Sixth Annual Meeting. 



sportsmen — coming from Saratoga, Sandy Hill, Glenn's Falls, 

 etc. I met them up at one of the head-sources of the North 

 River, when we were camping there together, and I found they 

 had been in the habit of going up there for years past, and that 

 they took out some twenty odd thousand pounds of trout and 

 salted them. I then conceived the idea why would it not be 

 advisable to attempt to preserve certain portions of that district. 

 I called upon the superintendent who had charge of the 

 Adirondack Iron and Steel Works, who owned the property, 

 and with him we formed a small club of ten or twelve gentle- 

 men to preserve especially those ponds, the Preston Ponds, 

 consisting of three ponds, good-sized sheets of water, and some 

 500 feet of land around. This year we have enlarged the extent 

 of our Club very greatly, taking in townships 45, 46, and 47, of 

 Essex county, containing as it does about 951 acres. This 

 property belongs entirely to the Iron and Steel Company. It 

 contains almost the entire head-sources of our North River, 

 consisting of Lake Henderson, Lake Sandford, Newcomb Lake, 

 Preston Pond, Lake Colden, Mud Pond, Boreas Ponds, Lake 

 Calamity, and others. No doubt you gentlemen are all aware 

 that the fish that we have had in that section of the country 

 have been very limited, consisting only of the trout, the lake- 

 salmon, pickerel, perch, and a few of the other ordinary fishes, 

 and until we ourselves placed them in those waters last year, 

 we had not a black bass of any description, nor had we any of 

 the salmon at all. As soon as we concluded to preserve this 

 large tract, I commenced a correspondence with Prof. Baird in 

 regard to trying to procure certain fish to introduce into those 

 lakes, and through his kindness he has presented to the Club 

 about 5,000 of the California salmon, which he desired us par- 

 ticularly to introduce into Lake Henderson, which is one of the 

 largest sheets of water we have. Perhaps some of you who 



