. California game "marked down"; . EASTERN BROOK TROUT. Salvelinus Fontinalis. A most successful fish-hatchery is located near the hotel, and in itself isa guarantee against any depletion of the trout waters. Thomas Hill,the well-known artist and angler, reports a catch of forty pounds at a lakea short distance from the hotel during the early hours of a single of them weighed six pounds. [ 34] SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY—WEST SIDE. Bordering the river and beginning at Newman, 120 miles by rail ofSouthern Pacific Company from San Francisco, and extending southwardto Mendota on the same railw
. California game "marked down"; . EASTERN BROOK TROUT. Salvelinus Fontinalis. A most successful fish-hatchery is located near the hotel, and in itself isa guarantee against any depletion of the trout waters. Thomas Hill,the well-known artist and angler, reports a catch of forty pounds at a lakea short distance from the hotel during the early hours of a single of them weighed six pounds. [ 34] SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY—WEST SIDE. Bordering the river and beginning at Newman, 120 miles by rail ofSouthern Pacific Company from San Francisco, and extending southwardto Mendota on the same railway line, covering a distance of more thanfifty miles, can be found as rich a field for water-fowl shooting and formarshland game as the world need to produce. These lands are trav-ersed by the west-side line of Southern Pacific Company, and so abun-. MAIvIvARD. Anas Boschas. dant are geese and ducks, they are steadily flushed by passing for sport can be made suitably at Newman, Volta, Los Banos,Dos Palos, Firebaugh or Mendota, and a short walk will revealgame birds in satisfactory numbers. The Los Banos Game Club hasconstructed a house for the use of its members at a siding between LosBanos and Dos Palos, at which trains stop on request or by signal. [ 35 ] During certain seasons, geese will be countless; mallards, canvas-backs, teal, widgeon, pintail, snipe, plover and rail will fall to yourgun almost at your pleasure. The country is a good one to shoot over,some of it covered by patches of irrigation overflow, but is not soft; andsagebrush can be successfully beaten for grouse, quail and other smallgame birds. Farm houses are easy of access for entertainment, and the railway , . ^ MK ^Hb » IBI UPPER SACRAMENTO RIVER. stations all have good hotels at which the charges are generally reason-able. Fish can be caught in
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