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FOREST AND STREAM, 
[Oct. 10, 1896. 
St. Mary's Mountain Goats. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Rocky Mountain goat is generally considered euch 
a trophy by those lucky hunters who have been so fortu- 
nate as to secure one, that I am tempted to tell your read- 
ers where they are sure to get it, 
In August of this year I joined a party of cavalry 
oflacers at Fort Assiniboine, Mont., and we made up a 
party at that post with the avowed intention of getting 
goats and sheep if they were to be had. 
We went 150 miles west from Fort Assiniboine by rail to 
Blackfoot Station on the Great Northern R, R., and from 
there struck out northwest to Norris Cabin in the St. 
Mary's Lake coimtry, about forty miles from Blackfoot. 
.Here we made our permanent camp. From this point 
we made short hunting trips of two or three days' dura- 
tion into the surrovmding country, having good success 
every time. The "lick" on Kootenai Mountain, four 
hovLTs' climb from our permanent camp, yielded one or 
more sheep every time any of our party went up, and we 
went frequently. There were no goats on this mountain. 
No finer trout fishing is found in the Rockies than that 
in St. Mary's Lake and river. Speckled trout run up to 
4lb8., and lake trout certainly over lOlbs., and in almost 
limitless quantities. 
There appear to be very few deer in this country, but 
.grizzly bears are very plentiful. They tell me that May is 
the best bear month, as they will then come to a bait 
(usually a horse killed for the purpose, near a platform 
blind). 
This coimtry is on the Blackfoot reservation, and as it 
will be thrown open to settlement within a year, and the 
best hunting will then be a thing of the past, I would ad- 
vise those who vjant to try for a goat to move quickly. 
Outfits can be had at Blackfoot Station, and wagons can 
go as far as Norris's cabin, on St. Mary's Lake. Beyond 
the lake pack animals must be used. 
I have himted big game in many sections of the West, 
but have never seen a more attractive country than the 
St. Mary's Lake region. H. E. Hayward. 
[Our correspondent mentions Billy Jackson as a good 
guide, and we add the name of Jack Monroe. They may 
be addressed at Kipp, Mont. J 
Barne^at Shooting. 
Barnegat Inlet, N. J., Oct. 1. — There has been a great 
flight of snipe of all kinds at North Point of Beach, Sea 
Dog Shoals and Sedge Islands during the past few days; 
the yellow-legs making the air resound with their plaint- 
ive whistling. I learn that a nice lot of golden plover 
and large yellow-legs were killed by a gentleman whUe 
standing on the porch of Sedge Island Lodge. 
Last Saturday I caught some very fine bluefish just 
over the bar, at the inlet, some weighing over Tibs. 
Captains report good sport with large weakfish and 
croakers outside the bar. They use a cabin yacht and 
when the fish are located the sheet is "eased off" and 
they drift; using hard clams for bait, and a No. 6.0 
snelled hook with a 2oz. sinker. The fish average from 4 
to 8lbs. Each yacht taking from twenty to forty in a 
day. 
The bass have been biting very well during the past 
week in Mud and Sedge channels: the sportsmen using a 
spoon and troUing from a rowboat, also still-fishing, using 
crab for bait. I saw some weighing Gibs, each which 
were caught in- Sedge Channel, near Buster Island. 
Sea Dog. 
Kentucky Game Abundant. 
Fulton Countt, Ky., Sept. 29,— On the sandbars of 
the Mississippi River, below Cairo, 111., wild geese have 
already made their appearance in goodly flocks. This is 
not usual so early in the season. 
Mallards are also coming into the lakes and bayous, 
and as there is splendid feed and a much better supply of 
water than for years past, it is likely that the shooting 
will be exceptionally fine this season. 
I have never seen such flocks of doves as we have this 
year. They fly in droves like wild pigeons use to do. 
Some of our shooters have been having fine sport in 
shooting them. 
The quail are also very abundant, and there has not 
been so many squirrels for many years as during the sum- 
mer, and fall sportsmen in this section will have good 
sport this season. J. N. Hall. 
Abundance of Snipe. 
Winnipeg, Sept, 39. — We are having a spell of Indian 
summer which will delay the aquatic birds in leaving us 
for a more congenial clime. It, however, lengthens our 
sport with them, Mr. Hough may look forward to the 
best snipe shooting of years. I never saw them so plenti- 
ful. I had a pirty of friends out last Saturday afternoon 
and they made a hole in a thousand cartridges, but the 
bag was not so large as it might have been. 
Thomas Johnson. 
Duck Shooting from Launches on Long Island 
Waters. 
The New York law permits duck shooting from boats 
propelled by hand and from sail boats in Long Island 
Sound, Gardiner and Peconic bays; but it does not per- 
mit shooting from naphtha nor steam launches, which is 
reported to be practiced extensively. 
Maine Big ' Game Hunters. 
New York, Oct. 6; — Editor Forest and Stream: Messrs. 
John J. Sullivan and John W. Phillips, of the New York 
Health Department, leave for Greenville Oct. 10 for a 
hunting trip of two or three weeks in the Moosehead re- 
gion. Mr. A. H, Isbell, who is a crack rifleman and pis- 
tol expert, went into Darling Camps on Sebois last week. 
Dogs Deadheaded in Virginia. 
PUBING the hunting season, *. e., from Oct. 1, 1896, to 
March 81, 189t, the Norfolk & Western Railroad Com- 
pany will take free in baggage cars, when accompanied 
by owner, and at their risk, the dogs of sportsmen or 
hunting parties, not exceeding one dog to each man. 
W. B. Bevill, General Passenger Agent. 
New Hampshire Small Game, 
Bristol, N. H., Sept. 28,-1 have been having a few 
days of fine sport with the grouse an^ the grays in thig 
yicinity, and find bQth yery plenty. ^. B, 
'mm mid ^mt( ffrak^tian. 
MARYLAND ASSOCIATION WORK. 
Baltimore, Sept. 30. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Thinking that it might be interesting to the readers of 
the Forest and Stream to know of the work that is being 
done by the Maryland Game and Fish Protective Associa- 
tion and the State game warden, I will encroach upon 
the columns of your valuable paper for a little space. 
At the last session of the General Assembly of Maryland 
the Game and Fish Protective Association obtained some 
valuable additions to the game and fish laws. The enact- 
ment of a law providing for the appointment of a game 
warden with power to appoint deputies ad libitum was 
the most important legislation enacted in the interests of 
sportsmen. The game warden's department and the 
Game and Fish Protective Association are practically one 
and the same, they go hand in hand and are in perfect 
harmony. Mr. J. Olney Norris is the game warden, and 
has appointed over 100 deputies. Since the organization 
of the department last June a great many offenders have 
been arrested, and in every instance the guilty ones were 
convicted. Several interesting cases are now pending 
trial. The most important case to be tried is the one 
which which will come up during the present term of the 
Circuit Court of Baltimore county, in which James F. 
Butler and Robert Smith are charged with having per- 
petrated the dastardly crime of poisoning 3,000 English 
pheasants at the Bowley's Quarter game preserve, a full 
account of which was given in the Forest and Stream 
last week. 
The preservation and propagation of black bass in the 
Potomac River is a matter in which the Association is 
deeply interested. No stream in this country is better 
adapted to bass than the Potomac, and with proper re- 
strictions and enforcement of the fish laws it will be 
utterly impossible to exhaust the supply of bass in the 
Potomac by legitimate angling. According to a tri-party 
agreement on the part of representative sportsmen from 
Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, who met at the 
Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club, near Harper's Ferry, last 
November, recommending a uniform law for the three 
States, prohibiting the taking of bass in the Potomac in 
any manner save only with hook and line, the time is 
near at hand when the Potomac River will become the 
best bass stream in this country. The Legislatures of 
Maryland and Virginia passed the law last winter,and West 
Virginia will do likewise at the approaching session of its 
Legislature. This law wiU do away with all fish traps, 
outlines, seining, etc., which have been very destructive 
agents in depleting the Potomac for years. 
Bass are abundant and fishing is very fine at this time. 
My friend Dr. W. S. Harban, of Washington, and a num- 
ber of the Blue Ridge Club caught twenty-three fine fish 
one day last week and twenty-two the day following, the 
largest weighing 4|lbs. It was my good fortune to catch 
a fine string myself during a recent visit to the Blue 
Ridge Club as Dr. Harban's guest. 
I have just returned from a tour of inspection in my 
official capacity, consulting the deputy wardens along the 
Potomac and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, from 
Harper's Ferry to Williamsport, with a view to carrying 
out a scheme that will put at least 1,000,000 bass into 
the Potomac. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal contains 
great quantities of bass. At the close of the season in 
December the water is '^rawn from the canal, but there 
are large and small poult; ull along the canal which hold 
considerable water; iv these the fish congregate by the 
thousand, and it is tht determination of the Association 
to seine these pools, puthing all the bass into the Potomac, 
and to destroy all the German carp, for they are regarded 
as the worst nuisance ever dumped into American waters. 
Thousands upon thousands of small bass die in these ijools 
every year, and barrels upon barrels of large bass have 
been taken from them with seines for years; but, thanks 
to Col. G. L, Nicholson, general superintendent of the 
canal, this has been stopped. Col. Nicholson has issued 
orders prohibiting any one from seining in the canal. We 
have the assurance that Col. Nicholson will assist the 
Association in every way he possibly can in consummat- 
ing our plans. The Blue Ridge and Woodmont clubs and 
sportsmen in general will also lend a helping hand. 
Deputy Game Wardens Armstrong, Bowers and Webb, 
of Hagerstown, were particularly attentive to me, and I 
am under many obligations to them for much assistance 
and good advice, and the Association will find them ready 
to cooperate with us in every way they possibly can. The 
same may be said of all the deputy game wardens in 
western Maryland along the Potomac. These facts are 
mentioned to show how harmoniously the Game and Fish 
Protective Association and the game warden's department 
fraternize. George W. Massamore, 
Sec'y-Treas. and Assistant Game Warden. 
War Besrun in Massachusetts. 
Boston, Oct. 1.— Editor Forest and Stream: Inclosed 
please find a clipping from the Boston Heraldin reference 
to the war which has commenced on poachers in this 
locality. The Rod and Gun Club is a new club which has 
been recently formed, and they propose to take care of the 
game in New England and see that the game laws are 
strictly adhered to. Robert Smith. 
The Rod and Gun Club is taking active measures to en- 
force the fish and game laws of the State in behalf of 
legitimate sport, and a war has been begun on poachers 
which will be kept up, it is said, until the treasury of the 
club is exhausted. As its membership includes some of 
the wealthiest men in the State, this will not be for some 
time to come. 
Game commissioners, appointed by the State, are on 
the pay rolls of the club, and for the past three weeks 
they have been actively engaged in looking over the 
ground. 
The first arrest was made Sunday, when Clarence Hat- 
tenburg was caught at Easton with two partridges. He 
was taken before Judge Fox, of Taunton, yesterday morn- 
ing. He pleaded guilty, and, it being a first offense, a 
fine of $30 was imposed. 
Commissioner Wm. O. Quggle, who made the arrest, said 
to a reporter of the Herald: "Since I started out three 
weeks ago to enforce the game laws, I have found plenty 
of evidentJ© of law bre&king, At Barton aad North Eaafcon 
particularly men have been going out day after day, and 
if this sort of thing is kept up it would not be long before 
there would be no game in the State worth talking about. 
"As it is now, sportsmen who go out find very little, 
while the trappers simply set their snares during the day, 
go home for the night and in the morning come for the 
game. 
"The case to-day was the first of many I expect to have 
in court before long, for I have already secured evidence 
enough to secure convictions. It is the determination of 
the Rod and Gun Club to push every case to the full 
extent of the law," Boston. 
A New Jersey Month. 
In his report to the Fish and Game Commissioners for 
the month of September, Protector Charles A. Shriner 
says of the game law and its working: 
The past month has added materially to the ever in- 
creasing volume of evidence that the laws regarding 
game passed by the last Legislature are wholly inefficient 
for the purposes for which they were enacted and that a 
continuation of these laws cannot but result in the total 
extermination of game in this State. With the yearly 
increase in the number of gunners has come a material 
elongation of the periods in which game of different 
kinds may be lawfully taken; in only one instance waa 
the period made shorter, being the season for the killing 
of reed and rail birds, this being fixed so as to prohibit 
the killing at a time when the birds are the most numer- 
ous and in the best condition for the table. But the ex- 
tending of the seasons for the lawful killing of game is 
not the worst feature of the present game laws; the most 
obnoxious feature is that the law permits the killing of 
some kind of game during many months, thus giving pot- 
hunters and poachers a warrant for being seen with guns 
in the woods and fields at almost all times of the year. 
Temptations to violate the game laws were thus afforded 
by statutes intended to secure an observance of the laws. 
As the past month afforded opportunities for the killing 
of song and insectivorous birds and other violations of 
the game laws to a greater extent than during the sum- 
mer months, the wardens were instructed to be more 
vigilant than ever, and if possible to secure the punish- 
ment of every violator of the law. To apprehend all the 
offenders would be a manifest impossibility. But the result 
of the work of the wardens has been gratifying as far as 
their vigilance is concerned. 
The record of prosecutions during September comprises 
not less than seventy-two cases, most of them for the 
illegal killing of insectivorous birds, many for Sunday 
gunning, others for taking bass of unlawful size seid use 
of set lines. 
Pennsylvania Game Law. 
The Legislative Committee of the Pennsylvania State 
Sportsmen's Association met Sept. 30 at Harrisburg. The 
attendance was small and the chairman of th& commit- 
tee, in calling the meeting to order, said that the show- 
ing made by the members of the committee was decided- 
ly disappointing. 
The business transacted was of a preliminary nature. 
The meeting passed a motion that a committee be ap- 
pointed to draft a bill for presentation at the next meet- 
mg of the Legislature, fixmg the open season for all 
game from Oct. 1 to Dec. 81. There was quite a differ- 
ence of opinion upon this point, and it is more than 
probable that when the committee finally acts upon such 
a bill its contents will be much modified. 
The questions of the sale of 'game and also of the non- 
exportation of the same were discussed, and a committee 
appointed to look into such questions. 
J, F. O'Neill was elected secretary of the Legislative 
Committee, and will act in that capacity at all meetings 
of the committee. The meeting adjourned to meet 
again at the call of the chair. 
MEN I HAVE FISHED WITH. 
XV.— Charles Guyon. 
The little mining town of Potosi lies in the southwest 
corner of Wisconsin. It has three streets in the only pos- 
sible places for streets; the three narrow valleys which 
meet in the center of the village afford outlets for travel. 
Some two miles to the west one valley leads to the Grant 
River, near its mouth, and here a Mississippi steamer came 
for freight occasionally. A stage came from Galena 
down another valley, and thus Potosi was connected with 
the outside world. Here I drifted in the spring, and found 
good fishing and shooting. My friend Loeser had gone a 
few miles further north to Fennimore Grove, near Lan- 
caster, where he settled down into a farmer's life. 
Charley Guyon was one of the French-Canadian colony 
which formed the largest portion of the village. There 
was a settlement of Cornish miners in one of the outskirts 
called British Hollow, but the two peoples mixed very 
little except in the way of trade and in the gambling 
rooms, which were then run wide open. Charley was a 
strong young fellew about my age, and he proposed that 
we should go jacking for fish some night. 
"I don't know the first thing about jacking, Charley. 
I'll go and try it. Tell me all about it." 
"Well, it's this way," said he (very few of the French- 
Canadians spoke anything like a dialect). "We have a 
jack light on one side of the bow and it hangs over the 
water, so that no fire drops into the boat. One man pad- 
dles and the other stands in the bow, and when he sees a 
fish he gigs it." 
The jack was a cresset made of strap iron — a 12in. ring 
to which half a dozen strips were riveted to form the 
bowl, which was fastened to an iron staff long enough to 
bring the bowl above a man's eyes as he stood in the boat. 
Charley had gathered a lot of bark from the shell-bark 
hickory, which he said made the best of all lights, and we 
got a ride to the landing with our traps. The "gig" was 
a spear of some six or eight prongs, with a wooden handle 
about 8ft. long, to which a small cord was attached to the 
upper end to recover it by. 
As soon as it was dark enough we lighted the jack and 
started. The boat was a light-bottomed scow and I used 
the paddle. Guyon stood in the bow and gave orders; he 
did BQt .\m nautical terms, bijt '^right" or <'left" aa 
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