Fish Culturists Association 



have visited this section know that lake ; it is some two miles 

 long, and perhaps a mile wide, and very deep, in some places, I 

 believe, over 500 feet in depth, and very rocky. Prof. Mather 

 has also presented the Club with the eggs of the salmon to 

 introduce into Lake Henderson to see if we can propagate those 

 fish. Although I can give you no facts in regard to the propa- 

 gation of fish, I can assure the members and gentlemen here 

 that we are going into this, we hope, in rather a scientific way. 

 We intend this coming season to establish a hatching-house at 

 what are called the Upper Adirondack Works, a deserted village 

 containing a number of deserted houses. We intend to turn 

 one of those houses into a hatching-house. We have now three 

 keepers there, and with those keepers we intend, if possible, to 

 preserve that section, and to introduce all the game fish, as fai- 

 ns possible, that we can. 



I was requested by the members of the Club to state to the 

 gentlemen here that, of course, all the privileges of fishing or 

 hunting upon that section will have to emanate from the Club 

 itself, but if any of the gentlemen at any time during the fishing 

 season desire to visit any portion of that section we should be 

 very happy indeed to extend them a cordial invitation, giving 

 them the necessary ticket ; and no doubt during the season they 

 would meet some of us up there, and we should always be glad 

 to extend them the right hand of fellowship in the good work 

 that is going on. 



I would particularly like to ask, Mr. President, through you, 

 any of the gentlemen a question in reference to, I might say, 

 the dying out of fish. In Preston Pond, some twenty-five years 

 ago, when I commenced going up there, it was a common practice 

 with me to take fish that would weigh a pound and a half or two 

 pounds, and I have taken them that would weigh as high as 

 three pounds, the ordinary river trout ; but in the last five years 



