June 15, 1895.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Go back to the idea of Ainsworth's spawning race; 
make the bottom of the cage double; provide gravel — not 
sand — for spawning beds, and have the first bottom of 
slats, so that when the trout prepare their beds and de- 
posit their eggs the eggs fall through into the false bot- 
tom, which rnust^be of coarse meshed wire, coarse enough 
to admit of free circulation of water and not coarse 
enough to let the eggs through. All parts of the cedar 
that will come in contact with the eggs must be charred 
and the cage must be anchored where there is a current. 
With all these precautions the eggs might smarten or 
fungus might form. .1 assume the cage can be anchored 
at an inlet where the current would be not unlike that in 
a hatching trough, or it might be possible to anchor it 
over springs that would give the necessary motion to the 
water to produce similar effect. It would certainly 
afford pleasure to those interested to work the thing out 
to success or failure, depending upon conditions to be 
obtained. Success would not produce the results that can 
be obtained in a hatchery where the eggs are constantly 
under observation and the dead ones removed daily. I 
imagine, too, that the per cent, of impregnation even in a 
•carefully constructed race will be far below that obtained 
in a hatchery. If the facilities were at hand I would like 
to try the experiment of going back to Ainsworth's in- 
vention in such a cage as my friend suggests. 
May Flies. 
•For a year or two I have mentioned in this column the 
•date on which I have seen the first May flies on the screens 
at my library window. This year the first discovered 
were on the morning of May 9. This is scarcely a fair 
test of the season, whether it be early or late, as it re- 
quires a south wind to bring t'ae flies to the window, and 
the south wind may not be blowing when the first flies 
rise. It will be noticed, however, tnat this year the flies 
appeared just after the "warm spell" set in which hatched 
out all insect life and melted humanity. The date alone 
would indicate that the season was earlier than last, but 
this, in a general way, is not so. 
Lake Edward. 
The morning that the fishing party consisting of Mr. J. 
W. Burdick, Supt. Manville, Mr. C. S. Webster, Mr. 
David Zieley, all of the D. & H. R. R., and Frederic Rem- 
ington, returned from Lake Edward, I was in Albany, 
and I noticed that the general passenger agent lacked the 
usual bronzed face of an outing. I questioned him about 
the matter, and he admitted that he got well browned the 
first day or two, and that afterward sixty hours of con- 
tinuous rain washed the color from his face and the cour- 
age from his system. The fish caught were not many in 
numbers, but they were all large fish. Mr. Burdick and 
Mr. Manville each caught a trout of 51bs., and Mr. Rem- 
ington one nearly as large, and half a dozen or so of other 
fish from 2% to 3ibs. each were taken by members of the 
party. Mr. Burdick tells me that from June 1 the fishing 
will be good at Lake Edward and vicinity. 
A Record Breaker. 
I have just learned from a gentleman returning from 
Lake St. John that Lieut. -Col. Montizambert caught and 
killed seventy-seven ouananiche in two days' fishing be- 
low the falls of the Metabetchouan, and that when the 
gallant Colonel left to return to garrison duty in Quebec 
he was given a vote of thanks. My informant did not say 
whether the thanks were for killing so many fish or be- 
cause he stopped fishing after two days of rare, red rare 
sport, for I suppose that was what it was called. 
Prospects of Salmon Fishing. 
Mr. John Mowat writes me from Dee Side, Metapedia, 
under date of May 27: 
"You see that 1 date from a new place, twenty miles up 
the river from Campellton, where I have a couple of 
salmon pools which 1 have been trying to-day, but drew 
blank, I think owing to so much lumber; but the water 
was right, perhaps a little early, but I am sure there were 
some brighc sea iish running. I also went down to Mr. 
Mitchell's pool this afternoon, and it drew blank for the 
same reason. Our weather has been very dry so far, but 
I am sure of good fishing by June 10. I still fancy we had 
fish in the river ten or twelve days ago, although not in 
numbers. I go up to the Kedgwick to-morrow, fifty miles, 
to test the pool one of my sons holds, and which Mr. Ayer 
is coming to fish about the 8 th of June." 
It is rather foreign to fishing for salmon in Canada, but 
I have recently heard from the Adirondacks through sev- 
eral sources that there are plenty of trout, but they will 
not bite as yet. A. N. Cheney. 
Even There. 
Canon City, Col., May 26. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Of those who read Forest and Stream I think those who 
most appreciate your interestiag publication are the un- 
fortunate disciples of Izaak Walton who are confined 
inside prison walls. As one of such said, "The next best 
thing to a pardon is Forest and Stream." It seems to 
carry us back to the old home in the East and to the 
banks of the river where the black bass and pickerel are 
wont to disport themselves. Again we stand upon its 
banks preparing our rods and reels for a few hours' battle 
with tbe black bass, After stowing our lunch and can of 
tea in convenient locker prepared for them in the boat, 
we push out in the gently flowing current and in a 
moment we are whipping its waters. 
I have never seen this river (which i3 called Grand 
River in the State of Michigan) mentioned in Forest and 
Stream, and have often wondered at it, for it is one of 
the best bass and pickerel streams in Michigan. 
X. Y. Z. 
Good Luck Stories are Common. 
Chicago, III., June 10. — Chicago anglers who have re- 
turned from short trips to the fishing regions of Wiscon- 
sin and Michigan report the most excellent sport. Two 
well-known Chicago gentlemen caught in two half day*s 
158 black bass in Black Oak, Mamie and Big lakes, their 
headquarters during their staybeiug at Bent's resort, near 
State Line, Wis. Other parties returning from Pelican 
Lake, Manitowish and the trout lake district brought 
with them some very fine specimens of muskallonge and 
black bass. The experience of these fishermen seems to 
indicate that the amended laws prohibiting fishing before 
June 1 are highly beneficial, as "good luck stories" are 
more universal than ever before. W. B. Kniskern. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
[By a Staff Correspondent.] 
Fishing Grounds. 
Chicago, 111., June 8.— The fishing season is nowin full 
swing, and the reports coming in from all our adjacent 
angling waters are of a sort to seriously disturb one's 
piece of mind. When trout and bass begin to act this 
way it always becomes perfectly evident to me that no 
man on a sportsmen's paper ought to work over one week 
in the year at the outside. This "Chained to Business" 
idea is awful tough when you come to apply it right at 
home. 
Most of our anglers go to Wisconsin and Michigan for 
their fishing. Comparatively few Chicago anglers go to 
Minnesota, yet probably that is to-day even better as an 
angling region. Tbough personally I know very little 
of that country, I hear the most enthusiastic stories from 
friends who go there. This spring a local St. Paul paper 
got up a sort of list of the good fishing waters — or part of 
them; for the name of such is legion — and as a possible 
help to inquirers I append the cutting,, which says: 
"Among the desirable resorts for fishing within reach of 
St. Paul citizens are White Bear Lake, Lake Minnetoka, 
Bald Eagle Lake, Dalles of the St. Croix, Snake River, 
near Pine City, the two Chisago Lakes that extend for 
thirty miles in connection with a chain of lakes, Lake 
Superior with its many tributary streams.; The thousands 
of lakes in the northern part of the State, numerous lakes 
near Osakis, 130 miles from St. Paul. Lake Itasca, in the 
northern part of the State, is one of a large group of 
lakes. Park Rapids is adjacent to another cluster of lakes. 
Lakes are also adjacent to the towns of Carlton, Aitkin, 
Sandy Lake, Deer wood, Grand Rapids, Brainerd, Wa- 
dena, Paynesville, Sauk Centre, Atwood, Milaca, St. Bon- 
ifacius, Waverly, St. Joseph, Murdock, Big Lake, Roscoe, 
Tintah, New London, Clearwater, Spicer, Freeport, Das- 
sel, Cold Springs, Pelican Rapids, Maple Plain, Itaska, 
Fosston, Melrose, Evansville, Grove City, Erdahl, Elbow 
Lake, Delano, Long Lake, Dalton, Appleton, Cottonwood, 
Hawick, Garfield, Elizabeth, Avon, Thornsburg, Browns 
Valley, Princeton, Hereford." 
There is something up in that Park Rapids chain of 
lakes worth investigating. Some say there are no mus- 
callonge in those waters, and some say there are. It 
seems certain that the fish, be it 'lunge or great Northern 
pike, runs very large, and I have gruesome tales of stout 
tackle snapped like thread. When I get rich in the news- 
paper business, and cease to be chained to business, I am 
going up to Park Rapids in the interest of sport. Mean- 
time, somebody else would better not wait, but go right 
on up there and see what those big fish are and how they 
act. Minnesota is bound to be the next field for the far- 
reaching Chicago angler. 
A party consisting of J. M. Pease, sheriff of Cook 
county; W. D. Boyce, of the Saturday Blade; Henry 
Hertz, deputy county clerk of Cook county; Dr. E. R. 
Bennett, Dr. F. D. Porter, R, Henselman, A. Larson, E. 
L. Mason, T. Wisshuck, R. Schmid and Robert Hayes left 
this week for upper Michigan, where they will spend two 
weeks fishing. 
Speaking: of 'Lunge. 
Speaking of 'lunge, the following from the daily press 
in regard to the Thousand Islands waters may be of in- 
terest: 
"Ottawa, Ont., June 4. — Chicago people who frequent 
the Thousand Islands in summer will be glad to learn that 
this season they will not be subject to the annoyance of 
having to take out $5 angling licenses, Minister of Marine 
Costigan having decided to set apart the St. Lawrence in 
the Thousand Island district on both sides as a common 
fishing resort for the people of both countries. When the 
Anglers' Association meets next week 1,500 strong at 
Alexandria Bay the Canadian Fishing_ Commission will 
attend to arrange uniform regulations." 
They Met by the Yazoo. 
Last week Percy Stone, of Chicago, who buys hardwood 
lumber, was down in the Yazoo Dell country of Missis- 
sippi after some lumber. When he started North he 
found his railway car was not much crowded, and next 
to him was a brown and rugged looking man who got on 
at one of the little way stations. 
"I looked at this fellow," says Percy, "and I noticed 
that when he paid his fare to the conductor he pulled out 
a roll of bills about as thick as my leg, and took off a $20 
bill. Thinks I, that must be some other timber buyer, or 
he wouldn't have so much money; so I thought I'd speak 
to him to pass away the time. He told me he wasn't 
buying timber, but was 'collecting feathers.' I asked him 
what sort, and he said plumage feathers, and showed me 
a bunch of egret plumes, thick as my thumb, which he 
said was worth over a hundred dollars. Of course, I read 
Forest and Stream, and I had heard elsewhere that 
Billy Griggs, the big market-hunter, shot plumage each 
spring in the South somewhere. So I says to him: 
" 'Did you ever hear of a fellow by name of Billy Griggs, 
that shoots down in this country somewhere?' 
" 'What's your name?' he says, looking at me hard. 
" 'My name's Stone, of Chicago,' I said. Then he looked 
at me again and said : 
" 'Mr. Stone, I m Griggs!' 
"Well, I was tickled to death to meet him, and he was 
to meet me, and as he knew most of my friends among 
the shooters in Chicago, we had a long talk, and the result 
was we got off at a little station somewhere down there 
and spent the day just visiting. Billy told me there that 
he had cleaned up about a thousand dollars on egrets this 
season, and had shot out one or two roosts and was then 
on his way to another that he knew of. He had been 
down there in the swamps alone for so long that he was 
mighty glad to see some one he knew. 
"I stopped at Bobo Station for a little while, and talked 
with the relative of your bear-hunting friend, Mr. Bobo. 
I may go down there to buy some lumber some day." 
The San Mateos. 
It is my personal misfortune to have lost a bear (or at 
least I think now that I have), a large bear about 12ft. 
long, with whiskers along his back and a foot the siz9 of 
a ham. Whenever a Western man comes into the office 
I ask him for news about my bear, and sometimes I think 
I have got track of him, now in the Black Hills, now in 
the Salmon River range, now in the Saw-tooths, or again 
in Washington or Alaska. But to-day I think I have 
learned about where my bear is, and if I didn't have to 
work once in a while I would go there next fall and get 
him. Eater to the Forest and Stream this morning Dr. 
L. W. Cock, late of San Marcos, Tex., but now located in 
Chicago with the Acme Fumigator Co. Dr. Cock's 
friend, Mr. T. H. Glover, of San Marcos, reads Forest 
and Stream and wrote Dr. Cock telling him to call and 
to fix up at once ah arrangement for a big hunt in 
southern Texas next October, with an adjourned session 
to the ranch of a friend away out in the San Mateo Moun- 
tains of New Mexico, where last fall the silver-tips were a 
common nuisance on the range, and where cats and 
mountain lions abound the year round. Dr. Cock drew a 
picture of this lovely wild mountain country— camp out- 
fit, plenty of good horses, two Mexicans to cook, good 
wood and water, silver-tips, lions and cats, antelope and 
deer, maybe a mountain sheep or so — till I begged him to 
be si lent. He certifies me that my lost bear is living down 
in that country now, and asks me if I am going to allow 
property of the sort to remain unclaimed. Very alluring 
indeed is such a picture, for I once lived down in that 
region, and any name with a "San" ahead of it has a fas- 
cination for me to-day, so that I am afraid if I went I 
would stay there. Dr. Cock says he likes the North, but 
doesn't like the cookery. 
"I'd give $5 for one good square Mexican meal with 
plenty of chile dishes in it.!" he said. Very well. When 
we revisit the old "San" country of dreams and delights 
we can, thank fortune, get plenty of chile once more. 
And, at last, may not we meet his long-lost bear? 
A Great Beaver Dam. 
"The surveying party engaged in locating the line of 
the Winnipeg and Great Northern Railway," says the 
Winnipeg Free Press, "came across a remarkable beaver 
dam some distance north of Gladstone a few days ago. 
It extends across a slight depression and is fully 1,000ft. 
long and from 4 to 5ft. wide at the top, with sloping sides. 
The dam is built .of chips, sticks, stones, clay, etc., and 
the work so cleverly executed that it seems incredible 
that-it could have been done by animals. A skillful en- 
gineer could not have planned the work better, and modern 
mechanics could not build a more substantial structure. 
It is evidently very old, but has withstood the ravages of 
time with almost as much resistance as if it were a solid 
wall of rock. The dam at one time must have held back 
quite a large body of water." E. Holgh. 
909 Security Building, Chicago, 111. 
NOTES FROM FISHING WATERS. 
Cape Vincent, N. Y., June 3. — Messrs. A. H, Raymond, 
S. J. Raymond, W, H. Nash, G. H; Greenia, of the South 
Brooklyn Wheelmen, guests at the Union House, took 
fifty-five bass, weighing 661bs., as the first catch of the 
season. 
Jane 4-. — The fishing is remarkable for this time of the 
year here. The same party was out this morning and 
captured twenty fine bass and one 4-pounder. 
J. A. Frisbie. 
Forked River, N. J., June 5. — Bluefishing for the past 
week has been very good here, and at the present time 
continues so. J. B. TlLTON. 
Duluth, Minn. — Black bass fishing is good in Serpent 
Lake, at Deerwood. W. P. Parks, F. A; Patrick, and J. 
A. Ferguson brought home a catch of fine black bass 
weighing nearly 100lbs.,and A. W. Knehnow, H. E. Hin- 
ton and Marvin brought back an excellent catch. 
Canadian Boatmen. 
Niagara Falls, N. Y., June 7.— The Niagara County 
Anglers' Club held its annual tournament at Niagara-on- 
the-Lake to-day. Canadian boatmen and Canadian boats 
were employed. The war which the club and its officers 
has been waging on illegal fishermen has enraged them 
to such an extent that the fishermen endeavored to retali- 
ate to-day by having the entire club arrested by the Im- 
migrant Commissioner. The cause of this was the claim 
of the fishermen that the club men hire Canadian boats 
and boatmen and fish in United States waters, thus vio- 
lating the alien contract labor law. The club was ready 
for this move. The members had interviewed the United 
States Attorney's office in Buffalo, and had in their posses- 
sion the following letters: 
United States Attorney's Office, Northern Division 
of New York, Buffolo, June 5. — Messrs. John F. Little 
and Hiram K. Wicker, Committee of the Niagara County 
Anglers' Club, Lockport, N. Y. : Gentlemen — Replying 
to your inquiry whether or not it will be a violation of 
any statute of the United States for the members of your 
club on the occasion of the club's annual excursion and 
tournament to employ for the occasion Canadian boatmen 
to row their boats for the members of the club in United 
States waters, I have to say: That I have carefully exam- 
ined this question and am unable to find any statute of 
the United States which prohibits such employment. 
Such employment would not be the importation of for- 
eigners or aliens under contract or agreement to perform 
labor in the United States within the meaning of the sta- 
tute to prohibit such importation, etc., and I can therefore 
say to you that none of the members of your club who em- 
ploy such Canadian boatmen will be subject to arrest 
in this district for so doing. Yours, etc., W. F. Mack- 
ay, Assistant U. S. Attorney. 
Maurice F. O'Brien, Immigrant Inspector: My Dear 
Sir— The Niagara County Anglers' Club have their an- 
nual excursion and tournament at Youngstown on Fri- 
day of this week. They are somewhat alarmed over the 
prospect of your arresting the whole outfit if they em- 
ploy any Canadian boatmen to row them on that day. I 
have just advised a committee of that club that their em- 
ployment of Canadian boatmen on that day will not be a 
violation "of any statute of the United States, and in this 
opinion Mr. De Barry, with whom I talked about the mat- 
ter some weeks ago, concurs. While it would perhaps be 
desirable to retaliate upon our Canadian neighbors in this 
matter, I do not see how it can be done under the present 
state of the law, and therefore advise you that nothing 
be done to interfere with the pleasure of these gentlemen 
on the 7th instant. Yours very truly, W. F. Mackay, 
Assistant U. S. Attorney. 
It wai one of the qualifications that Xsnophon bestowed on Cyrus 
that be was a hunter of wild beasts.— Izaak Walton. 
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