"^ THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S JOURNAL. 



[Entered According to Act ot Congress, In tl>e year msi, by the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, In the Office of the Librarian ot [Congress, at Washington.; 



Terms, *4 a Ycur. 10 Cts. a Copy.l 



Six Mo's, %-i. ThieeMo'^'U. 



NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1881. 



( Vol. 16— Wo, 13. 



\Nos. 3!l and 40 Park Itow, New York. 



CONTENTS. 



Ewtobisx :— 



A New North Carolina Club ; The Kitty Hawk Bay Club ; A 

 Canada Angling Club ; An Example from the South ; 

 The New York Fish Commission ; NoteB 243 



The Sportsman Toubist :— 



The Franklin Club at Beelfoot ; Antelope Hunting in Colo- 

 rado ; Minnesota Sport • 244 



Natural History :— 



New Catalogue of North American Birds ; Breeding of the 

 Great Horned Owl ; Canada Birds ; Notes 246 



Game Baq add Gun ;— 



"Black Powder" Explosions; A Call to Reform; A Hunt in 

 "West Virginia ; Methods of Trapping Beaver ; Shore and 

 Inland Notes ; Game Notes from Many Quarters ; Who 



Shot "Old Alex.?" Notes 246 



" Cawp-Fibe Flickekings 249 



Sea and Riveii Fishing :— . 



Smelling Blueflsh at a Distance ; Weighing vs. Guessing ; The 

 Trout Streams of Curry ; A Veteran on Fishing Tackle ; 

 Notes 249 



Fish Culture :— 



A Contribution to the Biography of the Commercial Cod of 

 Alaska; The Detroit Hatchery ; New Hampshire ; Carp.. 250 



The Kennel :— 



The New York Bench Show ; The San Francisco Bench Show ; 

 Stolen Dogs ; Fast and Slow Dogs ; Dick, the Blind Cur 

 Dog ; When the Spring-Time Comes ; Kingsley and His 

 Dogs ; Notes 253 



Rifle and Teap Shooting:— 

 Range and Gallery ; The Trap 256 



Yaohtino and Canoeino :— 



The America Cup ; Fairy Tales About Yachts ; Casting a Lead 

 Keel ; Not Responsible ; Yachting News 256 



Answers to Correspondents 257 



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dog kennels, etc. The preliminary labor Col. Tucker offers 

 to assume himself, -without charge, and the general manage- 

 ment of the property, after the association is formed, also 

 placing at the service of the club his pack of seventeen well- 

 trained hounds. It is further proposed that the association 

 shall be governed by a board of managers, to be elected by 

 i he members, and other matters to be determined by the will 

 of the members. 



This necessarily brief outline of Col. Tucker's plan is suf- 

 ficient to show its inviting character. The opportunity to 

 secure an excellent club house in a fine game district is one 

 not often found, and we do not doubt that some of the 

 readers of the Fokeot and Stream will avail themselves of 

 the advantages offered. The names of gentlemen who wish to 

 associate themselves in the enterprise may be sent to us, and 

 we will gladly endeavor to promote the speedy formation of 

 the Gaston club. 



Col. Tucker is one of the best known sportsmen of the 

 Southern States. His fund of field reminiscences, adventures 

 and anecdotes is inexhaustible, and to gather with himself and 

 comrades, after the sport of the day, to listen to the stories 

 of men and things in the past would be to us one of the most en- 

 joyable pleasures of a stay in the club house. This in itself 

 would repay us for the trip. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



Thursday, April 3S. 



A NEW NORTH CAROLINA. CLUB. 



rjlHE quail grounds of North Carolina are to Northern 

 -L sportsmen what the grouse moors of Scotland are to 

 English sportsmen. The number of strangers who visit that 

 State for sport is yearly increasing. If the people of North 

 Carolina are wise enough to protect their own interests by 

 restricting the excessive killing of I heir game, this influx of 

 sportsmen tourists will be unabated, and the advantages ac- 

 cruing to the residents undiminished. 



Among the game centres of the State one of the most in- 

 viting is Gaston, in Northampton County. Quail are ahun- 

 dant all about for an area of thirty miles, with other birds in 

 goodly numbers, and ducks and geese on the Roanoke from 

 October to March. Within that ctoinpass there is not a pack 

 of hounds, and foxes and deer are in consequence numerous, 

 and the pursuit of them successful. Our valued correspond- 

 ent, Col. Goode Tucker, of Gaston, whose many fox chases 

 in his hale old age have been recorded in the columns of the 

 Forest and Stream, proposes to organize a club of sports- 

 men, with headquarters at Gaston. Riding by I he old Gaston 

 Hotel one day, it occurred to him that here was just the spot 

 for a yearly rendezvous of congenial spirits. The hotel is a 

 substantial brick structure, with accommodations for fifty 

 guests, and was huilt before the Greenville & Gaston Rail- 

 road collapsed. It is now unoccupied and somewhat out of 

 repair, but can be put into good condition at a small 

 expense. 



Col. Tucker's project is briefly this : He wishes first to or- 

 ganize a social hunting association of twenty - members, ten 

 of whom shall be from the North and ten from the South, 

 and our friend proposes to banish politics and political 

 opinion entirely from the association. The shares are fixed 

 at $100 each. The fund of $2,000 will be used to purchase 

 the hotel building, with several acres of very productive 

 land belonging to it, to make necessary repairs, build stables, 



canvas back, redhead, black head, widgeon, teal and other 

 kinds of duck. Swan, geese, brant and snipe, deer and bear 

 are also plentiful, and the waters abound with bluefish, Span- 

 ish mackerel, mullet, sheep's head, sea trout, spot perch, 

 striped and black bass, oysters and diamond back terrapin. 



We have ever deemed the ques ion of game preservation 

 one of national importance, and have felt a growing interest 

 in this region, whose very remoteness and inaccessibility, 

 rather than the intelligence of its people, have combined to 

 protect and secure from extermination its vast, varied and al- 

 most numberless flocks. 



THE KITTY HAWK BAY CLUB. 



THE organization of the "Kitty Hawk Bay Sportsmen's 

 Club" will be regarded by a large number of gentlemen 

 sportsmen throughout America as a progressive and timely 

 movement toward the preservation of our choicest varieties oi 

 wild fowl and the rarer species of game fish, which, if prop- 

 erly protected in the localities which they frequent during 

 their migrations, would for many generations to come afford 

 hunters and anglers rare sport, combined with opportunities 

 for mental repose and hodily invigoration so much needed by 

 the overworked in all out large cities. 



The ruthless destruciion of canvas back, redhead, black 

 head and teal ducks in the waters of Currituck, Kitty Hawk 

 Bay, North Carolina, during the month of October, 1880, by 

 natives and market-shoo ers who employ batteries by day and 

 fire by night, is a circumstance greatly to be deplored. Dur- 

 ing the period mentioned canvas back and redhead ducks 

 were slaughtered by the thousands and packed in barrels,' 

 only to decompose before reaching market. Such a general 

 and wanton destruction as this of our very choicest wildlowl 

 is shocking to the sensibilities of every true sportsman, and 

 cannot often be repeated without the mbst serious conse- 

 quences. 



It is plain that these shooting grounds must pass into the 

 possession and control of well-managed club organizations, 

 or a marked decrease and rapid extinction of game, now so 

 abundant, will surely follow. 



The various clubs heretofore organized in this section have 

 found it difficult to secure legislation favorable to their inter- 

 ests, chiefly because the clubs themselves have owned com 

 paratively little territory or shooting privileges. The Kitty 

 Hawk Bay Club, owning as it does nearly fifiy thousand 

 acres of land and controlling a water frontage of over fifty 

 miles, will, by reason of its vested rights, become a leading 

 factor in obtaining such legislation as is now needed for the 

 preservation and protection of game. We hardly need urge 

 the importance of this matter, as judging from 1 he character 

 and standing of the gentleman projecting this club its suc- 

 cess in every direction would seem already assured. Cer- 

 tainly, with telegraphic facilities already established at Kitty 

 Hawk and the early completion of the Norfolk and Elizabeth 

 Railroad, the matter of communication is most satisfactorily 

 settled, and the distance from New York is now covered in 

 about twenty-three hours instead of eighty hours as was for- 

 merly the case. The latter advantages will be greatly appre- 

 ciated by members of the club living in New York, as they 

 have rarely if ever before been combined with such unusual 

 opportunities for really first-class shooting and fishing as are 

 here offered. That the great future value of these vast acres 

 of our choicest fowl and fish is beginning to be appreciated 

 is attested by the very general inquiry and demand for these 

 properties (since they were secured for the Kitty Hawk Club) 

 by parties at the South as well as at the North. The variety of 

 shooting ought to satisfy almost any sportsman, as it includes 



A CANADA ANGLING CLUB. 



IT gives Forest and Stream much pleasure to note the 

 proposed formation of an angling club, which will have 

 it* headquarters at Lake St. Jean, at the head waters of the 

 Saguenay, where most excellent winninish or land-locked sal- 

 mon fishing may be enjoyed. The enterpris - is projected by 

 a genlleman well known to the anglers of Canada and of this 

 country, who knows the country thoroughly, and whose enjoy- 

 ment of the sport o be fouud there has prompted him to de- 

 vise a means whereby others may share ike same. The pur- 

 pose of our friend — who has already, we believe, secured the 

 land— is to build a suitable house for the accommodation of 

 the club members while on the ground, and to put this in 

 charge of a man who shall live there the year around, keep- 

 ing a cow, poultry, etc., and cultivating a vegetable garden, 

 all for the benefit of the club's table. There is room for from 

 ten to fifteen rods, good sport being assured. The season ex- 

 tends from June to September 10, being best in July and to 

 the middle of August. 



The expenses of building the house, making roads and 

 other necessary preparations, will cost from $1,000 to $1,500. 

 There will.be either ten or fifteen members, and if the latter 

 number, the entrance fee will be $100 ; if there are only ten 

 members, the fee will be $150. The annual dues for the 

 maintenance of the property thereafier, $10. Each member 

 will be allowed to invite one companion to accompany him. 

 The fares from New York to the grounds will not exceed $60 

 for the round trip, and supplies can be obtained at Quebec. 

 Besides the angliug attractions of the country, there are 

 several varieties of game in abundance and within a short dis- 

 tance from the club house. The surrounding country affords 

 bear, beaver, martins, minks, cariboo and moose. 



We commend this movement to the attention of our ang- 

 ling friends, being confident that they will avail themselves 

 of the opportunity here afforded to secure— a share in the ad- 

 vantages offered. We may add that the enterprise is due to 

 the efforts of Mr. J. U. Gregory, of the Department of 

 viarine and Fisheries, Quebec, a gentleman for whose many 

 courtesies American anglers have been indebted in the past, 

 and whose name is a sufficient guarantee of the success of 

 the club. Further information of the conditions, of member- 

 ship in the club may be obtained on application to the Secre- 

 tary, vV. A. Griffith, Esq., Quebec, Canada. 



AN EXAMPLE FROM THE SOUTH. 



THOSE who supposed grit and enterprise to be absent 

 among Southern sportsnvn were complexly taken 

 aback by the bold, well executed and successful venture of a 

 New Orleans yachtsman in sending his vessel two thousand 

 miles and more in search of the best of her class to sail in the 

 New York Bay regatta last year. Others who imagined that 

 our friends from Dixie could teach us nothing in the way of 

 mechanical contrivances of a nautical sort had occasion to 

 modify their opinions when Mr. Israel's crack, Susie S., went 

 over the line. There is, to the honor of New Orleans and 

 Southern yachtsmen be it said, as live a spirit of the true 

 sort, as much and more "go ahead," as good and better man- 

 agement, as keen and keener competition, as honest sailing, 

 more method and far greater public interest manifested among 

 all classes than in any city of the North. We are not sur- 

 prised, therefore, at the offers made with liberal hand to in- 

 duce a visit from tho higher latitudes, and live in hope that 

 the owners of some of the fastest and smartest of our " open 

 boats" may find the time to ship their racers around to Lake 

 Ponchartrain. Those who own craft of the second order may 

 as well stay at home, for it takes a live ship, a quick creW 



