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Mechanicville. — Some fish went over the Troy dam in the 

 June rise, and got up as far as Mechanicville where the dam 

 is high and impassable at the greatest floods known. Con- 

 cerning this I have received the following letters : — 



Glen's Falls, N. Y., July 24th. 

 Mr. Fred Mather:— 



Dear Sir. — Mr. A. C. Johnson of Mechanicville, N. Y., 

 writes me that the salmon are below the dam at that place. 

 He saw five at one time yesterday, and one was found dead 

 last week, which weighed twelve and a half pounds. He says 

 that the boys want to shoot or spear them, but he does not 

 mean that they shall. The water is low, and the fish cannot 

 pass the dam. He says they are all big fish. There is a 

 necessity for fish.-ways in order to let the fish get to the 

 breeding grounds, and the dams should be watched in order 

 to keep the fish from being destroyed. The people should be 

 instructed to let the breeding fish alone in order that they 

 mav be benefitted hereafter. A. N. Cheney. 



There was a rumor that reveral salmon had been dynamited 

 at Mechanicville, and the following letters relate to this : — 



Troy Club, August i8th. 

 Mr. Fred Mather. 



Dear Sir. — On my return home from Rochester I found a 

 letter from Mr. A. N. Cheney, giving an account of the dyna- 

 mite outrage at Mechanicville, and stating that he had written 

 the Lake Shore game constable to go over there and investi- 

 gate. I visited Mechanicville a few days ago with the builder 

 of the Troy fishway to look at the dam at that place. I saw 

 Mr. A. C. Johnson, the person who reported about the dyna- 

 mite to Mr. Cheney, and he said that no game constable had 

 been there, and that it was now too late to fasten the crime 

 on any one, from the evidence on hand, although suspicion 



