THE EEPORT UPON No. 13 



lations, prohibiting firearms to be taken into the reserve during the close season for 

 these animals, making this reserve a tourists' paradise, not only for fishing and 

 •shooting but also for boating and canoeing of all kinds, with scenery that cannot 

 be surpassed in the Dominion. It is, however, surprising to know to how few peo- 

 ple of the class who are annually hunting for such sport, the Nepigon attractions 

 are known, and more especially to Americans, who form the majority of our visi- 

 tors on the Nepigon waters each season. The fish and game regulations were well 

 observed this season, no prosecutions being necessary. As the country tributary to 

 the waters, particularly Lake Nepigon, is made more accessible, by the building of 

 the Transcontinental and Canadian Northern Eailwa}^®, and the attractions of the 

 district becomes more generally known, the Nepigon Forest Eeserve will be very 

 largely patronized and the land around the shores of Lake Nepigon, also the island 

 in the lake itself, will be in great demand for sites for summer cottagers, house 

 boats, Btc, by these tourists, who desire to have a permanent place where they can 

 spend a few weeks each summer with their families and have good sport in the way 

 of fishing and boating and good hunting in season. 



A new and neat hotel, "The Nepigon Inn," was erected and opened this season 

 at Nepigon Station, to cater to the tourists and other traffic and has proven a boon 

 to the tourists visiting here, and should be the means of bringing a larger number 

 of visitors to the Nepigon waters than heretofore, as such an hotel was always 

 badly needed here. He feels certain if some Judicious advertising was done by the 

 Province to make known the attractions of the Nepigon Forest Reserve, such as 

 scenery, boating of all kinds, fishing and shooting, they would greatly benefit and 

 thereby increase receipts from angling permits, hunting licenses and rental of sum- 

 mer cottages and camp sites. There are some Americans already applying for such 

 camp sites and permission to erect and maintain house boats, launches, etc., on 

 Lake Nepigon for this purpose, but if these attractions were better known, they 

 would have one hundred visitors to every one they have at present. There are a 

 number of Sportsmen's Shows held at various points throughout the United States 

 each winter and he thinks if specimens of our fish and game, in the way of fish 

 skins mounted on birch bark, framed, also moose, cariboo and red deer heads 

 mounted, together with a series of photographs of the scenery, were put on exhibi- 

 tion at these shows, in charge of some intelligent person who thoroughly under- 

 stands the conditions here and who could explain the various means of sport and 

 scenery to be enjoyed, excellent results would be obtained in increased revenue. 



Lake Hukon (Noeth Channel). 



Overs&er J. B. Bradbury, of Blind River, reports that there has been no serious 

 infringement of the law in his locality so far as he was able to ascertain and he dis- 

 posed of only eight angling permits, although he challenged quite a number of 

 pleasure boats. He finds nothing to complain of and the people either produced 

 their license or satisfied him that they were not fishing and anxious to know the 

 law in connection with the Game and Fishery Department. 



With reference to the deer hunting, there was a large number of hunters in the 

 woods and many deer and moose shot. He noticed that nearly all the red deer 

 shot were bucks this year, very few does. The moose were very plentiful, one party 

 of eight, seven non-residents and one resident, brought in eight large moose and 

 six deer. As the law is, if there is one or two good shots in the party they stay 

 till he fills their license for the whole party. With reference to the clause on license 



