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NEW YORK, MARCH 17, 1887. 



j VOL. XXVIU.-No. 8. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Winter in the Park. 



A Railroad to Cooke City. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Trailing a War Party. 



Sport in New Brunswick. 



Cranberry i^ake. 



Joiin Boydeu. 

 Natural History. 



The Great Auk. 



Sea Bird Notes of the Grampus 



Mountain Goats. 



The Farallone Cormorant. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Maine Commissioner Charges. 



Days on the Dolores. 



South African Tropuies. 



Shooting Without a Bog. 



The Campaign Against Bruin. 



Packing a Deer. 



The New York Game Law. 



A Railroad to Coone City. 

 Sea and River Fishes©. 



Well Spent (Poem). 



A Salmon Fight in the Night. 



Salmon in the Hudson. 



Diseased Trout. 



The Falls Pool. 



Sea and River Fishing, 



Poddler Fishing at the Pier. 



"An Alaskan Sea Serpent." 

 Fishculture. 



The Food of the Salmonidae at 

 Sea. 

 The K ennel. 



Buffalo Dog Show. 



Boston Dog Slvow. 



Pacific Kennel Club. 



Dogs on Chain. 



The Denver Dog Show. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



Second Cruise of the Pilgrim. 



The Start for the Ocean Race. 



The Cutter Witch. 



Lake Ontario. 



Building Notes. 



From Forecastle to Cabin. 

 Canoeing. 



A Cruise to Charlotte Harbor. 



A. C. A. Regatta Programme. 



Vesper Boat Club. 

 Answers to Correspondnets. 



THIRTY-TWO PAGES. 

 Four pages are added to the usual twenty-eight, and this 

 issue of Forest and Stream, consists of thirty-two pages. 



A RAILROAD TO COOKE CITY. 

 TF all the railroad bills introduced during the last ses- 

 sion of Congress, for the relief of the suffering miners 

 of Cooke City, had become laws, that community could 

 no longer have complained that it had no outlet to the 

 world. Most of these bills, however, failed to pass both 

 Houses, and so at the adjournment lapsed. One of them 

 did pass, and received the President's signature. This 

 was the bill granting to the Eocky Fork and Cooke City 

 Eailway Company the right of way through a part of the 

 Crow Indian Reservation in Montana Territory. The text 

 of this bill will be found in another column. It may be 

 hoped that under the soothing influences of this law, the 

 howls from Cooke City, which for several years have rent 

 our ears, will be quieted. Hitherto the principal occupa- 

 tion of the enterprising Cooke City miner has been sit- 

 ting on a stone by the side of his prospect hole, waiting 

 for a trusting Eastern capitalist to appear on the scene, 

 and exchange his capital for the miner's hole. And 

 while he sat there, alternately scanning the horizon for 

 the approaching capitalist, and gazing into the depths of 

 the prospect hole, the miner chanted his doleful ditty, 

 whose burden was that all Cooke City required to make 

 it a second Butte was a railroad outlet. Permission to 

 build a railroad has now been secured, and what will the 

 miner do ? 



The bills granting a right of way from some point on 

 the Northern Pacific Eailroad across the Crow Eeserve to 

 Cooke City, to the Stillwater Company and to the Bill- 

 ings, Clark's Fork & Cooke City Eailroad Company passed 

 the Senate, and were favorably reported by the House 

 Committee on Indian Affairs, but never reached a vote in 

 the House. This is especially unfortunate in the case of 

 the last-named corporation, which has carefully surveyed 

 its line and has the money pledged to build it, as soon as 

 it receives authority from Congress to enter the Eeserva- 

 tion. On the other hand, there seem to be grave doubts 

 about the Eocky Fork and Cooke City Company's intention 



to build its road. Its line, we believe, has never been 

 surveyed. It is stated that during the debate in the Sen- 

 ate Mr. Cockrill objected to this road that it was only a 

 paper charter, and that those who sought this right 

 of way had no idea of building. On Senator 

 Allison's assurance that this was not the case 

 and that the enterprise was bona fide, he with- 

 draw his objection. Of the methods by which the 

 passage of the bill was obtained in tho House we 

 will say nothing, but if all the pledges said to have 

 been made to Congressmen by the projectors of this road 

 are carried out, the line will have to be very heavily 

 bonded. And if this charter should be transferred to 

 another corporation, would this conveyance include, we 

 wonder, the obligations of the Eocky Fork and Cooke 

 City road to Congressmen? The fact appears to be Jthat 

 this Eocky Fork project was originally started by a few 

 individuals to protect some coal claims which they held 

 on Eocky Fork, and that afterward, as the thing devel- 

 oped, it seemed worth while to push the scheme for its 

 own sake, in the hope of selling the right of way to others. 



It is by no means impossible that the Eocky 

 Fork people might find a practicable route to Cooke, 

 over the eastern foothills of the mountains, although the 

 most desirable line is that surveyed by the Billings, 

 Clark's Fork and Cooke City Eailroad, which has already 

 been approved by the Secretary of tho Interior. The 

 Eocky Fork people have two years in which to complete 

 their road, and before commencing operations they must, 

 if the President so orders, obtain the consent of the 

 Crows to their passage through the latter's lands. If 

 work is not begun this summer we are not likely to hear 

 much more of the Eocky Fork and Cooke City Eailway 

 Company. 



WINTER IN THE PARK. 



E have received advices from our Special Yellow- 

 stone National Park Midwinter Explorer, who 

 wrote from the Grand Canon of the Yellowstone on Feb. 

 28. His route had been from the Mammoth Hot Springs 

 to Norris, Lower and 'Upper Geyser Basins, thence to Yel- 

 lowstone Lake by way of Shoshone Lake, thence down 

 the lake and river to the falls. Wind and weather per- 

 mitting, he will return from the Canon over Mt. Wash- 

 burn, and by the way of Yancey's to the Hot Springs. 



Those familiar with the Park will thus see that the For- 

 est and Stream Explorer, even without the aid of Crow 

 scouts, Government teoops and a large force of packers 

 and guides, has accomplished the tour of the Park which 

 the World expedition set out to make, and which it failed 

 to carry through. There is everything in knowing how 

 to select your men. It will afford us pleasure, therefore, 

 providing the Forest and Stream Explorer survives the 

 perils of snow and cold to which he is constantly exposed, 

 to lay before our readers, and the World, an extended and 

 exact account of the Park in the winter. This we hope 

 to be able to do in the course of a few weeks. The rela- 

 tion will be an interesting one. 



It must be remembered that the National Park in 

 winter is almost an unknown land, and that the public 

 has never been told of what goes on in this truly Arctic 

 region, where the thermometer sometimes falls to 50 

 below zero, and the snow sometimes drifts over top the tall- 

 est trees, where avalanches ar3 of every day occurrence, 

 where the geysers spout through tremendous craters of ice. 

 and the water-falls build up at their bases tremendous 

 frozen barriers which look as though they must dam the 

 stream. Tho few travelers who venture into this icy land, 

 do so only by the help of snowshoes, and literally take 

 their lives in their hands. 



Our explorer writes: "I have seen many wonderful and 

 strange sights— strange and wonderful even to me, and I 

 have been in the mountains for sixteen years and through 

 the Park almost a hundred times in early spring, in sum- 

 mer and late in the fall." He reports having seen 150 elk 

 the day he left the Hot Springs, and on Alum Creek saw 

 signs of hundreds that had been there two or three weeks 

 before. Sign of bison Avere also seen near the heads of 

 Alum and Trout Creek. The snow has been so deep that 

 the game has been driven off from many parts of its win- 

 ter range. 



He also reports a case where a band of elk, caught in a 

 deep canon and imprisoned there by the snows, came 

 near starving to death, and would have clone so if he had 

 not rescued them by breaking a path for them through 

 the snow. Not all of thei? escaped, it is true, for the 



rescue was accompanied by a tragedy which must have 

 thrilled the onlookers. 



The story of his journeyings over snow from four to 

 f orty feet deep is, so far as we have seen it, as fascinating as 

 any novel, and it will be followed with intense interest by 

 every one who knows or desires to know about the Park. 



Of the game our explorer saw, the buried forest he passed 

 over, the icebound lakes he traversed, and the battle be- 

 tween heat and cold that he witnessed the story will 

 be told in coming issues of Forest and Stream. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 nPHE patent coffee-mill at Albany is grinding away. 



The July woodcock shooting and so-called "codifi- 

 cation" game bill, already noticed at length, has been 

 introduced by Assemblyman Langbier. Hadley, of 

 Franklin county, is on hand with an opposition "codifi- 

 cation," which for clumsiness of construction and rnulti, 

 tudinousness of local exceptions and special provisions is 

 as ridiculous as disgraceful. It has fifty-nine sections, 

 and ought to have just one more providing that any one 

 who may read the entire bill through with intent to 

 understand it shall upon conviction thereof be adjudged 

 a lunatic and committed to the Auburn Insane Asylum. 

 Fiim, the New York liquor dealer, has pushed his "free 

 lunch" lobster bill to a third reading. If he does not 

 succeed in getting it through, he might induce Hadley to 

 tack on to his bill a clause exempting from the restrictions 

 of the lobster law the northeast or southeast corner, as 

 the case may be, constituting the lunch counter of Finn's 

 saloon. This would be quite in keeping with the back- 

 door and pasture-lot clauses of the codifications. 



When it comes to suing to recover fines voluntarily paid 

 for unlawful June deer water-killing, Gen. George M. 

 Harmon appears to be a fighter from Fightville. He has 

 won his $40 from Game Warden Huntoon, but the Court 

 ruled that there was no case against Commissioner Still- 

 well. Harmon has appealed, on what ground is not clear, 

 except that he seems bent on annoying the Commissioner. 

 Mr. Stillwell can stand it; he is in the. position of the 

 good-natured giant from one of the back districts who, 

 when remonstrated with for permitting his virago wife 

 to beat him, blandly responded, "Oh, that's all right; it 

 don't hurt me any. and it pleases Sally." 



A correspondent of the Billings Gazette, who has just 

 come to the Mammoth Hot Springs from Cooke City on 

 snowshoes, writes as follows: "From Soda Butte to 

 Mammoth Hot Springs I saw large herds of elk, some cf 

 which I estimated at thousands. I am confident I saw 

 fully seven thousand elk between these two places. Also 

 many mountain sheep, deer and antelope. There the 

 snow is not above two feet in depth, and to-day I actually 

 saw the top of the sago brush." It was just through this 

 winter range for game that the railroaders wanted to 

 run the railroad. But the railroad will not run. 



In the vicinity of New York the ground is frozen stiff 

 and the season is backward, but the snipe have put in an 

 appearance. The first English snipe of the year killed in 

 this neighborhood was shot last Monday by Mr. Lang- 

 staff, of Newark, N. J., and exhibited at Messrs. Von 

 Lengerke & Detmold's, in that city. Ducks have ap- 

 peared in Long Island waters, and good shooting is looked 

 for as soon as the inlets are open. 



The Michigan game warden bill has been passed by 

 both houses, and only awaits the Governor's signature to 

 become a wise and long needed law. If the New York 

 markets are to be opened for a more extended sale of 

 Minnesota and Michigan' venison, those States will be 

 called upon to devise better machinery for enforcing their 

 non-export laws than they appear to have at present. 



One man's food another man's poison. Here are 

 county supervisors in the United States giving bounties 

 to encourage destruction of hawks and owls; and mean- 

 while in the rat-plagued Neligherries of India the tea and 

 coffee planters are considering how they may breed 

 hawks and owls as allies against the ruinous rat. 



The terms of the Forest and Stream Decoration Day 

 Trophy for trap-shooting at artificial targets are given 

 elsewheie. It is hoped that there may be something in 

 the competition to add to the outdoor pleasures of that 

 holiday. 



The index to Volume XXVII. accompanies this issue. 



