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Identifier: californiafishga541919cali (find matches)
Title: California fish and game
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game California. Fish and Game Commission California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries Game and game-birds Fishes
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc.) : State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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emost pretentious yet attempted andproved to be tlie biggest attraction at tlaefair. A capable engineer was retained todraw the plans and Mr. Wm. F. Dabel-stein, an artist of San Francisco, executedthem. The whole north end of the newAgriculture Building was given over tothe exhibit. The main feature of the ex-hibit was a cyclorama oi the Sierras withMounts Shasta, Lassen and Whitneylooming up in the background and in theforeground the south end of Lake Tahoe wonder, for their bright colors would at-tract anyone. The hardiness of thisvariety of trout was evidenced by theirvigorous good health while in theaquarium. Not a fish was lost in transit,nor did one die during the ten days dura-tion of the fair. The publications of thecommission were on display and wild lifefilms were shown in the motion picturetheater twice daily. GAME CENSUSES.Many states are inaugurating a gamecensus to determine tne distribution andcomparative abundance of different va-rieties. New York requires the wardens
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Fig. 60. iiii.- i-..-i. ami (.>ame Conimi«.ion >, txlubit at tlie State Fair at Sacramento ivliich tooktlie form of a panorama of th° High Sierras ■iMtli IVIount Sliasta and Lake Tahoe atthe left and Mount Whitney with a miniature of the Mount Whitney Hatchery at itsbase at the rfght. The exhiljit was pronounced the finest on the fair grounds. at one end and a miniature of the MouutWhitney Hatchery at the other. Severalminiature waterfalls tumbled down therocks into an artificial lake filled withtrout. The whole scene was made stillmore attractive by a system of lightingwhich successively showed the gray lightof dawn, the rosy tints of sunrise and thelight of full day. Arranged in front of the panorama werefour large aquaria. Two of them showedcommon introduced fish such as black andstriped bass, blue-gilled sunfish, crappieand catfish, a third showed differentvarieties of trout and a fourth was filledwith the famous golden trout of theMount Whitney region. Great interestwas

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