Forest and Stream, 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JUNE 12, 1890. 



f VOL. XXXIV.— No. 21. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Old We?t and the New. 



Gun and Rod in the West. 



Snap Shots. 

 Gun and Rod in the Great 

 West. 



La Vega de Capulin. 



Italian J 'e and "de Plov." 



Woodcock and Snipe in the 

 ■Middle West. 



Prairie Chicken Shooting. 



Hints a' d Points on Ducks. 



In the Rockies. 



KiUins Antelope for Market. 



Some Western Spo' ting Boats 



Fisuing Resources of the West 

 Natural History. 



Fox Sparrows Nesting in Nova 

 Scotia. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 



Adirondack Waters. 



Salmon Fisningat Bangor. 

 Fish cult l re. 



Fis" Mortality in Mass. 

 The Kennel. 



Fun at Dog Snows. 



Kenni 1 Fare. 



Central Field Tri al Club Derbj- 



The Kennel. 



Pacific Coast Field Trial 

 Derby. 



Dof? Talk. 



Dogs of tbe Day. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Ru'le and Trap Shooting. 



Range and ^allerv. 



A Worthy Representative. 



The Trap. 



Features of Trap-Shooting in 

 the West. 



Illinois State Sportsmen's As- 

 sociation. 



New Y^rk Association Shoot. 

 Yachting. 



Yachting on 1 he St. Lawrence. 



Seawannaka C. Y. C. Special. 



Larch mont Y. C. Spring Re- 

 gatta. 



Bulling to Length Classes. 

 Why There is No Yachting at 



Chicago. 

 Quaker City Y. C. Annual. 

 Canoeing. 

 Canoeing in the West. 

 Marine and Field Club Canoe 

 Rearatta. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE OLD WEST AND THE NEW. 



IT is difficult, even for one who has seen the process go 

 on under his own eyes, to appreciate the changes 

 which have taken place in the West within a recent period. 

 Ifc is not necessary to go back fifty years to the day when 

 Chicago was a village, to reach a time of great game 

 plenty. Even within the memory of men now young, 

 there was in the West an abundant supply of all the spe- 

 cies of big game. 



Only ten years ago there was still a West which could 

 fairly be called wild. There was a frontier. In that 

 West, and beyond that frontier, game was abundant. 

 Ten years ago there were still wild Indians living in cow- 

 skin lodges made from the hides of the wild buffalo, 

 which even then in diminished numbers roamed over the 

 plains. But ten years is a short time. Let us go back 

 twenty years. Then, except along the lines of the Union 

 Pacific and Kansas Pacific railways, there were but few 

 settlements on the plains. Then the region of middle 

 Nebraska and middle Kansas was as dangerous an Indian 

 country as one could find. The wild Sioux used some- 

 times to come down to within one hundred and fifty miles 

 or lees of the city of Omaha. Indians were often seen in 

 the streets of Omaha, Council Bluffs and Denver. Then the 

 State of Iowa was more wild and unsettled than is Montana 

 to-day. Dakota was a waste. In Montana, away from 

 the mining camps in the mountains, the only settlements 

 were the military posts, and Fort Benton, the eld trading 

 point, from which were shipped down the Missouri by 

 boat the robes and furs collected in the Northwest. In 

 those days there were few range cattle in Nebraska. The 

 Texas drives had penetrated no further north than Colo- 

 rado. The Yalley of the Platte Eiver near Kearney, 

 Plum Creek and Grand Island, was often black with buf- 

 falo. The white sterns of the antelope shone in the sun 

 on the yellow hillsides; the white tailed deer lived in the 

 willow brush of the river bottoms; in the sand hills to 

 the north were the blacktail and the elk. 



Almost within the life of Forest and Stream Ave have 

 seen the wave of settlement roll from this side of the 

 Missouri on to the west, until it broke against the moun- 

 tains of the main range and then dividing into streams, 

 creep by canon, pass and river valley, up on to the arid 

 plateau of the central region. As the cest of this wave 

 p4vanced it blotted ou y the buffalo, the antelope, the elk 



and the deer. In. their place the sportsman now seeks 

 the grouse, the quail and the plover; little birds that one 

 would hardly have thought of shooting twenty years ago, 

 when the arm of traveler and hunter was the rifle. That 

 weapon has given place to the shotgun. 



While it is, perhaps, not true to say that the days of 

 big-game hunting in the Western country are over, it is a 

 fact that large game now exists only in isolated locali- 

 ties, and that such localities are so surrounded by settle- 

 ments that the game cannot get away; its migration to 

 other wilder regions is no longer possible. Large game 

 is easily destroyed, yet usually it is more the settling up 

 of the country that makes it disappear than the actual 

 destruction of the animals. In the past the game has 

 been crowded out rather than killed. This was not true 

 of the buffalo, which were actually destroyed, not driven 

 away; but it is true of many other kinds of large game. 



The average hunter must now depend on birds, which, 

 in the case of the non-migratory kinds, at least, are re 

 duced in numbers by actual destruction. They are not 

 driven away; and the supply will continue to exist for a 

 long time. We commonly hear wonder expressed at 

 the terrible reduction in numbers of our game birds; 

 to us the fact that there are any birds left at all, 

 seems astonishing. But in a country adapted to its 

 mode of life, and where it is reasonably free from the 

 attacks of natural enemies, any species of bird, even if 

 it has been almost exterminated, will re-establish itself 

 in a short time. A good example o? this is the case of 

 the prairie chicken of Illinois, which was a few years 

 ago very scarce, but became after a brief period sufficiently 

 abundant to afford good shooting. 



We believe that a time is coming when there will again 

 be good shooting in this country, East and West, but that 

 time will not arrive until sportsmen shall have learned 

 that one secret of successful game protection lies in think- 

 ing for others as well as for one's self. 



GUN AND ROD IN THE WEST. 



SPORT in the great West is a boundless theme. To clo it 

 justice in its entirety no single number of a journal, 

 no, nor a bound volume of twenty-six numbers would 

 suffice. And yet our issue of to-day, with its added 

 pages, has so many vivid and comprehensive papers 

 picturing the sport of slough and prairie and mountain, 

 that it may well be set apart from the ordinary weekly 

 issue as distinctively a Western number. These papers 

 present in admirable style the use of gun and rifle in the 

 West of to-day. 



The several topics are discussed each by an acknowl- 

 edged master of the subject. Of all the men in the West 

 to-day — and for that matter, in the entire country— best 

 qualified to write of wildfowl shooting, one would not 

 hesitate to name the veteran Henry Kleinman, whose 

 valuable paper giving "Hints and Points on Ducks" can- 

 not be studied too carefully by novice and duck hunter of 

 experience alike. 



'•Killing Antelope for Market" is a narrative by an 

 "Old Timer," whose true name has become familiar to 

 the public since he has given over killing game for mar- 

 ket and taken to corraling and breeding it. 



Of a like practical character is Prof. R. A. Turtle's 

 essay on "Woodcock and Snipe in the Middle West." 

 These notes manifestly give the results of a long and 

 careful study. 



"Italian Joe and 'de Plov' " is a racy account of a Chi- 

 cago market-hunter, a genuine artist in his peculiar 

 field. 



"Prairie Chicken Shooting" furnishes Mr. Alex. T. 

 Loyd a theme for discussing con amove, and the pursuit 

 of that game bird of the prairies has never been written 

 of more instructively. Taking them all together, these 

 papers on Western game birds make up a manual of val- 

 uable instruction. 



In "La Vega de Capulin," Mr. W. J. Dixon gives a 

 lively account of a skirmish with the Cheyennes, a tribe, 

 by the way, just now demanding the attention of news- 

 paper readers by its movements against the whites. 



"In the Rockies," by a Connecticut contributor, has in 

 it the exhilaration for which the tired city man must go 

 to the mountains. 



"The Fishing Resources of the West" form the subject 

 of an intelligent, feeling and comprehensive paper by 

 Mr. E. Hough. 



In "Some Western Sporting Boats" we are given a 

 catalogue of different types of craft adopted by the wild- 



fowl shooters on Western lakes and rivers. For many of 

 the original sketches from which the drawings were 

 made we owe acknowledgments to Mr. W. K. Reed, 

 President of the Dime Savings Bank, of Chicago, and a 

 member of the Hennepin Club. 



Mr. C. W. Lee supplies an interesting review of the his- 

 tory of "Canoeing at Chicago." Mr. Lee is Secretary of 

 the Chicago Canoe Club, the leading club of the Great 

 Lakes. 



"Features of Trap-Shooting in the West," as discussed 

 by Mr. W. P. Mussey, in a thoughtful and well-considered 

 paper, are found to be features of trap-shooting cl ar ^c- 

 terizing the sport generally throughout the country, and 

 what Mr. Mussey writes may well be pondered by trap- 

 shooters everywhere. 



This is a special Western number; but while it is 

 notable for the scope and variety and amount of Western 

 material actually contained in it, it is perhaps equally 

 notable, from editorial insight, by reason of the generous 

 supply of otner Western papers, for which it has been 

 impossible to find a place to day. In other words, we 

 have on band a rich store of material relating to the 

 West, which will be published from time to time as space 

 shall permit. This is only in line with what has been 

 done in the past. Our files from the beginning show in 

 each column a wealth of literature relating not only to 

 the West but to every division of the country. In the 

 future we mean to keep the Forest and Steeam, as it 

 always has been and is to-day, so broad in its sympathies 

 and so comprehensive in the geographical distribution of 

 its correspondence that it may have no suggestion of sec- 

 tionalism. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



MR. FRANK W. EMERY sent us one day last week a 

 38in. muscalonge, which he had taken from the 

 St. Lawrence River while fishing for bass with an 8oz. 

 rod. Mr. Emery was at the moment combining the two 

 pleasures of fishing and reading the Forest and Stream, 

 holding the rod in one hand and the paper in the other. 

 It appears that this journal is a mascot, and anglers who 

 are ambitious of capturing large fish will do well to fol- 

 low Mr. Emery's example. 



A sequel to our list of stories of the "Man in the Hol- 

 low Tree," printed last week, comes from Coaltown, Pa: 

 A "special" to the daily papers from that town reports 

 that two boys who were trout fishing on Black Creek, the 

 other day, discovered in a huge hollow oak the skeleton 

 of a man, and with it a box of gold coins. This mani- 

 festly was one instance where the bear failed to come to 

 the rescue. 



In his address before the Illinois State Sportsmen's 

 Association at Chicago last week, the retiring president, 

 Mr. Fred C. Donald, related how utterly foolish it was to 

 attempt to hinder under present conditions the unreason- 

 able slaughter of game out of season, which now goes 

 merrily on, game laws or no game laws, wardens or no 

 wardens. Mr. Donald's remedy for this condition of 

 affairs is to stop all market sale of game and provide for 

 enforcing such a system. As he puts it: "It is plain that 

 reformation must come through the strong arm of the 

 law. Then let us deal with cause, not effect ; prohibit by 

 law the sale or traffic in game in the State, or its expor- 

 tation from the State for the purpose of barter or profit. 

 Give to the people of the State the authority of enforcing 

 the act, and if this measure should prove ineffectual, we 

 of this Association may not worthily be termed sports- 

 men. This may seem a heroic remedy, but I beg that 

 you will have in mind that it is an attempt to pre- 

 scribe for a most desperate case, which has run the 

 gamut of every species of diagnosis and treatment." 

 There are two sehools of game protection extremists. 

 One believes in letting the game dealers make the laws 

 to suit their business interests. The other believes in 

 shutting off dealing in game entirely. The first plan is 

 much more likely to prevail than the last one in a city 

 like Chicago, where so much money is invested in the 

 business of buying and selling game. Mr. Donald's plan 

 is an ideal one in theory, but practically any attempt to 

 prohibit game selling would be such an interference with 

 large business interests that the prohibition could never 

 be enforced. It is hard business against sentiment; and 

 business will win the day every time. Game will be 

 sold in Chicago so long as there shall be any game left to 

 sell. It may yet prove practicable to restrict the traffic 

 to proper tjmes: but it can never be entirely prohibited, 



