FOREST AND STREAM 
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Live Notes From the Field 
Being Weekly Reports From Our Local Correspondents 
THE EAGLE LAKE DAM CASE. 
Port Henry, N. Y., July 16, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
A case of great interest recently came up in 
the Supreme Court, Special Term Chambers, 
when a motion was made before Justice Chester 
B. McLaughlin, of the Appellate Division, First 
Department, New York city, who resides at Port 
Henry and sits on the first Saturday on each 
month. 
Mr. Edward Runge, whose summer cottage is 
situated on Fox Island Eagle Lake, Ticonderoga, 
N. Y„ the scene of some good stories that I read 
in Forest and Stream, was represented there by 
Peter Flint, a New York attorney, in a motion 
asking for a temporary injunction restraining the 
defendants Messrs. Newton & Ferris of Ticonder¬ 
oga, N. Y., from allowing the waters of Eagle 
Lake continually to flow through a hole lately 
made in the center of an ancient stone dam, 150 
feet long across the outlet of this lake which 
dam had been in existence for more than 50 years, 
keeping up an average height of 4 feet above the 
natural level of that like. Mr. Runge asserted 
that his 3 water boathouses built for half a 
dozen row boats and a big motor boat were 
left high and dry by the act of defendants in 
letting the water down and that his piers and 
docks erected lately at great expense were ab¬ 
solutely useless. Fie asserts that $1,500 would 
not rebuild these structures and that if rebuilt 
nothing could prevent the defendants from put¬ 
ting in the gate and raising the water so as to 
make his new houses of no use again. He 
claimed loss of rights to navigate the outlet of 
the lake in boats, impediments in the lake channels 
by exposed rocks, loss of fishing in State stocked 
waters and possible loss of health owing to ex¬ 
posures of large tracts of muddy land and mead¬ 
ows formerly covered with clean water, among 
some of his damages and injuries, and showed 
that the Forest and Game Commission had re¬ 
peatedly notified the Ticonderoga owners that a 
suitable dam should be built there to protect 
the fish placed there by it and that the Com¬ 
mission had declared itself unable to enforce its 
directions because the owner had taken the dam 
out, in defiance of its request. 
Justice McLaughlin granted plaintiff an oppor¬ 
tunity to submit further proof in support of his 
contention, which has the indorsement of the 
property owners in Eagle Lake, including many 
prominent sportsmen. AN ANGLER 
PACIFIC SALMON FOR MAINE WATERS. 
One of the most interesting and promising 
pieces of constructive fishery work now in 
progress in the Bureau of Fisheries, Department 
of Commerce, is the introduction of the hump¬ 
back salmon of the Pacific Coast into the littoral 
waters of Maine. 
The native salmon of the New England coast 
has become very scarce, and there is a note¬ 
worthy run only in the Penobscot River, where 
the Bureau conducts extensive operations ad¬ 
dressed to this species. Owing to unfavorable 
physical conditions (dams, pollutions, removal of 
forests at 'headwaters, etc.) in most of the 
streams formerly frequented by the salmon, there 
is little or no probability that this fish can ever 
be re-established. The humpback salmon has 
therefore been selected as a suitable substitute. 
It spawns near salt water, and will find numer¬ 
ous favorable streams in which the eggs will 
hatch and the young remain until ready for theii 
short marine life. The average weight attained 
is five pounds, but examples weighing ten pounds 
are sometimes taken in Alaska. When the fish 
is fresh-run from the sea, the flesh is of a rich 
red color, of delicious flavor. 
The Bureau has begun an annual transfer of 
humpback eggs from the west coast to the Maine 
ha.cheries, and is now distributing, in the form 
of fingerlings, the fish resulting from eggs 
brought across the continent last year. The 
plarts will aggregate about seven and a quarter 
millions, and the waters stocked, which have been 
specially selected for the purpose, will include 
the following Maine rivers; Penobscot, Andros¬ 
coggin, Pleasant, Damariscotta, Dennys, Orland, 
Uni m, Georges, Medomak, and St. Croix. 
This work will be continued on a large sca.e 
annually until the humpback has been firmly es¬ 
tablished, n.d a great boon will thus be conferred 
on the fishing industry of Maine. In 1913 the 
humpback run in Puget Sound was valued at 
Apooo.ooo, the fish being used chiefly for canning. 
In Maine and other New England waters the 
humpback will be in great demand as a fresh fish. 
SALMON FISHING IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
Springfield, Mass.. July 30. 
You know that it is the general belief that it 
is not possible to have salmon fishing here in 
Massachusetts where nearly all of our lakes and 
ponds about with pickerel, bass and perch, and 
some of them contain more or less polu'tion. I 
think our commission has exploded that theory 
with the results that have come from Lake Quin- 
sigamond near Worcester during the past week. 
Hundreds of salmon have been taken by the 
anglers during the past week weighing from one 
and one-half to three and one-half pounds, and 
this in spite of the fact that the lake abounds 
with pickerel and perch. It is needless to say 
that the Worcester sportsmen are more than 
delighted with the results that have come from 
the commissions stocking this lake. 
The first salmon were planted in the fall of 
19x2, and there were about 10,000 in the lot; again 
in 1913 a lot of 20,000 were planted. The lake 
is well adapted for salmon, the water is cold and 
deep and contains a large supply of land locked 
smelts for the salmon to feed upon. The large 
number of smelts have been a curse to the 
fishermen, but I think the smelts will now prove 
a blessing in disguise as affording the right food 
for the salmon. 
A salmon that will grow to 3V2 lbs. in two 
years from the day it was hatched must require 
a lot of food. 
What the commission had done with these 
salmon in Worcester can be duplicated in many 
other lakes where screens can be placed in the 
outlets. I believe we have lakes in nearly every 
county in the state where we shall be able to 
produce salmon and bring good fishing to the 
very doors of our sportsmen—as it is now, the 
man who wants to catch a salmon must go away 
to Maine or some other far away place, at a great 
expense, and only a few of the sportsmen are 
able to stand it. 
Most of the salmon planted in lake Quinsiga- 
mond were raised at the new state hatchery at 
Palmer, where we now have 35,000 fingerlings 
that will be ready to plant this fall. 
There should be a limit on the number a per¬ 
son is allowed to kill in a single day, and the size 
limit should be at least 14 in. The season should 
remain open to at least August 15th if not to Sep¬ 
tember 1st. I can see no reason for stopping it 
on August 1st. 
GEO. H. GRAHAM. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE NOTES. 
By A. H. Robinson. 
Concord, N. H., August 6. 
A fish exhibit which is being prepared by State 
Fish and Game Commissioner Frank J. Beal is 
an additional convincing evidence that his as¬ 
sumption of the duties of the office marked an 
epoch in the conservation of the states import¬ 
ant interests. The exhibit will be unique, inter¬ 
esting and instructive, and will be located at 
Rockingham Park, during the week of September 
1-5. It will be conducted under the personal di¬ 
rection of Commissioner Beal and will not mere¬ 
ly show the fish that abound in the brooks, lakes 
and rivers of New Hampshire, in glass and 
miniature ponds, but will exhibit a mountain 
trout stream, with pools filled with trout in their 
natural habitat and showing their natural condi¬ 
tions of living. 
In order to carry out this elaborate plan, the 
management of Rockingham fair have arranged 
to run a three-inch pipe from Canobie lake, sev¬ 
eral miles above Rockingham park, to 'bring in 
the water for this exhibit, which will be in the 
agricultural building. 
Commissioner Beal will follow minutely the 
details of nature in arranging the exhibit. There 
will be water-falls coming down the rocks at one 
end of the building, into a series of pools with 
brooks built in between, and each pool will be 
stocked with a different kind of trout. This sec¬ 
tion of the building is being planted with trees, 
shrubs and ferns that actually grow by the moun¬ 
tain streams and walks. These will be laid out 
so that the people can watch the fish as they live 
in their natural condition. The fish will differ 
in size from fingerlings to four and five-pound 
trout. 
The brook will be 200 feet long and 25 feet 
