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ber of brook trout taken from the streams of Waushara 
County, with rod and Jine during the past year, or years, 
since trout were first planted in those streams.” 
If you had asked me to enumerate the leaves on the 
trees, or the stars in the sky, I could as easily give you 
the number. When you understand that in this county 
there is the White River, the McCan Pine River Willow 
Creek, Rochacre Ten-Mile Creek and many other 
streams with their innumerable branches, all trout-bear- 
ing streams, and fished by men, women and boys here 
and coming here from all over the State and even from 
as far east as Boston, you will readily see how impossible 
it is to even approximate the number. ‘The estimate 
might be made in ¢oxzs, but not in numbers. 
Your second question, ‘whether trout were known to 
exist in streams in this county: before being planted by 
the commission ?” 
I have heretofore assured you that there were none, 
and I now repeat that having lived here for over forty years 
and hunted and fished everywhere in this and adjoining 
counties, they could not have existed unknown to me. 
I wish to say to the commission that no one thing has 
brought this county into notice and advertised it so much 
as our trout streams. Sportsmen who come here to fish 
all say, that, taking all things into consideration, the 
advantages of civilization and freedom from the annoy- 
ance of flies and mosquitoes, it is excelled nowhere in 
the United States. 
Should be pleased to have you and President Dun- 
ning come up and see us. Truly yours Hod 
‘owe / Ds aa UGH: 
When the paper was concluded, Mr. James said: I 
don’t know that we come fully under that category. We 
have been engaged in a very hard work there, to try and 
keep people fishing out our streams, who have with wires 
and every conceivable arrangement endeavored to clean 
them out. We have now laws that will protect us some- 
