HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
House, at the head of another level; it 
is owned by Den Smith. He keeps 
sportsmen and acts as guide himself, and 
isa goodone. He will furnish boats and 
provisions and everything for camping 
out, and will go anywhere with parties 
at a reasonable price. He is a good 
cook, and understands all about hunting 
and fishing. His address is the same as 
that of Mr. Phelps, St. Regis Falls Post 
Office, Franklin county, N. Y. Parties 
going to either had better write a week 
or so in advance, and if to Mr. Smith he 
will meet them at St. Regis Falls. His 
place is some distance off the main road. 
About five miles lower down the river 
is the Humphrey Level, eight to nine 
miles in length. Several families live 
near there, and will take a limited num- 
ber of boarders. Three or four families 
live in that vicinity, among whom is old 
Bill Edwards, who has killed more large 
game than any one man in the northern 
part of the Adirondacks. He has killed 
seven catamounts or panthers, and bears 
and wolves by dozens, He acts as guide, 
and will go with parties to any locality, 
but cannot furnish anything but boat and 
dogs. Mr. Dimmick, a resident there, 
wili always accommodate a few boarders 
at seventy-five cents per day, and throw 
in the use of his boat. It would be a 
good place for two or three to spend a 
week or more, who could handle a boat 
themselves, and fish and enjoy the moun- 
tain air at a small expense. Itis about 
fifteen miles from Moira, and if they 
wished to go off to any other place they 
could get Edwards for guide, or some of 
the others there. There are several 
small ponds near there in which trout are 
quite numerous; besides, good trout-fish- 
ing can be had in the river. The east 
branch of the St. Regis empties into the 
Middle Branch near the foot of this level, 
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and along both streams is a great place 
for deer. It was on the East Branch, 
near here, that a party of three killed 
fourteen deer and a bear in one week, in 
November, 1878. Up the East Branch, 
through its whole length to where jit 
rises in Meacham Lake,.is an unbroken 
wilderness, except one place where it runs 
near a traveled road. This is at the old 
Sandford & Skinner Saw Mill, at the 
foot of a level of eight or ten miles. A 
Mr. Sampson keeps a house there and 
boats, and has several grown up boys 
who act as guides; it is a good locality 
for deer-hunting, and trout-fishing also, 
and is a great place for ruffed grouse; 
in fact they are plenty all over the North 
Woods, clear down to the village of: 
Moira. < 
The Blue Mountain House is situated 
in a fine locality, and the view from it is 
the best of any sporting establishment 
ever visited in the mountains. One can 
look from its door over a tract of coun- 
try sixty miles in extent. White Face 
Mountain, in Essex county, is in plain 
sight, also Debar Mountain beyond 
Meacham, and the whole chain of moun- 
tains in the northeast and St. Regis in 
the southeast. It is the best place for 
the sportsman to go to that is easy of 
access, and to fit out from to go to other 
localities not much frequented, to camp 
out, and the cost will not be one half 
what it would be at St. Regis Lake and 
other places east and southeast Of 
course they have not all the extras to be 
found at Paul Smith’s or Martin’s and 
other older establishments, but plenty of 
good food and good beds, with board by 
the week for $4. 
There are one or two places on the 
Malone Road to St. Regis Lake, where 
much better hunting and fishing can be 
had than in the vicinity of the sporting 
