April 24, 1909.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
laces around the toe and is held by a strap on 
the heel. This allows easy play and makes 
walking on snowshoes nearly as natural as walk¬ 
ing on the ground. The Indian shoe can be 
readily distinguished, owing to the finer mesh 
and the cross pieces rather than mortised are 
simply set in niches, that is in most cases. 
The white man's shoes are made to stand 
wear and tear. What .we have found to be best 
is put into them.. Children’s shoes sell for $3.50 
and $4.00; ladies’, $ 5 . 75 , and men’s $6.25. As it 
requires a day’s work to properly string one 
pair, and that the other work takes an equal 
amount of time, it will be readily seen that 
the men who are making snowshoes by hand 
are not getting very rich at it. It is employ¬ 
ment for us in the winter, however, and there 
is a fascination about the work, mainly because 
we take an interest in it. Probably there would 
be a fascination about most anything if we took 
interest in everything we did. 
FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES. 
About 1890 the writer started and urged 
along an investigation of the fisheries of the 
Great Lakes, says Frank J. Amsden, in the 
Rochester Post-Express. By over-fishing. Lake 
Ontario was exhausted of whitefish and lake 
trout; the same process was going on in the 
other great lakes, and all are now in the same 
condition, and our markets have to depend on 
the northern waters of Ontario, where more 
prudence has been shown. Naturally this has 
made the cost of fish to our consumers very 
much greater. Meetings were held in New 
York city, Rochester, Hamilton and Detroit, at¬ 
tended by the fish commissioners of the several 
States bordering on the lakes and the two 
provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and by many 
citizens interested in the subject. The discus¬ 
sions were general and thorough. 
At the last meeting in Detroit conclusions 
were arrived at and unanimously adopted. It 
was decided that the extinction of whitefish and 
lake trout, which are very valuable food fish, 
would surely be caused, first, by over-fishing; 
second, because the mesh of the nets was too 
small; third, netting on the spawning grounds; 
fourth, no close season; fifth, cold storage. It 
was found that to corrects these evils it would 
be necessary to enact uniform laws by all the 
States and provinces bordering on the lakes. 
This was discovered to be impracticable, for 
their jurisdiction only covered the water within 
three miles from land. Effective action could 
be taken only by the Government of the United 
States and Great Britain, acting together and 
in harmony. 
Accordingly a committee was appointed to 
secure international action and now, after nearly 
two decades, it is accomplished and a treaty has 
been signed. I am very grateful that I have 
lived to see it. 
It is of very great importance that these 
bodies of fresh water on our borders should be 
producing fish for our rapidly increasing popu- 
]ation_ The Hon. Donald McNaughton, alive at 
that time, was very much interested; he attend¬ 
ed all the meetings and took a prominent part 
in the discussion, as also did the Hon. William 
H. Bowman. 
A joint international commission will now be 
formed, funds will be provided, and with the 
hearty co-operation of the States important re¬ 
sults will soon follow. 
The first thing is to regulate the fishing by 
a close season; second, by regulating the size 
of the ifiesh of nets; third, by a strict enforce¬ 
ment of the law, and fourth, by artificial plant- 
ing. 
In closing, I would call attention to an ab¬ 
surdity in our present tariff—a tax on fish, 
which are not a luxury but a necessity and not 
“an infant industry’’ in the past or present. Cer¬ 
tainly the tax has not fostered or protected the 
fisheries, and I maintain that the consumers in 
the State pay the tax. It should be wiped off 
the statute books. 
The Forest and Stream vxay be obtained from 
any newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to 
supply you regularly. 
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