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trapping or soiiiiiig. Yon told iiu- when hvn\ that wc could have a fish 

 warden appointed, and would like to have you send nie a copy of the sec- 

 tion, so we can go about it riglit, and will send you name. 



The carload of fish you gave us pleased all our members, and others 

 who fisli, and particularly because there are so many croppie and straw- 

 berry liass in it. Please advise us what i)rogress you have made. We feel 

 that tlie tish laws will have same ditticulties to overeome. as game laws 

 had. AVhen those were first enacted nol)ody paid any attention to them, 

 and game was killed at all seasons. Now, liowev(>r. the laws are o])eyed, 

 in this vicinity at least, and we are confident it will Ix' the same with 

 tIsh laws in time. To sum up the situation here, we have increased the 

 stock of tish materially, the size is very much greater, and we have in- 

 spired a respect for the law among the piratical fishermen. 



Yours truly, 



Otto Weiss, Sec'y. 



Pullman, III., Dec. 19, 1890. 



S. P. Bartlett, Esq., Sec'y III. State Fish Com. 



Dear Sir: — Enclosed you will please find a report of my work from the 

 date of my commission to date. You will see that I have taken thirty 

 nets. These nets, with the exception of the ones belonging to Paul 

 Fisher and Louis Anderson, I still have on hand. One net taken on No- 

 vember Tth, was 1,800 feet long — a gill-net. The parties came from Lake 

 Michigan, and escaped me. The four men arrested November .30th were 

 the ones that were rescued by the Hegewisch police. 



Hoping the report will meet your approval, I remain, 



Yours truly, 



Chas. T. BRONSoisr. 



luKA, III., May 28, 1889. 

 Mr. S. p. Bartlett. 



Dear Sir: — The twenty German mirror carp that I received through 

 the Fish Commission November 11. 1885, I put in a pond as directed. 

 Two years thereafter I had occasion to drain the pond and found they had 

 all escaped through the overflow, except five. They tipped the beam at i)i 

 pounds each. There had been no increase up to that time. I cleaned 

 out of pond two barrels of sun and catfish, put the five carp back, and at 

 this date, May 28, 1889, they weigh ten pounds each. I have a pond 

 stocked with scaled carp, but think the mirror much the better variety, 

 as they grow more rapidly, have fewer bones, and are the best food fish 

 by all odds. My mirror carp spawned last year and the young now weigh 

 one pound, at less than a year old. 



Yours truly, 



jAilES B. COLMKS. 



