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some very fine specimens have been taken. Eeceipts from licenses were not quite 

 so good as last year, but much better than I had expected considering present 

 conditions. I should like to see a good hatchery established here in connection 

 with the Park. There is not a section of the Province better adapted to the 

 purpose. Several important rivers take their rise in the Park, and by keeping them 

 well supplied at their source, the stock in the rivers and in many of their tributaries 

 is kept up. This has been well demonstrated by the small-mouthed bass placed 

 in these waters. The Madawaska river and its feeders are now well stocked for 

 two hundred miles from its source. Formerly there were no bass in these waters. 

 I had a very fine specimen sent me this year weighing five pounds three ounces, 

 and larger were reported taken. I hope the Department will next year send me a 

 good supply of bass and trout fry from the hatcheries to place in the waters near 

 the hotels, which require keeping up more than the distance streams. 



Special crate for shipping live beaver and other animals, Algonquin Park. 



After several years' experiment 1 am convinced that the close season for lake 

 trout here is too late, and I would strongly recommend its being changed in the 

 Park to the fifteenth day of October. I liave noticed that all trout caught in these 

 waters have spawned out shortly after that date, and I am satisfied from former 

 observations that this applies to most of our northern waters in the Province. 



Complying with your instructions a telephone line has been constructed from 

 I?ainy lake to the village of Whitney a distance of some sixty miles, the poles of 

 the Grand Trunk liailway being used. This line is up-to-date throuQhout; we 

 have sixteen 'phone connections at the most important points. The line has not 

 only been of great benefit to us in our work, most of all in enabling us to get word 

 quickly in case of fires and to arrange for assistance where required, thereby pre- 

 venting several fires that would have been serious, but it has also been a great 

 convenience to the hundreds of visitors and campers. Eainy Lake, the present 

 terminus, is only fiffppu miles from the town of Kearney, and I hope in the near 



