i.u#, 6, 1891.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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abnvp-n«med Hrds or fowls from the first day of September to 

 tlie first day of Jaiiun ry in any year, caiieht or killed iu the forest 

 preserve, provided that they be accompanipii bv the owner. Any 

 t)erBon or rompany ofl'etiding against this nrovisinn pha.ll be 

 deerned guilty of a m'sdeTneanor, and in addition thereto Phall 

 be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each bird or fowl 

 BO ■billt'd or had in poasession during- the prohibited season afore- 

 enid; or for ench enrcn.BB transported or had in possesf^ion f'^r 

 transportation in violation of this s?»ction. 



♦■Forest Presnrv'o.— Chap. 23:1, Laws ISfiS [as amended by Chap. S, Laws 

 1890], Seh. I. All th(j lan(is now owned, or wlileh may hereafter he ac- 

 QUh-erl, bv ttie Stale of New York within the counties of '"lluton (excont in 

 the towns uf i\Uo!iM ov DannemdraX Delawnre, Esspx, FraukUn, Fulton, 

 Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, St. Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren, 

 WashlURton, (Greene, ni-^tf-r and Sullivan, shall constitute and be jknown 

 as the forest preserve, except all such lan'i? witiiiii the limit? of any In- 

 fcorporatert villaae or city, and except, all snoli lands, not; wild lands, as 

 have been, or may hereafter be, acquired by the State of New York, upon 

 or by forccloaiu'e ot or sale pursuant to au.y niorcsage upon la.ilds made to 

 the commiaslones's for looiifntr certain moneys of thetTnited suite.s, ufually 

 called the TTni ted Sta tes deposit fuuds, and all such excepted Lands accjulred 

 by the State of Xew Yo'k luay bo sold and conveyed as provided by la«'. 



Smali.-Bob,e EUi-LES FOR LARGE GAME.— Shoal Water 

 Bay, Washington.— About one year ago (I do not care to 

 mention the exact date for obvious reasons) Capt, Finely, 

 of the steamer Restless, on the down trip of the steamer, 

 6ie;hted two bull elk swimming across the Nasel River. 

 He rang for the engineer to "open her out," and away 

 they sped under all the steam she would stand. When 

 within 50ydR. of the elk he opened fira vrith a ,22cal. 

 eingle shot Winchester, the only gun on board; and at 

 the fourth shot turned one elk over on hig back, shot 

 through the head, sinkins: him. They then jumped into 

 a small boat, as the second one had got ashore, and pulled 

 up a slough to cut off his retreat, which they did. Capt. 

 Finely then went ashore, and as the elk went to pass 

 him at a distance of about 75yd8., opened out on him, 

 killing him on the jump at the tliird shot by a bullet 

 which went in at the base of the ear. Four men dragged 

 the game to the water and towed him to the steamer, 

 •where he was hoisted aboard; and they then picked up 

 No. 1 a quarter of a mile below the scene of the shoot- 

 ing, as he rose after floating fthat distance under water. 

 I guess this beats all previous records for,33cal. rifles.- 

 Jim Mack. 



Road Geese. — Framingh'im, Mslhs. — T find the follow- 

 ing in the York (England) Courant of Jan, 8, 1740. I 

 send it for two reasons — as a curious bit of sporting infor- 

 mation, quaintly told; and to ascertain, possibly, from 

 some of your readers of whatsppcies is the "road goose," 

 and what the significance of the term: "Yesterday great 

 Numbers of London Gunners assembled at the several 

 Stairs leading to the; Thames, to shoot Ducks, Gulls, and 

 Road Geese, which appear'd in great Plenty : and many of 

 them werekiU'd, tho' none could be brought off, the Frost 

 not having vet prevented the Currency of the Tide. Dogs 

 were of no Use to the bringing them oi¥, the Edges of the 

 Ice on which the Birds settled being too weak for the 

 Dogs to get up by."— F. C. Beo^vne. 



MiCHiaAN Deer Country.— Crystal Falls, Mich., July 

 37. — It may interest some of our readers to know that the 

 deer will be plentiful in this part of the Upper Peninsula 

 this fall. The pasture is fine and the does have dropped 

 fnwn?, almost without an exception. I have seen over 

 100 does in the past six weeks, and have seen but two or 

 three barren ones. Bucks, does and fawns are in splen- 

 did order now and by the time the season opens thpy will 

 be prime. There is a great deal of illegal shooting done 

 up here, but the deputv game warden has a set of dark 

 colored glasses which he wears, unless he is after "them 

 rich city fellers," so that the prosecutions are very few. 

 — Neskaqua-nel. 



Ottawa, Kansas, — As last summer was the best sea- 

 son for game,^ so this has been the worst, and I am afraid 

 the tiuail and prairie chickens fared badly on the prairie, 

 though there may be plenty of quail in the woods yet. 

 Last week I was out in the country a few miles, and took 

 particular pains to find out how our game was getting 

 along. I found a great many plover, some kildeer and 

 lots of rabbits, but other game was scarce. A great many 

 coyotes were caught in this county during the past spring, 

 also a few gray foxes. Two of the latter animals are 

 kept at one of the stores in Ottawa, and they make very 

 nice pets. — ^F. B. 



Your Watch as a Compass. — Potsdam, N. Y., July 

 — 1 learned something new at Paul Smith's the other 

 day. That is, to tell the points of the compass by your 

 watch. Point the hour-hand toward the sun, and one 

 half the distance between the time and 13 M. is south, 

 from 6 A.M to 6 P.M. After 6 P.M. one-half the distance 

 is due north. This may be worth an item in Forest and 

 Stream, as I am sure a large majority of your readers 

 have never heard of it. — Iroquois, 



Massachusetts Shore Birds.— Gloucester, July 28,— 

 Marsh and beach birds are just coming along now; two 

 of my friends shot 75 recently.— E. F. L, 



MINNESOTA'S NEW GAME LAW, 



Editor Voreit and Stream: 



State Game Warden Frank L. Stetson has just issued a synopsis 

 of the game laws of Minnesota, as arranged by the new commis- 

 sion from the deiiris of old and new enactment^. Heretofore it 

 lias been uncertain as to the meaning of various laws, there being 

 an apparent conflict between the general act and the various 

 local or county laws. The open seasons now prevailiner in all 

 parts of llie State, except in a few counties where there is liDtle 

 or nothing to shoot or hoot, are as follows: 



WondC' ck, July 4 to Nov. 1. 



Pinnated grouse or prairie chickens and white-breasted or 

 sharp-tailed grouse, Sept. 1 to Nov. 1. 



Qnail, partridge, or ruffed grouse or pheasant, Sept. 1 to Nov. 1. 



Wild duck of any variety, or wild geese or brant, or any aquatic 

 fowl wliatever, Aug, 20 to April 25. 



Wilson or jack snipe, or snipe of any variety, Aug. 20 to April 25. 



Elk. moose, deer and caribiu. Nov. 1 to Dec. 1. 



No moose or canbnu shall b» killed, sold or taken in the State 

 for five years from April 20. 1891. 



Very few reports of violation have been made, the leading case 

 being near Alexandria, where eleven nets and a seine were coo- 

 flscated, but the owners did not have enough fish to make their 

 line° very excessive, the penalty being $3 a fish for all taken ex- 

 cept with a hook and line. The fishing in Minnesota waters has 

 been uniformly good all seasoD. Notably fine strings have been 

 taken in Douglas county, where several hundred lakes offer un- 

 UEual chances. G. K. K. 



LTbefull text of the new law is given in the July issue of the 

 Book of the Game Laws."] 



MICHIGAN GAME SEASONS. 



BY the present law (given in the July number of the Book of the 

 Oame Lawn) the open seasons are: Deer, in the Upper Penin- 

 sula, between Sept. 33 and Oct. 2,5; in ihe Lower Peninsula, lie- 

 tween Nov. 5 and Nov. 25. Wild turkey, quail, Nov. 1 co Dec. 15. 

 Grouse or partridge in the Dpper Peninsula. Oct. 1 to Jan. 1; 

 elsewhere, Nov. 1 to Dec. 15. Woodcock, Aug. 15 to Dec. IS. Wild- 

 fowl. Sept. 1 to Jan. L The Statie Game and Fish Warden is Ohas. 

 S. Hamirton, Petoskey. 



"That reminds me." 



MY friend Mr. Harryman was riding north on a rail- 

 way last week and fell to talking with a young man 

 got up "for a sportsman, who was bound for Antioch. 

 They passed a low bottom filled with close cover. 



"Looks like there might be woodcock over in there," 

 said Mr. H. 



"No," said the young sportsman, "I think it's mostly 

 hickory." 



My friend Billy M. was talking yesterday with a sales- 

 man who had given him a sample box of a new mosquito 

 dope. 



"How did it work?" asked the salesman. 

 "Elegantly," replied Billy, "Never got bit once." 

 "You smeared it all over your face and hands?" asked 

 the delighted vendor, 

 "No, I smeared it all over my boat pusher," said Billy. 

 Chicago. E. HouGH. 



Ht(d ^iv^r fishing. 



The I'TTLL texts of the game fish laws of all the States, 

 Ten-itories and British Provinces are given in the Boole of 

 the Game Laws. 



ANGLING ON MAMMOTH. 



'"T^HE other evening I remarked that the most enjoyable 

 JL fishing in the country was to be found on Raft 

 River, in southern Idaho. A sheepman who was at the 

 tablR said that he had fiahed all over the Raft River 

 region and there was nothing in all that section of 

 country to compare with Mammoth Creek, where he had 

 camped for a couple of years. The best part of it was 

 that I received an invitation to go to his cabin, and 

 early the next morning we were traveling southward. 



Mammoth Creek is the west fork of the Sevier River, 

 It is the most southern of all the streams in the Great 

 Basin and is about 7,500ft, above the sea level. From 

 November until April the snow lies deep on the Mam- 

 moth meadows. The cold is so intense that no one thinks 

 of wintering there, but during the summer months a saw 

 mill is in operation among the pines and the cattlemen 

 guard the north bank, while the tents of sheep herders 

 dot the south bank of the little river. 



The twenty-mile ride from Panguitch was not alto- 

 gether delightful. The first half of the journey was over 

 an uphill stony trail. The sky was overcast, the wind 

 chilly, and my steed was, in the technical parlance of the 

 country, "raw," i. e., he would shy, buck or balk, as best 

 suited his convenience. In my first experience with a 

 bucking horse I remember that I was violently churned 

 for about half a minute and then I landed gracefully on 

 my hands and knees in a clump of cactus. That was 

 years ago, but I have not ceased to tremble at the very 

 idea of mounting a chronic "backer." Coal Pit Ridge 

 was the half-way point, and thenceforward there was 

 more pleasure iri the journey. The route now lay 

 through the choicest part of the' cattle range, overgr-assy 

 meadows that had never known fence or plow, or be- 

 neath noble pines, among which the ringing of an ax had 

 never been heard. 



Before reaching one of these pine groves there was 

 breathed upon us a most subtle, delicate and delicious 

 perfume. It reminded me of the wild grape amid the 

 mountains of New England or of the Magnolia glauca in 

 the barrens of southern New Jersey. The source was soon 

 apparent. The whole grove was carpeted with a 

 diminutive narcissus, and the moss, grass and dried needles 

 were completely bidden by the creamy blossom and the 

 soft, tapering leaves. Every locality seems to have its 

 own flower of surpassing loveliness. Among the Sierra 

 it is the nodding calochortus. In the northern Rockies 

 the csBrulean columbine rules, and here, in lower Utah, 

 the modest narcissus is without a rival. There were 

 dandelions and violets, wild currants and bull berries in 

 full flower, and then almost regretfully I heard the tinkle 

 of the sheep bells and rode through the great band of 

 ewes and little lambs to the door of the cabin that was 

 Ike's summer residence. 



After dinner I explored the creek while Ike rode around 

 his flocks. The water was high and muddy, and a fly 

 would be of no use; so I determined to hunt wood grubs 

 in the timber. For me there is beginning to be a pleas- 

 ure in studying the art of angling. "Gone — the Romantic 

 Age of Trouting" may do for the caption of a Pennsyl- 

 vania idyl, but here the romance still hangs about the 

 mountain brooks, and I find it not with tapering bamboo 

 and silver- doctors, but with pole of birch or willow and 

 with good old-fashioned bait. There is a knack in bait- 

 ing just as in the use of flies, and the angler who sticks 

 to one erub or worm will find himself left in the long 

 run. The time of the day, the clearness of the water, the 

 depth of the stream — all have to do with the efficacy of 

 the lure, and in no two streams have trout exactly the 

 same habit. In angling not only the bait but the habits 

 and haunts of the fish must be studied. White grubs, 

 earth worms, black beetles and fish eyes have each a 

 proper place, and when once the angler learns the use of 

 each he can have as much sport as with the most delicate 

 fly outfit, although when the number of trout captured is 

 a desideratum, the fly is the proper lure. 



Nightfall found us with all the bait that we would need 

 for a week's campaign, and we dreamed of nothing but 

 trout. Alas, there is no dependence to be placed upon 

 the weather in the mountains. About 9 o'clock we 

 awoke to find the whole country covered with snow and 

 a perfect blast of hail and sleet. Sheepmen estimate 

 that the storm in the immediate vicinity of Mammoth 

 cost them not less than 5,000 lambs. All day long we 

 sat by the fire cooking beans. From the gloom and 

 storm came the bleating of the flocks and the wild 

 clamor of the ducks. I have never seen greenheads so 

 abundant as they are in the marshy sloughs of Mammoth. 

 The females are all setting, but the males seem to be 

 absolutely devoid of fear and would the season permit, 

 are just waiting for a chance to be shot. 



Friday morning dawned clear and warm. After two 

 hours of sunlight the snow disappeared and dandelions 

 and violets dotted the meadows. Ike rode about his 



flock, gathered up the strays and was then ready to pilot 

 me down the creek. It was fully 10 o'clock when w« 

 began to fish, and we had but two hours at our disposal, 

 but in that time we landed an even dozen that weighed 

 91bs. 3oz, If I had known aa much as I do now, I should 

 have fished all that afternoon, but it was an act of charity 

 to help Ike with his lambs, and I could not refuse him. 

 Late in the day Ben, the famous hunter whom I men- 

 tioned in a former article, rode up to the cabin and dis- 

 played a lion hide that measured 9ft. 6in. from tip to tip. 

 He called it a lion, but it seemed to me the typical North 

 American panther, 



Ben had missed a number of colts from his mountain 

 range and had gone up to find the offi^nder, .Just at dusk 

 of the previous evening, he was trailing the great cat 

 near its lair. Suddenly a bend in the route brought him 

 face to face with the beast. They were just seven paces 

 apart, too close for either to think of retreating. Th» 

 panther snarled, switched his long tail, crouched and 

 commenced to tremble. Ben said that he had no time to 

 get frightened. One shot did the business. It entered 

 the left eye and was found flattened at the base of the 

 brain. Ben's nerve has since been the theme of village 

 talk. . ^ 



Saturday it stormed, though I managed to secure four 

 large beauties from the creek before getting soaked 

 through and through. Sunday stormy. Monday morn- 

 ing stormy. About noon the sun came out and I was con- 

 gratulating myself on another opportunity to fish, when 

 over the hill and down to the cabin came a horseman. 

 He was the sheriff, and worse than that he was after me, 

 at least he read me a subpoena from which I understood 

 that at 10 o'clock the next morning I had to be at the 

 justice's court in Panguitch, then and there to testify, etc. 

 Regretfully I left the beautiful creek and at 10 o'clock 

 P, M. I was back in the settlement, with the comforting 

 assurance that the trip had not cost me a cent, and that I 

 had made $5 20 milage. 



The most remarkable thing about that case (one for 

 malicious mischief and illegal destruction of property) 

 was the verdict, which was rendered after three hours, 

 careful deliberation: 



"We, the jurors, find a verdict that the defendants are 

 guilty of being accessory of the crime charged with, and 

 we recommend them to the mercy of the court. 



, Fourman." 



Of course the court would be merciful after such a ver- 

 dict, and the three boys who had smashed a barber pole 

 were fined |25 apiece. I wonder if I could not sue them 

 for the loss of a week's sport at Mammoth and recover 

 heavy damages. Shoshone. 



Panguitch, Utah. 



ANGLING NOTES. 



A CORRESPONDENT, Mr. F. P. Nye (not "William"), 

 sends the following interesting notes from Areata, 

 California, and they can be relied upon: 



"The salmon are now in Trinidad Bay, waiting a 

 chance to run up the various streams that empty into the 

 Pacific. Bv looking at the map the reader can see that 

 Trinitlad Bay is about forty-five miles north of Cape 

 Mendocino, in the Northwest part of Humboldt county. 



"While the salmon remain in this bay they afiiord the 

 finest trolling in this part of the world. They grow to 

 an immense size, and have been caught weighing 801bs. 

 on a medium size trolling spoon; but they are not a first- 

 class food fish. They belong to the variety known as the 

 'hook biir salmon. 



"The steel-head salmon are beginning to take the fly in 

 the brackish waters at the mouths of Mad River and Eel 

 River. The large ones are taken on the spoon, and the 

 young fish, known as 'black-apotted' trout, 'cut-throat' 

 trout, etc., running from fibs, to 21bs., take the fly, and 

 are excellent on the table and afford magnificent sport." 



Mr. Nye goes on to say that the fishing there is aa free 

 as air, and Tom, Dick and Harry can go and fill their 

 creels without asking, a fact that will be appreciated by 

 our Eastern anglers who have been "bounced" by a large 

 and healthy farmer man. The writer can indorse aU 

 Mr. Nye says about the steelhead salmon, and in addition 

 can say that on several occasions this fish has taken the 

 fly when full grown. 



Reports from Lake Mahopac are quite encouraging. It 

 is well known that that lake contains large black bass, 

 but this is the first season that anglers have met with any 

 great success, A number of very fine specimens have 

 been killed there on small frogs lately, two of them tip- 

 ping the scales at over 61b3. each. A 91b. "Oswego" wae 

 killed in Lake Mahopac last week. 



Bluefish are again as plentiful as ever along our coast, 

 and it does seem a shame that owing to the greed of the 

 men who control our fish supply, the people of this city, 

 particularly the poorer classes, cannot benefit by it. 

 When I was down at Patchogue last week bluefish were 

 going a-begging, and the Seabright fishermen are getting 

 li cents a pound for them. But the men who control 

 the market price will not let it break, they will let the 

 fish rot first, Bluefish otight to sell to-day in the markets 

 at 4 or 5 cents a pound at retail. And it is the same with 

 sea bass. These are a most delicious fish, but there is so 

 much waste to them that when one pays 15 or 18 cents a 



¥ouud before cleaning, they are an extravagant dish, 

 hese fish could be sold at 6 to 8 cents and show a hand- 

 some profit. 



A well-known angler of Brooklyn who recently re- 

 turned from a lonely fishing trip up the Penobscot and 

 down the St, Johns rivers, says that he enjoyed superb 

 fishing and met only one man iu the wilderness on the 

 whole journey, and this individual ought to be attended 

 to by the Maine authorities at once. He told this gentle- 

 man that he had killpd seventeen moose and show.ed him 

 the skins. All killed this past year, and I believe' out of 

 season. I understand he is a Frenchman, and comes 

 from Canada. Scarlet-Ibis, 



Gloucester, Mass,, July 28.— No bluefish hare been 

 seen in this vicinity up to this time, but they have been 

 caught in abundance in Barnstable Bay. Tautog are 

 being taken by fishermen from the rocks, and by going 

 out in a boat about one mile from the city cod and had- 

 dock can be caught any day in large numbers. The 

 next thing on the programme is to go ashore and make 

 an old-fashioned chowder, — S, J. M., 



