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dozen more good salmon rivers, accessible by regu- 

 lar steamer from Halifax to St. Johns, and thence by 

 steam tug or chaloupe. Anticosti Island furnishes 

 the Jupiter and Dauphine rivers, which may be 

 reached by chaloupes from Quebec in the fishing 

 season; and then come the salmon rivers of the St. 

 Lawrence system, which are annually becoming of 

 increasing importance as rivers for rod fishing. Two 

 years ago many of these would hardly have been 

 looked at by sportsmen; yet at the auction of leases 

 held at Quebec in January (1890), they brought fair 

 prices, while one favorite stream on the Bay Chaleur 

 realized as high as $1,250. As it will be interesting 

 to obtain some idea of the revenue which the Do- 

 minion derives from its leases of salmon rivers for 

 purely angling purposes, I append the list of those 

 which were officially advertised at the January sale, 

 and have added several which were disposed of at 

 private sale, as well as some which were withdrawn 

 on account of disputed fishing rights claimed by the 

 proprietors of the Mingan Seignory, besides a few 

 which are of small account. As it stands, it is very 

 nearly a complete list of all the salmon rivers of the 



