15 To Sept. 30, 1906.

Boat went into commission April 15, 1906. Left Quincy 4:30 a. m. for
Keokuk. Arrived Keokuk at 9:00 a. m. and went to Middle Lock 9:20 a. m.
and into Dry Dock at 10:30 a. m., 43 miles.

April 20—Left Keokuk 9:20 a. m.; arrived Quincy at 12:20; 43 miles.

April 21 to 24—-Laid up Quincy Bay to complete repairs and painting.

April 25—Ran down to levee, took on supplies.

April 26—Cleared for Illinois river at 7:40 a. m.; Grafton 3:22 p. m.; Har-
din 6:05 p. m.; 140 miles.

April 27—Left Hardin 9:05 a. m.; Naples 1:34 p. m.; Meredosia 2:10 p. m.;
Beardstown 4:40 p. m.; laid up; 67 miles.

April 28—Left Beardstown 8:40 a. m.; Schmoldt Mills 8:50 a. m.; Havana
12:50 p. m.; Lancaster Coal Dock 3:50 p. m.; Peoria 7:03 p. m.; laid up;
75 miles.

April 29—Left Peoria 7:55 a. m.; Henry 10:55 a. m.; Perdue 2:03 p. m.;
Peoria 7:12 p. m.; laid up; 118 miles.

May 2—Left Peoria 9:35 a. m.; Lancaster Coal Dock 11:15 a. m.; Havana
3:37 p. m.; laid up; 438 miles.

May 3—Left Havana 6:45 a. m.; Idlewild 7:55 a. m.; Schmoldt Mills 9:30
a.m.; Beardstown 10:10 a. m.; Meredosia 2:40 p. m.; laid up; 59 miles.

May 4—Left Meredosia 2:20 p. m.; LaGrange Lock 3:00 p. m.; Beardstown
4:40 p. m.: laid up; 17 miles.

May 5—Left Beardstown 7:55 a. m.; Schmoldt Mtils 8:05 a. m.; Foot
Grand Island 1:40 p. m.; Havana 4:12 p. m.; laid up; 32 miles.

May 6—Left Havana 6:50 a. m.; Peoria 11:15 a. m.; laid up; 43 miles.

May 8—Left Peoria 7:00 a. m.; Lancaster Dock 8:20 a. m.; Havana 11:55
a. m.; Beardstown 2:40 p. m.; laid up; 75 miles.

May 9—Left Beardstown 9:40 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 10:30 a. m.; Meredosia
11:10 a. m.; laid up; 17 miles. ;

May 27—Left Meredosia 6:15 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 7:00 a. m.; Beards-
town 8:30 a.m.; Havana 12:30 p. m.; laid up; 49 miles.

May 28—Left Havana 5:45 a. m.; Lancaster Dock 8:25; Peoria 11:53 a. m.;
laid up; 43 miles.

May 29—Left Peoria 6:50 a. m.; Henry Lock 10:00 a. m.; Peru 1:05 p. m.;
laid up; 59 miles.

May 31—Left Peru 6:15 a. m.; Henry Lock 8:40 a. m.; Peoria 11.45 a. m.;
Lancaster Dock 2:35 p. m.; Havana 5:58 p. m.; Beardstown 9:20 p. m.;
laid up; 139 miles.

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June 1—Left Beardstown 5:12 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 6:10 a. m.; Meredosia
6:55 a. m.; Kampsville Lock 10:55 a. m.; Grafton 1:35 p. m.; Alton 2:50 p.
m.; St. Louis 4:40 p. m.; laid up; 133 miles.

June 2—Left St. Louis 4:05 a. m.; Grafton 8:30 a. m.; Kampsville Lock
11:42 a. m.; Meredosia 4:23 p. m.; laid up; 116 miles.

June 10—Left Meredosia 3:50 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 4:35 a. m.; Beards-
town 6:05 a. m.; Schmolt Mills 6:30 a. m.; Jack Slough 8:45 a. m.; Havana
10:40 a. m.; laid up; 49 miles.

June 11—Left Havana 7:35 a. m.; Lancaster Coal Dock 10:15 a. m.; Pekin
1:40 p. m.; Peoria 5:10 p. m.; laid up; 48 miles.

June 15—Left Peoria 7:10 a. m.; Havana 11:05 a. m.; Schmoldt Mills 2:40
p. m.; Beardstown 3:30 p. m.; LaGrange Lock 4:30 p. m.; Meredosia 5:40
p. m.; laid up; 92 miles.

June 16—Left Meredosia 4:10 a. m.; Pearl 6:40 a. m.; Kampsville Lock
8:40 a.m.; Hardin 9:50 a. m.; Grafton 12:05 p. m.; St. Louis 4:80 p. m.; laid
up; 115 miles. | ‘ ,

June 17—Left St. Louis 7:05 a. m.; Grafton 11:30 a. m.; Kampsville Lock
2:45 p. m.; Naples 6:45 p. m.; Meredosia 7:55 p. m.; laid up; 115 miles.

June 19—Left Meredosia 7:45 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 8:30 a. m.; Schmoldt
Mills 9:55 a. m.; Havana 1:55 p. m.; laid up; 49 miles.

June 20—Left Havana 6:25 a. m.; Lancaster Coal Dock 9:13 a. m.; break
in levee below Pekin 11:00 a. m.; Peoria 1:05 p. m.; laid up; 43 miles.

June 21—Left Peoria 8:20 a. m.; above Pekin, 9:20 a. m.; Pekin 9:50 a.
m.; Schulte’s Camp Clear Lake 12:13 p. m.; turned head Gr. Island 2:35
p. m:; Havana 3:30 p. m.; laid up; 57 miles.

June 22—Left Havana 7:35 a. m.; Johnson Lake Slough 9:00 a. m.;
Peoria 4:15 p. m.; laid up; 43 miles.

June 26—Left Peoria 7:30 a. m.; Lancaster Coal Dock 9:20 a. m.; Copperas
Creek Lock 11:00 a. m.; Havana 1:00 p. m.; Sharps Landing 3:25 p. m.;:
laid up; 60 miles.

June 27—Left Sharps Landing 7:30 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 9:48 a. m.;
Meredosia 10:35 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 12:10 p. m.; Beardstown 1:35 p. m.;
Sharps Landing 4:20 p. m.; Havana 8:40 p. m.; laid up; 81 miles.

June 28—Left Havana 6:00 a. m.; Copperas Creek Lock 7:55 a. m.: Pecria
11:10 a. m.; laid up; 43 miles.

July 1—Left Peoria 7:50 a. m.; New Bridge 8:00 a. m.; Peoria 8:30 a. m.:
Taunty 9:15 a. m.; Henry 12:30 p. m.; El Fresco Park 4:30 p. m.: Taunty
5:40 p. m.; New Bridge 6:30 p. m.; Peoria 6:50 p. m.; laid up: 80 miles.

July 2—Left Peoria 5:10 a. m.; Lancaster Coal Dock 7:00 a. m.; Copperas
Creek Lock 10:40 a. m.; Havana 12:30 p. m.; Big Lake Slough 3:00 Ds mM.
LaGrange Lock 7:30 p. m.; Meredosia 8:15 p. m.; laid up; 92 miles.

July 7—Left Meredosia 6:00 p. m.; Valley City 7:00 p. m.: Naples 9:15
p. m.; laid up; 15 miles.

July 8—Left Naples 6:10 a. m.; Meredosia 6:55 a. m.; LaGrange Lock
8:35 a. m.; Beardstown S. mills, 10:10 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 1:00 Daeme:
opposite LaGrange L. 1:18 p. m.; Eagle Island 3:45 p. m.; Naples 7:00 Dom::
laid up; 44 miles.

July 9—Left Naples 7:25 a. m.; Meredosia 8:10 a. m.; laid up; 5 miles.

July 13—Left Meredosia 3:45 p. m.; Naples 4:20 p. m.: Meredosia 9:10
p. m.; laid up; 10 miles.

July 14—Left Meredosia 7:00 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 7:50 a. m.: Beards-
town 9:20 a. m.; Schmoldt Mills 9:50 a. m.; Sharps Landing 12:35 p. m.:;
laid up; 32 miles. '

July 15—Left Sharps Landing 10:35 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 1:30 Dems.
below lock 1:46 p. m.; Meredosia 5:45 p. m.; laid up; 32 miles.

July 16—Left Meredosia 6:10 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 7:00 a. m.: Beards-
town 8:30 a. m.; Schmoldt Mills 9:08 a. m.; Sugar Creek Lake 10:20 a. m.:
Sharps Landing 12:15 p. m.; Holmes Landing 2:30 p. m.:; Small Lake 2:55
p. m.; lake on Grand Island 3:40 p. m.; Havana 5:30 p. m.: laid up; 49 miles

July 17—Left Havana 6:00 a. m.; Last Lake 7:40 a. m.: opposite Senate
Island 7:53 a. m.; Copperas Creek Lock 8:17 a. m.; Lancaster Coal Dock

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9:50 a. m.; Drainage District near Peokin 1.30 p. m.; lake near Pekin 2:46
Dru; opposite Pekin 3:50 p. m.; Pekin 4:25 p m.; Murry Lake 6: 20 0;7R.4
laid up; 50 miles.

July 18—Left Murry Lake 10:15 a.m.; Scott Lake 10:45 a. m.; Kelsey Lake
11:35 a. m.; Copperas Creek Lock 2:40 p. m.; near Bass Lake 3:15 p. m.;
Price’s Slough 3:50 p. m.; Goose Lake 5:35 p. m.; Johnson Lake 5:55 p. m.;
Havana 7:00 p. m.; laid up; 20 miles.

July 19—Left Havana 6:00 4. m:; opposite West Point 6:50 a. m.; laid-up;
10 miles.

July 20—Left opposite West Point 7:25 p. m.; above Holme’s Landing 7:40
p. m.; laid up; 3 miles.

Suly 21—Left opposite Holme’s Landing 9:20 a. m.; Schmoldt Mills 11:20
a. m.; Beardstown 12:00; LaGrange Lock 2:10 p. m.; Meredosia 3:00 p. m.;
laid up; 36 miles.

July 24—Left Meredosia 7:25 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 8:15 a. m.; Schmoldt
Mills 9:46 a. m.; Big Lake 11:50 a. m.; opposite Moscow 12:30 p. m.; Moscow
Bay 1: 20 p. m.; Neaders Landing 2:00 p. m.; below Bath 2:40 p. m.; op-
posite Bath.3:08 p. m.; West Point 4:00 p. m.; laid up; 39 miles.

July 26—Left West Point 4:55 p. m.; Anderson Slough 5:15 p. m.; laid
up; 2 miles.

July 27—Left Anderson Slough 10:00 a. m.; Sharps’ Landing 10:40 a. m.;
Stewart Lake 11:30 a. m.; above Browning 2:05 p. m.; below Browning
2:25 p.m.; Sugar Creek Lake 3:00 p. m.; Schmoldt Mills 4:10 p. m.; Beards-
town 4:45 p. m.; laid up, 20 miles.

July 28—Left Beardstown 6:15 a. m.; Wrens Lake 6:40 a. m.; Sprigtail
Lake 8:10 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 8:55 a. m.; Meredosia 9:47 a. m.; laid up;
17 miles.

July 80—Left Meredosia 8:05 p. m.; LaGrange Lock 9:00 p. m.; Sugar
Creek 11:20 p. m.; opposite West Point 7:40 a. m.; laid up; 23 miles.

_July 31—Left Sugar Creek 5:50 a. m.; West Point 7:45 a. m.; Havana 9:00

a. m.; Copperas Creek L. 11:45 a. m.; Lancaster C. D. 12:50 p. m.; Copperas
Creek L. 4:15 p. m.; Havana 6:10 p. m.; West Point 7:20 p. m.; laid up;
60 miles.

Aug. 1.—Left West Point 3:40 p. m.; Anderson Slough 3:55 p. m.; Havana
6:10 p. m.; laid up; 15 miles. :

Aug. 2—Left Havana 10:27 a. m.; Anderson Slough 11:20 a. m.; Boyds
Landing 2:41 a. m.; head Hickory Island 8:50 a. m.; laid up; i7 miles.

Aug. 3—Left Hickory Island 5:15 a. m.; Schmoldt Mills 6:20 a. m.;
LaGrange Lock 8:37 a. m.; Meredosia 9:35 a. m.; laid up; thirty miles.

Aug. 6—Left opposite Meredosia 5:50 a. m.; Meredosia 5:55 a. m.;
LaGrange Lock 9:52 a. m.; Beardstown 11:17 a. m.; laid up; sixteen miles.

Aug. 8—Left Beardstown 5:05 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 6:20 a. m.; Mere-
dosia 7:20 a. m.; laid up; sixteen miles.

Aug. 11—Left Meredosia 11:00 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 11:47 a. m.; Beards-
town 1:15 p. m.; LaGrange Lock 3:30 p. m.; Meredosia 4:25 p. m.;
LaGrange Lock 8:25 p. m.; Beardstown 9:55 p. m.; laid up; forty-eight miles.

Aug. 12—Left Beardstown 5:55 a. m.; Schmoldt Mills 6:05 a. m.; opposite
West Point 10:05 a. m.; Havana 5:50 p. m.; laid up; thirty-two miles.

Aug. 18—Left Havana 6:50 a. m.; Copperas Creek Lock 8:55 a. m.; Murry
Lake 9:35 a. m.; Lancaster Coal Dock 11:45 a. m.; Copperas Creek Lock
2:30 p. m.; below Lock 2:50 p. m.; Lost Lake 5:14 p. m.: Quiver Beach 6:35
p. m.; laid up; forty-six miles.

Aug. 14—Left Quiver Beach 7:10 a. m.; Havana 7:30 a. m.; opposite West
Point 9:35 a. m.; laid up; thirteen miles.

Aug. 15—Left West Point 10:40 a. m.; opposite Hickory Island 11:45 a.
m.; Elm Island 1:40 p. m.; Ice House Lake 1:55 p. m.; laid up; seven miles.

Aug. 16—Left Ice House Lake 10:23 a. m.; Browning 10:30 a. m.; Sanga-
mon river 12:35 p. m.; Browning 2:30 p. m.; Schmoldt Mills 3:20 p. m.:
Beardstown 4:08 p. m.; LaGrange Lock 5:25 p. m.; Meredosia 6:15 p. m.;
laid up; twenty-seven miles.

Aug. 17—Lying at Meredosia, delivered fish to U. S. retaining ponds.

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Aug. 23—Left Meredosia 7:48 p. m.; LaGrange Lock Su86 p. m.; Beards:
town 9:55 p. m.; laid up; ESE A miles.

Aug. 24—Left ‘Beardstown 8:15 a. m.;- Schmoldt Mills 8:22 a. m.; Beards-
town 8:58 a. m.; Havana 4:15 p. m.; Beardstown 9:45 p. m.; laid uD; sixty-
four miles.

Aug. 25.—Left Beardstown 8:15 a. m.; Havana 12:15 p. m.; Quiver Beach
2:35 p. m.; laid up; thirty-five miles. —

Aug. 26—Left Quiver Beach 10:20 a. m.; Copperas Creek Lock 12:00 m.;
Peoria 3:35 p. m.; laid up; forty-three miles.

Aug. 27—Left Peoria 9:10 a. m.; Lancaster Coal Dock 10:55 a, m.; Cop:
peras Creek Lock 2:30 p. m.; Havana 4:15 p. m.; laid up; forty-three miles.

Aug. 28—Left Havana 6: 30 a. m.; Copperas Creek Lock 8:25 a. m.; Peoria
11:37 a. m.; laid up; forty-three miles.

_ Aug. 29—Left Peoria 9:30 a. m.; Peoria 11:48 a. m.; AlFresco 2:50 p. m.;
Alfresco 3:25 p. m.; Peoria 5:15 D. m.; laid up; forty miles.

Aug. 30—Left Peoria 6:25 p. m.; Peoria 10:30 p. m.; laid up; thirty miles.

Aug. 31—Left Peoria 7:12 p. m.; Lancaster Coal D. 8:55 p. m.; Copperas
Creek Lock 11:50 p. m.; Havana 1:35 a. m.; laid up; forty-three miles.

Sept. 1—Left Havana 5:07 a. m.; Anderson Slough 6:10 a. m.; Beardstown
10:20 a. m.; LaGrange Lock 12: 05 p. m.; Meredosia 12:55 p. m.; forty-nine
miles.

Sept. 8—Left Meredosia 9:10 a. m.; Kampsville Lock 1:05 p. m.; Grafton
4:05 p. m.; Decapagras 7:00 p. m.; laid up; ninety-five miles.

Sept. 4—Left Decapagras 5:40 D. m.; Clarksville. 9:02 a. m.; Louisiana
10:41 a. m.; Hannibal 2:15 p. m.; Quine 4:54 p. m.; laid up; ninety-five
miles.

Sept. Lett Quincy 9:27 a. m.; Keokuk 1:45 p. m.; Keokuk Lock 2:20
p. m.; Middle Lock 3:18 p. m.; Montrose 4:45 p. m.; Nauvoo 5:10 p. m.;
Burlington 9:30 p. m.; laid up; ninety miles.

Sept. 6—Left Burlington 6:00 a. m.; Fort Madison 7:40 a. m.; Nauvoo
10:00 a. m.; Middle Lock 12:20 p. m.; Keokuk 120) py mi3> Batt Island 2:50
Dems Quincy 4:55 p. m.; Quincy Bay Be KN) jek 1aa),2 ei! up: ninety miles.

Sept. 19—Left Quincy Bay 11:15 .a. m.; Quincy Levee 11:25 a. m.; opposite
Batavia 2:45 p. m.; Quincy 4:05 p. m.; laid up; twenty-three miles.

Sept. 20—Left Quincy 11:35 a. m.; Sny river 12:40 p. m.; Quincy Bay
3:20 p. m.; laid up; thirty miles.

i Levee 8:32 a. m.; Quincy

Bay 11:07 a. m.; laid up; two miles.

Oct. 5—Left Quincy Bay 7:00 a. m.; Quincy Levee 7:07 a. m.; LaGrange ©
9:20 a. m.; Quincy 10:35 a. m.; laid up; twenty-one miles.

Oct. 8—Left Quincy 8:00 a. m.; Gravel Point 12:30 p. m.; laid up; fifty-
five miles.

October 9—Left Gravel Point got off ground 8:15 a.m. Grafton 1:15 p. m.;
Hardin 4:00 p. m.; laid up; eighty-five miles.

Oct. 10—Left Hardin 6:30 a. m.; Kampsville Lock 7:45 a. m.: below
Valley City 11:37 a. m.; Meredosia 1:55 p. m.; LaGrange Lock 3:55 p. m.;
Beardstown 5:20 p. m.; laid up; ninety miles.

Oct. 11—Laid at Beardstown; waiting orders.

Oct. 12—Left Beardstown 6:52 a. m.; Havana 10:20 a. m.; laid up, thirty-
_ two miles.

Oct. 15—Left Havana 11:45 a. m.; Big Lake Slough 2:20 p. m.; laid up;
eighteen miles.

Oct. 16—Left Big Lake Slough 12:35 p. m.; Havana 2:55 p. m.; Copperas
Se Lock 5:15 p. m.; Lancaster Coal Dock 6:30 p. m.; laid up: forty-two
miles

Oct. 17—Left Lancaster 3:55 a. m.; Peoria opposite Union Station 5:55 a.
m.; Peoria 6:05 a. m.; Lancaster Coal Dock 2:36 p. m.; Copperas Creek
Lock 5:30 p. m:3 Havana 7:20 p. m.; laid up; sixty-two miles.

Oct. 18—Left "Havana 8:45 a. m.; Beardstown 11:50 a. m.; LaGrange Lock
2:25 p. m.; Meredosia 3:05 p. m.; opposite Pearl 7:30 D. m.; laid up;
seventy-seven miles.

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Oct. 19—Left Pearl 6:00 a. m.; Kampsville Lock 7:37 a. m.; Hardin 8:45
a. m.; Grafton 11:15 a. m.; Mossiers’ Landing 5:25 p. m.; laid up; eighty-
nine miles.

Oct. 20—Left Mossiers Landing 5:50 a. m.; Louisiana 7:34 a. m.; Quincy
Bay 1:42 p. m.; laid up; seventy-five miles.

Oct. 20 to Nov. 15—In and out of Quincy collecting fish and patrolling
rivers. Miles run 461.

Boat went out of commission Nov. 15, 1906.

The season’s run without accident of any serious nature.

The two seasons past show a decided improvement in observance of the
laws. The wardens made a thorough investigation of all tackle and took up
all such nets as were being used illegally.

Mr. E. E. Caldwell of Havana was in charge of the work on Illinois river
and Mr. John Harbourn on Mississippi river.

The stage of water has been greatly improved since the introduction of
the water through the new drainage canal and we have had a good boating
stage both seasons.

Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS S. WILLIAMS,
Master Steamer Iilinois.

SYNOPSIS OF THE FisH LAW EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1907.

You must pay a license fee for each hoop net of 50 cents per year.

And $5.00 for each one hundred yards of seine.

And $5.00 for each one hundred yards of trammel net.

You may fish with hoop nets from June 1 to April 15 of the succeeding year.

You may fish with seine from September 1 to April 15 of the succeeding
year.

You may fish with trammel net from June 1 to April 15 of the succeeding
year in the Illinois, Ohio, Mississippi, Big Wabash and Calumet rivers proper,
for carp, dog-fish, buffalo and cat fish.

You must not use a trammel net in any other place except as above pro-
vided.

You must not catch black bass, pike, pickerel or wall eyed pike, commonly
known as jack or yellow salmon, except by hook and line, and when so
caught with hook and line, such fish shall not be sold or offered for sale or
for shipment between the ist day of September and the 15th day of April
the succeeding year.

You must not use a seine or trammel net between the hours of sunset and
sunrise of the succeeding day.

You must not ship any fish caught in any way in Illinois between April 15
and June 1 of each and every year.

Every net must have a tag displayed in such a manner as to be at all times
exposed to public view.

Each one hundred yards of seine, and each one hundred yards of trammel
net must be provided with a tag so as to be at all times exposed to public
view.

Any device except as above provided is an illegal contrivance, except hook
and line.

No license is required to fish with hook and line. -

A license can be procured from any county, city or village clerk. .

Any one violating any of the provisions of this Act will be fined not less
than $25.00 or more than $200.00.

Nat H. CoHEen, President,

Iilinois Fish Commission. .

S. P. Barrierr, Secretary.

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