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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[S3PTEMT8JIB 29, 188l. 



day on a hunting expedition up the Loup and Dismal, with 

 fourteen dogs, seven horses, ahout a ton of necessaries, and 

 ten thousand rounds of ammuniion, to be gone fix weeks. 

 Elk are very plentiful in those localities; audthepartv are, lor 

 the next th 1 ee weeks, going lo shoot chickens northwest of 

 here. -T. R. D. 



[We know the Loup and Dismal country well. Many a 

 pleasant, day have we spent, on these rivers, and many a suc- 

 cessful hunt have we made in the region which thev drain. 

 Our old friends, Pawnee La Shar and La Shar-u-Kiltibut'/., 

 introduced us to the action many years ago, when it was in 

 deed a great game country, but also a great. Indian country. 

 "We are glad thai, the game still exists and trust that the Indi- 

 ans are now no longer troublesome.] 



Texas Game Notes.— Willis, Texas, Sept. 16 —The 

 weather is turning cooler now, and we are turning our atten- 

 tion to deer and fish. The deer are excessively fat, and the 

 ''running season" begins now in this country. Some line 

 bucks have been killed by my friends. We hunt, them at, 

 this seaso i by sitting for them with rifluS; for as the deer are 

 more active at tlis time, the chances of shooting, especially 

 the Old bucks, by sitting for th.-ru is greater than' by walking 

 about. This country is blessed this' fall with a good mast. 

 The bears will get very fat, and we expect fine duck shoot- 

 ing when the weather grows colder. Ducks are making their 

 appearance already in small numbers. The bear hunters 

 will have great times this winter. Great many bears here, 

 and increasing all the time. I shall write you before long, 

 and give your correspondent some instructions on calling 

 turkeys.— C. L. J. 



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Blind fob Duoks— Pensacola . V}*.— Some time since 

 your correspondent and a parly of gentleman look a trip 

 across Pemacola Bay to San la II. isa Si and to try to shoot 

 Borne of the ducks that abound in that body of water. As there 

 were no marshes within six pre'ghl mi'es of. he houseatwhieb 

 we were boarding, we took n small skiff a'nl covered it well 

 over with dead biusb, and the mm. in the stem sculled us 

 along very noislcssly. But for some tea-on the ducks were 

 very wild, so we could not get any shots at. all. Now, could 

 some of the readers of the Forest and Stheam tell me of 

 any way in which I could devise a blind so lhat 1 could get 

 within sbooiug distance? This season promises to be a fine 

 one for clucks as there is plen i y of wild rice: there is also 

 any quantity of quail, doves arid field larks around. — H. T. 



New Jrksey Game and Fish Pkoteotive Society.— Tin? 

 third annual meeting of this Society was held at Plain field 

 N. J., Sept. 21. Considerable business of importance was 

 transacted. The Secretary reperted thai the membership of 

 the Society was rapidly increasing. The. following named 

 gentlemen were elected a. Board of Directors to serve for one 

 year: J n rues 8. Vossoller, Isaac Brokaw, M. W. Schenck, J. 

 W. King, W. L. Force, lloderick Kobertsoa, William B. 

 Dunn, Israel Ten Eyck. E. P. Thorn ; President — James 8. 

 Vosseller: Becretary— Wjh, d jfarce; Treasurer— Wm, E. 

 Jones; Vice-Presidents: (Jeorge P. Buydatt, John I. Holly, 

 Percy C. Ohl ; Honorary Viee-Presid-nts : Fred. Volckman, 

 of New Y rk City; Gen. W. Jl. Slerlinsr, of Plaiufield, N. J-: 

 James English, of Elizabeth, N.J.; Win. B. Kunkin, of Jer. 

 sey City j Counsel— Win. B. jlaxson, of Plainfield. 



MABSAcnrsKTTs BatBikd b'nooriNO — Boston, Mass., Sept. 

 21, 1881.— Tuesday found roe at the Old Colony depot, wail- 

 ing for the first train to f-'cituate. A j'' 

 three-quarters brought me to my dest 

 friend, I was in a short lime on m; 

 which border the town of Marshflelc 

 found plover and other shore birds fa 

 tfeey had not arrived in large flocks u 

 Sep'. 2. I inquired of Bevera] perso 

 were of good shooting this fall, and 



easterly storm one cm get more birds than be can cany 

 home. Board can be had very reas inuble, the general price 

 being $1 a day. The fare from Boston to Scituate and return 

 is SI. 10, and to Marsh field Si. 40. The latter place would 

 be the most convenient to stop at, as the marshes ate only a 

 short distance from the station. — F. L. 



A Bag of Teal— Hertford, Conn., Sep'ember 1§—Mdit r 

 Forest and Stream :— The l J ont of this city chronicles a shot 

 which deserves record in your columns : A party of gentle- 

 men had a wonderful piece of luck while shooting rail the 

 past week. One. of the number saw seven teal ducks driving 

 direct for the boat, and fired, killing five with the fir- 1 hand 

 and the remaining (wo with the second. Cons ; dering the 

 light charge of powder and ihesmallness of shot used, we can 

 only say that this luck — if it was luck — was ncvir equahd 

 before, except in the case of the five pound bass caught by 

 an Asylum street merchant while camping out at New Hart- 

 ford, Conn., some ten days ago.— Xlck. " 



Those Hamilton Dkooy Docks.— Hamilton, Sept. 17. 

 Editor Forest, and Stream: I am sorry to say that ihe li'-v 

 decoy ducks I advertised in your paper have been disposed 

 of, but, not in the way I intended. I was absent from home 

 for ten days after I put in the advertisement, and on my re- 

 turn found many answers to it ; but when I reached the house 

 I learned that all the ducks had been killed in one night by 

 some kind of vermin, either a skunk or a weasel, the only 

 wound being a small hole under the wing. 1 think it must 

 have teen the la'ter animal, as the yard is not more than ten 

 yards square, and my two setters were loose, which I think 

 would have prevented a skunk from getting in his work so 

 successfully. A. 



King and Baktlktt Lake— September 17.— At Hutchins 

 Camp, at King and Bartlett Lake, Maine, since September 1, 

 the following score has been recorded : September 1, a large 

 black bear was killed by Dr. C. B. Porter, of B ston. He 

 was estimated to weigh 300 pounds. September 10, a large 

 caribou, dressing about 450 pounds, was killed by another 

 Boston man. Reference. Mr. John J. Bussell, of Plymouth, 

 and Mr. Allen Danforth Bursar, at Harvard TJni versify. Sep- 

 tember 15, two moose, one a yearling cow, the other a mon- 

 ster male, 6 ft. 8^ in. from ears to tail; 6 It. T in. high at 

 the foreleg, and 5 ft. 10 in. high at hind leg ; girting 5 ft. !)i 

 in., and estimated to weigh 1,000 pounds. Same references 

 as above. Mr. O A. Hutchins, Eustis, Franklin county, 

 Maine, is the proprietor and host at the camps. — W. B. N. 



Gamb fob Chicago Sportsmen— Chicago, September 19. 

 — I leturned this morning from Wolf Lake, III., where I 

 have been on a day's shoot. My bag was a poor one ; it con- 



tained eleven teal and four wood duck, five jack snipe and 

 two yel ow legs. I shot from a boat and did not use decoys. 

 I killed over thirty ducks but only got fifteen of them. The 

 rest fell in the rice ; and as I had no doir I was unable to get 

 them. Rail are here in millions, but they are not molested, 

 as we do not consider them game here. Snipe, plover and 

 other migratory birds are putting in an appearance, and by 

 the first of October we will be enjoying tine shooting Chick- 

 ens are getting scarce. —Ten Bore. 



Mr. Rked Explains — IndianapJis, Sept. 14. — Editor For- 

 est and Stream : If your correspondent, "Buck," will read 

 the game laws as published in your paper he will find what 

 light we have to kill deer on the Michigan Peninsula during 

 the last of August. He is only a month and a half out of his 

 reckoning. Th • true inwardness of the whole matter is that 

 he is mad because he was not along. C> *op a man up in the 

 city and then let, him read that his brethren are having sport 

 in the woods and he is bound to rush into print. — Tours 

 truly, My kon W. Reed. 



E can aba, Mich., Sept 81— HOttpr Forest and Stream:— 

 I see in Fouest and Stream, Septembers, "Buck" wants 

 to know what right Rev. Myron W. Reed and Ora Pearson 

 had 1 1 kill deer in the Brule River region, Michigan, in the 

 month of August. The law allows the killing of deer ia the 

 Upper Peninsula, August 15, if they are not in the red coat, 

 (or rather out of it) I think it doubtful aiiout finding other 

 than red coats even now. A party of three from Chicago, 

 last week above here, killed nine deer; used what they could, 

 and left the rest to rot where i hey camped. Perhaps I should 

 give names but will not for Ihe present. — A. F. Y. 



Texas Dtjokb— Indianola, Ttx is, September 19. — Had a 

 heavy storm of wind and rain on the 15th inst., which flooded 

 everything, a day or two previous to which and since blue 

 wing.d teal and pintails begin to arrive. The ponds and 

 slouahs are now full, and I think we will have fine duck 

 shooting this season. Weather now clear and cool.. A. 



Louisiana Duck Shooting — New Orleans, La., Sept. 19. 

 — We are now having teal duck shooting and some excellent 

 sport at it. The weather has been too warm for shooting up 

 to th s time. We are now having cool weather and several 

 panics si art out to-day. Our law is off now and quail are 

 very plentiful, also papparbolts — S. 



Cazekovia, N. Y., Sept. 22.--Dr. J. F. Phelps won the 

 Weudell gold badge at the club shoot to-day 1 . The Trap 

 Maker's Union lost it, but console themselves by saying that 

 they have had it the most number of times. Weather is very 

 dry and birds are hard to find ; five or six is a good day's 

 work. Hammehlkss. 



Romij, Georgia, Sept. 25. — Fine sport is anticipated here 

 ibis season, which opens soon, with an abundance of part- 

 ridges and turkeys. Gun club has about closed for the sea- 

 son ; some fishermen still linger on the banks yet. S. 



Bellbvihi, Mich., Sept. 16. — Ducks gone from here; too 

 much low water; marshes all dry: plenty of partridges when 

 frost comes. C H. 



Notes from tub Rail Meadows — Richmond, Va., Sept. 

 19. —On Wednesday list there was a strong easterly wind. 

 About two o'clock I found a friend; arranged to go sora 

 ;hooling wiili him ; 1 urriel home; packed up four hundred 

 cartrdgc, and cariied a lew larger ones for stray ducks, 

 faking the train, we a. uved. at 5.30 p.m., at the White House, 

 y-five miles from Richmond, on the Fork Rive 



Wood, 3d; n. F. Miller, w, 



satunlw, sept. '".— B. 

 Wood. 17: .inc. Alburger, l 



Chas Powell, m— ftM fli 

 Kiln. M; Or. Karsni>r,J| 

 hi, i .: .1. Wesley Row, c 



ilburgeMflfc Frank Sa 

 n Waflrilrigton. 2P; B T?, 

 Mr. Tmvnsi'nd, 9-B2J 

 ios Warldlngton, 10; 1 



leo McConnell, 8; Rfl 

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Tinv from i lie Importers, Th'' ''est Blacp in New York City 6 



w. &• r. scott ,v s„n lireceh-l.oad'T, Iran the highest ro the 1 



grade. 10. IS. Hi or-2" bores, is at. i liarles I.. Hitzmann's. 943 1 



wav, N. Y., who Imports them direci from these celebrated mal 



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|#r md j§iver Jfishhtg* 



FISH I IN SEASON 



FRKSH 



Black Bass, Micropterus satmoides 



and M. patlidns. 



•..., r e, Esox nobilior. 

 Pickerel, Jim* reticdatiis. 

 Pike or Pickerel, Esox lucius. 

 Pike-perch (wall-eyed -pike) 



StizoUthium amerimmmi, A'. 



griemm, etc. 



\ OCTOBEId 



WATER. 



Yellow Perch, Perca /< 

 Striped Bass, Room* I 

 White Bass, Moccus en 

 Rock Bass, Ambloj; 



species). 

 War-mouth, Chtsrutbr, 

 Crapple, /w.m./« n 

 :;.!.■!:• .'.-ir, Pomoxi/so 

 Chub, Semnlilii cor-,, 



SALT WATEK. 



Sea Bass, CmtroprtitU atrariv*. I Wcakflsli or Squet.ague,C»w 

 Striped Bass or Rockflsh, Roams \ 



liiuxrtu*. La Payette or Spot, Liostonw 



While Perch. .Wormr. amerfemta. g'iraos. 



Bluellsh or Taylor, Pamatuwin I Cimmiel Bass, spoi or Re 



sattatrix \ ,s-/,<v,f,i,.; »,-, :,7,,'t..,,. 



Scup or Porgla, Slmtotumua orgy- j BJleepsrie&rl, jtroftoacwffw.jw 



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 own) canoe over to the 

 which is situated two 

 i Pamunkey. This club 

 id abou 1 ten years ago. The lodje is a two-story 

 house, wih all the accommodations necessary for a first-class 

 hunter. I arose at daylight; woke John S.; drank some 

 coffee, and in leu miiuues we were in the marsh. I shot-a 

 haminerless, full-choked gun, wishing to try it on sma'l game 

 at close range, with 2 drs powder, thin wad, and little less 

 than J oz. of shot No. 11, pink edge wad. It answers admi- 

 rably well, not mangling the birds at ali. After going to the 

 house to replenish l he inner man, we start' d ducking. 1 shot 

 lour b ii" wing teal ; one was about thirty-five- or forty yards 

 off, and I killed him with a sora load. When we met at I be 

 bouse we had between us nearly seventy sora and five duck«. 

 We sent them to fi tends in Richmond the next morning. The 

 cartridges gave out, but we raked up some and reloaded 

 Others, and tried Hi. m ajain. After spending two of the 

 bappie t days of my life we started home with a grand total 

 of 1,235 soia, 18 ducks, and two king sora ; and I also shot 

 one ycllow-l.ggi d snipe. Are ihey rarj ? The sora are more 

 abuiiiiant this year than they have been for a 1 .ng time, and 

 notwithstanding the severe winter the partridges are very 

 plenlihil.-R Kan, ii 



Ai'i't.uiAi :um u.u:, Sept. 23.— I and a friend were down at 

 l.ir/.ucti'.- rail and n ed bird slio ting and we found plenty of 

 birds. I had a Very go id pusher, W. P. Wood, llu knows 

 evoyhook and crook on the Delaware around that place, 

 and has three sons that aie very good pushers also. I banged 

 forty-three rail ami thirty-one reed birds ihe first day 1 was 



That's the sport, to throw- the ny, and In a Hall a mhmte tofl 

 quickly out. Though the whole earth Is given to the chUdfl 

 man, none bur we jolly flshersget the plums and raisins out offl 

 the rivers which run along the hills.— Chasles Kingslew 



FISHING AT ESCANABA. 



BY J. D. iTON. 



THERE is but little of interest to be said of EscanabM 

 is a quiet, summer resort for those who would esSj 

 from the torrid temperature which has prevailed fifl 

 South. Its greatest, rec unmeudation is its salubrio 



pbere and cool climat. 



and very frequently fires have 



The iron interest is the greal 

 iron docks of the Northwester! 

 mirable structures for ihe | 

 brought from the minis i.y 

 hours. More than ten thousar 

 loaded into vessels each day tl 

 on the docas are more, than tot 

 the cars the ore drops into rec 



id thence it is couducted by 



There have 1 



•ii no hot d ivsfl 

 been found quite comfort! 

 feature of this place afl 

 , lt.Hr.vtl Company ara., 

 impose designed. The fl 

 sixty trains each twentH 

 (1 tons of ore are receivS 

 irbugh the season, Thefl 

 ty leet above the wat'-r, T 

 ■iitacles by Ihe touch of a 

 the vese 



hooting. A Ii 

 Miller, is a first- 



el is at the river side, whose host, " Bill" 

 ilass man, S. T. 



ic scoros at I.azareno, Pa., to sept. 17: Sept 5.— 

 !; In. Register. -.ii; Mr. crawlnril, 11; Mr. <}ulg- 

 •: Wm. Cnpple.-, u; I'has. Powell, :;s; Jotm Kleok- 

 I Her, in; H. Heiii.iuer. as; Mr. speakmau, S; Chas. 



'. K. Iiolbv. ti: H. K Miller, 

 win. Kieketis, it; Mr. yuigiey 

 U; P. 'I'ibbetis. Li— -ii. 



, J as. Halln, 

 will Klecn- 

 ,-eil, -J5; ,h.o. 



eli, in; .1 no. Gardl- 



:■<: Mr. lialloucl!. :„; : 

 uilngs, 18; Will Coppl 

 ner, -m— 60S. 



Sepi. 9.— .lames Webb, Vi; John Fox, Si: Jas. 

 ton, 57; GUI Grlltin, tw; .lotiu V. Pole, 31; Jol 

 Helllv, 5i; Tom WadamgCoo, 38; i lias. Italne 

 Mr. Wooiman, L'; .inhn lU.cknc.r, is W. An 

 mlngs, s5; W. Mcliali. l:-:: .103. Slussler, -2-; .Ic 

 Mlhioar, 102-937. 



Sept, 12.— A Godson, ii; Gill Grimn, 15; Mr. Henly, 25; Tom Wafl- 



a rate limited only by the ability of tbe trimmers. 



on Sundays, the work pr grosses night and day — by I 

 of electric lights at, night. 



E-canaba is siuited at tbe very foot of Little Bay 1 

 quette and is one of the finest harbor* on the lakes. 

 thousand feet from the sandy shores the water is sill 

 and overli s a sandy bed ; then it drops off suddenly t 

 or seven fathoms, the expanse of which is many utiles ' 

 tent, with good h Mini: ground. Each of the thri 

 docks is supported by 3 5')0 piles over thirty feet in 1 

 driven to the surface of the water, and extends froi 

 shore to the deep water, between which the space is da 

 out to a depth sufficient for the largest vessel. The h 

 is protected by a sand p 'int projecting far out, sep; 

 the waters of ihe Little Bay from those of Green B 

 beyond this, Lighthouse Point. The deep channel i 

 miles in width. On the Green Bay side the shore is I 

 same character as that described above. There is l 

 water lying upon a bed of saud for nearly a third of 

 when it drops off a' once into very deep water. WhatI 

 up this vertical wall of sand, which uudergoesno appre' 

 change from year to year, while seas break upon it, 1 e 

 myself unable to explain. The same phenomenon wi 

 served in the Ohicago River, whose shores were clayi 

 fine commerce hud changed its natural features, for f_ 

 rods on t ach side the Water was shallow and in it loo J 

 grew several feet above the suiface, when it dropa 

 suddenly to eighteen feet of water, affording a deep ot 

 for half the widitt of the river, and such had been tbefl 

 lion from the earliest known times. If the roots f 

 aquatic grasses had served to hold up th s vertical i 

 clay for an indefinite period of time, there is no such s 

 at Escanaba, for th.re the banks are sand and have n 

 upon ihem. 



Another unsolved mystery in tbe case of the Chica{_ 

 is that with a bar at its mouth, wMi butafo.t of waie| 

 it and receiving all the wash and drainage of a larj, 

 ol prairie country, which brought down annually l 

 amount of scoimeiil:, why was not thia diep chanij 

 tending into the country for five miles, rilled up? Tin 

 would almost suggest the ex .slenee of some physici 

 which we do not undei stand, or the existence of son 

 which we do no' compreheud. 



I was almost too late for Ihe bass fishing in the I . 

 Hiver which empties into the Little Bay, two milel 

 the iron docks, which up to tha'. time had been goot 

 the day of my arrival, the 15th of July, one pari 

 seventy pounds of black bass, going out after dinner r 

 turning at gsveu o'clock in tbe evening. A few dai 

 they were found to have left the river and gone, no J 

 into the deep wa'er of the bay, probably on accoimfl 

 highi r temperature of the river water. The bass her - 

 luctant to take the fly an 1 must be persuaded with v 

 if a good string is to be made. 



