Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 25, 1889. 



J VOL. XXXII.-No. 14. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Progre seiv e C uli torn ia. 



An Outlet for Cooke City, 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Camps on the Menominee and 

 Brule. 

 Natural History. 



The Insectivora.— n. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Shooting near St. Louis. 



Notes on the Yellowstone Park 



Chicago and the West. 



A Sportsman's Comment. 



Game Legislation at Albany. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Fishing near New York. 



Chicago and the West. 



Sawdust in Streams. 



Trout and Salmon in Maine. 



Open Fish Seasons. 



Fish Legislation at Albany. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Georgia Fish Commission. 



The Kennel. 



Philadelphia Dog Show. 



The Chicago Show. 



Ottawa Dog Show. 



Field Trial Dates. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The Norwich Tournament. 



Crown Point Tournament. 



New York Suburban Grounds. 

 Yachting. 



Montgomery Sailing Club. 



Time Allowance in the Cup 

 Races. 



Valkyrie's Challenge. 



Gen. Paine's Position. 



Podgers and the Dream. 



Lake Ontario. 

 Canoeing. 



The St. Lawrence River Skiff. 



Changes in the A. C. A. Rules. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



PROGRESSIVE CALIFORNIA. 

 \ LTHOUGH when first attempted it was laughed to 

 scorn, fishculture in this country has proved a 

 grand success. It has put money into the pockets of 

 thousands of people, has cheapened the food which mil- 

 lions use, and yet they tell us that the work of the fishcul- 

 turistshas hardly begun, and that ultimately, by cultiva- 

 tion, the seas will exceed in productiveness our wildest 

 dreams. We have often wondered, as no doubt others 

 have, whether a day would come when the Federal or 

 the State governments would attempt in the line of game 

 production what they have so successfully done for fish. 

 The conditions which control these two products are so 

 utterly different and the earlier attempts at introducing 

 and rearing game birds and mammals have been so futile, 

 that we have seen but little to encourage the hope that 

 the Government would take hold of this matter. 



Recently, however, a number of encouraging facts 

 bearing on this subject have been recorded in these 

 columns. Prominent among these are the naturalization 

 of Chinese pheasants on the northwest coast, from Oregon 

 to British Columbia, the success attained with the same 

 birds at Jekyl Island; the apparently successful acclim- 

 atization of black game in Newfoundland, and the results 

 of Mr. Cory's experiments with native game in Massa- 

 chusetts. These are matters to which we have more than 

 once called the attention of sportsmen. 



We had not looked for so prompt an appreciation of the 

 bearing of these facts by any government, as comes to us 

 from California. By an act of the Legislature of that 

 State, approved March 16, 1889, the State Board of Fish 

 Commissionei-s is authorized to purchase for purposes of 

 propagation, to import and to distribute to such places 

 within the State as may in their judgment be most suitable 

 for the same, such game birds as they may be able to 

 secure. In the list given in the act are specified wild 

 turkeys, prairie chickens, bob white quail, pheasants, 

 grouse and skylarks. For the purpose of carrying out 

 the provisions of this act, the sum of two thousand dollars 

 is appropriated, to be expended in the discretion of the 

 Fish Commissioners, who are authorized to draw out the 

 whole or any part of this money from the State Treasury. 



Provision is made for rigidly protecting these birds for a 

 term of five years, until January, 1895. 



The wisdom of such a law as this, when exercised judi- 

 ciously, will not be questioned by any one who has given 

 thought to the subject. The possible results of Cali- 

 fornia's action are far-reaching, and the wisdom of her 

 Legislature in this particular cannot be too highly com- 

 mended. A step so radical, so important and so praise- 

 worthy could never have been taken anywhere in this 

 country save in the grand West, where people are not 

 bound down by the trammels of ancient prejudice and 

 are still able to think for themselves. 



It will be acknowledged on all hands that the condi- 

 tions in the East are widely different from those in the 

 West; yet even here much might be done to increase our 

 stock of game, were the work to be undertaken systemati- 

 cally and under the authority of the State. It is, how- 

 ever, difficult to conceive of the Legislature of an East- 

 ern State taking a step like the one initiated by California. 

 The East has still a great deal to learn from the free 

 West, and we fear that it may be many a long day before 

 Ave shall see followed on the Atlantic coast the good ex- 

 ample that has been set us on the Pacific. 



AN OUTLET FOR COOKE CITY. 



FOR years the philanthropists of a certain section of 

 the West have been saddened because the mining 

 camp of Cooke City had no rail communication with the 

 outer world. This grieved them so much that they 

 offered — if the Government would give them a right of 

 way through the Yellowstone Park — to build a railway 

 through that reservation, and thus supply the iron link 

 which should connect the mountain-clasped mining 

 hamlet with the bustling world of commerce. 



When they proposed this, some people, who had long 

 been trying to have the National Park protected, said 

 that while it might be very desirable to have an outlet 

 for Cooke City, the easiest and most natural one was down 

 the eastern slope of the mountains by way of Clark's 

 Fork Canon to Billings or some point near it on the 

 Northern Pacific R. R. , and not through the rough cations 

 of the Yellowstone Reservation. They showed that a 

 railway through the Park would be likely to utterly 

 ruin it, by burning the forests, by driving off the game 

 and by introducing settlers into a land which the law 

 has specially set aside as belonging to the whole people, 

 and not open to settlement, and irreverently hinted 

 that the philanthropists were mere railroad speculators, 

 who wanted to get a foothold for a railway in the Park, 

 so that they could control the passenger traffic which 

 would come to such a railroad. 



So far, through the public spirit and zeal for the general 

 welfare exhibited by a few good men in Congress, fore- 

 most among whom are Senators Vest and Manderson and 

 Hon. S. S. Cox, railways have been kept out of the Park, 

 and now, if what we hear is true, Cooke City is to have 

 its outlet without encroachment on the reservation. 



Years ago we called attention to the fact that a practi- 

 cal route to Cooke had been surveyed by the Billings and 

 Clark's Fork R. R. Co., and it appears that this corpora, 

 tion is about to begin the construction of its line from 

 Billings to Cooke. The money for the line has been pro- 

 vided by the sale of its bonds, which found a ready mar- 

 ket on this side of the water, although English capitalists 

 in London would have been glad of, and indeed made of- 

 fers for, them. The Montana Coal and Iron Co., a sub- 

 sidiary corporation controlled by the same parties who 

 own the railroad, has paid for its coal lands, which are 

 extremely valuable, and will no doubt in themselves go 

 far to maintain the road. The mine owners of Cooke 

 have given the Billings and Clark's Fork road a subsidy 

 in the shape of 30,000 tons of ore, which is guaranteed 

 not to run less than $30 to the ton. 



The Avork of construction is to begin May 1, and will be 

 pushed forward rapidly. It is expected that the road 

 will be completed to the coal mines this autumn, and 

 to Cooke City in about a year. Aside from the traffic 

 naturally falling to this corporation from its coal mines, 

 its transportation of ore from the mines in the mountains, 

 and its local traffic, it is pushing into an important 

 stock country and toward the oil regions of Wyoming, a 

 section as yet untapped by anyrailway, and one in which 

 thousands on thousands of barrels of petroleum are each 

 day wasted. This valuable product the Billings and 

 Clark's Fork road will bring to a market. Having all 

 these resources to draAv on, and with such favorable 



prospects before it, it Avould seem as if there could be 

 little doubt about the speedy completion of the B. & C. 

 F. R. R., at least as far as Cooke City. When it has been 

 built so far, there can be no further possible excuse for 

 adA'ocating a railway through, or even along the borders 

 of, the Yellowstone Park. Then Cooke will have her 

 natural outlet. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 Q CHOOL superintendents and others interested in Arbor 

 ^ Day, and wanting instructions on the selection of 

 trees and the proper manner of planting them, should 

 apply to the U. S. Department of Agriculture at Wash- 

 ington for copy of Circular No. 5, prepared by B. E. Fer. 

 now, Chief of the Forestry Division. Mr. Fernow is a prac- 

 tical forester, and Ave can commend his prescribed methods 

 Avith confidence. In his selection of kinds of trees for 

 planting out, he gives three kinds for planting where 

 nothing else will grow, four trees for street and lawn, five 

 for lawn and yard, and six for special positions; and to 

 these are added two foreigners, the horse chestnut and 

 the Paulownia. Mr. Fernow excludes conifers as present- 

 ing-greater difficulties, but if the methods prescribed in 

 the articles on practical forestry in our last month's issues 

 be attended to, conifers may be grown as readily as decid- 

 uous trees. 



The question of legislating against the indiscriminate 

 slaughter of game animals, irrespective of sex or age, 

 which was raised by our correspondent E. Pendleton 

 Rogers last week in his reference to the game conditions 

 of the National Park and surrounding region, is one 

 deserving the most thoughtful consideration of all sports- 

 men. Among all the horned ruminants one male suffices 

 for a considerable number of females, and, as the births 

 of males and females are approximately equal, it follows 

 that quite a considerable number of males may be killed 

 off annually without lowering the productive poAvers of 

 the herd, while every female shot in a diminishing herd 

 will result in a considerable decrease in the number of 

 the herd ten years later. From the standpoint of 

 economy the practice of killing females is a suicidal 

 policy, which should be opposed by every one feeling an 

 interest in the perpetuation of our big game. The 

 slaughter of a buck represents just his own weight of 

 venison withdraAvn from the national supply, while the 

 slaughter of a doe represents the annual reduction of the 

 national supply by at least her own weight in perpetuity. 



Officer Leonard and a party of law abiding citizens 

 recently captured thirteen nets in Goose Bay, and after- 

 ward, with an increased force, raided Eel Bay, where he 

 secured twenty-five additional nets, in spite of the threats 

 of the law-breakers. Game Constable Gladd and Daniel 

 Staring had a serious encounter in Swan Bay with Joseph 

 Longton and Joseph Denny, of Clayton, who demanded 

 the return of four nets which they had set across the 

 mouth of a creek emptying into the bay. They threat- 

 ened and assaulted the officers, but probably wish they 

 had not, since Longton loses his nets and was fined $30, 

 while Denny is held for the Grand Jury. 



Next Tuesday being a legal holiday in New York it 

 will be necessary for the Forest and Stream to close 

 its forms one day earlier than usual. Correspondents are 

 therefore notified that all reports and neAvs notes intended 

 for our issue of next week must reach us by Monday 

 next, April 29. 



On Tuesday last Mr. Eugene Schieffelin set at liberty 

 in Central Park, this city, seventy-two European starlings 

 (Sturmis vulgaris). They at once adapted themselves to 

 their new surroundings, and after taking a bath in the 

 stream flew off to the lawns in search of food. 



Sea lions have given the fishermen on some parts of the 

 coast of California much trouble recently. Sixteen sal- 

 mon were caught in a net and fourteen of them were 

 eaten by the lions before they could be secured and the 

 net was torn to pieces. 



Reports from Newfoundland indicate that the number 

 of seals already landed is 200,000, which exceeds the en- 

 tire catch of last year. If this continues we Avill have 

 to revise our recently expressed views as to the decrease 

 of seals. 



