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is on the menu for Wednesday, April IGth. They value e;irp in 

 N^ew York evidently. (Applause). 



Mr. Clark: I tliink that should go in the proceedings with 

 liis report. 



Secretary : Certainly. 



Mr. Eoot: I think they put the carp so high that nobody 

 Avill order it. (Laughter). 



Mr. Seymour Bower : Perhaps it was the Ehinewine sauce 

 that carried the order. 



Secretary : It is an electrotype — it is genuine — there cannot 

 be any question about it. 



President: The date of the menu containing the carp is 

 April IGth, 1902. 



Mr. Seymour Bower : Referring back to the remarks of Mr. 

 TVhish, during the session of the Legislature last winter we had 

 •occasion to collect some information along the same line, and I 

 recall one item that T would like to have incorporated in the pro- 

 •ceedings. We addressed a letter to the Superintendent of a cer- 

 tain railroad asking him what he considered the value of the 

 fishing industry to his road, and lie wrote us quite a lengthy let- 

 ter, stating that their management considered (and he went in- 

 to the details) that it brought them between $200,000 and $300,- 

 •000 a year for railroad fares alone — that is on one single road 

 in our state, on account of the fishing and fishing resorts in 

 northern Michigan. 



Mr. Clark : We have half a dozen other roads equally as en- 

 thusiastic. 



Mr. Whish : The foxy farmer of the Catskill region has dis- 

 covered that a stream which has bt^n stocked with fish is a valu- 

 .able commodity, and he is fencing it off and leasing it to gentle- 

 men who want private preserves, and the railroad companies are 

 making the greatest kind of a kick about it. Just before I came 

 .away I received a letter from the attorney of one of the largest 

 roads running in there, saying tliat something would have to te 

 -done to stop this. That is what our railroads think of the value 

 •of stocking waters. It is the law that wherever a stream has 

 l)een stocked by the state of New A^)rk it cannot he included in 



