274 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



East Windsor Hill, Conn., October 13, 1879. 

 Professor Baird: 



Dear Sir: It may be of interest to you to know tliat your salmon 

 are not all lost. Last Friday, 10th, I was with a party of three fishing 

 in Snipsic Lake, and one of our party caught a salmon that weighed 

 If jjounds. This is the second one taken since the pond was stocked, 

 as I was told. The other was caught this summer and weighed 12 

 ounces. 



Cannot something be done to save our fish in Con necticutEiver'? There 

 is an establishment at Holyoke, IMass., and another at Windsor Locks, 

 Conn., that are manufacturing logs into paper, and I am told that the 

 chemicals used for that puri^ose are let off into the river twice a day, and 

 that the fish for half a mile come up as though they had been cockled. 

 Both of these factories are at the foot of falls where the fish collect and 

 stoj) in great numbers and are all killed. Our shores and sand bars are 

 literally lined v,ith dead fish. Three salmon have been found among 

 them within two miles of my office. They were judged to weigh 12, 20, 

 and 25 pounds. The dead fish are so numerous that eagles are here 

 after them. I have received nine that have been shot here in the past 

 two seasons. 



I have written you in order that the fish commissioners might stop this 

 nuisance and save the fish that they have taken so much pains to prop- 



agate. 



Truly, yours, 



WM. WOOD. 



May 29 to Junp 13, 1879.— W. Scott Lord, Esq., gives the following 

 weights of 51 Salar salmon caught in theRestigouche Eiver near the junc- 

 tion with the Matapediac: 



1 of 4 pounds. 



1 of 10 pounds. 



2 of 11 pounds. 

 2 of 12^ pounds. 

 1 of 13 pounds. 



1 of 11^ pounds 



2 of 15 pounds. 

 1 of 15J pounds. 

 1 of IG pounds. 

 1 of 17^ i^ounds. 



1 of 20J pounds. 



2 of 23 pounds. 

 5 of 24 pounds. 

 1 of 24^ pounds. 



1 of 24f pounds. 

 6 of 25 pounds. 



3 of 2bh pounds. 

 8 of 2G pounds. 



4 of 27 pounds. 



1 of 29i pounds. 



2 of 33 pounds. 

 1 of 34 pountls. 

 1 of 36i pounds. 

 1 of 38i^ pounds. 

 1 of 40^ i^ounds. 



51 weighing 1,200^ pounds. 



