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FOREST AND STREAM 
man in the rig, and when he gets ready to start 
fishing he ties the team near the road. When the 
man who first left it, reaches it, he will untie and 
drive up the canyon until he thinks that he is well 
past the last man who left the wagon; he then ties 
and continues on up stream. Usually with this 
method a camping ground or general meeting 
place has been agreed upon beforehand, and woe 
to the man who reaches it without fish. This 
method is seldom adopted except where the party 
is out for a week or ten days, and wants to take 
in all parts of the stream. If out for only a day 
or two they usually go further up the canyon be¬ 
fore commencing to fish. 
About ten miles from the mouth of the canyon 
come the first forks. If you have plenty of time, 
spend a day or two on the left fork. While the 
stream is smaller than the right fork, the fish¬ 
ing is usually good. There are some ideal camp¬ 
ing spots, and the scenery after the first three or 
four miles is beautiful. About a mile from the 
forks on the left branch is the cabin of the United 
States forest rangers, who daily cover many miles 
of a reserve to see that there are no fires left by 
the campers. 
At the forks, and for the next half mile, a num¬ 
ber of ideal trout holes are to be found. The 
land along this part of the stream is owned by 
private parties who will usually let you fish, how¬ 
ever, providing you do not destroy property. 
About a mile and a half above the forks on the 
main stream there is a little “dugway,” and just 
below it, and in full sight of the road, a big pool. 
You should get a few of the “speckled beauties” 
out of this hole if you are a good fisherman, but 
you should not look alone for pools. Rather fol¬ 
low every foot of the stream as near as you can, 
for it is in the unfrequented spots that the big 
fellows usually lie. About a half mile from the 
“dugway” come the rapids. Unless you care for 
strenuous fishing, with hard walking and no 
chance to wade, you may as well take the wagon 
here and go up to the head of the rapids. Just 
above the rapids commences a series of pools and 
eddies, any one of which is well worth trying. A 
half mile further up the canyon you will come to 
what is known as “Hawbush flat,” at the lower 
end of which is one of the largest and finest pools 
in the canyon, a pool from which the writer and 
a friend took forty-seven trout in less than three 
hours’ fishing. For the next mile there is good 
fishing — pools, eddies, and riffles. Then comes the 
“big meadow,” in which there are over a dozen 
big holes, all of which should be tried out. Re¬ 
cently, with the snow from two to four feet deep, 
the writer and a friend landed twenty-five fine 
trout out of this part of the stream with less than 
two hours actual fishing. 
At the head of the “big meadow” is what is 
called “Devil’s gate.” Years ago a saw mill stood 
near here, and the disciple of Izaak Walton will 
find two fine holes and a number of good places to 
“try” within a short half mile up the canyon. 
For the next five miles and for the rest of the 
canyon until the very headwaters of the stream 
are reached, there is not a hundred yards at any 
place that good fishing cannot be had, much of 
which is "passed up” because the average fisher¬ 
man does not know where the places are, and 
prefers to keep to the road rather than to wade 
the stream or work his way through the brush. 
About eighteen miles from thq mouth of the 
canyon come the second forks. 
Near these forks is what is known as the 
"Hardware ranch,” so named because it was for¬ 
merly owned by a hardware company who oper¬ 
ated a store at Brigham City. This is the only 
large ranch in the canyon. From it several hun¬ 
dred tens of hay are cut every year. From here 
you may take your choice of forks; the left is 
the smaller and a few miles further up it forks 
again. Following the road at the second branch 
of the left hand fork, one may cross on a fairly 
good road into the head of Logan canyon, on to 
Bear lake valley and into Idaho and on to the 
noted fishing streams of that state. Taking the 
right hand fork below the ranch, one will find 
good fishing for a number of miles. This is a 
part of the stream that is little fished because it 
is so far from any settlement, and here is some of 
the most magnificent scenery in the entire canyon. 
The lover of nature or the sportsman will feel 
that he is literally in the heart of the mountains. 
No sound, save those of nature, will reach him, 
unless it be the echo of a woodman's axe. There 
is a saw mill high up in one part of the moun¬ 
tains. 
Through this fork it is possible for one to 
travel, over a trail, to the headwaters of the 
Ogden river, and even on to the headwaters of 
the Weber river, both of which offer fine fishing. 
On the tops of the mountains in several places 
A report on the Eastport quadrangle, Maine, 
recently issued by the United States Geological 
Survey, deals with a region of more than usual 
interest. Eastport, from which the quadrangle 
receives its name, has the double distinction of 
being the easternmost city of the United States 
and the center of the sardine-packing industry 
of the Atlantic coast. The actual easternmost 
point of land in the United States is West 
Quoddy Head, marked by a lighthouse a few 
miles south of Eastport, but still within the 
quadrangle. The natural beauties of the region 
and the large stretches of protected water along 
the irregular coast, attract to this part of Maine 
many summer visitors, although it has not yet 
become so populous a resort as the coast of 
Maine farther west or the Canadian coast farther 
east. .Some conception of the extreme irregu¬ 
larity of the coast may be gained from the state¬ 
ment that Eastport may be reached from its 
sister town Lubec by a 3-mile ferry, whereas 
the traveler following the shore would have to 
walk 100 rocky miles to get from one of these 
towns to the other. 
The Eastport region is one of the few places 
in the Atlantic States that still counts among 
its inhabitants the direct descendants of the 
native owners of the soil. These are the Passa- 
maquoddy Indians, who form a small village at 
Pleasant Point, where they live as temporal wards 
of the State and as spiritual wards of the Catholic 
Church. Because they have adopted so freely 
the ways of the white man these Indians have 
ceased to be picturesque, but tourists are inter¬ 
ested in them because of the really artistic bas¬ 
kets of sweet grass and dyed wood woven by 
the women. Only once a year, on Corpus Christi 
Day, do they deck themselves out in ceremonial 
there are great plateaus, some of them many miles 
in extent. Here deer may be found at any season 
of the year. The Utah law, however, prohibits 
the killing of deer except between October 1 and 
October 15 of each year, and then only one deer 
to a person, who must be a citizen of the United 
States and must pay a license fee of $1.25. This 
fee also permits of fishing during the open season, 
February 1 to March 31 and June 13 to November 
30 of each year, with a limit of fifteen pounds for 
any one day. 
Perhaps the principal reason why this canyon 
is so little known, even among the people of 
Utah, is because it is not as easily accessible as 
some of the other canyons, several of which have 
railroads running through at least a part of them. 
Again, perhaps, the reason is that the majority of 
those who have had the pleasure of visiting this 
beauty spot are like the small boy with an apple— 
they seek to keep a good thing to themselves. 
Should any of the disciples of Izaak Walton 
wish to spend a few days in this canyon they 
would do well to write H. H. Peterson or Charles 
Maughan, both at Hyrum, Utah. Mr. Peterson 
will tell where the best fishing can be had, and 
Mr. Maughan will make arrangements for the 
transporting of the party from the railroad sta¬ 
tion to any part of this or Logan canyon. 
robes and with songs and dances recall the 
savage glories of long ago. This feast day of 
course attracts spectators from all the neighbor¬ 
ing towns. Though now very up to date, the 
village of these Indians as late as 1888 con¬ 
sisted mainly of tepees, and it was then common 
to see them clad in their native costumes. Their 
school, conducted by sisters of charity, and their 
church play an important part in their lives and 
have been a source of great improvement to the 
tribe. 
TO SAVE MIGRATORY BIRDS. 
The American Game Protective Association, 
with offices at No. 233 Broadway, New York 
City, has issued an appeal to the sportsmen and 
the conservationists of the country to bring the 
pressure of public opinion to bear on members 
of the United States Senate for the attitude they 
have taken toward the recently enacted Federal 
Migratory Bird law. A small minority in the 
Senate, it is said, is making a persistent effort to 
prevent the Senate from concurring in the recent 
action of the House, which approprited $50,000 
for the enforcement of the law. 
“When the law was passed,” says the statement, 
“it carried an appropriation of only $10,000. This 
was grossly inadequate, of course. This year the 
Department of Agriculture asked for $100,000, 
but this comparatively small sum was cut in half 
by the House. Now, certain members of the 
Senate, a clear but persistent minority, are trying 
to make of no effect a law that has the support 
of at least ninety per cent, of the sportsmen of the 
country, and-that means considerably more than 
five million voters.” 
Our Easternmost City 
Region of Summers Resorts and Home of Passamaquoddy Indians Described 
by United States Geological Survey. 
