Dec. 33, 18930 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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ing his latest hairbreadth escapes on innocent newspaper 

 reporters, and had the satisfaction of seeing them pub- 

 lished with "scare heads." I do not think the party killed 

 much game. It was more of a triumphal march through 

 the hunting country than a hunt, there being nearly 50 

 men in the party. I'll not vouch for the number, as Col. 

 Inerram is the authority. 



Oae object of the trip was to find a location for a mam- 

 moth game j)reserve, and several places were noted. 

 Whether this is merely an advertising dodge or is a fact 

 I am uaabie to ascertain. 



A number of geese have been killed down the river 

 during the past week. The sudden cold snap seemed to 

 start them moving. TtSEEBy. 



"A STANDING MENACE. 



Cooke City vs. the National Park. 



New Haven, Conn., D?c, 16. — 'Editor Forest and 

 Stream: Allow me to thank you, on the part of one in- 

 terested in the National Park, for the firm and able posi- 

 tion your paper has taken on the bill granting a right of 

 way for the proposed railroad to Cooke City. I spent 

 the open season of 18^9 and '90 in geological study of 

 the northern portion of the P^rk, and of the country 

 lying to the north and northwest of it, and am, conse- 

 quently, well acquainted with Cjoke City and its topo- 

 graphical surroundings, and have seen the evidences of 

 its mineral wealth, and I believe your statement of the 

 case to be an absolutely just and impartial one. There 

 has been a steady attempt on the p^rt of interested specu- 

 lators to give the idea that Cooke City contains thoudands 

 of miners impatiently holding down claims until the 

 access of a railroad allows them to pour their treasures 

 oat. As a matter of fact, and as you state, these ores 

 are well known to be of very low grade and it is not 

 even certain that they exist in "enormous" amounts. 

 The Governor of Nevada stated the other day that there 

 was not a single silver mine in that State that was pay- 

 ing a dividend; the present low price of silver, the enor- 

 mous overstock of it ia the market, with the certainty 

 that this can be maintainpd, even if the bi-metallic con- 

 ference takes a favorable issue, which is more than 

 doubtful, having broiiecht about this result. And the 

 same conditions are afl'ecting mines of low grade ore 

 ev&ry where. Even, if at the present moment a i-ailroad 

 was in active operation to C )oke City, ic is almost an 

 absolute certainty that its mines could not be profitably 

 worked and it would be absolute folly to invest one cent 

 in them. And as to the size of the place, I was informed 

 on good authority that in the winter of 1888-'b9 it con- 

 sisted of seven persons. 



Moreover, there is an economic side to this question 

 which seems to have been much overlooked. A railroad 

 as proposed would certainly result, as experience has 

 shown a thousand times and as you remark, in the de- 

 struction of the Park timber and also that on the great 

 block of mountains lying to the north of the Park and 

 called in general the Snowies. If these areas are defor- 

 ested it means d isastrous fljods in spring and absolute 

 dryness in summer to those large districts lying along 

 the Yellowstone at the feet of these mountain ranges. 

 These areas already support a large population engaged 

 in a profitable farming and wheat raising industry which 

 is wholly dependent on irrigation. And a more improved 

 system of irrigation means a great increase in this popri- 

 lation and culture. Their combined wealth already ten- 

 fold exceeds that which Cooke City could furnish in the 

 wildest dreams of a speculator. If these people under- 

 stood the danger which threatens them, they would 

 guard these forests as their holiest altars, tooth and nail 

 and with arms if necessary, against the introduction of 

 any railroad which might threaten their destruction. 



No more important subjpct can engage the Government 

 than means for the preservation of the timbered areas in 

 the West whose waters can place districts under irriga- 

 tion. 



In all other respects you have stated the cas^ so admir- 

 ably that it leaves nothing to say. L, Y. Pirsson. 



LocKPORT, N. Y., D=c. 11, Sunday Evening. — Editor 

 Fared and Stream: The old adage, "Better the day, 

 better the deed," will apply to this. I have just read 

 nearly three pages of the last issue of your valuable paper, 

 and "thus far and no further" will I read before asking 

 you to send me a package of at least fifty of the Yellow- 

 stone Park pamphlets, which I will distribute among mv 

 friends, mmy of whom do not read the Forest akd 

 Stream, "more's the pity." J. L. Davison. 



Snakes Spit. 



The discussion as to whether the rattlesnake spits or 

 not has been interesting, I do not know as much about 

 rattlesnakes as T do of copperheads. I know that they 



epit. 



A number of guests were present at our club preserve 

 near Youngstown, Pa., when two snakes were found and 

 one was killed with sticks and stones, the other obtained 

 refuge in a short piece of rotten log. A friend and myself 

 came up to the Fcene of action and recognized the dead 

 snake as a copperhead. 



We went to the log, one at each end, and 'soon saw 

 that the reptile was a large copperhead. They were evi- 

 dently mates. 1 saw his head and my friend caught his 

 tail. Drawing him gently forth I kept my hand care- 

 fully around him until by couch I knew that I had him 

 'by the neck. Then Jim tied a string around the cop- 

 perhead's neck and fastened the other end to a long 

 stick. One of the boys got to teasing him, the snake 

 made an effort to strike, but failing to reach his mark, 

 discharged a quantity of greeni h matter upon the man's 

 shoe without striking it. Perhaps the rattler nan do the 

 same. Deacon. 



Kentucky is Behind the Times. 



Kentucky fishing interests have not received from the 

 Legislature tbe consideration which piablic sentiment 

 demands, and persons concerned for the welfare of the 

 State are greatly discouraged. Some citizens of Bryants- 

 -ville who had made arrangements to secure fish for stock- 

 ing Dix River have given up their intention because the 

 fttream cannot be protected from destructive fishing. 

 Unless Kentucky wakes up tllOrOBSbly she will 800ri have 



IS THIS CASEl CORRECTLY STATED? 



KosHKONONo, Wis., Dec, Vi,,— Editor Forest and 

 Stream: Please explain this: A common, every day 

 man who owns nothing much besides good health and 

 an equally good gun, which he knows how to use, by 

 strict economy is enabled to take an outing each year. 

 The game that he kills is shipped; and the proceeds go 

 to supply the deficiency in his salary caused by said 

 outing. During this trip by his perseverance and knowl- 

 edge of the ways of game he makes a big bag; and it 

 is all killed in an honorable sportsmanlike manner, but 

 nevertheless he is styled by the writers of your paper a 

 game hog, market and pot-hunter. 



Another man, who is posscRsed of thousands of dollars, 

 owns a first class outfit and controls large interests in 

 some club preserve that excludes all other of its more 

 humble brethren who have not the means to get in. This 

 gentleman has a man, who has previously located the 

 game, to put him in the right place, where all he has to 

 do is to shoot it. He also makes a large bag, but does 

 not market it. What he does with it is never told. He 

 is the true sportsman of the Forest and Stream, 



Please tell us poor ignorant natives of Wisconsin why 

 one is a game hog and a market hunter, and the other is 

 a sportsman. The one controls just what game he kills, 

 the rest is public property. The other controls all he 

 kills and all the rest in tbe neighborhood. A Native. 



A North Carolina Game Country. 



Mr. E. p. McKissick, the popular manager of the Bat- 

 tery Park Hotel, Asheville, North Carolina, who has 

 been visiting Hon. John S. Wise, in this city, gave us 

 an entertaining account of the shooting attractions of 

 Asheville the other day. "We have game right there,'' 

 said he. "Thanksgiving Day I was out with a gun and 

 brought back 7 woodcock, 2 mallaxd ducks, 28 quail, 8 

 rabbits and .2 squirrels — but you need not count those." 

 Mr. McKissick nas shooting privileges over thousands of 

 acres for the Battery Park guests; and has had there Mr. 

 Lorillard, the Thayer brothers and other well-known 

 sportsmen who resort to Norl h Carolina. 



The Sierra Nevada Sportsman's Club. 



Tbis club was organized in Truckee, Cal., recently with 

 upward of thirty members. Ttie president is Stewart 

 McKay, the secretary Wm. O'Neill. The membership 

 includes all the local anglers. The club has posted 

 printed notices of the fish and game laws around the 

 lakes and streams of the locality, and will look after the 

 protection of the public interests. One of the first prob- 

 lems presented to their attention may be the manage- 

 ment of the mill refuse which pollutes Truckee River. 



Moose on Spencer Stream. 



Wilton, Maine.— Dr. C. F. Rjwell and D. L. Hall of 

 this place came home tbis morning bringing with them 

 two large moose and one deer, which they captured 41 

 miles from Kingfield, on the lower Spencer Scream. 

 They report plenty of large game there, and had lots of 

 fun and amusement. Dr. Rowell takes great delight 

 in such sport and is a crack shot. Mr. Hall, one of our 

 business men, likes such sport as well as any one and is a 

 crack shot. J. C. C. 



It Mig-ht Have Been a Scrimmage. 



Austin, Tex., Nov. 538. — Once here in Travis county, 

 armed only with a shotgun and small shot charges, I 

 sallied out of camp to ascertain the cause of some dis- 

 turbance, and in the darkness followed an animal down 

 to a water hole and across a creek, but without getting a 

 shot. The next morning I congratulated myself, for I 

 discovered that it was a panther that had killed a year- 

 ling a short distance away. J. V. B. 



OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Talking It Over. 



A group of sbooters after a California morning in the field. 

 The photograph comes from "Podgere," and he tells ns that it 

 faithfully lepiesents the customary happy mood of Califor- 

 nians returned from the quail grounds. 



The Death Lock. 



These locked horns, with the skeletons of the bucks, were found 

 on the deer ridge of Long Point, Lake Erie, Oatario, Can., and now 

 adorn the dining room of the Long Point Club. The jilate is from 

 an amateur photograph by Mr. John T. Lord, of London, Eng., 

 sent us by Mr. W. Gayer Dominick of this city. 



"Main Sheet!" 



The little cutter in the photograph, sent in for the amateur com- 

 petition, has figured in the nages of the Fobest and Stkeam, her 

 adventures on a rluck hunting pxpedition having been told in the 

 iS8U9S of Nov. 15-22, 1888, by Mr. J. C. Miller, the central figure in 

 tbe picture. The yacht is the Kittoch, owned by Mr. Jas. Miller, 

 who holds the stick, and the photo was taken when in the Bay de 

 Via, Miramichi River. K. B. Messrs. Miller are two of the lead- 

 ing yachtsmen of New Brunswick, both having held the office of 

 commodore of the MLrftmipM Y. C, the only yacht club in the 

 Province. 



Sharp Work at the New England Field Trials. 



The incident is a pnlnt by Rod Bel'-on, honored by Our Pet, In 

 the New England Field Trials of 1892. Rod Belton is owned by 

 Mr. Willard W. Lewis, of Rockland, Mass., and Our Pet. winner 

 of second in All- Age Stake, is owned by the Oakland Eennels, of 

 Taunton, Mass. Tbe plate ia from an amateur photography com- 

 petition picture sent in by Mr. R. M. McLean, Cambridge, Mass. 



On Watch. 



The scene is one of a deer stand on an Adirondack runway 

 and tbe picture ia from an amateur photo (Forest awd Stream 

 competition) by Mr. A. Ames Howlett. 



Morning on the Marsh. 



The picture is of the start for a day with the ducks on the 

 famous ground, and the plate is from an amateur photo (Forest 

 ASD Stream competition) by Mr. Percy F. Stone. 



Waiting for Tide to Rise. 



Tbis realistic illustration of goose shooting from a blind, is 

 from an smateur photograph (FORBST and (t'trkam competition) 

 by Mr. J. C. Miller, Tjie spene ig Ji^oBebei}png:tia<? Beaob, New 

 Bfunswic-k. 



m ar(d ^iv^r fishing. 



The Fish Law>< of the United States and Canada, in the 

 "Qame Laiffs in Brief,'' 25 cents. In the ^'Booli 0^' im 

 Game Laws" (full text), 50 cents. 



WITH A FLY-ROD. 



A Sentiment to Go with a Gift. 



I SEND you, by bearer, a mark of esteem. 

 Which I trust you will christen in some mountain stream. 

 And return, to inform me at some later day. 

 How you felt when the big one you struck got away. 

 Phxladklphia. L. H. T. 



San Francisco, Cal.— Rods I have galore which I seldom use 

 and oft am puzzled which to choose. As one by one o'er the lot 

 1 glance I say shall it be split-bamboo or lance? This distraction 

 gives me trouble sore, until I wish 1 had but one— no more. In 

 your suggestion I now see the way to reduce the lot next Christ- 

 mas Day. By your alluring hint I'm half beguiled to spare a rod 

 if I spoil a child. Methinks I know a youth of summers ten, a 

 born fisherman, surnamed Ben, with hempen string and hook of 

 pin he fisheth, and oft he tumblsth in. It will fill his very soul 

 with joy to once possess this dainty toy; I know 'twill give him 

 serene delight, and with it an epistle I'll indite. And if you want 

 to know what I'll say I'll show.^you; I'll put it^.somewhat this 

 way: 



Young man, behold this emblem of patience, truth, 



A fit donation to such a fishing youth. 



Do your duty, be in all your fishing square, 



Treat it tenderly; throw not you'' fish in air; 



And when you feel the thrilling strike. 



Be it speckled. trout o"r voracious pike. 



Play him gently and with skill, 



For while you hsh for spore you fish to kill. 



Heed not tbe big ones you do not get, 



And be handy with your landing net. 



Above all things, be truthful as to weight, 



tiive correctly time, place and date. 



A fisherman's reputation ever value high, 



Be a little George Washington and never tell a I'e; 



Truth first, last and at every cast. 



Tell no whoppers of the big one lost. 



Emulate not those who write for F. & S ; 



Let there be one "truthful Jeems" the less. 



And those sliootlng tales you see, my son, 



Should make you swear you'll never own a gun: 



Then your horn you'll have no need to toot. 



Be content to flsh, my boy, but never, never shoot. 



Podgurs. 



l aOM A HUSBAND XO HIS WIFE. 



Ddbing all the years that you have so generously over- 

 looked my foibles and forgiven my faults, there have been none 

 of my wanderings that you have so freely condoned as those 

 which carried me to the shaded binksof some clear stream where 

 the wary trout waited for his prey. For there was no quest so 

 successful as to awaken your envy; tone so barren as not to com- 

 mand your sympathy; and each recouuted pleasure of the wave 

 and shore lived again in your responsive mind. To you who have . 

 always studied, but never practiced the piscatorial art; and yet 

 have known and realized all the angler's joys, as seen through 

 another's eyes, I present this emblem of our entrancing craft, 

 trusting that the same proxy to whom you have hitherto com- 

 mitted ail your labors with the fly-rod may long continue to serve 

 you in like capacity. Jay Beehk. 



Toledo, 0., Dec. IT. 



CRYSTAL LAKE FISHING CLUB. 



Articles of incorporation were filed Dec. 4, at Cov- 

 ington, Ky.i by -Teptha L. Workum. Geo. F. Ahlers, C. 

 G. Smedburg, Geo. C.Walker, Fred Kinsinger and Eichard 

 McGraw as the Crystal Lake Fishing Club, with a capital 

 stock of $5,000, divided into shares of $100 each, and 

 with the privilege of increasing the stock to $10,000. 



The principal place of business of the club will be in 

 Kenton county, but it may establish branches at other 

 places in or out of the State. 



The purposes of the company are to establish and 

 maintain a fishing lake and game preserve; to raise fish 

 and game, and hunt and sell the same; to encourage the 

 sports of hunting and fisbing by spreading information 

 on the subjects of fish and game; to protect the fish and 

 game in Kenton and the adjoining counties. 



The officers will consist of a president, a vice-presi- 

 dent, a secretary, a treasurer and such others as may be 

 needed. The annual meeting of the stockholders will 

 be held in April, 



Crystal Lake has a water surface of 16 acres: its greatest 

 depth is 83ft., average depth 2ih, It is fed by eight 

 springs and drains about 500 acres, chiefly of blue grass 

 lands. Its location is at Ryland, eleven miles by rail or 

 pike from Codington. 



At present the ofiicers are Geo. C. Walker, president; 

 Chas. G. Smedberg, secretary and treasurer; Eichard Mc- 

 Graw, superintendent. 



The club will soon stock its preserve with choice game 

 fish, in which it will, doubtless, seek aid from the U. S. 

 Fish Commission. 



There are many fine fishing lakes in the A^icinity of 

 Covington, and probably none more successfully managed 

 than those on the estate of Joseph Hchlosser, several miles 

 from the city. In these waters are multitudes of black 

 bass, crappie, pike-perch, catfish, bufl:alo and carp, and a 

 few years ago the proprietor introduced some trout and 

 salnaon which he obtained after the close of the Cincin- 

 nati Exposition from the Fish Commission exhibit. 



From personal observation we know that the region is 

 well adapted to black bass and pike-perch, which, doubt- 

 less, will be among tbe fishes selected for introduction 

 by the Crystal Like Club. Before leaving the subject 

 we may state that Mr. Schlosser, in 1888, had a buffalo 

 fish weighing upward of 601bs. in one of his lakes. 



Minnows for Hogs and Hens. 



Never before has there been so large a number cf min- 

 nows in Oneida Creek, at Willow Grove, as at present, 

 People living near there are engaged in catching them by 

 the wagon loads and selling them to farmers, who feed 



