THE ANGLER AND HUNTSMAN 27 



"Dear Sir: In reply to your note, I beg to say that 

 I have used one of your reels for 18 years and it is yet in ex- 

 cellent order. The make and fashion of your work is quite 

 unsurpassed. 



" Faithfully yours, 

 " JOSEPH JEFFERSON." 



The "Milam" is a combined multiplying and click reel, 

 and is therefore equally available for fly or bait fishing. 

 It multiplies four- fold and so light is the friction of its mov- 

 ing parts that a single smart stroke of the handle produces 

 hundreds of revolutions of the spool. In bait casting the 

 reel is used "clear," i. e. without either alarm or rubber, 

 and with a little practice, the bait may be dropped with ease 

 and precision on any desired spot within 50 or 60 yards. 

 For fly fishing it is customary to use the drag, and w r hen 

 desired (as is usually the case), the alarm or "click," but 

 any of these features can be utilized singly, or all of them 

 collectively at will. Thus, by their use, the reel may be 

 transformed progressively into a multiplying, click, or a 

 free running reel at your pleasure. These changes are 

 produced by sliding disks on the side of the reel and do not 

 complicate its operation. Pinions and pivots are of tool 

 steel carefully tempered and fitted with greatest accuracy. 

 No castings are used in this reel; nothing but wrought met- 

 als. Plates, caps, handles, etc., are all cut from hard-roll- 

 ed sheet metals. The reels are still made by hand, with pains- 

 taking care, now, as always since the industry was start- 

 ed about eighty years ago, and they are made in the same 

 little Main street shop in the city of Frankfort, which 

 Ts located on the Kentucky river, near the Elkhorn junc- 

 tion, both streams long noted for the black bass found 

 therein. 



Interesting History: 



Judge Shackelford Miller, of Louisville, Ky., rendered 

 an opinion in the suit of B. C. Milam & Son, asking for an 



