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RECREATION. 



$10,000. The membership includes promi- 

 nent business and professional men in 

 Massachusetts and New York, as well as 

 in Maine. 



The chief object of the club is to afford 

 its members good hunting, fishing and 

 camping privileges at a medium cost. 



The club house is in one of the best 

 fish and game ranges in the State. Within 

 6 miles are 15 to 20 ponds, all abounding in 

 trout. Hurd pond, 2nd Hurd, Hale pond, 

 Minister pond, Daisy pond, 2 Beaver 

 ponds, Rainbow lake, Passamagamoc lake, 

 Ambajejus lake, and Pamedumcook lake 

 are near. All these abound in togue or 

 trout. 



Camp Debsconeag is easily accessible to 

 tourists and sportsmen. Norcross is 

 reached after a ride of 2 hours and 40 

 minutes* from Bangor, over the B. & A. 

 railway. Steamers connect with the trains 

 at Norcross for Ambajejus Falls, 14 miles 

 distant, and from there to Camp Debs- 

 coneag is a paddle of only 4 miles. 



ment, and said he- meant 14 pounds in a 

 week. Dan Beard. 



IN THE LAND OF THE BIG TROUT. 



Fort Williams, Ont. 



Editor Recreation: 



I am in reach of the Nepigon river, 

 with its big trout, but my tackle is used 

 up, and so am I. Mounted skins of 4, 5, 

 and 7-pound trout, pasted on birch bark, 

 hang around the room, representing 

 one day's catch, by one of the waiters in 

 the hotel here. 



Gray wolves are in the outskirts of town, 

 moose and caribou within easy reach. 

 Yesterday I flushed a covey of prairie 

 chickens, and they flew only a few yards., 

 clucking as they went through the brush. 



The small streams are full of small 

 trout. They bite like sunfish, at fly or 

 any sort of bait; but being a life member 

 of the L. A. S., I satisfied myself with a 

 dozen of the largest, caught with fly. 



This is a great country for sportsmen, 

 but too cold this time of year for sum- 

 mer men. Had a game of snowball last 

 Sunday, at Banff. 



Sheep, goat, and elk skulls decorate the 

 farm houses from Harrison lake to Fort 

 William. 



Leave to-morrow by steamer for Owen 

 sound, thence to Montreal, and thence to 

 New York. 



Recreation is a good password, even 

 in this, the country of the C. P. and the 

 Hudson's Bay Co. 



Saw a man in Yellowstone Park who 

 said he caught 140 pounds of small mouth 

 bass in one afternoon. Told him I repre- 

 sented Recreation, and asked for par- 

 ticulars. He hemmed and hawed a mo~ 



A GOOD TROUT POND. 



Darling pond is in Groton, Vt., and was 

 built for the purpose of floating logs. The 

 pond contains about 35 acres, and is fed 

 by 3 mountain streams. These streams are 

 natural breeding grounds for trout. There 

 have been taken from the pond, yearly, for 

 the past 5 years, about 2,500 pounds of 

 trout during open season, anglers paying 

 40 cents a pound for all they catch. 



This pond furnishes the best fishing that 

 can be found in New England. It is here 

 that Senator Proctor brings his brother 

 Senators fishing. The United States Fish 

 Commission takes about 1,0000,000 eggs 

 during the spawning season from the 

 trout in this pond to the hatchery at St. 

 Johnsbury. The trout that are hatched 

 from these eggs are kept until about 

 4 months old and then planted in the 

 Vermont streams. 



The pond is owned by S. L. Griffith, of 

 Danby, Vt., and C. L. Sowle, of Groton, 

 Vt. 



The Fish Commission has traps built in 

 the streams that empty into the pond. 

 During spawning season, September and 

 October, the trout leave the pond and run 

 up the streams, where they are caught in 

 the traps. They are then stripped and 

 put back into the pond. In this way about 

 7,000 females and 3,000 males are caught 

 and stripped each year. 



AN ENERGETIC WARDEN. 



A peculiar case was recently tried before 

 a Justice of the Peace in Adrian, Mich. 

 The facts as stated in a local newspaper ace 

 these: 



Dr. O. N. Rice, of Tecumseh, was fish- 

 ing on Sand lake. Deputy Game Warden 

 F. A. Deuel, of Tecumseh, rode out to 

 the Doctor's boat and found therein some 

 fish under the legal size. He ordered the 

 Doctor to return those to the water. The 

 Doctor refused and a wordy war ensued. 

 The report says the warden jumped into 

 the Doctor's boat, seized him by the 

 throat, showed him his badge, and then 

 threw the fish into the water. The Doctor 

 swore out a warrant charging Deuel with 

 assault and battery v On hearing of the 

 case Justice Vandegrift promptly dis- 

 charged the game warden. 



I know nothing further as to the merits 

 of the case, but on general principles I 

 approve the action of the local warden. 

 He may have made a mistake in this case, 

 but whether that be so or not, he is evi- 

 dently made of the right kind of stuff, 

 and I wish all game wardens had as much 



