July 8, 1880.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



451 



CLASS II. 



Literature and statistics of the fisheries and maps, etc., 

 showing the geographical distribution of fishes. 



Silvek : —Prof. G. Brown Goode, 



Assistant, States Fish Commission and Cura- 



tor of the National Museum, Washington, D. C, great 

 chart showing t.],p labors of tbe United States Fish Com- 

 mission, the places where fishes have been successfully 

 located, the fish cultural stations of the United States, of 

 the State Fish Oommisions, and of private fish culturists ; 

 charts of the distribution of American salmonixkc. both 

 natural and where planted, and of the distribution of the 

 herring family, menhaden, etc. 



Forest and Stream Publishing Co., New York, exhibit 

 of thirteen bound volumes (from the first No.) of this 

 journal, which contains articles upon fish culture, ang- 

 ling, woodcraft, natural history, etc. 



Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, exhibition of the 

 new work on " Game Fishes," with large colored litho- 

 graphs after paintings by Kiiboum and text by G. Brown 

 Go ode. 



S. Thaxter & Co., Boston, " Eldridge's Coast Charts" in 

 use by fishermen. 



Honorable Mention in Class IX.— United States 

 Hydrograpbic Office, Washington, D. C, collective ex- 

 hibit of const charts, 



United States Engineer Bureau, Washington, D. C, 

 charts of the inland waters of the United States. 



At the conclusion of the reading of the awards, Profes- 

 sor G. Brown Goode, Deputy Commissoner for the United 

 States to the Berlin Fishery Exhibition, spoke in German 

 as follows : — 



" GENTLEMEN \ Since the first prize of honor, given by 

 the Emperor, has this day been awarded to the United 

 States, it is my honored privilege to speak not only for 

 my own country, but for all others who may have re- 

 ceived prizes. We who are foreigners have seen much 

 in Germany to admire; we have looked upon the .grand old 

 Emperor who, in spite of his burden of years, is always 

 ready to assist any praiseworthy enterprise by his counte- 

 nance and eucouragement. 



''From the depths of my heart, feeling certain that I 

 speak the feelings and sentiments of the thousands of 

 people here assembled from all quarters of the globe, I 

 call upon you to assist me in shouting, ' The Emperor of 

 Germany! The Emperor William! Long may he live !'" 



Whereupon the German " iloch !" was three times 

 given by the vast assembly so loud that old Neptune, who 

 stands aloft in the center of the rotunda, and has really 

 done nothing since the opening of the exhibition except 

 to hold his trident in the air to no purpose, began to fear 

 for the solidity of the fountain and base beneath him. 



The first prize is a magnificent crystal epergne en- 

 crusted with gold and enamel, and containing a globe of 

 purest crystal, upon which is seated a fisher boy holding 

 a dolphin aloft on a spear. It is supported by silver hu- 

 man figures, male and female, the former with spear and 

 conch and the latter with a large pearl, the whole stand- 

 ing about two feet high. It will probably be on exhibi- 

 tion in New York about July 20th. 



An evening reception was held in the Kaiserhof, where 

 about one hundred and fifty guests sat down to banquet 

 in the large dining Hall, which was handsomely festooned 

 with American flags. Songs were sung by a glee club 

 and toasts were drunk, many of which expressed the 

 kindliest feeling toward America and its fish commis- 

 sion. 



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FISH IN SEASON IN JULY. 



TJRBSH WATEB. 



Trout, Sahno fmitintMs. I Maskalonse, Eaax notiilior. 



Bal innn, SWow solar, Pilte or Pickerel, Bsox Juciits. 



Salmon Trout, s-ii'm oiUini-i. \ Yellow Porch, Perca ilnvumeih*. 

 Laod-lueked Salmon, Salmo I 

 titoveri. I 



SALT TTATER. 

 8ea Basa, CentraprMis airarlus. 1 Bluefisb, Pomabomits xalt.atrir., 

 Bheepahead, Archmarywi prohd- Spanish Mankerel, Cy'jt'ttm mac- 



l<icci>luuus. 1 ulatum. 



Striped Bass, Roncus llnneatus. I Cero, Of/Mum reflate. 

 White l'i:ruh.Miirniie.americana. Bonito, Sarda Petamyn. 

 WeakBsh, Cunmcivn rei/altt. \ Klngfish, MonUetrraa nebulosus. 



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TROUT FISHING IN OREGON. 



Astoria, Oregon, June 10th. 

 VT^ROUT fishing this season in the streams around 

 * X Astoria has been attended with only indifferent 

 success. The cause is attributed to the coldness of the 

 spring and summer. As I write (at noon) the thermom- 

 eter indicates a temperature of 57°, and I do not remem- 

 ber to have seen it so high as 60° this season. My lirst 

 attempt was made somewhat more than a month ago. 

 The locality was Jim Crow Creek, on the territory side" of 

 the Columbia and eighteen miles above. This trip was a 

 total failure, only five small trout being caught. Besides 

 these, about thirty small fish, resembling young trout, 

 from three to five inches in length, were taken, which 

 proved to be, as 1 had anticipated, young salmon, These 

 fish are found in im mense numbers in all our trout 

 streams from the head of tide water to a mile above, and 

 are generally thought to be young trout. They are a 

 great annoyance to bait fishers, and are fond of leaping 

 and frolicking around a card of flies, and often impale 

 themselves by falling upon the hooks. I am Indebted to 

 Prof. Jordan, of the" United States Fish Commission, for 

 the means of distinguishing between them and trout, 

 which consists in counting the developed rays of the 

 anal fin. Trout have ten to twelve, salmon fourteen to 

 seventeen, the latter being the number for the Qtrinndt, 

 th a salmon par excellence of tbe Columbia. The second 

 trip was to the Klaskanine. This stream is tile easterly 

 fork of Young's River, which, coming from the south, 

 joins the Columbia a, mile below Astoria. The fork is 

 distant ten miles, and the landing a mile and a haK be- 

 yond. The journey must be male by water, but by keep- 

 ing the boat on the other side of the peninsula upon which 

 Astoria is situated, a walk of a mile saves a third of the 

 distance. Starting early with a single companion, each 

 in a small skiff, we reached the landing and began fish- 

 ing at 9 o'clock. We separated immediately and did not 

 meet again until noon, when it was found that each had 



taken six or seven small trout. After resting an hour my 

 companion was for embarking immediately for the home- 

 ward run, but I wanted to make another effort ; so tell- 

 ing me that he should go slow and I could soon overtake 

 him, he started toward the landings, a mile and a quar- 

 ter below, I was now just below the last house in the 

 clearing, in good fishing ground, and as the sun had 

 grown tpiite warm I hoped to got a few more. Just 

 above me was a pool I remembered. Tbe stream turned 

 from its course by a high bank, makes a sharp bend from 

 west to north ; the pool is in the bend, and below it was 

 a large pile of drift wood that had been there five years 

 to my knowledge. I reached the bend and found the 

 pool still there, but the freshets of the past winter had 

 swept away the drift, leaving only a single large trunk 

 reaching from the high bank into the middle of the pool. 

 The current ran swiftly along the outer bend ; on the 

 inside, where the tree trunk entered the water, it Was 

 deep and dark, with a slight current Betting up stream. 

 This was mv position. Casting into the current 1 saw 

 the line drift down until it reached the log. when it be- 

 came suddenly stationary ; there was no rush or break to 

 indicate a bite, and fearing the book had caught a sunken 

 snag 1 drew it toward "me with a steady pull, and 

 found it yielded to the strain. As the hook neared the 

 surface a silver flash showed me the nature of my 

 prize, and with no other struggle than a steady pull that 

 was all my rod would hear, I drew him up the pebbly 

 shore, a splendid mountain trout — if mountain it was— 

 not particularly plump, but sixteen inches long. Re- 

 moving the hook, I gave a few minutes to a critical ex- 

 amination of this strange capture, it was not a Salmo 

 irideus ; its eyes were too small, its form too slender, and 

 its head too long for that. Neither was it a Clarln, 

 for the hyoid leelh were wanting. Had it been caught 

 in October I would have pronounced it a salmon trout 

 without a moment's hesitation ; but what is a salmon 

 trout doing a mile from tidewater in the leafy month of 

 May? And what is a "salmon trout." Is it a distinct 

 species, or only a large "mountain trout" — Irideus, Clark*. 

 Tsup pitch, as the case may be — returning in autumn from 

 a temporary visit to salt water? Ask me an easy one ; I 

 give it up. My trout is reposing now in Prof. Jordan's 

 alcohol tank, and when the Professor returnsnext month 

 we will see what science can tell about it. Another cast 

 and another fish is hooked, not quite so large as the last, 

 but large enough to make the slender laueewood bend, 

 and tbe reel sing merrily as he takes the line and leaps 

 from the water again and again in his frantic efforts to 

 escape ; but the " Aberdeen "is fast in his throat, and 

 soon he is drawn upon the bank and laid beside his com- 

 panion. The result of the third cast was a iish about the 

 size of the second, but not so good a fighter. These 

 three seemed to be of the same species, and except in 

 size did not differ greatly from the smaller ones caught 

 before. And now that the large ones are caught, the 

 smaller ones come to the front and in a half hour about 

 thirty, measuring from six to to ten inches, are taken 

 from this one pool. These, as fast as caught, are hastily 

 examined, The larger half seem to be of the same 

 species as the first ones caught, but a number show 

 plainly the hyoid teeth, characteristic of the Clarki. A 

 half horn- was spent in trying other pools, but without 

 success, so reeling in my line I started for home, feeling 

 that if the trip was not a great success it was not alto- 

 gether a failure, A week later a trip was undertaken to 

 Young's River. Thi3 stream has a fall just above tide- 

 water, the water being so broken that it would be im- 

 possible for any fish to ascend, though they might 

 descend in winter when tbe water is high. I had a 

 curiosity to know whether as many species of trout 

 would be found there as in the neighboring streams. 

 This trip was the most satisfactory of any made this 

 year. My basket was filled in three hours' fishing, and 

 the Iish were of good average size, as they al ways are on 

 this stream. I am not quite sure, but I think every fish 

 taken was a Ctark'i. Only two incidents worthy of 

 mention occurred during the trip. I was fishing in the 

 " upper basin," a large rocky pool three miles above the 

 falls, when a large trout took the hook, and after play- 

 ing him a minute I prepared to land him, an operation 

 which I foresaw would not be accomplished without 

 difficulty. I was standing on a narrow ledge, less than 

 two feet wide, several feet above the water, the only 

 point from which this pool can be fished, and as a landing 

 net is out of the question in this kind of fishing I had 

 no other way than to lift him by the leader and lay him 

 in a slight depression of the rocky shelf at my feet, This 

 was successfully accomplished, but immediately after he 

 broke the hook in his struggles, and for a minute it was 

 all I could do with both hands and feet to prevent him 

 from sliding into the water j at last he became quiet, and 

 lifting him with both hands I tried to put him into my 

 basket, but he was too large to go through the hole in the 

 cover, so grasping him as firmly as I could with my left 

 hand I lifted the cover with my right, and had nearly 

 got him good and safe when, making a last effort for 

 liberty, he slipped from my grasp and disappeared in the 

 depths of the pool below. If a listener had been standing 

 by, the words he would have heard would have been, not 

 numerous, but of the choicest. Later in the day, when I 

 had reached the "lower basin," a half mil e above the 

 falls, thinking I saw a movement across the stream, and 

 turning my eyes in that direction I saw a fine black bear 

 walking slowly down to the water. He had not seen 

 me, so keeping perfectly still 1 watched to see how near 

 he would come before taking the alarm. He walked 

 leisurely afoug until there was only the width of the 

 Stream, some five or si?: yards, between us, then putting 

 his paws into the water lie seemed on the point of wading 

 across, which would have brought him directly to my 

 feet, but, seeing me, he turned, and w alkin g slowly 

 away disappeared in the thicket. Of course, my Smith 

 & Wesson, bought for such occasions, was safely under 

 my pillow at home. A short walk brought me to the boat, 

 and I reached home without further adventure. I ex- 

 pect to start to-morrow for the upper Klaskanine, and if 

 successful may send you a report. C. J. G. 



aspirants for literary honors and emoluments, who were 

 constantly boring publishers, without ever getting a 

 show on any respectable journal — or deserving it— and I 

 stepped aside. For nine years I have attended to busi- 

 ness, and that is not very remunerative, either. Editors, 

 I will just remark here, have always treated me fairly. 

 The Atlantic, Aldme, Lippincott, and the old «' Pea- 

 Green " recognized— and paid— the nameless backwoods 

 writer handsomely. 



My best hold is the rod, rifle, canoe, camp, and in short 

 the entire list of forest lore and backwoods knowledge 

 comprised in one word, woodcraft. And I am going 

 back to my first love. My fishing kit is revised and cor- 

 rected. The nail-driving, muzzle-loading, hair-triggered 

 rifle, is ready to hand. 



My canoe is readv for launching. She is clinker built, 

 of white cedar, and" the lightest that ever went through 

 theAdirondacks. Weight, seventeen pounds thi, 

 three-quarter ounces. If 1 live, a month longer, there 

 will be another " fool i' the forest." The " melancholy 

 Jacques " may find him, somewhere between the Fulton 

 Chain and thelower water of the West St. Regis, drowned, 

 with a capsized cockle-shell near by. 



For I am going through alone. 



The faithful guide and the festive landlord of the 

 woodland hotel will not work me to any extent. 



There are 5,000 pleasant, shady nooks in the Northern 

 Wilderness, on which a camp was never raised. Colvin's 

 Report shows that the heart-cores of the Wilderness are 

 as yet unexplored. His final map will show not less 

 than 800 new lakes and ponds, never before mapped. 



I have traveled in foreign lands. Ha ve been twice to the 

 Amazon Valley, and I rise to remark that there is but 

 one Adirondack wilderness on the face of the earth : and, 

 if the great State of New York fails to see and preserve 

 its glorious gifts, future generations will have cause to 

 curse and despise the petty, narrow greed, that converts 

 into saw-logs and mill-dams the best gifts of wood .and 

 water, forest and stream, mountains and crystal springs, 

 in deep wooded valleys, that the sun shines on at this 

 day. Nessmuk. 



Pike County Resorts.— When Milford, Pa-, first be- 

 came known as a summer resort, only a few years ago, the 

 numerous streams were literally alive with trout, the 

 woods were full of game, and city people who went there 

 for a few weeks could fish and hunt without molestation. 

 But the greedy farmers who, thinking the hotels and 

 boarding houses were making more money than they, be- 

 gan posting notices, warning the people against fishing or 

 hunting on their property under penalty of the law. 

 Some of these farmers subsequently removed their notices 

 and allowed the city guests to fish through their property, 

 provided they would pay one dollar per head, for the 

 privilege. The expert anglers were willing to pay so 

 long as there were plenty of fair sized trout in the creeks, 

 but" when the farmers themselves would catch all the 

 large trout early in the morning before city fishermen 

 got around, and sell them to the hotels in Milford, or ship 

 them to New York, the anglers became dissatisfied, and 

 have since spent their summers elsewhere than in the 

 Delaware Valley. Gunning has also been prohibited in 

 many places : therefore, outside of good drives and 

 healthy air, Milford has few attractions left. Within one 

 mile of Milford are the famous Sawkill Falls, among the 

 finest for their size in the world. The Raymondskill Falls, 

 three miles below Milford, are declared by many to be 

 superior in grandeur to the Sawkill. The Raymondskill 

 can be sought and seen free of charge, while the owner of 

 the Sawkill has posted notices forbidding people to 

 visit ;them, consequently parties who do visit them do 

 so at the risk of being put to much trouble. These pro- 

 hibitions have greatly reduced the popularity of Milford, 

 and unless some means are devised to bring about free 

 fishing, gunning, and the liberty to visit the celebrated 

 cataracts, its reputation as a resort will in a very few 

 years be gone entirely. 



At nearly all the other popular resorts above and below 

 Milford, fishing, gunning, etc., is allowed, free of charge, 

 and these places will undoubtedly receive many of the 

 guests who in former years spent their summers in 

 Milford. 



A Note From Nessmuk.— WUlsboro, Tioga County, 

 Pa., June (Mft. — Aditor Forest and Stream: — Many 

 months ago some old admirer of my weak pen sent an 

 inquiry to you asking after " Nessmuk," erst of Porter's 

 Spirit. I did not respond. I dropped the pen in '71. It 

 was pleasure, but, like Mr. Micawber's " coals," "not re- 

 munerative," I found there were several thousands of 



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OUR FRIEND THE WATER SPANIEL. 



STONEHENGE tells us that, " although a class for 

 this variety is often included in the prize list of 

 shows, the exhibitors are generally of a most miscella- 

 neous character, and I do not pretend to be able to settle 

 the points of the breed with anything like accuracy or 

 minuteness. The following description will probably serve 

 to include all the variations: Head, long and narrow : 

 eyes, small : ears, long and clothed with thick curls ; 

 body, moderately stout, and barrel-like, but not so much 

 so as the field spaniel: legs, rather long, straight am! 

 strong ; feet, large and spreading , stern, bushy and curly 

 coated ; color, fiver and white, varying in the proportion 

 of these colors," While we quote above the description 

 of the standard authority of what the water spaniel 

 should be, it is very far from our intention to commend 

 or decry any particular breed, or recommend any typ- 

 ical dog in this article, but rather call to the mind of our 

 shooting friends that there is such an animal. Now that 

 our wise legislators have decreed that dame woodcock 

 shall be allowed a new span of life for the purpose of 

 bringing up her chicks in the way they should go, and to 

 give her time to don her new dress when her home 

 duties are done — our pointers and setters hare little else 

 to do but keep cool and whisk away the flies. But the 

 summer months are the happy holidays of both those 

 who work and play, and lovers of the Held must have 

 their outing. Hence let us make a timely suggestion, 



