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later as a source for both state and federal hatcheries. These lakes were also called the "Radcliffe Lakes" in the early literature, after an English- man who leased the land from the irrigation district. Radcliffe was run out of the country by a lynch mob in 1901 after one of his guards shot and killed an angler "poaching" trout. An outraged account of the incident is given in the September, 1901 issue of Outdoor Life. In this account it is stated that Mr. Womack, the deceased angler-poacher, had fished these lakes since childhood and that these lakes had been renowned for "splendid trout" since the "Indians occupied the ground." From this it can be assumed that the "Grand Mesa Lakes" contained indigenous populations of Colorado River cut- throat trout, ~. ~. pleuriticus. In Jordan's autobiography (Jordan 1922) he recounted his discovery and naming of the yellowfin trout. He mentioned it was now extinct in Twin Lakes but that eggs had been shipped to France where it became successfully established. This statement was evidently based on a pub1ication by Jaffe (1902) in a French journal. We obtained a copy of Jaffe's paper which revealed that 10,000 cutthroat trout eggs were shipped from the Leadville hatchery in 1899 to Jaffe's Sandfort hatchery in Germany. Jaffe hatched these eggs, giving 2,500 fingerlings to the hatchery of the Prince of Bavaria, and retaining some at the Neufahren hatchery where they reached sexual maturity and were spawned in May, 1902 (these offspring were entered in the Fish Culture Exposition in Vienna in 1902 where they won "first prize"). In 1902 Jaffe received 20,000 additional cutthroat trout eggs from the U.S. Fish Commission. Of these, he gave half to a hatchery in the Harz Mountains, and in October, 1902, had 1 ,200 "beautiful fish" of 6 to 10 cm on hand. He concluded that: "The establishment of the species seems almost certain." 1-3