Auc. 25, 1906.] 
in the island, was to compile a statement show¬ 
ing the results of the fisheries of Newfoundland 
for the last one hundred years. He amassed a 
large fund of valuable information on this sub¬ 
ject, and his work now is accepted as the 
standard. He took a keen interest in the total 
eclipse of the sun last year and went to Labra¬ 
dor to observe it, with the result that he gathered 
some very valuable data. He is now engaged in 
gathering facts and figures as to the delimitation 
of our boundaries on Labrador. Canada has 
found that this portion of our dependencies is 
liable to become valuable on account of its timber 
and mineral wealth, and is trying to gobble it up. 
This promises to be a source of friction between 
the island and Canada in the near future. The 
Governor’s data will go a long way in clearing 
it up. Sir William also takes great interest in 
the preservation of our game and fishes, and 
will likely inaugurate measures for their future 
regulation and preservation. 
Mr. Conrad, of Halifax, reports that a few 
days ago an American angler on the West Coast 
made a record betwen daylight and dark by 
catching sixty salmon ranging from 10 to 12 lbs. 
Dr. and Mrs. McCullough, N. Y., caught forty 
salmon at Fishells Brook, the largest weighing 
twelve pounds. Mr. H. D. Reid caught a 24- 
pounder at Fishells. Messrs. I. S. Munn and 
W. R. Warren landed twenty-six salmon at 
Salmonier. 
Inspector O’Rielly is prosecuting some “sports” 
who went up Little River, La Hume Bay, and 
killed between 300 and 400 salmon and left them 
to rot. The Inspector visited the place, but the 
stench was so awful he had to get out. 
At South Branch, on Saturday, forty salmon 
and ten grilse were taken; the salmon weighed 
ten to twenty pounds each. 
Mr. Mott secured twenty salmon in three days 
at Little River, one of them over eighteen pounds. 
Several fish of similar weight were caught in 
Grand River and Robinson’s Brook. 
At South Branch yesterday, Mr. Mitchell 
caught a 30 pound salmon, the largest landed for 
two years. 
At Grand River, Fishells, Grabbles and Hum¬ 
ber, all the rodmen are getting good catches, one 
rod secured over forty fish, several of them 
weighed twenty-eight pounds and one thirty 
pounds. 
Mr. A. String captured a German brown trout 
in Gull Pond, twenty-eight inches long and 
weighed five pounds. 
Mr. W. Clapp returned from Brigus Junction 
with five dozen lovely trout. 
Several parties who were off in different direc¬ 
tions are reported for catches from ten to forty 
dozen trout. Mr. McNeily, K. C., who is known 
locally as our prince of anglers, showed the 
writer yesterday a beautiful rainbow he caught 
the night before in a nearby lake. Mr. Mac be¬ 
sides being an authority on angling and game 
matters, is a chaste and elegant writer. His 
contributions to local papers and magazines are 
eagerly sought by local sportsmen for the in¬ 
formation they contain, as well as for the fact 
that they rank as local classics. He spent the 
day on the lake and didn't get a rise, but that 
didn’t interfere with his enjoyment of the sur¬ 
roundings. At dusk he hooked and killed the 
beauty and was amply repaid for his day’s out¬ 
ing. Mr. McNeily is not a count fisherman. He 
never encouraged fish gluttony. He is the type 
of a growing class of sportsmen in this commun¬ 
ity who know when to stop fishing. The catch 
of fish will have to be regulated by law. It is 
outrageous for men to be killing hundreds of 
salmon and sea trout. It is not angling, it is 
butchering. 
Last week While the telegraph was advising 
us that numbers of persons were being prostrated 
with the heat in New York and other American 
cities, where the glass registered from 85 deg. 
to 93 deg. and higher, we had clear lovely weather 
with a glass ranging between 65 deg. and 70 deg. 
The Americans especially enjoyed the climate 
and scenery, and were so enthusiastic, that it is 
safe to. say that from henceforward Newfound¬ 
land will be the summer playground of America. 
The . reports from the streams are most en¬ 
couraging; salmon, sea trout and grilse were 
never more plentiful. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
One party of Scotch “sports” caught over 300 
salmon and grilse and left them to rot on the 
bank at Little River. The Minister of Fisheries 
is after them and it is the prayer of all true 
anglers that they be caught and convicted and 
taught a lesson that will serve them and other 
kind as a warning for the future. 
A carrier pigeon was shot at Grand Bruit 
near the southwest point of the island. It pitched 
on a fence near the post-office, and it was re¬ 
ported to the post-master as a hawk. He got 
his gun and shot it and found it was a carrier 
pigeon. On one of its legs was a silver ring 
with the following inscription, “D. B. M., 1905.” 
Various theories have been put forward to ac¬ 
count for its presence there; the most probable 
is that the bird was liberated from some ship 
and rested here on its homeward journey. 
Probably some reader of Forest and Stream 
may be able to solve the questions whence it 
came and whence it was bound. 
W. J. Carroll,. 
Chute from Pond to Pan. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
As my lodge or wickyup is on the banks of a 
trout stream in the mountains, I have long been 
interested in these gamy little fish. Wether 
taken from their sparkling and foaming element 
with the ignoble combination known as rod and 
line—that is to say a pole, a string and a villain¬ 
ous barbed bit of steel—(manipulated by an 
animal of superior ingenuity or deviltry) or left 
to flash their jewels in the crystal stream, they 
are always fascinating to me. They are, for¬ 
sooth, also pleasant to eat. Many people and 
most cats enjoy them. 
Being interested in these creatures, and having 
tried with little success to prevent their utter 
extermination in the brook, it occurred to me 
two or three years ago to make a small refuge 
for some of them by creating an artificial pond. 
This I accomplished after contention with numer¬ 
ous obstacles and much hard labor. 
On the west side of my shack there was a 
boulder-strewn expanse of worthless ground, 
and upon a portion of this I ultimately suc¬ 
ceeded, by damming and excavating, in making 
299 
two very picturesque and satisfactory ponds. 
I he ground sloped toward the house, and being 
divided by two dams, the upper pond was given 
a fall of about six feet to the level of the lower 
one, and the surface of the lower one is a trifle 
below the level of our cook stove, and only 
about thirty feet of space intervenes'. From an 
economical computation of these advantages it 
may be deduced that this is a good thing for 11s, 
but it may prove a little summary to the fish. 
You will doubtless perceive that under thi« 
arrangement it will be easy for me to add a 
chute from the lower pond to connect with a fry¬ 
ing pan in the kitchen, without much trouble or 
delay. In fact, after the fish become accustomed 
to these modern appliances, I expect them to 
come into the kitchen when I pound upon a pan 
or toss bait into the chute. The subsequent pro¬ 
ceedings will not interest. the fish very long. 
That the scheme is practicable I have at present 
the assurance of about fifty fine trout in the ponds 
which answer to signals and come as far along as 
the water now reaches. 
These trout I succeeded in taking from the 
brook, from time to time, with the hook, those 
that were injured in the process being killed for 
use, while only the uninjured were put in the 
ponds. 
As the water is about as clear as air we can 
watch the fish in the ponds with great interest 
and pleasure. The trout placed in the pond a 
year agO' spawned, and a rising generation—or 
one that will rise—is in evidence. Besides trout, 
in the lower pond I have half a dozen fish I 
believe to be bass, a dozen or more suckers in 
golden apparel, and several riffle pike. All of 
the several styles of fish have evidently multi¬ 
plied, for there are now shoals of fish an inch 
or so long, with distinguishing characteristics. 
While I was collecting much information from 
my experiments, which I may use in future, at 
this time 1 will content myself with sending 
you these brief notes.’ 
I inclose a drawing or chart of the ponds, 
with several minor features shown in connection 
therewith. This being a first attempt, my sketch 
is not as graphic or as accurate as a photograph 
might be, but my camera is punctured and the 
sketch is the best I can do. 
The goats shown in the picture have no par¬ 
ticular business with the ponds, but that doesn’t 
make any difference-to them; they stay there 
much of the time. They will serve to show the 
boundaries of the land and water. The fish are 
in the water—not the goats. 
The kingfisher has business -at the ponds; but 
so far I have omitted killing him. In the picture 
he is not in the water—but he gets into it. 
It may be discerned that all of the fish shown 
in the picture are not trout—some of them are 
pike, bass or suckers, as I have been partic¬ 
ular to state. 
At the southern end of the picture, where the 
proposed chute from the pond to the kitchen 
is shown, it is marked as the outlet for the fish. 
On second thought I am not sure but that prop¬ 
erly this should be marked the inlet for them. 
It is true it is planned to let them out of the 
pond there—but only to let them into the kitchen 
—and the ultimate object should, perhaps, be 
emphasized. This might have been passed over 
as a mere detail, but in reality it is an essentially 
vital matter and particular. 
We have derived much pleasure from these 
ponds and the fish, and so far have not had oc¬ 
casion to chute any of them into the kitchen. 
Ransacker. 
Shasta Mountains, California 
While out West I heard the following version 
of the famous crow and turksy story. My friend 
said: I was south a few years ago, and two of 
my friends, named Charlie and Henry, brother?, 
went out ’cooning with a darky. I saw the darky 
afterward and asked him what success he had 
had, and he said: “Yer see, Mars Henry said 
we’se ‘go in cahoot.’ Well, we got fo’ ’coons.” 
“How did you divide?” “Well, Mars Henry he 
takes two, and Mars Charlie he takes two, an—’’ 
“What did you get?” “Well, I don’t know,” 
scratching his head; then brightening up, “"T 
reckons I gets the ‘cahoot.’ ” Osiolio. 
