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tlirouglioiit the Province, and that, as the fault in general lies with com- 

 panies or individuals in a more or less prosperous condition financially, 

 the penalties for any infringements of these laws should be made pro- 

 portionately high. 



The great resources of Ontario in timber would appear to indicate 

 that in the by no means distant future there will become established in 

 the various sections of the Province large and important paper mills. 

 The localities in which this is the moBt likely to occur are, as a rule, 

 those in which the rivers that would be largely utilized for driving the 

 logs to the mills contain in abundance some of the finest classes of sport- 

 ing fishes, and it is to be noted that the waste products of sulphide mills 

 are particularly injurious to fish life. There has, however, been dis- 

 covered a process of utilizing these waste products, and already in the 

 Adirondacks it has been put into operation in connection with sulphide 

 mills there established. By this process a material is manufactured to 

 which the trade name of glutrin has been given, and which is used for 

 briquetting, moulding and various other purposes. It has, moreover, 

 been successfully demonstrated that, run in connection with a sulphide 

 mill as a by-product, the operating expenses of producing glutrin will 

 be more than covered by the profits, so that it would seem advantageous 

 to give this fact the widest possible publicity amongst those who are at 

 present, or will be in the future, interested in the establishment and 

 operation of paper mills. There can under no circumstances ever be 

 the slightest excuse for permitting the pollution of waters and the con- 

 sequent destruction of fish by factories which make use of chemicals, 

 for there are in every instance Avell known methods of destroying and 

 rendering innocuous the waste products which it is a matter of but 

 slight expense to provide for, but especially so is this the case when 

 means are available for converting the waste products into even a slight 

 profit. The harm wrought to the sporting fisheries by the chemical pol- 

 lution of rivers and streams in the past has been so great and so ap- 

 parent that it plainly behooves the authorities to see to it that no fur- 

 ther damage is effected in this direction, especially in those regions 

 which have hitherto escaped this great evil. 



Limitation of Catch. 



In the case of five of the most important sporting fishes of the Pro- 

 vince regulations have been enacted by the Dominion Grovernment 

 limiting the numbers of su^h fishes which .may be killed and carried 

 away by any one angler in any one day, and forbidding the killing of 

 fish of less than stated dimensions, the actual measurements varying in 

 each particular case. The fish in question are: The small-monthed 

 black bass, large-mouthed black bass, mascalonge, speckled trout and 

 pickerel. 



It cannot be gainsaid that the limitation of catch is a most wise 



