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establishments or hotels. McCollom’s, 
about half way between Meacham and 
St. Regis Lake, is yet a grand good 
place to go for deer or trout. 
Osgood River and Hay’s Brook, close 
by, are. good trout streams. Hay’s 
Brook is the best stream for trout in the 
hot days in July and August, as the wa- 
ter is cold on account of the many springs 
along its banks, and trout run up it from 
Osgood River and Meacham Lake. (The 
Osgood River enters into Meacham 
Lake). There are some large trout in 
it, but the average run from eight inches 
to twelve inches in length, with some up 
to eighteen inches and twenty inches. 
Muddywaska Pond lies west of McCol- 
lom’s some eight miles, and a few parties 
go in this way. Spring Pond, Chain 
Ponds, Baker Pond, and Rice Pond are 
all within two miles of the house. Mr. 
McCollom will accommodate a few 
boarders at from $1 to $1.25... He has 
a large farm, keeps forty or fifty head of 
cattle, has a large ice house and is a good 
hunter. Quebec Pond and Folusby, Jr., 
are six and seven miles southwest of 
there. They are frequented consider- 
able by parties from St. Regis Lake. 
On the whole McCollom’s is considered 
the best place for hunting and fishing on 
that road. The head of Meacham Lake 
is only four miles north, and parties wish- 
ing to go there will take his boat down, 
and they can fish and hunt there if they 
like, as he often does. Meacham Lake 
affords better sport, some say, than any 
of the old sporting establishments, or 
rather localities, which have had hotels 
near them for any length of time to ac- 
commodate sportsmen. Mr. Fuller has 
taken considerable pains to keep the lake 
stocked with young trout, and has a reg- 
ular hatching establishment of his own. 
Salmon trout are caught there weighing 
THE SPORTSMAN’S AND TOURIST’S GUIDE. 
from twenty-five to thirty youndsin May 
quite frequently by trolling. 
For further particulars address A. C. 
McCollom or A. R. Fuller, Duane, 
Franklin county, New York. 
Ragged Lake, the State Dam on Sal- 
mon River, and the bend on same river 
above Titusville, are all good places for 
game and trout, but being near Malone 
they are overrun and fished and hunted 
to death soon after the seasons open, the 
same as it is in vicinity of St. Regis and 
other lakes and ponds in that neighbor- 
hood. The old Ncrthwest Bay Road, 
running across the Lower St. Regis dis- 
trict from east to west, or northwest and 
southeast, is not now in use, only as a 
foot-path, except at the western end. It 
has grown up with bushes and filled in 
with fallen trees so as not to be passable 
with a wagon. 
SARDIS, MISSISSIPPI. 
Hunting is not very good just imme- 
diately around Sardis, but by going out 
five or six miles, a day can be passed in 
the field very pleasantly, and sometimes 
pretty good bags are brought in. If a 
person wants to try his hand on larger 
game, such as bears, panthers, wildcats, 
deer, wolves, or turkeys, he can do so by 
going into Tallahatchie or the Mississippi 
River bottoms, which are but a short 
half day’s drive from Sardis. Or if the 
lover of piscatorial sport wishes to suppy 
his table with trout, he has only to go 
about, say from eight to eighteen miles, 
to a number of clear lakes in the above 
mentioned bottoms, and he surely will 
not be disappointed. 
Sardis is located in Panola county, on 
the line of the Mississippi & Tennessee 
Railroad, and is a village of some two 
thousand inhabitants. It has one hotel, 
where accommodations can be had. 
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