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our people with food and comfort; with the best of raiment, 
with homes adorned with all that is beautiful, and replete 
with such surroundings that will conduce to the lengthen- 
ing of our days, and to take off the sharp edge of erroding 
care that so stealthily eats into the life of even the strong 
man. 
Among the tasty tid-bits that so many enjoy is the 
planked whitefish—the Coregoni of Lake Superior—be- 
coming year by year a scarcity. 
The States west of Lake Superior—Minnesota, the Dako- 
tas, Montana, Colorado and Jowa—demand. whitefish 
early in the season, and continue the demand as long as 
there are possibilities of getting them. In all these West- 
ern States they are staple articles of fish food when they 
can be procured; but the decrease is rapid, and unless 
some means are devised to restock the waters that formerly 
produced them, the fishermen will not find a school of such 
fish in a single season’s catch. 
At present we are dependent upon Canadian fishermen 
to largely supply our Western markets. We are brought 
to face the subject, American fishermen cannot get white- 
fish within one hundred miles of their home ports, and 
year by year the nets and boats have to go further up in- 
to Lake Superior to find any whitefish for the home mar- 
ket, let alone the demand for the same fish for the market 
in the States west of us. 
Mr. Milner sounded the notes of warning: ‘‘ That the 
whitefish were decreasing in 1872.’’ At that time the 
fishermen could get nets fairly well filled with them in 
Lake Superior waters within 12 to 20 miles of Duluth; to- 
day the fishermen must go 160 miles up into the same lake 
to get any of these fish, and if the ice is late in breaking 
up and going out, the fish have visited the grounds and de- 
parted before the fishermen get to the fishing grounds. 
These fish visit Isle Royale late in the fall to spawn, and 
