CONTRASTS BETWEEN ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC 

 COAST FIELDS OF SPORT. 



In the Eastern and Middle States there has been for years a grow- 

 ing complaint of game exhaustion. As to fish, large sums were freely 

 devoted to artificial propagation and restocking depleted waters, with 

 a resulting halt in their impoverishment. This movement was also 

 aided by legislation, narrowing the open seasons and greatly reducing 

 the time for sporting enjoyment. Touching this phase of the subject, and 



BOB WHITE 



Colinus Virginianus and Perdix Virginianus. 



also the Pacific Coast contrast to it, no apology need be offered for a 

 quotation from the facile pen of Doctor David Starr Jordan, President of 

 Leland Stanford Jr. University: "Everywhere on the Pacific Slope, in 

 every clear stream of the Cascade, the Sierra Nevada, the Coast Range, 

 Rocky Mountains, and all their flanking ranges, some variety of trout 

 abounds. This region should be the Mecca of anglers, as it is of all 

 lovers of the beautiful and the sublime of nature." 



In the East the trout or charr has almost passed away. The trout 

 hog has devoured him, and the angler is turning his hand unwillingly to 



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