FOREST AND STEEAM. 



129 



Mr. Dudley Belph'a score, made on Tuesday, July in. be 

 tween half-pasl three and seven o'clock. Tiiuimometer '.i'j 

 to 04 i 



"l R 5 4 6 5 5 S S 5 5 4 5 5 B 4 79 



18 6 -'. 6— M 



D00 ,:, ,'i S 6 5 S 5 4 4 & G 6 r. a .■ 



Willi a Remington rifle, Dupont's FFG, Benjan shells 

 grains, 



Rem 215 fill .Inn Hivim. Jr Rem 



MaJ Wiu Arms, Item U10 ET Manning, liwu..... 



JplW K Reauad, Rem ml KG Eyrlch, Item 1-7 



Toljlt „ 1,'>H 



Yours truly, .1 , Crescent City Kifle Club. 



Hamilton, Ontario, July IS.-— Several triembi 



in. Bide Club were out at their ranges on the l;!ih inat, 

 to lest, the merits of the Remington breech-loading rides, with 

 which they are now armed. IN n lucted in 



Hie usual way, with one sighting ili il atei ih can ;i . and their 

 ho in; ■'■ excellent considering that the marksmen liad 

 had ii" preliminary practice to find elevation, eic. The 

 lier was all Unit, could lie wished for, but the wind, 

 although not strong, was a little tantalizing. Mr. Hepburn, 

 of tin- Remington Worts, Hfara, eameover to teachthemen. 

 The Victoria men say that their new weapons shoot with 

 much less recoil than 'the muzale-1 )Rdera, and are much more 

 easily manipulated than was expected. The following are 

 the scores of the men v. ho took the full number of shots. Mr. 

 J. .7. Mason and Mr. Oruit, of Toronto, did not tire their full 

 number, but their shooting could not easily excelled as far as 

 it went. 



J .A dam.. 



( suo r, r. 5 5 5 4 r, ( 



5 It 4 a ft 5 5 o 



I 1,000 I 8 4 4 5 B S 3 



I tl 2 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 



J ini'J B- 5, * 6- 5 S ■A 5 



I 1,000 5 .-.52544 5 



i 800 4 8 4 4 5 S 4 3 



I 90(1 4 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 



I I LO " ." 6 5 S 5 5 5 4 



I 1 4 5 5 4 4 4 



J 9011 tl 5 5 5 B 5 B 4 



I I I B 5 fi 4 4 5 6 S 



I .'»i 8- 6 6 4 4 fi B 3 



J gtlU i r, 4 B 4 B 5 3 



,' ,0110 II 3 5 5 :, B ;, ' 



I ROD 9 t ,1 4 a 5 5 5 



-' ."> 1 1 1 v 5 4 5 5 



I 1,1 IH) 5 4 .>! 4 « ?• 3 



8IHJ 4 a i a a 4 5 



4 4-47) 



6 6-48 J. 139 



6 5—4* i 



4 5-14 1 



6 B— 4VV183 



4 3-42 i 



5 4-11 i 



5 3— 43'- 132 



5 4— « 



3 5-4'-' l 



4 5— 48 ,1-139 



5 3-44 1 



A l'.lin - '■">" 



.-' 9J 



i 



4 5—44 I 



4 ii 3 S '< 4 8 5 3 4-H1 UpD 



3 4 4 5 II 5 3 1 2 .-.—35 1 



' 6 3 n 4 5 4—81 I 



3 2 6 B o I -31 - In: 



3 3 4 3 ii S-S4J 



On the following day afew men Were out with their Snider 

 rifl.es> and bj tmple for out- own National Guards- 



men in the coining match at Oicedmoov we give the follow- 

 ing top BCi 



1 3ilO 3 4 4 4 K 5 K— ar,l 



-Wt 



Leon 



| .'mi 

 IfflH) 



5 5 5 4 5-33 S3 



4 4 5 4 5— 3llj 



5 4 4 4 4— 2S) 

 LteutAOam -JSH 4 4 5 3 5 4 6-30-88 



" 4 4 5 5 4-3UJ 



— The ninth annual prize meeting of the Ontario Kifle As- 

 sociation will be held mi the association ranges, Garrison 

 ,n onto, (.m Tuesday. August 28, and following 

 days- Over £3,000 are offered' in prizes. 



Lieot Col. W. D: Otter, Sec., Box 850, Toronto. 



English Bifte Shooting -Lontten, July 19. — At "Wioi- 

 lil. • !.,u today, in the shunting for the Kolapore Cup, at S.00, 

 500 and 60(1 yards, the score of the English team aggregated 



808, and I 



in th 

 yards, I 

 England B13. 



the sen 

 laml. 091. Th 

 Iris), team win 







I ft ' 



the Elc 



Shield, «00 



.Kiting at the Ulin-yaid 

 Scotland, 1.000 ; Eog- 



d terminated with the 

 of points. The (ii gli- 



icorcd 1,568; Euglaud, 



est possible Bcore was l.MJO. 1 

 1,404, and Scotland, 1,430, 



The match between members of the Houses of Lords and 

 Commons was won by the Lords team by the following score : 

 I : Commons, 370. The highest possible score was 

 500. 



Competition has commenced at Cambridge, England, for 

 I, . i. Bti on of a rifle team to compete in America. The com- 

 petitors have elected Lieutenant Eenton, of the Irish eight, 

 as a member of the team, although he was unable to take part 

 in the competition. They used the Metford and -Bigby small 

 bore rifles. There was a Strong, varying wind and occasional 

 showers. Each competitor is to have each day fifteen shots 

 at 800, 900 and 1,000 yards. Ferguson, of Scotland, to-day 

 heat anything done at Wimbledon by making 208 out of a 

 possible 225. The scores of the others were as follows: Rig- 

 by and Djas. of the Irish eight, 197 and 186 respectively ; 

 ■ "iglish, 185 and 184; Dunlop, 

 ir Henry Halted and Mr. 

 1>2-. Mr. Gilder, of Harrow, 

 Diversity, and Major Young, 



Pent on and Hit 

 Of the London Scottish.. 

 Pigott, of the Bug isli 

 177; Mr. Eraser, of Caml 

 of the Irish eight, each 17 



—The writing-riflem 

 international match qu 

 in view of the aclsno 

 year fell to the Ame 

 drawing the targets t 

 shoot, sounds rather high ordered, 

 is precisely as good as another 



in on the Pacific. L\fr, discussing the 

 estion, gets off the following, which, 

 wledged fact that the big match last 

 ricaus mainly through their luck in 

 which they were accustomed to 

 To say that one range 

 to contradict the experi- 

 ence of tiveiw'rifle shooter. The Life says: "A good 

 marksman can shoot over one ground as well as another, 

 and he has no important advantage in shooling in a match 

 at a target at which he has been accustomed to practice. 

 The new-comer can soon learn all the tricks of wind, light 

 and atmosphere peculiar to any particular locality, and he 

 sufficient practice for that purpose be- 

 fore he engages in a match. 



In competing for a Creedmoor rifle recently at Salt 



Lake City, six matches were shot, which was finally won by 

 G. A. jtears, whoso best score was 13 out of a possible 50, 

 200 yards. 



A. championship match between the Houston, Galves- 

 ton and Dallas long-range rifle teams is expected to take 

 place at the horticultural exhibition, to be held at the 

 former place in August. 



Xhe Boston rifle-writers compliment Mr. Lowell as 



in' lows • " The future meetings threaten to be simply gath- 

 erings of the M. E. A. members to see Mr. Lowell carry off 

 the honors, unless he ' lets up ' on his practice." 



$e;i mid §itw #.?/»»#. 



FISH IN SEASON IN AUGUST. 



PA.I.T WATBlt, 



iviinfiisii, itmti 



vDx, 



TBODT M.IKS I'OB AIKlnST AND SCl'TEMBEH. 



Gniv CmiiK, No. 10 and 11.— Body, silver-Bray moliulr tipped with 

 orange stlk ; feet, light gray haclcle wound over peacock's hurl; wings 

 and set*, hyaline. 



I'.p.myy coir.iN, Ko. 10 and It.— Body, gray and bright claret iiejliiin 



: ■ '- i"!i. iliirk gray liaekle wound over peacocks herl ; ino»s nn,J 

 seucgray hyaline. 



The gnat nies named for April. 



The Quaker for evening and moonlight. No. 7 and S. Body, gray 

 wound with, honey-yellow lnieklea: wings, made of leather lioni an 



uwi's wing. 



The white moth, for dark nights, No. 8 and T. Body, feet and wings 

 a pure white. 



; hi Hies continue on the water until the close of the season. 



At ilus season use the small flies for day ds.hiug, and l!i largi lies 

 for evening uml night. 



Fish in Market.— The fish supply for the past week has 

 been very small, presenting a marked contrast with the 

 abundance of a week ago. Our quotations arc as [ 



Striped bass, IS to 85 cents per pound; bluelUi, 3 to 10 

 cents: salmon, green, 20 cents; frozen do, 25 cents: mackerel, 

 ; shad, Connecticut River, 50 cents; weaktish, 10 

 cents; white perch, 15 cents per pound ; Spanish mackerel, 

 18 Cents; green turtle, 15 cents; terrapin, $13 pefflo^en; 

 halibut, 15 cents; haddock, 8 cents: king-fish, 25 cents : 

 codfish, 8 cents: blacklish, 10 to 15 cents: herrings, 6 cents; 

 flounders, 10 cents; porgies, 10 cents; sea. bass, 18 cents; 

 eels, 18 cents; lobsters, ID cents ; shoepshead, IS cents; soft 

 clams, 30 to CO ce.nl s per 100; pickerel, 15 cents: salmon 

 : -ds : Lmg feland trout, $1 ; Canada do., 50 cents; 

 hard shell oralis, $3 50 p'T 100 ; soft crabs, §l go per dozen ; 

 whitefish, 15 cents ; frog legs, 35 cents per pound. 



The Rio Grande Tr.onr. — This beautiful fish inhabits 

 the head waters of the Rio Grande, New r Mexico; Sangre de 

 Christo Pass, Colorado; and Brazos and Chama rivers, New 

 Mexico. As a game fish it cannot be surpassed. Hallock's 

 new book, the ' -Sportsman's Gazetteer," contains the first, de- 

 scription of it that we have seen. Something more is furnished 

 in the following letter from an army officer, dated July 1, 

 L871 



'• Three days ago I pitched mv lent at this point, head 

 wafers of the Rio de la Jara, at the fool of the snow range 

 of the Rocky Mountains. The stream here is a mere brook 



six tdeighl 'feci wide and tWO to two and-ahall' deep, run- 

 ning through a grassy valley without a tree or shrub. As 



ele- 





into the Bio Grande, you will understand that the 

 pretty strong currenl here, and that the (yoalher as well as 

 the water U cold. Ice formed in my lent night b( fore last, 

 With this introduction, knowing your interesl in ironl 

 fishing, let me tell you that I never saw or heard of ml [tin" 

 tbequal what we have here. The first dav in camp 1 caugtit 

 twenty, the ucxt day ouc-hundrcd-and-eighl, and to-day 

 eiglify. The first and second day I went up stream where the 

 fish are smaller but more numerous ; to-day down stream, 

 where I found them larger. I fished with two artificial flies 

 on iii> ] i L 1 1 ■ , nnc about eight, inches above tie- nlhtr. The front 

 took the fly, but I found it a great improvement to put on the 

 same hook with the artificial fly a grasshopper or the head and 

 shoulders of one. I frequently caught, two trout at a time, 

 and often, too, found that one trout had taken both hooi<s, 

 showing their avidity. The first day I walked as quietly 

 along the bank as I "could, but found that I could not avoid 

 alinming them, as there is no cover on the bank. Yesterday 

 and to-day I crawled to the bank on ray belly and laid per- 

 fectly still, on opposite side from the sun anil out of sight. 

 and threw the fish back to an orderly, who took them off and 

 baited hooks. It kept us both busy.' The average weight of 

 the 108 yesterday was about one-third of a pound. The 

 average of the eighty caught to-day is about, one-half a pound. 

 I inclose a sketch herewith. 



We value this sketch very highly, and shall preserve it 

 with Care. The Gazetteer says : " The color is yellowish, 

 brown above, with small spots composed of decussating lines; 

 a red band on each side of the chin." 



Black Bass at Sharbot La ke.— Take 6 r. M. train at N. 

 Y. Central, arriving at Watcrtown 6 a. m. without change of 

 cars. At 7:30 a. m. take train to Cape Vincent, then boat to 

 Kingston, Ontario, thence forty-six miles on Kingston and 

 Pembroke R. R. to Sharbot Lake, arriving at fi p. m. This 

 Jake is fourteen miles long and four wide, thickly studded 

 with islands. A good hotel. $3 per day. You can catch 

 more black bass in one dav than among the Thousand Islands 

 in a week. Hubbard Clark caught 71 last Friday with the 

 wind in the northeast ; weight from 2 to 3l lbs. Tbe railroad 

 was completed to this place last year, and until then no white 

 men fished in the lake, consequently it has not been fished 

 dry, and you don't, have, to wait all day between bites. This 

 is the best place to fish I ever tried. ' R. p. p. 



Kara of Lobsters.— On Saturday, July 14, Mr. P. H. 

 Weissman, of Newmarket, X J., caught on the Cholera by 

 means of book and line, a huge lobster, which Weighed 

 eighteen pounds. Itisnowon exhibition at Mr. W,'s resi- 

 dence, and measures three feet, one inch in length, and eleven, 

 by seven inches across the claws, 



—There was recently eaptured in a seine near Galveston, 

 Texas, a graudicore, six feet in length, and weighing 125 

 pounds. These are known as the gamest fish of the gulf, and 

 it is believed Impossible to take them with hook and line* 



— Postmaster Chase and Major Thos. McCarthy, Oi 

 quae, returned to that city July 17, from a fishing ti p Lo th 

 i: I! I i on the Bay Chaleur in Canada. They went 

 with Indian guides and birch cafioes far up that river, and 



- ■ lowing accounts of the sprjrl ko be I'oi litre, Mr. 



Chase carried home as trophies of bis skill two satmon I 

 iug respectively twenty-five and twenty-seven pounds. 



—Mr. Eaton, of New Bedford, Mass.. cap 

 striped baas last week Off Nu thin I, el which 8 era 

 fifty pounds each. Good catch ! 



"Vermont — Newport, Jain IS.- Lunge fishing in Mcmphre- 

 , | e try fail this spring. 



few miles from hers, avora tnj inuirtQi oi 1 pound. 



Grol dO trout Saturday, weighing 33 pound! 



'MAXH—Sjir/nr/JlrM. — .Striped liassaic caught, in great num- 

 bers al the tails, eight, miles below the city i :ln teavi I seen 

 tipped the beam tit thirteen pounds, Several salmon and grilse 

 havealse, been caugtit. in the Connecticut this year, for which 

 we return thanks lo the Pisli Comuiisisoners. S. J. II. 



Movements of the Fish 

 arrivals reported tit I his pot 

 21 from the Banks. 38 En 

 trips, and 1 from Labrador 

 light, and prices show an t 

 COdfish have been ghoUt I 

 570,000 lbs. from Georges 



'.;' 'Me -I i' . 



ami l. r i,iii)'i lbs. from ' leor 



.t. Fleet.- The number Of fishing 



. lie pasl Week, has been SO, viz., 



u Georges, 20 from rnackereling 



The mackerel receipts have been 



dency, The recei 



500,000 lbs. from the Bat 



: i liali ml Ci ' its have been 

 1 205.000 lbs. fresh trora the Bank 



0( NE 



epi 



ed It 



e— Me, 



',nm Laic, July 17. — Since mv last we 

 >m oait to fly-fishing. Our spring oi baU-fish- 

 illy good; everybody caught trout. All hands 

 are willing lo allow that my hutching works arc a, good thing. 

 I have had to combat, the very strong prejudice of the a 

 all the time 1 have been at work: but this year they show less 

 of if, and begin to talk encoaragmsdy. i thinfe now I will be 

 able to gel, a little help, as sevet ,! .,; ,le ■. e..i ■ ,. e ,,kedme 



to helpthem si. nek niher t '.n ,i and -'i. i in i". e I >,. 



This is whatlhave watted for. I vent them to tafe an in- 

 terest. Otjf fly-fishing is first-rate, k, . ,-„ v , |,-.... e,|ehe„ to 

 boast of, but one rod brings in from twci , rind 



trout as ihn result or one naves ii-. kee k'i ii k rim I 

 size. Several of one pound each have bei n lakeii during the 

 Btfeek. One afternoon last -n-eck I ran , , , ;• pond, 



and with my 7-o/.. Orvis ro I e.i e' e , ,,,,, ,:, n M two at 

 one cast of abalf-poumi each. II we.-. |. lie same Hide rod that 

 I took ke- I .i. - : -o.-.. i ■ e .', ik .. i e. i I in i iii the fall of 



1875 i have been tun t, chub d lci , sum 



fiouts into ( Heat Pond fo five ; ira. The watet 

 that'it is very diiiie.uii, toe.ien „ iie.nit., though we have taken 

 more this year than any season b -f ire, and thus far ha - 

 seen one of less than one pound, till very fat. with sloe ai | 

 full of young snniish and chubs. A. R. Ik , , , 



l, 'SAU,ieoiin,ekt:re-.|..r i -r-,v,.e,,.:„e.V. V . Jul,, VI. -Here- 

 with wcinclosescnieof salmon catch mi the Nepissiguit River, 

 N. B., Of Mr. Jas. R. Chatoberlin and writer. Severn] 



were taken, weighing fl'OmSJ to 5 pounds. We spent Several 

 days on the Miramiehi, but were too early. We saw Messrs. 

 G. Co Kennedy, of Roxbury, Mass., and K. C. l'ieree oi' 

 Bpringfielil. al'llathursl, who were just, from the Metapediac 

 where ihey had yery good sticcess considering the short time 

 tliere-think their largest Ash weighed Tl pounds. The early 

 season Seemed to make fishing no earlier than usual The 

 present is no doubt the besl time folic ou the rivers of .\ T . p. 

 but ten days 



Jtldge 



sprained 



ed i 



later for the Mirainichi as that 



ts. 



a it i m party, bu1 unfi itnnately 



' °" the Kepissiguil s 



slay mcaino, 'itongi ne Kini'd one 13-pound salmon 0J , 

 Mirauncbi, which was the only one taken there, We had a 

 splendid lime, besides seeing the great, fire ai, St. John; 



W. S KraraAj t 



[Our correspondent's score comorises iG salmon for two 

 rods, weighing aiSf pounds in the aggregate. ,,, i ; 

 weighed 16 pounds— Ed.] 



Pour fishermen at. Hinmanville, N. V., in two days' fishing 

 caught a total of 285 fish, of which 107 were black bass, They 

 were all taken with rod and fly. 



4 WiscoNsiN-ista,* Same Bcniktd, Jub, lO—Ghapman 

 was up the shore yesterday doing up the rc.ek n ,n 

 caught. 23 fish, and they weighed 38 pounds ,,„ , , 



The rains are over, and (be streams are getting clear, and 



kefiing good. Three young boys are til :-.,eie, ; .. ...... . 



id catching so many that they are salting. The'boys ai-» 



i V . K Kt rriii'i. 



Cleveland. 

 ? MiftjuoAN— Gh'imd a 



respondent took a, train 



W. heroin 



'.— Oi 



R. for M 

 a i I 

 b a 



7 your cor- 

 .apius ana 1; me i 

 lOur found 

 - ' ate n raritj ii 



"' ; ig aoiisi 



__d of mine host DaW- 



<i> et the ^av.'d> llcsi Itie print: e 1 nd; ele em: i, -jollv 



a. Nexl ,,e, ig v., i . i for d„ , , ,, ..,,. 

 beaubftll Stream, aboum.mg m ■ .e and graylings. Leavmg 



the streamafter six bonis ,, g. g 



found eighty-seven handsome trout u. tie .:..,. , k , rl four 

 days Bahing, and they were nearly a repetition of the first. 



! Cut. 

 What oxr Parmer Did in Mikhbsota— PerJum, Minn 

 July 1 1.— Some six miles from here, over a level prairie road' 

 but just in the edge of an oak forest, lives one Enrich Stein' 

 bach, a farmer, wdio bus on his homestead a. lake live hundred 

 yards by three hundred and sixlv, being almost a perr, et oval 



with a depth oi : -oe,e ai yfc. rj ,; us , a] .^ 



was but, a ''thing of beauty"; to the eye now it is the most- 

 heavily stocked with pike, pickerel, suckers and black bass of 

 any of the hundred lakes in the vicinity, though it, has no out. 

 let or inlet, being surrounded by high banks. It, recei 

 stock in this way: Enrich, fishing in the Red River one 

 afternoon, thought to himself, "ho* much i handV 



twmild he if n,y lillle lake had tish in it: then I could fl a „ 

 every day as there would be no walk to speak of." Jumping 



up he starred for home, and seme ,,- -,: ,,,, ,,,..,, f 



l "V, ai "-' :i " ; o h, ;:'i' : ";' l ' , ,:"'";7 ,hl11 !- In " ■"■". -ems he 



had them well filled with the, varieties mentioned, and was 

 soon wending his way home to the little lake. They have 

 since increased to such an extent that they will jump at a bare 

 hook, and indeed bite at your feet if immersed in the water 



P, O. 



