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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 25, 1902. 
say the least, is uphill business. One part of the road h 
so incumbered with fallen trees that it is almost im- 
possible to get through. In order to get s,uppUes to 
their claims two prospectors were obliged to cut a 
trail through this tangle of fallen trees, and it was by 
means of this trail that Sage and his friends were en- 
abled to ascend the mountains until they finally discov- 
ered the two frozen lakes referred to. The lakes are 
near the summit on the north side of the mountain, and 
in order to reach them the party traveled over ice and 
snow for a distance of five miles. The bodies of water 
are small. One is about 150 feet across and the other 
is between 600 and 700 feet in diameter. They are well- 
defined lakes or pools, however, covered with a thick 
coat ng of ice. clear as crystal, and as smooth as glass, 
which is so thick and strong that the exploring party 
did not hesitate to ride across on horseback. Sage 
says, so far as he is able to judge, the ice on the lakes 
never melts because they are so situated behind two 
tall peaks that the sun's rays never strike them with 
sufficient power to make any impression on the snow 
and ice. This land of perpetual snow and ice is within 
a day's ride of Baker City by the present means of trans- 
portation, part way on a buckboard and the rest on 
horseback. It would scarcely be more than a ride of 
an hour and a half on an electric railroad. Sage is of 
•the op nion that from the lay of the country other large 
and more pisturesque lakes with perpetual ice will be 
discovered. 
San Francisco My-t-Asnng: Club. 
Medal contests, series 1902. Saturday, re-entry contest, 
held at Stow Lake, Oct. 11. Wind, west; weather, fair; 
Event £vent 
JNo 2, Nr- *. 
Accuracy, , Event No. 8. > 1 urj 
Per cent. Acc. * Del i Net % Castm ■ . 
91.8 
93 
Event 
No 
iJistance, 
Keet - 
H. C. Golcher...l40 
T. C. Kierulff.... 94 
W. D. Mansfield... 
E. A. Mocker... 110 
E. A. Mocker... 110 
H. F. Muner....l07 
H. F. Muller....l02 
C. G. Young 
94.4 
92 
91.8 
91.8 
92.4 
Acc, 
90 
84.8 
93 
89.8 
87.8 
92.8 
93.8 
93 
- Event No. 
» Uel i 
-' 81.8 
-84.2 
87.6 
80 
73.4 
85.10 
84.2 
89.2 
8. . 
Net){ 
feo.l'J 
•u.3 
£-1.13 
SS.il 
Sl.l 
Judges, Kierulff and Mocker; referee, Battu; clerk, 
Brotherton. 
Sunday, re-entry contest, held at Stow Lake, Oct. X2. 
Weather, fair: 
II. Battu... 
C. Charles. 
C. Char.es,. 
E. Everett.. 
E. A. Mocker.. 
E. A. Mod 
H. F. Mul 
H. F. Mui:er.. 
T, C. Kierulff 
T. C. Kierulff.. 
... 86- 
91. S 
91.8 
S5 
SS.4 
81 
89.8 
84.8 
70.10 
77.9 
... 87 
87.8 
90.4 
75 
82.8 
96 
98 
91 . 
84.2 
87.7 
...126 
91.8 
93.4 
87.6 
90.5 
..107 
94 
90.8 
80.10 
85.9 
. . .110 
9.=i.8 
8S 
84.2 
86.1 
. . .102 
,94 
87.8 
84.2 
■So. 11 
..111 
95 
93 
80.10 
86.11 
.. 101 
93 
90.8 
80 
85.4 
.. 91 
91.8 
91 
77.6 
84.3 
Judges, Mansfield and Golcher; referee, Battu; clerk„ 
Brotherton. 
Black Bass in Rhode Island* 
The Rhode Island Commissioners of Inland Fisheries 
report that the restocking of ponds and streams with the 
large-mouth black bass has been attended with grat fying 
success. In all waters in which they have been placed 
the results have amply repaid the small outlay. Paw- 
catuck River, from Niantic Dam to tide water, now affords 
good fishing, where formerly it produced no food fishes 
of any practical value. During the past season it has 
been the rule rather than the exception for the mill hand 
to inake' a catch of several of these fish after finishing his 
dajf's work. 
Through the courtesy of the United States Fish Com- 
mission, a consignment of 300 yearlings, averaging five 
inches in length, were received in November, 1901, and 
placed in the preserve near Wood River Junction, for the 
future use of the Rhode Tsland Commission in restock- 
ing other waters. 
The Commission received, on Nov. 13, 1901, from the 
United States Fish Commission, another consignment o£ 
250. These were planted in Quidnick reservoir, and iu 
Skinflint and Hospital ponds. The Commissioners be- 
lieve that the large-mouth and small-mouth black bass 
are stead ly growing in favor as an edible fish, as well as 
a game fish, and expect soon to be able from their own 
resources to plant both kinds in the waters of the State 
not already stocked, which are suited to them. 
A Government Handbook of Flies. 
Probably for the first time in the history of the world a 
government department has isisued a "Handbook of Arti- 
ficial Flics for Salmon, and Trout." I have received from 
the Fisher es Branch of the Department of Agriculture 
and Technical Instruction a copy of the recently published 
"Handbook of Artificial Flies for Salmon and Trout, 
Used in the Different Fishery Districts of Ireland, with 
a Map of the Fishery Districts." It appears that there 
has been an international exh bition at Cork, and that 
the Irish Fisheries Department had a collection of Irish 
salmon and trcut flies, and this handbook was prepared 
to illustrate the collection, or was the collection prepared 
to illustrate the handbook? Anyway, it does not matter, 
and I welcome this angling work, "printed for His 
Majesty's Stat onery Office," as infinitely more interesting 
and useful than most of the blue books on fisheries which 
appear with His Majesty's sanction. 
In a prefatory note we are informed that the flies in 
the collection have been recommended to- the Department 
by experienced anglers having special knowledge of the 
several distrxts. The information as to locality, season 
• and names of makers was obtained in the same way. 
"The Department, however, while satisfied of its accuracy 
as far as it goes, can, of course, take no rfesponsibility 
that it is complete in any particular," and, it adds rather 
slyly, "It will be- noticed that flies known by the same 
■name are often very differently dressed in different dis- 
tricts. As a rule, the salmon flies in the exhibit are tied 
upon "the hooks of medium size, wl^ile, in order to display 
the dressing to the best advantage,- the trout flies are 
fjhowu on the largest si?,e of hook; u^ecj- f^r ^h^ ^atter^i/^ 
It is quite refresh'ng to find a Government department 
talking in this sensible and technical way about the arcana 
of angling, and the handbook itself shows in four columns 
the name of river, kind ®f fish, local and standard pat- 
terns of flies used and their times and season ; if even goes 
so far, in some few cases, as to give dry-fly patterns. It 'is 
a very useful, though of course not complete list, and I 
shall_ get my copy bound in morocco for reference. Some 
day it will be the scarcest of angling books — the only one 
ever published by the British Government.— R. B. Ma'rston 
in London Fishing Gazette. 
A Record Muscalongr. 
Mr. Charles Hallock sends us the photograph of a 
inuscalonge caught in the St. Lawrence River near Clay- 
ion, N. Y., in September of 1879, by Capt. Jas. Millward 
and John B. Spofford. The length was 4 feet 8 'nches. 
"the largest of the kind ever taken on a IroU" up to that 
time. 
Chatm Oil. 
Fall River, Mass. — Editor Forest and StmaiA; I have 
in my employ an Englishman who is an entlutsiastic salt- 
v.ater fisherman. Years ago he was in the habit of going 
fi>hing with an elderly man who used on his bait a yellow 
•oily liqu d with a strong odor resembling that of geranium 
leaves. When fishing with this man. he claims, big 
catches were always made; but as the old gentleman 
refused to tell of what the liquid was composed, the secret 
•died with him. My curiosity being excited, I vis ted ,a 
large wholesale druggist to see if they knew of such a 
thing as cVarm oil. My visit was not in vain. A French- 
Canadian had preceded me by some months and by his 
pers-stence in searching for the Hquid, had at last caused 
them to bestir themselves. They visited a French drug- 
gist in the French quarter of the city, and were by him 
put on the right track. The following is the formula : 
Oil rhudal i part 
Oil copbia 20 parts 
In the book of drugs it was described as a lure for foxes 
and rats, also as good for fishing, to be used on the baits. 
I have never used any of the 1 quid myself, but won- 
dered if it was knoAvn to the readers of Forest and 
Stream. S. Everett. 
[Oil of rhodium is obtained from a species of rose, is a 
well-known scent which is in common use among trap- 
pers.] 
Fixtures. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Oct 21-24. — New York. — Ladies' Kennel Association of America's 
show." Miss M, K. Bird,. Westbary, L. I., Hon. Sec'y. 
Nov. 26-29.— Philadelphia.— Philadelphia Dog Show AsfBoqiation's 
show. M. A. Viti, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Oct. 27.— Paris, Mo.— Missouri Field Trial Association's (member 
of the American Championship Club), sixth annual trials. L. S. 
Eddins, Sec'y, Sedalia, Mo. 
Oct 27 —Washington C; O., Ohio.— Monongahela Field Trial 
Club's field trials. A. C. Peterson. Sec'y. ^ • . 
Oct. 28.— Whitby Island. Wash.— Pacific Northwegt Field -Tnals 
F. R. Atkins, Sec'y. Seattle, Wash. „ ' , . , 
Oct. 28. , Wis.— Northwestern Beagle Club's second 
annual trials. Louis StefEen, Sec'y. . . , , 
jvlov^ 3— Robinson. 111.— Illinois Field Trial Association's (mem- 
ber of the American' Championship Club) fourth annual trials. W. 
R. Green, Sec'y, Marshall, 111. 
Nov 3.— Thirteenth annual field trials of tlie National Beagle 
Club of America. Charles R, Stevemson, Sec'y, 106 Market street, 
Camden N. T. 
Nov k— Lake View. Mich.— Michigan Field Trial Association's 
(member of the American Championship Club) fifth annual trials. 
C. D. Stuart. Sec'y, Benton Harbot, Mich. ^. . , ^ . 
Nov 4.— Washington C. H., Ohio.— Uhio Fi/eld Trial Associa- 
tion's (member of the American Chajnpionship Club) fifth annual 
trials. C. E. Baughn Sec'y^ r-, u r a • . / ' u i 
6.— Eastport. L. I.— Pointer Club of America's (member of 
the American ChampipHship-Club) second annual -trials. R. E. 
Westlake. Sec'y, Scraaton, Pa. 
Nov. 7-8.— Robinson, 111.— Western Irish Setter Club's inaugural 
trials. T L. Fenn. Secy. 
Nov. id.— Bicknell, Ind— Independent Field .Trial Club's (fiiem- 
ber of the American Championship Club) fourth aiinual trials. 
H: S. Humphrey. Sec'y, IndianapoUs, Ind.^; . . 
Nov. U.— Hampton, Conn.— Coanectioit Fielci Jnal Clqb's t^i%?§, 
f , Smith, Sec'y, ?Jew t?ayq»- ■ • - - 
Nov. 10. — Ruthven, Ont.— North American Field Trial Associa- 
tion's (member of the American Championship Club) fourth 
annual trials. Richard Bangliam, Sec'y, Windsor, Ont, 
Nov. 11.— St. Joachim. Ont.— International Field Trial Club's 
fourteenth annual trials. W. B. Wells, Hon. Sec'y. 
Nov. 17. — Glasgow, Ky. — Third annual trials of the Kentucky 
Field Trial Club. S. B. Hays, Sec'y. 
Nov. IS.— Branehton, Pa.— Central Beagle Club's seventh annual 
trials. A. C. Peterson, Sec'y. 
Nov. 18.— Rutlivcn. (/ni.— Fourth annual trials of the North 
Amerkan Field Trial Club. Alfred Wigle, Sec'y, Windsor, Ont. 
Nov. 24. — Glasgow, Ky. — American Championship Field Trial 
Association's second annual trials, C. B. Cooke. Sec'y. 
Nov. 29.— Thomasville, N. C— Continental Field Trial Club's 
eighth annual trials. ' 
Uec. 1.— Washington C. H., Ohio.— American Championship 
Field Trial Club's second annual trials. Chas. B. Cooke, Sec'y, 
Richmond, Va. 
Dec. 15.— Huntsville, Ala. — Alabama Field Trial Club's (member 
of the American Championship Club) third annual trials. John 
F. Fletcher, Sec'y, Birmingham, Ala. 
Canine Elegies and Epitaphs. 
XXV — A Friend. 
"Ci-git qui fut toujours sensible, doux, fidele, 
"Eti jitsques an tombeau, des amis le modele. 
II ne me qtiitte pas quand je perdis mon bien. 
— C'elajt un homme unique!— Helas! c'ctait mon chien." 
— Epitaphe d'un Ami, par EdrAond Dallier. 
[Here lies one who was always sensible, sweet and true, and 
even to the tomb a model friend. He never deserted me, not even 
vvhcn I lost my wealth. He was an unique man! Alas, it was my 
Two More Dogs of Worth. 
j:,ditor Forest and S^treanv: 
In j^our i§sue of Sept. 20 Dr. Samsell has given an ' 
interesting history of his I'ttle dog pup. There were 
two dogs in Idaho that certainly deserve a niche in the 
hal's of fame, and I hope you wilL find their story too 
interesting to throw in'.o the waste basket. 
Qu te a number of the miners used to work in War- 
rens all_ summer ; then they would go out to the South 
■Fork of a salmon river and rock all winter. They were 
ct a whole-souled class; whatever one had all were wel- 
come to, and if -anyth'ng happened to one all were 
ready to go to his relief, no matter whau the "danger 
was: In the fall of which I write. Pete Srn'th had gone 
over along in the later part of November, it was twenty 
Jiiles, and over one div de, where the snow was about 
tighteen inches deep. 
The South Fork was an ideal place to winter; game 
was plentiful; there were deer, sheep and elk, for big 
game, and grouse and pheasants, as well as plenty of 
rhe mounla'n rabbi s for small game; and the horses 
turned out on the range would come out fat in the 
spring. Miners cou'd make from $4 to $5 per day 
when they would work. 
Pete had been in camp about a week. One day he 
was taken very sick and he thought that his lime had 
come, and that as there was no one in less than twenty 
miles of him, that he would die. His companion was 
Rover, a dog. Just a dog. I cannot give his correct 
pedigree, but it was heaviest on the shepherd side, and 
his color was a grisly "yaller." His disposition was 
good, and there was not a man, woman or child in War- 
rens did not like Rover. 
Although Rover wos a good cotnpanion, Pete thought 
that he could be of very I'ttle service to him in his 
great pain. After the first paroxisms of pain had ceased, 
Pete thought he would try and send Rover for assist- 
ance. He got itp and wrote a note and tied it to Rover's 
neck, and after caressing him for a little while opened 
the door and let him out, in hopes the dog would go to 
Warrens. Then he lay down again, and it was not long 
before ho felt a little betier and was able to go out of 
doors and take a look up the mountain trail, but Rover 
was nowhere to be seen. 
About two, or perhaps three, nours afterward, as Joe 
D'-buc Vv'as coming out of the s'aughter house, which 
was about a half mile out on the trail, he saw Rover 
coming as fast as he could run. Joe thought that Pete 
was near and wou d soon come in sight. Rover run 
to Joe and reared up on him, and Joe saw the letter 
hanging by the string. He opened it, and as soon as he 
read its contents he hurried to town and reported. Joe 
had hard work to keep Rover from going back. Joe 
told him to wait till they could saddle their horses and 
they would go with him. Joe went to the drug store 
and told Doc Sears, who immediately saddled his horse, 
and in less than a quarter of an hour there were four 
men on the road back with Rover, who had to follow as 
the hori^es could travel faster than he could in the deep 
snow. But when they got out of the timber and started 
down the mountain to the river and out of the snow, 
Rover left them and made a run for the cabin. When 
Pete heard him he opened the door, and when Rover 
found his master able to get up, it was pathetic to see 
the ant es the dog cut; he would bark, then howl, then 
whine, and lick Pete's hands and manifest his delight 
by all kinds of tricks. Soon the boys rode up, and 
Rover was as glad to see them as was Pete. They 
were glad to find Pete over his spell. They turned their 
horses loose and it was not long before they had a 
miners' supper, and all were happy, but none more so 
than was Rover. The next day the boys returned, and 
Rover looked very downcast when they left. 
The next spring Pete sold Rover to Ike Grostien 
and he after a while let Dave Baldwin have him, and 
I think that Rover died Dave's. 
Our next dog was the property of August Berg, a 
German, who resided on the main Salmon Rivef, and 
owned a cattle ranch as well as a garden spot and 
small orchard. Berg had been there for a long time 
and had sold lots of cattle- and was thought to have 
lots of money. When the first Chinamen were allowed, 
to com-e into this district iBerg hired- one for a cook, 
and he has been with hini' for at leaet . fifteen years, 
and Berg's confidence iri Lee'was explicit. Often Berg 
would be gone for several weeks, and Lee would take 
good care of everything on . the ■ placa, and if he re- 
ceived any money for -jJraduce he.-Wiiuld turn it over 
to Berg on his return. During the time that Lee li^ed 
^}f\th Berg, Berg brought home a shepherd pup ffd|^- 
