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so that anglers of the United States 

 must be content with land-locked 

 salnlon fishing or go to the far-famed, 

 far-off Saguenay, Restigouche, Casca- 

 pedia, St. John, or other distant riv- 

 ers literally "dear delights" to 

 the north of the St. Lawrence, for 

 sport of King Solomon. During the 

 past year salmon fishing with rod and 

 reel has proved successful on the Pa- 

 cific coast. 



It may be possible that the nation- 

 wide crusade against pollution of 

 river and the liberal attention given 

 to all that relates to conservation, fish 

 culture, and the restoration of public 

 resources now lost or waning, the 

 lowly Hudson might be so purified 

 as to become once more, in some de- 

 gree, a salmon stream, realizing the 

 fond anticipations of the late A. N. 

 Cheney, who gave this subject careful 

 study and devoted to it earnest wbrk 

 worthy of better success than he at- 

 tained while a member of the State 

 Fish Commission. But that is an- 

 other story. 



To attempt to give instructions on 



