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FOREST AND STREAM 
WAR SUSPENDS FUR OPERATIONS AND 
AFFECTS CANADIAN INDIAN TRAPPER. 
That the effects of the war of eight nations 
which is now raging will be far-reaching has 
been predicted ever since hostilities commenced. 
A pertinent reminder of the extent of these ef¬ 
fects has just reached the Canadian government 
in the form of representation that the paralysis 
of the fur trade has left without means of sub¬ 
sistence the thousands of Indians who have de¬ 
pended for years past upon this industry, and 
unless they receive outside assistance, they are in 
danger *of starvation. 
The Hudson Bay Company, Revillon Freres, 
and other of 'the big fur trading companies have, 
like firms engaged in other branches of industry, 
been compelled to practically suspend operations. 
Their practice in the past has been to advance to 
the Indians at the beginning of the season the 
funds on which the hunters lived until they dis¬ 
pensed of their catch. Now the Indians will be 
without this. However, the government announ¬ 
ces that it will not see the Indians starve. 
“The breaking down of the fur trade has 
thrown the hunters on their resources, and 
obliged them to look to the natural supplies of 
the country,” said Mr. W. D. Scott, deputy min¬ 
ister of Indian affairs of Canada. “However, 
the Government will meet the situation. We 
have arrangements with the Hudson Bay Com¬ 
pany and Revillon Freres to relieve the distress 
among the trappers. We have also the Royal 
Northwest Mounted Police to help the Indian 
Department in coping with the conditions 
created.” 
“FOREST AND STREAM” NEVER DULL. 
Quanah, Tex. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Dear Sirs: Enclosed please find my personal 
check for one year’s subscription to the Forest 
and Stream. 
I wish to say that you are certainly giving us 
a most excellent periodical. There is never a 
dull number. The articles in the main hold the 
attention and interest of the reader. I do not 
think that you can stress too persistently the 
necessity of keeping the streams of our country 
restocked from time to time with the fish that 
do best in the waters to be stocked. I would 
like to ask if the rainbow trout would live in 
our southern streams. We have a beautiful 
stream near our town, exceedingly clear except 
in times of hard rains which are not often, but 
the water is gyp, yet the black bass live in it 
and do well. I have caught them weighing 5% 
and 6 pounds. While on my trip in Yellow¬ 
stone Park last year I caught a rainbow trout 
and I was charmed with it, and if they would 
thrive in our streams I would arrange to se¬ 
cure some for the stream mentioned above. 
Wishing for the Forest and Stream great suc¬ 
cess, I am, 
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