FISH AUB FiSHiS SS. 
Fish in Market. — Fishing matters look more satis- 
factory this week than they have for some time. Blue- 
fish have struck on in large quantities both in this vicin- 
ity and off the capes in Martha’s Vineyard. Those 
coming from the East are large, averaging 10 lb. each, 
while those caught in this vicinity only average 5 lb., 
selling at 8 to 10 cents. Spanish mackerel are falling 
off rapidly, and up to this time only about one-half the 
usual quantity have been taken, selling at 40 to 50 cents 
per lb. Large striped bass are commencing to arrive 
from Rhode Island. IVe saw a lot of splendid speci- 
mens at Blackford’s, Fulton market. There were twenty 
fish that would average 40 lbs. each, selling at 20 to 25 
cents per lb. The prices range: Halibut, 20c. ; black- 
fish, 18c. ; sea bass, 20c. ; eels, 20c. : sheephead, 28e. ; 
frozen salmon, 50c. ; fresh mackerel, 20c. ; green turtle, 
20c. per lb. ; soft crabs, $1 50 per doz. ; frog legs, 50c. 
per lb. • 
The Speckled Beauties in Colorado. 
TVe take the following from the Denver Xeite, an able 
paper anywhere, but an extraordinary paper in the far 
West. The Sews is specially well informed in all that 
concerns our Western explorations: 
“ Prof. Hayden speaks with great enthusiasm of his 
recent trip to Manitou Park. He started from Manitou 
under the guidance of Dr. W. A. Bell, the owner of the 
park, and after a ride of twenty miles over the Ute Pass, 
came to one of the most beautiful summering places in 
Colorado. The park is located nearly opposite the Di- 
vide, near the head of Monument creek, on the west 
side of the front range of mountains. Trout creek runs 
for twelves miles through the middle of the park, while 
a low range of bills, covered with pines, rises on either 
side, and far beyond are other mountains, with an ele- 
vation of 11,000 or 12,000 feet. The scenery is ex- 
tremely picturesque and attractive to the visitor. Dr. 
Bell has secured about 10,000 acres of land in this 
lovely region, and he intends to make it a pleasant re- 
sort for tourists and pleasure seekers generally. Stages 
run from Manitou to the park three or four times a 
week. Numerous convenient buildings have already 
been erected for the accommodation of visitors, and a 
fine livery stable is attached for their benefit. In this 
park Dr. Bell has started one of tlfe most important en- 
terprises in the Territoiy. The little stream which runs 
through the middle of the park is peculiarly adapted for 
the raising of trout. Near the stream a remarkably fine 
large spring gushes out from beneath a ledge of lime- 
stone, with a temperature of 58 degrees. This spring 
keeps the creek free from ice for a distance of two miles 
during the winter. Here Dr. Bell has established his 
hatching apparatus and nurseries for the young fish. 
In January last Dr. Bell obtained of Seth Green, of New 
York, 100,000 eggs of the common brook trout of the 
East, and in February all but about 12,000 of the eggs 
produced young fish. 
“Hatching young fish is a very delicate operation. 
The success depends chiefly on the spring being pro- 
tected from freshets. The water must be absolutely 
free from dirt. First, there are tin trays, about 
eighteen inches square, with a perforated false bottom. 
On this bottom black beads are placed, on which the 
white eggs rest. They must not touch each other. The 
water comes direct from the spring through a succes- 
sion of filter boxes, and passes up through the false 
bottom, leaving all sediment behind, and flows from 
one tray of eggs to another. Each tray holds 5,000 
eggs. The condition of the eggs is determined by the 
color. AU bad eggs are removed every day with a bulb 
syringe. After they are hatched, the little fish are kept 
for a fortnight in trays, feeding on the contents of their 
umbilical sacs. They are then transferred to nursery 
No. 1, in long troughs lined with gravel, and fed with 
, drops of cream. In six weeks they are transferred to 
outside nurseries. When ten months old they are sup- 
posed to be able to take care of themselves, and not he 
eaten by the larger fish. They are then let out into the 
main stream. The stream is prepared by the construc- 
tion of a series of dams and riffles, thus forming ponds. 
Beavers are encouraged to remain in the park, and 
several of the dams were made by them and are now 
kept in repair hy them. There are about a dozen of 
these dams within the space of four miles. The shade 
of willows is very important, and the succession of 
dams produces ponds of standing water, in which much 
vegetation grows, thus increasing the amount of animal 
life on which the fish feed. The native trout spawn 
from March until the end of July, depending mainly on 
the temperature of the water. The colder the water 
and the higher the altitude," the later the spawning sea- 
son. At Manitou Park, which is 7,300 feet elevation, 
the fish spawn in May, very few spawning after the 
middle of June. It wHl be readily seen that this is one 
of the most important enterprises for the benefit of our 
people in Colorado. Suppose 70,000 of the young fish 
reach the age of two years, and weigh half a pound 
each, there wiU then he in Dr. Bell’s fish preserve 
35.000 pounds of fine trout ready for the market. Dr. 
Bell has purchased the little lake on the Divide, and in- 
tends to turn Monument Creek into it, and transfer the 
fish from the park to it in quantities. 
The breeding of fish for food is becoming one of the 
most important industries of the da}’. Prof. Baird, of 
Washington, has been appointed United States Com- 
missioner of Fisheries, and his valuable labors for 
several years past are well known. Local commis- 
sioners have been appointed in nearly every State in the 
Union, who co-operate with the United States Commis- 
sioner. Should there not be one appointed for Col- 
orado?” 
The Ohio Fish Commissioners find the road to Jor- 
dan hard traveling. W e have already mentioned the 
Ohio appropriation for a fishing station, and the little 
“tiff” between Cleveland and Toledo on the subject. 
The Toledoans think the Maumee a fount of pure delight, 
while Cleveland rather hugs herself over the idea of the 
great lake, which would furnish breeding ground for all 
the fresh-water ova in the world. A correspondent in 
the Cleveland Herald offers “ a few words for our Fish 
Commissioners, who, it seems to me, are slightly defi- 
cient in judgment in certain particulars. The Commis- 
sioners DOW have under consideration the «5tablishment 
of a batching house, either on the Maumee River, near 
Toledo, or at Kelly Island. If the worthy members of 
the commission have in view simply the raising of eels, 
catfish and chubs, let them by all means locate their 
batching place on the swampy Maumee; but, in case 
they wish to accomplish what will be of benefit to the 
State and fish breeding, the}’ must exercise greater wis- 
dom, and seek a better place than either Toledo or Kelly 
Island. I have in mind an extraordinary little sheet of 
water that appears to have been created for exactly such 
a purpose, viz.: Castalia Pond, situated but five miles, 
west of Sandusky. Here a gloriously pure spring breaks 
suddenly forth from limestone rock, and fills a basin 
with water so clear that at the head of the pond an oys- 
ter shell, with its white side up, can be discerned at a 
depth of 60 feet. T welve hundred barrels of water, at 
a temperature of 45 deg. Fahrenheit, are discharged from 
the spring per minute. Four years ago. Dr. E. Ster- 
ling, of this city, received 1,000 salmon eggs from Prof-. 
Korrows, of the Smithsonian Institute, and soon after 
4.000 eggs from Seth Green, with 2,000 white fish eggs 
from Fish Commissioner Clark, of Michigan. A gen- 
tleman named Hoyt, who was conducting a paper mill 
near Castalia Pond, manifested considerable interest in 
ascertaining what could be done with the eggs. Baird 
therefore placed them in a suitable place in that body of 
water. Seventy percent, of these eggs were developed, 
and it was plainly demonstrated that this ptond was ad- 
mirably adapted for a hatching house. The spring far 
surpasses the well-known Caledonian Spring in New 
York. As regards the quality and quantity of water, it 
contains alike the same varieties of aquatic insects, and 
in addition has a railroad crossing its outlet. It is as- 
serted that white fish eggs would have to be carried but 
a short distance in case the hatching house was located 
on Kelley Island; but the advantage of this fails to be 
apparent when it is understood that white fish eggs can 
be transported to California without being damaged. 
As for the advantages of the Maumee for hatching fish, 
the Commissioners might almost as well expend the 
$10,000 that the State has appropriated for the purpose 
of building a house near the Cleveland Acid Works, 
with the expectation that trout, salmon and white fish 
could be hatched in the acid vats.” 
A big bnllbead was caogbt last Tuesday in the Chenango River, in 
the rear of W. Caikina’ farm: was 2 ft. 4 in. in length, 5 in. across 
the head. 4 If in. deep, and weighed 8X lbs. 
Pkince CAxnio Stark mbebo, of Austria, accompanied by Hr. 
Von Bedtenbacher. of hie suite, is at Newport. The prince has just 
made a tour through the Adirondacks, Canada and the lakes, and 
will remain at Newport a few weeks, and then go to the West to 
hunt bufialoes. He is one of the largest land-owners in Austria, and 
is a direct descendant of Prince Reidinger von Staremberg, who de- 
fended Vienna against the Turks. 
One of the most famous cows in New England is the Bedford cow, 
owned by Hr. Edward French, of Bedford, Vt. Her weight is 1,655 
pounds, her yield, as testified by the Rutland Mirror, is recorded 
from May 1, 1874: For the first hundred days, a yield of 2,494 quarts; 
second hundred, 1,811)4 quans; third hundred, 1,393)4 quarts; sirty- 
five days, 927 quarts; a total of 6,626 quarts, which weighed 7 tons, 
445 pounds. For several days she yielded 29)4 quarts in twenty-four 
hours, and for seventy-five days running gave over 26 quarts. 
Mr. J. C. Ray, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Reform 
School, lost a valuable Newfoundland dog a short time since. The 
Concord Railroad runs between the school and the Merrimack River. 
The dog was very intelligent, and was sent by Mr. Ray with the 
boys whenever they went in ewimining. On the day he was killed 
the boj'rVwere going to the river, and only part had crossed the track 
as the train came along. The dog seemed to feel the responsibility 
-of takirg care of the boys, and was crossing, look ng each way, 
thinking apparently nothing about himself, when the engine struck 
and kRled him, Mr. Ray’s family and inmates of the school greatly 
feel the loss. 
Amateub. — Will sime' one' please say what he knows about 
“ Rackam's Distemper Balls i” Are they any good, and where can 
they he had? 
The London “Field"’ “goes for" the Boyton life-saving dress 
with great severity, stigmatizing its management and public exhibi- 
tion as Yankee “ fina- cing,’' the cruel part of the criticism being Its 
truth. The exploit of Capt. Webb, who swam from England to 
France without any waterproof casing, was a far greater triumph, 
and there was no catchpenny, philanthropic humbug about it, either. 
The Yreka (Cal.) Journal relates the following: “Last Monday 
morning, as Enight, of the Forest House, was coming to town with 
his ice wagon, he came across two large eagles in fierce combat on 
the ground in the road. He drove his horse by with considerable 
trouble, and then taxing his whip, came back to capture or kill 
them. He.lhonght at first, from the way they grappled each other 
with their claws, that they were tied together, and, coming up 
closer, struck one of them over the head, which caused them to 
separate, each of them hobbling off, unable to fly from exhaustion, 
having evidently been fighting a long time. One of them ran to- 
ward Knight’s horse, causing him to get frightened and break his 
harness in his efforts to run off ; while the other went into Arm- 
strong's chicken house, and was driven away by Mrs. Armstrong. 
They were both bleeding, and their bodies were cut by the claws, 
but they soou recovered, and were able to elude pursuit for capture, 
though Enight could easily have killed them if he had had a gun 
with him at the time.” 
The London Telegraph: A droll story comes to ns from the city of 
Marseilles. The hero is a gentleman weU known both there and in 
Paris. On his property near Marseilles he once had rabbits, which 
the innumerable poachers of the south have exterminated. There 
is now. as every one knows, a sincere, though uncnltivaled admira- 
tion fur field sports in France. This gentleman was quite ashamed 
to think that he could not offer even rabbit shooting to a friend on 
his estates. But the remedy was simple— the empty warrens could 
be restocked. Orders to this effect he tent from Paris, and a great 
quantity of coneys were turned down. The season of the chase 
opened two or three days since, and a goodly show of guns M. 
led out to harass his game. Girt with horns, probably, and furnish- 
ed with embroidered game bags, the party approached the scene of 
action. To their mingled horror and delight, the rabbits sallied 
forth, full gallop, greeting their executioners with joy, and came 
running up to their gaitered legs. Never was there such a welcome; 
Lops and half Lops. Dutch and Angora, bounded to meet the sports- 
men, tumbling one across another in delight. The fact is, that the 
"garde-chasse" had bought tame rabbits, which he had been used 
to feed in that very spot. 
Smoke “ Vasitt Fair. — "There is no future without its strag 
gling clouds. It soothes and tranqni izes the feelings, and helps the 
expansion of all benevolent and kindly sentiment. See advt. 
ADVEBTISEMEI^TS. 
Three dollars per loch. Discoant on permanent advertisements. 
TVants and Eieliaug’es. 
Advertisements under this head are inserted at 25 cents lor two 
lines. Send money with order. 
WESTERN SHOOTING — Book finely illustrated — only 25 cents. 
Address Bbo. Sportsman, Box 394, Sedalia, Mo. 
FOR SALE — A sand-hill Crane: plays with children, and tame as" 
a dog; price $20. W. L. NICHOLSON, Fort Dodge, la. 
LIVK PIGEON 5, for trap shooting, constantly on hand- Clubs 
supplied at short notice. 
Address, E. T. Martin, 475 W. Huron SL, Chicago. 
WANTED— To purchase one thoroughbred setter slut pup. Ad- 
dress P. and H., Box 538, Little Rock, Ark. 
FOE SALE— Gordon setter pups, ten weeks old. Address R. L. 
Graves, Snnderland, Vt. 
WILL EXCHANGE — Setter Dog, splendid nose and very staunch, 
for a good muzzle-loader. ED. STERLING, lock box 599, Spring- 
field, O. 
FOR SALE, CHEAP — A fine two-year-old pointer dog, liver and 
white; splendid retriever. Apply to SECRETARY SPORTSMEN’S 
CLUB, box 405 Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y. 
WANTED TO EXCHANGE — A first-class orange and white 
ticked pointer dog, two years old; first-rate nose, and well broken 
to house antftfield, for a very light (6 lb.) breach-loading shot gun 
Address LOCK BOX 5, Springfield, Mass. 
HARRY JENNINGS, 612 Broadway, in the dog business 20 years 
in this city, and more extensively than any man in the country. Fox 
hounds of every breed; Irish, English and native setters. A beagle 
hound, sky terrier, Spitz, etc. 
WANTED — In exchange for a new breech-loading rifle, 40 cal., 
with telescope, by one of the best makers, a new Allen breech-load- 
ing (hot gun; or I will give in exchange a first-class foot lathe, with 
slide rest and tools complete. D. H. STEPHENS, Riverton, Conn. 
FOR SALE. — A brace of Gordon Setters. Dash, best son of Col- 
bum's Dash, out of Belle; Colburn's Dash, by Dan, out of Mr. Val- 
entine's celebratid Gordon Setter slut; also imported Prince, four- 
teen months old. Price $150 each; $300 for the brace. Addr 
This Oflice. 
