Makch 2, igoi.] 
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applies to all venison, whether killed within the State or 
outside. It applied prior to the enactment of the, Lacey 
law just as much as it does now; the Lacey law has not 
affected its applica.ion. The reduction in the penalty 
exacted by the protector was probably made in order to 
avoid the expenses of litigation.] 
Guns in Maine Close Season, 
Boston, Feb. 25. — Not less than 7,000 caribou were shot 
in Newfoundland during the season of 1900. As nearly 
as can be ascer ained from the faulty manner in which all 
records of hunting are kept, alien sportsmen, who pro- 
cured licenses, killed about 1,200 caribou; native sports- 
men, not taking out Hcenses, about 1,300; English and 
French officers and men from the naval squadrons, 
privileged characters there, 600 to 800; settlers along the 
south shore, hunting for the St. Johns market, about 
2,000 more. For the season of 1900 210 licenses only were 
issued to hunters outside of the island, showing how 
few sportsmen go there compared with other sections, 
where the hunting is not nearly as good. 
There certainly is a good chance that some law regu- 
lating ihe carrying of guns and rifles in Maine during 
the close season on game may be enacted during the 
present session. A bill has already been entered in the 
House regulat ng the carrying of firearms into the wild 
lands of the State during the close season, and as far as I 
am able to learn, is receiving good support. It will be 
argued that the possession of a rifle in close season is 
prima facie evidence of in ent to use it. and that the 
Satte has as good right to prevent this possession as it 
has to prevent jacklights or even burglars' tools. The 
Sta e of Maine will do well to sit down hard on the 
perfect abandon with which sportsmen from out of that 
State have been in the habit of "taking their rifles along" 
Avhen going on fishing trips, when they know, and every- 
body else knows, they do not even intend to stay till the 
legal open season en game. Special. 
The Appalachian Park, 
AsHEViLLE, N. C. — Editor Forest and Stream: I here- 
r'th inclose you a copy of the special message from the 
resident to the Senate and House, pertaining to the 
■ablishment of a forest reserve in the Southern Appa- 
Dhian Mountains. This message was also accompanied 
' a leter from the Secretary of Agriculture. You ob erve 
\t both the President and Secretary recommend the 
jablishment of a forest reserve in the Sou hern Appa- 
Bliian Mounta'ns, and upon their recommendation our 
aiators and Representatives have introduced a bill into 
th the Senate and House, praying for an appropriation 
$5 000 000 for the establishment of such a forest re- 
h'e in the moun ainous section of the Southern States, 
''ou will remember that over a year ago, when we first 
3proached Congress, we simply asked for an appropria- 
tion of $5 000 to defray the expense of a prelim nary in- 
vcst'gation. This appropriation we secured, and the in- 
restigation was made last summer under the direction of 
th" Secretary of Agriculture, as per the let.er herewith 
inclosed. 
1 he only opnosition our movement has met with thus 
far is at "the hand=; of a few selfish lumbermen (I am 
pleased to report that the majority of the lumbermen 
arc with us and in favor of the movement), and also a 
few of the Southern members of Congress have objected 
from a point of States rights. This latter objection, how- 
ever, we have entirely overcome, and have secured legis- 
lation in North Carolina South Carolina, Georgia and 
Tennessee favoring our movement and praying the Na- 
tional Government to es ablish a reserve as requested. 
These States have also granted the Government power 
to acquire possession of the lands, even by the process 
of eminent domain, if necessary. 
The Appalachian National Park movement is now in 
the best poss'ble shape, and even though we do not secure 
an appropriation at the present short session of Congress, 
•we begin to believe now. that success is in sight. 
Push the Appalachian National Park movement! 
C. P. Ambler, _ 
Secretary-Treasurer A. N. P. Association. 
The Sportsmen's Show. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Sportsmen's Show, under the auspices of the Na- 
tional Sportsmen's Association, will open March 2 at 
^ladison Square Garden, and continue two weeks. The 
ene will represent the land of Hiawatha, the home of 
the Ojibway Indians, of whom there will be a large num- 
ber presen . They will inhabit an island situated in a 
' '.:e, on which the Indian dances will be performed and 
leir home life portrayed in detail. 
The lake will be larger than at any previous show, and 
will contain fifteen hundred live trout weighing from 
2 to 5 pounds. These will be transported in the United 
States fish car to the garden, to insure safe delivery, and 
sportsmen who del'gli in casting the fly will have an op- 
portunity to enjoy a little fishing. 
The State of Maine has prepared a most attractive ex- 
hibit, bringing a fine specimen of every game animal found 
in the Maine woods. Guides and woodsmen to the nuni- 
Rfer of eighty or more will be in attendance to give in- 
formation. There will be camps and log cab'ns, coon 
trees and squirrel cages, and a special exhibit of large 
fish. 
The Adirondack Guides' Association will make a very 
Ijorate exhibit, trying to outdo that of former years, 
. I lis exhibit will conskst of live game animals, game fish, 
log. cah-ns. lean-tos and new features which the guides will 
1 rodiice of life in the woods. 
J he Canadian exhibit, under the supervision of Mr. L. 
|0. Armstrong, will be of great interest to sportsmen and 
nnturali-ts. Among other attractions there will be a 
ver dam with live beavers just as they were taken 
n the wilds of Canadian woods by the trappers. The 
' ans and sruidcs will be present in large numbers and 
! bring maiu rtUcs from their native woods which are 
e and in,.erebLing. 
J. A. H, Dressy, General Manager. 
100 Spomittcn's finds. 
Some of the Queer Discoveries Made by Those Who Are 
Looking for Game or Fish. 
43 
John B. Sargent, of San Francisco, who has been in 
the Kootenay raining district, tells the Denver Tribune 
a remarkable story of the way a tenderfoot from Montreal 
discovered a gold mine in that far-away mining region. 
The young man, who was a clerk, was spendmg a few 
\veeks with a friend engaged in mining, and put in his 
time fishing and hunting. The location of his friend's 
cabin was far up toward the headwaters of one of the 
tributaries of the Kootenay River, far from any other 
prospector, and in a section where the bears were not only 
numerous, but inquisitive and troublesome. 
One day as the two friends returned from a hunting 
excursion they saw three bears investigating the sur- 
roundings of the cabin, occasionally stoppmg to roll about 
a camp kettle which had been thoughJessly left outside. 
Both tiien were armed with rifles, and as they succeeded 
in getting near the animals without being perceived were 
able to take deliberate aim. As they delivered their fire 
two of the bears fell, the third scampering off up the 
mountain. As they supposed both animals dead, they 
neglected to reload, and had approached to within a few 
feet of the prostrate bears when the largest suddenly 
sprang to his feet and, with a fierce roar, made directly 
for them. 
The young man from the city had never cultivated a 
close acquaintance with the bear family, and did the first 
thing that occurred to him — dropped his weapon and 
sprinted for the nearest tree, about 100 yards away, and 
growing on the edge of a gulch 12 or 15 feet deep. I'he 
bear stopped a few seconds to sniff at the rifle, and then 
contemptuoutly lossing it aside continued the chase. The 
hunter reached the tree and had climbed to the lower 
lirnbs when his pursuer reached it, and without any hesi- 
tation commenced the ascent. This was something that 
the amateur huntsman had not calculated upon, and he 
at once proceeded to climb h'gher, in the hope that his an- 
tagonist might get tired and give up. The tree lean^-d 
somewhat over the ravine, making the climbing easy, but 
the fact favored the bear as well, and when near ihe 
upper branches the young fellow found to his dismay 
that the bear was entirely too close for comfort. At tliat 
moment, however, his friend, who had recovered from his 
fright, and reloaded, shot the animal through tlie head. 
Now another danger manifes ed itself. The combined 
weight of the man and the bear had been too much for 
the slender hold of the roots of the tree upon the soil, and 
as it leaned further and further over the gulch it became 
evidence that unless he could scramble down the man 
would be thrown upon the rocks a. the bottom. Clinging 
to one limb after another, he made desperate efforts to 
get down, but before he had accomplished more than half 
the distance the last root gave way and there seemed to 
be nothing between h'm and death or serious injury. His 
grip closed upon the limb to which he was clinging, and in 
another moment the_ top of the tree rested on the bottom 
of the ravine, while the thoroughly frightened man 
dropped upon the carcass of the dead bear, himself almost 
dead with fright. 
But the s.rangest feature of the adventure was that in 
falling over the tree had removed the earth from a 4-foot 
vein of rich quartz, the existence of which had been en- 
tirely unsuspected. Now the young man from Montreal 
is a horny-handed miner, making a good income out of 
his claim, which he has named "The Bear." 
44 
Parties out deer hunting ran across an old ruin on the 
top of the highest mountain nine miles north of Phcenix, 
Ariz. It is of stone, and some of the walls are still stand- 
ing 10 feet high. The old build'ng or buildings covered 
an area of about two acres of land. The large stones 
around the place are covered with hieroglyphics. 
Notice. 
All communications intended for Fosbst and Stkiam should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 
ANGLING NOTES. 
Upper Dam, 
It is thirteen years since I have been at Upper Dam, 
Me., and Parmachenee Lake. Then and since I have 
heard that the fishing was growing poor compared to 
what it had been. I find in my memorandum book that 
"Upon returningfrom Parmachenee Lake I reached Upper 
Dam at 6:30 one evening, and found seven boats fishing 
below the dam. During the day a gentleman had really 
caught a trout on a fly and the fish weighed 5 pounds. 
A.t the hotel Mr. had seven trout on the ice. They 
had been caught in some way during the past two weeks 
and confined in cars in the river until they had injured 
themsekves and were killed to-day. The trout weighed 
from 5 to loj/^ pounds each." 
The reason for referring to this old memorandum to- 
night is a letter from a friend who has been at Upper Dam 
this season. He writes : "My best day was 2 pounds 8 
otmces. 3 pounds 5 ounces, 3 pounds 7 ounces. 5 pounds 
2 ounces, 6 pounds i ounce. I did not fi«h much, hut 
when I did the trout insisted that they liked my s'yie 
better than the other style. The trout in that pool cot'i'd 
easily teach a country school. It is the Di'el's own work 
some.imes to make them drink, but this day it was easy." 
It can scarcely be said that the fishing at LTpper Dam 
is entirely a thing of the past when a man can in one 
day kill five trout averaging in weight over 4 pounds each, 
all killed in fair fishing with the fly, for the gentleman 
who wrote me would scorn to kill a trout in any other 
manner. 
Big Black Bass. 
In the note about the big black bass from the Dela- 
ware River I was in doubt about the species, and Mr. 
D. I. Roberts has sent me the original photograph, from 
which the half-tone referred to was made. Mr. Roberts 
is of the opinion that the fish are small-mouth black 
bass and an examination of the photograph leads me to 
the same conclusion. One of the fish shows the smaller 
scales on the gill covers, indicative of the small-mouth, 
but the others are so hung that the light makes such a 
blur that the size of the scales is hidden. As to the 
rows of scales between the lateral line and the base of 
the dorsal, it is difficult to determine the number, as in 
the case of the scales on the gill covers, but apparently 
there are more than seven, the number of rows on the 
big-mouth, though it cannot be said that there are eleven, 
the number of the small-mouth. The appearance of the 
mouth of each fish, however, indicates more plainly that 
they are small-mouth black bass than does the half-tone, 
and altogether I am of the opinion that they are the 
small-mouth species from such evidence as may be 
gleaned. This upsets all preconceived ideas that the ex- 
trem.ely large small-mouth black bass are found only in 
the still waters of ponds and lakes and never in the strong 
waters of rivers. Eight poimds nine ounces, the given 
weight of the largest bass shown in the photograph, is al- 
most the weight of the black bass from Glen Lake that 
was the record bass in 1888, though larger have been 
taken since. My memorandum of the 1888 bass from 
Glen Lake reads as follows: "Aug. 18, 1888. To-day 
L. D. Boynton caught a large small-mouth black bass in 
Long Pond (Glen Lake was formerly Long Pond, and 
to this day I am more apt to give it the old name rather 
than ihe new). The fish was shown to me but I did not 
we'gh it, as I understand from Boynton that it had just 
been weighed at one of the markets at 8 pounds 12 ounces. 
Later I went to Green's Bridge, where Boynton lives, and 
weighed, measured and opened the fish. The weight was 
8 pounds 10 ounces. From nose to caudal fin 18 inches, to 
fork in caudal 24V2 inches, to ex reme end of caudal 25 
inches. Girth i8>4 inches. I opened the fish and removed 
viscera and gills and then the fish weighed 7 pounds 8 
ounces. The viscera and gills weighed f pound ounce. 
The difference of ij/a ounces was caused by lost blood and 
bits of viscera not saved. The stomach contained a perch 
estimated to weigh 5 ounces. C. H. Hitchcock bought 
the fish and sent it to VV. S. Banta, 33 Pine street, New 
York city." A. N. Cheney. 
Planting of Quinnat Salmon Fry 
In the Short Coast Streams of Marfn County, California 
With Resiihs of Otbtrvalions ^jade Lym Thtir 
Movements, Food, Rate of Gicwih, 
Encmiff;, ttc. 
BY N. B. SCHOFTELD, OF CAUKORMA FISH COMMISSION, 
The planting of quinnat salmon fry in the short coast 
Streams of iMarin county was primarily an experiment. 
The quiimat salmon has never been known to spawn in 
these streams, probably due to their proximity to the 
Sacramento River, which is the popular spawning 
ground for the salmon of this region, (North of the 
Russian River, the quinnat spawns in the small streams 
as well as in the larger rivers of the coast.) 
Paper Mill Creek and its tributaries are exceptionally 
rich in aquatic insect life, affording an abundance of 
food for the fry; and the absence of predaceous fishes, 
excepting the trout and blob, make them apparently 
better streams for the rearing of young salmon than the 
Sacramento. It was thought that if the fry could thrive 
in these streams and pass successfully into salt water, it 
would be of ailvantage to utilize coast hatcheries and 
plant in the smaller s:reanis where the young salmon 
would not be subjected to their enemies like they are 
during the long journey from ihe upper Sacramento to 
the sea. 
In December, 1896, 855.000 eyed- quinnat salmon eggs 
were shipped from the Battle Creek hatchery to the 
Bear Valley hatchery in Marin county, California. Here 
they were hatched early in February, 1897, and after 
the' youk sacs were absorbed, which was about thirty 
days later, they were fed for a few days on curds of milk, 
and then, in the second week of March, were turned 
into Paper Mill Creek and its tributaries— Nicasio. 
Olema and Hatchery creeks. The fry were strong and 
healthy, and as the streams were near the hatchery, and 
the fish were in no case over two hours in transportation, 
they were turned into the streams in the best of condi- 
tion. 
The young salmon were watched day after day and 
systematic observations made upon their movements, 
habits, etc. The vvork was first begun by the United 
States Fish Commission, and carried on until the middle 
of May. After a break here of three weeks, the Cali- 
fornia State Commission carried it on to completion. 
The thing to be feared in this experiment was that 
the streams would prove too short and that the young 
sahnon would arrive at salt water before they were ready 
to conform to the kind of life they would have to lead 
there. 
The observations carried on in connection with the 
fate of these young salmon fully demonstrate the suc- 
cess of the experiment and prove that the fry can be as 
safely planted in these streams as in the Sacrainento. 
They grew more rapidly than the same fry in the Sacra- 
mento, had fewer enemies, and passed successfully into 
salt water and thrived there. 
By far the most interesting part of the experiment was 
the knowledge gained as to the habits, enemies and 
growth of the fry after being turned loose. The streams 
being free from any young salmon but those planted 
from the hatchery, an excellent opportunity to observe 
the rate of growth was afforded. .Any knowledge in this 
line is of great economic imnortarce, as it enables us 
to more intclligen-ly choo.=e the right t=me and place to 
plant the fry, and proves that they do not require two 
or even three years to reach salt water. 
Descf?ption of Stre<'ms. 
_ Paper Infill Creek, the largest stream in 'M.inn rounty. 
rises in the high land just nor-h of Golden C.ate. and 
runs _ north we«t for about t\venty-five miles, where it 
emntio.s into Toniales Ray after pa.«sing thronsh a three- 
mile stretch of tide water. The bay conlinue9 9 very 
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