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FOREST AND STREAM 
wide, and the trout will be of both square-tail 
and steel-head species. In pools will be shown 
pickerel, bass and both land locked and Chinook 
salmon, the latter being a product of last spring’s 
planting. 
A special appropriation provided for this ex¬ 
hibit which legislators believe will be education¬ 
al, and thousands of amateur fishermen who 
know nothing of the fertile fields that New 
Hampshire’s lakes, brooks and rivers offer will 
be encouraged to go into the state for this kind 
of sport. It is an extremely novel way of ad¬ 
vertising for the state. 
Another meeting of those interested in fish and 
game activities was held at Commissioner Frank 
J. Beal’s office, when arrangements were perfect¬ 
ed for the campaign of 30,000 voters of the state, 
representing game license holders, in the inter¬ 
ests of a radical change in the present fish and 
game laws, to allow the department usage of its 
entire revenues. 
At the last meeting, it was decided to send a 
circular letter to all of the license holders in 
the state, urging plans which, if materialized, 
would place the fish and game commission on a 
substantial financial basis. The formulation of 
the letter was left to Commissioner Beal, and he 
presented a draft for approval. It will reach 
some 30,000 voters of the state, all naturally high¬ 
ly interested in furthering the fish and game in¬ 
terests of the state. 
A committee composed of D. H. Carpenter, 
Merrimack County Sportsmen’s Association, H. 
C. Lintott of Nashua, president of the Hills¬ 
borough County Fish and Game Association, and 
Sumner N. Patten, chairman of the Textile Club, 
Manchester, were appointed to have charge of the 
distribution of the letters among the various 
clubs of the state and of the financial matters 
pertaining to the letter campaign. 
The letter sent out was as follows: “Hunters 
of New Hampshire: 
“The legislature of 1909 passed a resident 
hunter’s license law whereby every resident hunt¬ 
er is obliged to buy a license costing one dollar. 
Since this law was passed,, less than one-half the 
funds derived from the sale of these permits 
have been expended in the interest of sportsmen. 
Large sums have gone into the treasury yearly, 
there to be appropriated to objects that are for¬ 
eign to the aims of this department. Since this 
license law is obviously a system of double tax¬ 
ation, the diversion to other uses of any portion 
of the money thus derived is unfair and unjust— 
a mistaken and mischievous method of doing 
what greed and selfishness would not attempt if 
the rights of taxpayers were involved. 
“The following figures will tell you the whole 
story: 
“1909-10—Receipts, $27,515.20; total appropri¬ 
ated, $8,600; total expended, $9,081.68; overpaid, 
$548.44; amount in treasury, $18,433.52. 
1910-11—Receipts, $20,542.18; total appropria¬ 
tion, $14,600; total expended, $13,649.02; appro¬ 
priated but not expended, $950.98; amount in 
treasury, $15,893.16. 
“1911-12—Receipts, $28,747.17; total appropria¬ 
tion, $25,150; total expended, $17,067.73; appro¬ 
priated but not expended, $8,082.27; amount in 
treasury, $11,679.44. 
“1912-13—Receipts, $31,067.22; total appropri¬ 
ation, $21,875; total expended, $15,574.33; appro¬ 
priated but not expended, $6,300.67; amount in 
treasury, $15,492.89. 
“Total for four years—Receipts, $116,871.77; 
total appropriations, $70,225; total expended, 
$55.37 2 75; appropriated but not expended, $15,- 
333-9 2 ; amount in treasury, $61,499.01. 
“On Tuesday, July 21, a meeting of the presi¬ 
dents and officers o-f the several clubs and asso¬ 
ciations throughout the state was held at Concord 
for the purpose of discussing the rights and in¬ 
terests of the sportsmen in this matter of the ex¬ 
penditure of game funds. A motion was made 
at this meeting to the effect that a letter should 
be sent to every hunter in the state, informing 
him of the above conditions and soliciting his 
support and co-operation in the passing of a law 
at the next session of the legislature whereby 
the whole sum received in the fish and game de¬ 
partment shall be expended in behalf of the 
sportsmen. 
“We know, Mr. Hunter, that you are interested 
in this proposition. On the coming August 31, 
the end of the present fiscal year, you will have 
been robbed of more than $80,000. Talk the mat¬ 
ter over with your senator and representatives. 
Co-operate with us. And, above all, come to the 
sportsmen’s meeting at Concord on September 
15 and rally for your rights.” 
All sportsmen of the state are urged to place 
in their engagement books the date of the big 
state sportsmen’s meeting, September 15. On 
that day sportsmen from all parts of the state 
will gather in Concord where an all-day session 
will be held in the hall of representatives. There 
will be sessions, morning, afternoon and even¬ 
ing, and matters of vital interest will come up 
for discussion and action. Commissioner Beal 
is busy procuring prominent speakers for the 
day, and will soon be ready to announce several 
of them. 
MAKING FIRE WITHOUT MATCHES. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Making a fire without matches or flint and 
steel is getting out of fashion. Rubbing two 
sticks together and waiting for a flame is rather 
. resome business. Have you ever 'tried it? I 
always thought that you just rubbed them—that 
was all. Since I saw Is'hi make fire with sticks 
I' appreciate that it is an art, and one not easily 
acquired. 
As you know, Ishi is the last of the Yana 
Indians of California, and has retained nearly 
all the lost arts and crafts of the prehistoric 
Americans. And while he much prefers to use 
matches now, and cook over a gas stove, only 
•three years ago he had to twirl a stick to strike 
a light. This is how he does it. 
He takes a flat piece of buckeye or cedar, say 
a foot long, an inch and a quarter wide, and 
three quarters thick. Near the center of the flat 
side about half an inch from the edge of this 
stick he scrapes a shallow depression, and just 
at the edge opposite, he cuts a notch or groove 
an eighth of an inch deep, almost touching this; 
he then takes a dry buckeye stick, about eighteen 
inches long, half an inch thick and places one end 
in this depression. The cedar or buckeye base hav¬ 
ing been placed firmly on the ground, and a little 
mat of dry grass beneath the notched portion, he 
is ready for work. 
Now he begins drilling or twirling this per¬ 
pendicular spindle between his palms, pressing 
down firmly all the while. The motion is not 
very rapid but rather forceful. When his hands 
slip to the bottom of the spindle he quickly re¬ 
adjusts them to start again at the top. As he 
works, a little pile of dust is ground out of the 
hole in the base stick and falling down the 
groove, which just touches the edge of the hole 
collects in a little pile on the grass below. Then 
A Sample of Bass Caught in Canadian Waters 
