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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ted by the number of people whoannually visit the Crane Valley reservoir on the north side of the San Joaquin River. The fish planting operations of the Fresno office during the season1914 will be on a much larger scale than ever before undertaken by thisoffice. It having been demonstrated that more fish could be carried intin cans than in galvanized ones, tin was substituted for galvanized ironin the construction of pack horse fish cans some three years ago. Experi-ments in the mean time having demonstrated that canvas containers offeradded advantage over tin in the carrying of trout, a new pack horse fishcan has been evolved l)y deputies of the Fresno office, which appar-ently is the acme of perfection in fish carr\nng receptacles in regionswhere ice is unavailable and where aeration must be obtained withoutthe aid of artificial methods. The size and shape (oblong) of the usualpackhorse can has been retained. The tops and bottoms of the new REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 39
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40 REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. containers are of pine five eighths of an inch thick; a throat of tin isinserted in the top, provided with a removable screen as in former cans.A strip of canvas of special design, eighteen inches wide, the endslapped and sewed in such manner as to make an open envelope, is fittedto the wooden top and bottom and secured thereto by means of clothes-line wire drawn in such manner as to press the canvas tightly intogrooves which encircle the boards. To give rigidity to this container,a galvanized iron shield is provided wdth hangers which, when boltedtop and bottom to the can, makes it to all intents and purposesas rigid as though the whole container were of metal. This shield doesnot completely encircle the can, covering only the back and ends, and toit are attached straps for hanging the container to the packsaddle.For packhorse work the new device has many advantages. First, justenough water exudes through the canvas to keep down the temperat

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