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more plentiful is that the game laws have been more 
respected this season than I ever knew them before. 
I have made another discovery that I think would be 
well for you to publish. That some people all through 
this country keep scrub bird dogs and allow them to 
run at large during laying and hatching season, and 
they destroy all, or about all, the eggs and young for a 
mile or two around. A good many negroes and white 
people have the dogs here and there through the country, 
and, of course, they are worse about this than the ordi- 
dary dog. I have fully satisfied myself on this point by 
close observation for the last few years, and I think it 
would be well to call the people's attention to it, with a 
view to have a law passed to prohibit dogs rambling 
about in the nesting season. S.^N. A. 
A New .2 Seal. Straight. 
The J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. have had a great many 
inquiries for a .25cal. straight shell. They saw a cut of 
dne in the Forest and Stream designed by Capt. Carpen- 
penter, of the TJ. S. Army, Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., which 
contained 25 grains of powder and 86 grains of lead. The 
company conferred with the U. M. Cartridge Co. on this 
subject, and the result is the .25-25 is now on the market. 
They are now ready to furnish rifles for this cartridge, 
which are rifled on a 12in. twist, and will send a 100-grain 
bullet without keyholing. The U. M. C. Co. are prepared 
to furnish the ammunition and the Ideal Mfg. Co. the 
loading tools. 
Mr. J. B. Fellows writes the J. Stevens Arms & Tool 
Co.: "I have one of your rifles, .25-25; inclosed find 
target of 20 shots at 50yds., without cleaning. It is the 
best ever done at Walnut Hill with any rifle of ,25cal." 
They have made one of these rifles for L. W. Pow, Salem, 
O., who says: "I have one of your late rifles, .25-25, 
which is a dandy to shoot." 
New York Deer Season. 
The second opinion of Attorney-G-eneral Hancock, 
noted in our last issue, but received too late for publica- 
tion, reverses the former opinion as to the interpretation 
of Section 56. The Attorney-General says: 
"The phraseology of Section 56 of the amendment to the 
game laws passed in 1894 is in some respects general in its 
terms; but after a careful examination of the statute I am 
, so clearly of the opinion that it was intended to apply only 
to the county of Sullivan, that I assume the responsibility 
of saying that it does not affect the general game law in 
1 other counties of the State." 
It is held, however, that Section 56 opens Sullivan county 
for deer hunting from Oct. 1 to Nov. 1, and for deer hound- 
ing during the same period. We have already stated the 
grounds upon which the law might be construed as still 
protecting Sullivan county deer for the remainder of the 
original five-years term, dating from 1892; and it were to 
be hoped that the Attorney-General might be converted 
to our view, and while there is yet time give out a rever- 
sal of the reversed opinion, so far as it has to do with 
Sullivan county. 
Adirondack Deer. 
Old Forge, Herkimer County, Aug. 10. — Deer are 
plenty here and in good condition. Illegal killing is 
already going on I understand. C. L. B. 
WHITE MOUNTAIN TROUT STREAMS. 
Pike Station, N. H, Aug. 8.— This section which is 
practically in the White Mountain region, abounds in 
trout streams, which afford excellent fishing early in the 
season. 
The latter part of June I dropped business for a couple 
of days, and m company with two friends and a former 
White Mountain guide and fisherman, went back into the 
woods between Warren and North Woodstock, on a small 
trout brook not much fished on account of its inaccessi- 
bility. We left our conveyance at a point where the 
brook crosses the main road, about half way between the 
well known Moosilauke House at Breezy Point, and the 
equally famous Deer Park Hotel at North Woodstock, at 
11 A. M. We fished down the stream steadily until about 
5 in the afternoon, being interrupted for an hour by a 
heavy thunder storm, which shattered many of the large 
spruce and hemlocks in the primeval forest through 
which the brook winds its way. About 5 P. M. we 
reached camp where our guide, John Boynton, well 
known throughout the White Mountain region, had pre- 
pared a cozy birch camp and had a rousing fire ready for 
the drying of our drenched clothes, and for the cooking 
of as appetizing a meal as ever awaited a hungry fisher- 
man. 
The next morning we fished up the brook again to the 
main road, and then struck across the mountain toward 
the head of Baker's River, which we fished down to East 
Warren; here we found a farmer who succeeded in scar- 
ing up a couple of "rigs," which took us back to Warren, 
in time for a late supper, the proud possessors of trout, 
weighing when dressed full 401bs, ; one of the best catches, 
of the season on these streams. 
I regret to say that the fish and game laws are not at all 
carefully observed in this section. Hundreds of 
thousands of fingerling trout are taken from our raoun- 
, tain streams every year by the "small boy" (and some 
that are not so small), without receiving any notice from 
the local fish and game wardens. The large number of 
summer guests who spend some weeks and considerable 
money here every season, consider it their especial pre- 
rogative to take everything from the water that can be 
induced to take the hook, and the ever ruling passion to 
beat some one else, leads many of these guests to kill 
quantities of these fish for the sake of the count, which 
ordinarily they would be ashamed to take away from the 
water. 
Deer are becoming more plentiful in this section every 
year, and they are often seen in the cornfields and past- 
ures not far from the villages. Many of these are killed 
every winter by the lumbermen, and are run down by 
hounds in the back part of the towns. The game war- 
dens, however, are more zealous in the preservation of 
the deer than of the trout. 
The only way iu which good fishing in our mountain 
stream can be preserved is by the forming of local fish 
and game leagues or clubs throughout this entire section 
for the purpose of stocking these streams and maintain- 
ing the strict execution of the game laws. There are in 
each village a few genuine sportsmen who are eager to 
see the game laws observed and will do all in their power 
for the furtherance of rightful game protection. By 
several towns combining in such a league it would soon 
be possible to have our stream s and ponds alive with good 
game fish. E. Bertram Pike. 
CANADIAN ANGLING NOTES. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Lieut.-Gov. Chapleau of this city, accompanied by a. 
distinguished party of politicians and others, including- 
Hon, Mr. Ouimet, Minister of Public Works for Canada, 
has just returned from a visit to Lake St. John, where 
they enjoyed magnificent sport fishing for the ouananiche 
in the Grande Discharge, and where it is still reported ex- 
ceedingly good and likely to remain so for a long time to 
come in consequence of the height of the water. Speak- 
ing of this Grande Discharge fishing, I am in receipt 
of a letter from John B. Lawrence, Jr., of New York, 
who says: "I have been intending to write to you for 
some time, and tell you how much I enjoyed my trip to 
Lake St. John, and what good sport I had with the 
ouananiche. Mr, Fox and I spent two half-days and one 
whole day fishing at the Grande Discharge, and had as 
good sport as any reasonable man could ask for. We did 
not take any over 3|lbs., but took several of 2i to 31bs. 
* * * I found the B. A. Scott (almost identical with 
the General-Hooker) one of the best flies for the 
ouananiche, and am much obliged to you for telling me 
about it." 
Some of your readers may like to have more details of 
Mr. Archibald's trip to Mistassini, and I will consequently 
make a few extracts from the note book or diary which, 
he kept en route, and which is now in my possession. He 
has brought back with him an immense amount of the 
legendary lore and tribal superstitions of the peculiar 
aborigines inhabiting the interior of this far northern 
country, and some of his photographs illustrate their 
strange habits and beliefs. The first quarter of the 
journey consists of the ascent of the lower portion of the 
Ashuapmouchouan, one of Lake St. John's immense trib- 
utaries, for about a hundred miles, parts of which are 
only navigated with the greatest difficulty, on account of 
the wild rapids. Only three days up from Lake St. John 
Stuart met two Indian hunters, bringing down no less 
than thirteen bear skins to sell. Bears are exceedingly 
plentiful here, and in fact throughout the whole of this 
northern country. Their tracks are seen in abundance 
upon all the portages. The Pemonka Rapids are the 
most dangerous of the Ashuapmouchouan series, and 
must be faced in canoes, the high cliffs upon either side 
of them forbidding the possibility of portaging around 
them. Sometimes in poling up them it is impossible to 
find .the bottom, and then the canoes are violently swept 
down stream at imminent risk of destruction. 
The Ashuapmouchouan River was left at the mouth of 
the Shigobiche, one of its tributaries, which was ascended 
as far as Lake Shigobiche, a fine body of water thirty 
miles long. Fine trout fishing was had in the Shigobiche 
River and along its banks and in good part of the country 
surrounding the lake the richest of soil was found, yield- 
ing wild grass waist high. AnyJ number of fresh bear 
tracks were seen, showing this country to be a perfect 
hunter's paradise. The scenery about Lake Shibobish is 
most beautiful. The water is studded with islands, and 
Mount Shigobish, upon- the borders of the lake, rises 
abruptly to a height of 600ft. On an island in one of the 
lake's picturesque bays was discovered an old Indian 
cemetry, marked by many mounds beautifully located in 
a birch grove. Mr. Stuart wanted to camp there, but the 
guides refused, being afraid to disturb the spirits of the 
dead, A portage of two miles from the lake brought 
them into the Riviere de la Cote Croche, which descended 
to Lake Ashuapmouchouan — the headwaters of the river 
of that name — which is also a large lake and surrounded 
by splendid soil, as is also the Nicaubau River, which 
they reached by a short portage, and ascended its fright- 
ful rapids, where they were very nearly swamped, reach- 
ing first Little and then Great Lake Nicaubau. All 
through this section of the country large numbers of 
ducks were seen, and splendid sport can be had here in 
the fall of the year. 
On a point of land at the entrance of the lake they 
found some twenty bears' heads stuck upon poles and 
smaller numbers of them had been seen similarly treated 
at various other localities during the journey. Beaver 
skulls were often, also, so found, and as in the case of the 
bears, a piece of tobacco was usually found in their 
mouths. The honor thus shown the animals of their chase 
is supposed by the Indians to gratify their spirits. Thus 
when the spirit of the bear revisits the scene of his former 
exploits and sees the respect which has been shown his 
head, he is expected to say to himself, "Hallo! they have 
treated me well here," or something of the kind, and in 
the shape of the living of his species to continue to 
frequent the locality. Mr. Stuart pulled out the teeth of 
one of the Bkulls to bring home with him, much to the 
horror of the Indians, who said that such indignity to the 
bear could not fail to have an injurious effect upon the 
fortunes of those who hunted over these grounds. 
Various small portages and short canoe routes, known 
only to the Indians, brought the party to the height of land, 
in the neighborhood of which beaver were so exceedingly 
plentiful that the paddling of the canoe was constantly 
interrupted by their villages and dams. Considerable 
swanipy ground was found here and immense quantities 
of partridges. 
Lovers of the gun will be able to enjoy magnificent 
sport here in the shooting season. On July 14 they 
reached Lake Obatagooman, where ducts were plentiful 
as well as partridges, and so were beaver, otter and bear. 
Whitefish were plentiful in most of the waters beyond the 
height of land, trout were found in most of the smaller 
streams en route, and pike and dore abound everywhere. 
Obatagooman is a very large lake, but nobody knows its 
size, for it has never been explored. Some of the lakes 
intervening between it and Lake Mistassini appear on 
none of the maps. One of them is at least thirty-five miles 
long, and to all of them resort very large quantities of 
ducks. 
Mistassini was reached on July 19 — a great inland sea 
over a hundred miles in length. Near its southern point is 
a post of the Hudson's Bay Company, consisting of three 
or four small log buildings, the only human habitation on 
or near the great lake. The residents of the post draw all 
their supplies from James Bay, and the factor, Mr. Miller, 
had gone for them when Mr. Stuart visited the post. 
They had gone so short of provisions there that flour had 
not not been seen at the post since spring, the only food 
supply there being carp and suckers. Mr. Stuart gave 
them some flour and canned meats, which they gratefully 
accepted. Splend id-looking potatoes and other vegetables 
were growing in a garden at the post, but could not be 
used till September. The soil is excellent. Some of the 
residents of the post, including Miss Miller, daughter of 
the agent, a very bright young woman, have never visited 
civilization and never even seen a cow. 
The trip from Lake St. John to Mistassini had occupied 
over three weeks. The return was made within a week. 
Often nearly a hundred miles a day were made in running 
down the heavy rapids which had been poled up with such 
difficulty. But the high rate of speed at which the rapid 
current carried down the canoes added materially to the 
perils of the descent. Several narrow escapes were experi- 
enced on the way, and one canoe was swamped and sunk, 
and with it was lost a quantity of provisions. So short of 
supplies aid the party become that for a day or two before 
regaining the limits of civilization, they had to depend 
upon the ducks and partridge which they were compelled 
to kill out of season, and upon the ouananiche and other 
fish which they caught in great profusion. 
The return, too, for the first two-thirds of the way after 
leaving Mistassini, was by a different and more direct 
route than they were able to take in ascending, and they 
early entered the river Chef, a large, long and rapid 
tributary of the Ashuapmouchouan. On this route they 
portaged a number of very beautiful falls, found numer- 
ous signs of beaver and bear, passed large quantities of 
excellent soil upon both sides of the height of land, and 
saw innumerable quantities of ducks upon all the waters 
through which they passed. Mr. Stuart has brought 
back with him a splendid collection of pictures illustra- 
tive of what he has seen upon his trip, which possesses 
special interest from the risk which attended it, the large 
amount of splendid land found upon it, and the immense 
facilities of the country traveled as a resort for sportsmen 
ready to undergo some difficulties and run some risks, to 
obtain successful hunting and fishing where scarcely any 
white man has had it before. E. T. D. Chambers. 
Quebec, Aug. 11. 
OREGON NOTES. 
Portland, Ore., Aug. 2. — Forest and Stream just at 
hand is a " rattler." All it needed was another chapter 
of brother Hough's "Yellowstone Park Game Explora- 
tion " and a growl from " Podgers " to make it the best 
number ever issued. By the way, I want to add my 
voice to the spontaneous outburst of gratitude that is 
going up from all over the world in recognition of 
Forest and Stream's great service in securing proper 
protection for the game of the Park. Hurrah for 
Forest and Stream t Hurrah for Hough ! and 
too, hurrah for Burgess ! The story of the capture 
of the miscreant Howell by Burgess with his frozen foot 
in the remote and almost impenetrable fastnesses of the 
Park is most touching. Burgess is a hero and the sports- 
men of the world should manifest their appreciation of 
his heroic deed by something more tangible than words. 
I almost regret that "O. O. S." has become a convert 
to the "tickling" method of capturing trout. He is too 
slick a man to be given tips of that kind. While we 
mourn for the rapid depletion of our trout streams and 
weep for the days that will never return, it seems to me 
that such men as Mr. Mather, "Kelpie" and numerous 
other well known sportsmen are just a bit inconsistent, 
not to say imprudent, in educating the gentleman down 
in the Ozarks in these unusual and seductive methods for 
the circumvention of Mr. Starbuck's spotted denizens. 
Compunctions of conscience and poignant remorse are 
surely in store for these gentlemen. 
"E. W. R." puts it pretty strong about our indoor trout 
and salmon fishing during the recent great flood. It is 
true that we had a great flood. In fact there was seven 
feet of water on the sidewalk under my office window. 
And it is also true that some fish were taken in our whole- 
sale houses. But thirty trout averaging l^lbs. in weight 
from one house where notices had been posted excluding 
the public, knocks the Ananias of our local fishing club 
silly and he gladly surrenders his leather medal to our 
friend "E, W, R." Most of the fish that paid us a visit dur- 
ing that interesting period were carp; and they were too 
busy playing foot ball with the floating cabbages and 
turnips to be of much practical utility to our anglers. 
However, in justice to my friend Mead I will say that he 
secured several very fine ones from his office window 
with that best of all bait for carp, secured from a China- 
man's pig-sty, 
"El Comancho's" very interesting article "Feeding 
Habits of Trout" calls for an expression of my observations. 
I see that the editor of Forest and Stream has answered 
the most important questions propounded. In addition I 
might say that from the best information I am able to 
obtain on the subject none of our trout will refuse to 
enter salt water when opportunity offers. As to their 
fastidious tastes regarding flies and bait, taking this or 
that readily at one time and absolutely rejecting it at 
other times, we all recognize the fact, but I for one can- 
not attempt an explanation. Some of the best fishing I 
have ever had has been at just such unexpected times 
and under just such really surprising conditions as those 
mentioned by "El Comancho," and with lures the like of 
which could not be found in heaven or on earth. 
Well-filled creels are reported from every quarter now. 
My wife has become disgusted with what she sees fit to 
term my natural indolence and procrastinating disposi- 
tion, or words to that effect, and struck out this morning 
for the mountains with old Mike, her rod and gun, to be 
gone a month or more, That looks a little like a case of 
fish or cut bait for me, and I guess that I'll fish. 
S. H. Greene. 
