1914 GAME A^D FISHERIES. 21 



Wolves, tiTiiber, brush aiid^ coyote, are increasing in an alarming degree, 

 and are very destructive to small game. 



Lynx very numerous. 



Bears scarce. 



Foxes increasing. 



Hares scarce. 



Beaver, mink, weasels (or Canadian ermine) increasing very rapidly. 



Musckrats scarce. 



Otter, saw a few. 



Grouse (partridges) are not so plentiful as last year, owing to the large 

 number of wolves^, foxes, owls, hawks, crows, red squirrels, and w^easels. 



Ducks scarce, there are no feeding grounds, he saw a few mallards and 

 ruddy ducks. 



Geese, a few flocks passed over. 



Fish of all kinds are plentiful; viz., whitefish, pickerel, lake trout, pike 

 (northern), suckers. 



Lyng in most of the lakes. 



Black bass in a few small lakes in the south of the Eeserve. 



He is pleased to say that the law has been well observed in a general way. 

 Two dead moose were found and reported last spring. He imagined that they 

 had been drowned while breaking through the ice near the shore, one had his 

 leg caught between two rocks. 



Rainy Eiver District South of C.P.R. 



Game, fur bearing animals and fish are plentiful. 



He is sorry to report that the Game Laws have been broken ruthlessly. He 

 has heard of several dead moose having been seen, some not touched, merely shot 

 for pleasure, and others with the hind quarters cut off and the rest left to rot. 

 Several moose have 'been killed on the railway track. 



Near Banning and Mine Centre the wolves are increasing in an alarming 

 manner. 



This district is completely different from those in Eastern Ontario, because 

 it lias to be patrolled by canoes in summer and on snow shoes in wiirter. The 

 Indians come in from Savanne, as far south as Banel Lake, trying to sell moose 

 meat to the section men on the railroad. 



Last winter there was a great deal of trapping done near Atikokan and 

 Banning. 



Since Overseer Aymer has had authority to lease a launch he has donfi good 

 work on Rainy Lake. 



All the fishermen he has seen were satisfied with their catch this summer. 

 He thinks it a pity that Eva Lake was leased as it is a good lake for angling and 

 easy to get at. The trout are veiy gamey. He is glad to report that the lessee 

 has not netted this lake. Over twenty people visited it for angling this summer, 

 and he strongly recommends that it should not be leased again. 



He has made several trips up the Big Turtle River, Little Turtle River, 

 Elbow, Mink, Banel and Sleep Rock Lakes, and the fish seem to be plentiful in 

 all these lake^:. 



