March 9, 1907.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Reid Newfoundland Co., has been indefatigable 
in his exertions to make a creditable showing. 
He has succeeded, as far as illustrating the shoot¬ 
ing facilities or the island are concerned, lr't 
has not been so fortunate in securing good fish 
exhibits. He intends to see to this, during the 
coming season, and at future shows will have 
fish selections that will be creditable to us in 
that line. Great as our shooting facilities are, 
they cannot compare with our salmon and trout 
fishing. 
Guides Farnell, Burton Gillard and Tompkins, 
from Bay of Islands, Middle River, Alexander 
Bay and Millertown Junction respectively, are 
leaving to-day for New York to attend the Show 
there from March 1 to March 9. These are 
typical Newfoundland guides, intelligent, re¬ 
sourceful and simple minded men withal. An 
hour’s chat with either of these men would en¬ 
lighten a sportsman as to Newfoundland sport, 
better than a library of sporting literature. I would 
the license law. Hereafter every hunter must 
secure a license. For small game the fee is $1 
for residents and $5 for nonresidents; for large 
game the fee is $2 for residents and $50 for 
nonresidents, the limit being two elk, two deer, 
one mountain sheep, and one antelope for each 
person. 
There is no closed season on trout fishing in 
the North Platte River and its tributaries. 
The completion of the Saratoga & Encamp¬ 
ment railroad, which is now graded to within two 
miles of Saratoga, will bring in many sports¬ 
men who have formerly been kept out by the 
dread of the twenty-five mile stage ride from 
Walcott, the nearest railroad point. Saratoga 
has two livery stables from which suitable rigs 
for hunting or fishing parties can be secured at 
a very reasonable price, and we have many en¬ 
thusiastic sportsmen who are always ready to go 
out with visitors for a day’s shooting or fish¬ 
ing. G. Frederick Clark. 
AFTER THE WOLF HUNT. 
Manitoba Game Guardian's Report. 
Mr. Chas. Barber, the Chief Game Guardian, 
reports that the revenue from licenses was $6,- 
151. There were forty-four convictions for in¬ 
fringement of the Game Protection Act, the fines 
amounting to $325; the total revenue from all 
sources being $6,476. Convictions secured by 
special detectives engaged and remunerated by 
the Manitoba Qame Protection Association were 
four, the fines amounting to $115. The num- 
J bers of animals killed and taken on licenses for 
the open season of 1906 were as follows: Moose, 
495; ek, 224; jumping deer, 99, and caribou, 1; 
total, 839. The decrease in the convictions in¬ 
dicates that the law is being better observed. 
He suggests that a clause be introduced pro¬ 
tecting buffaloes, and that the territory within a 
radius of twenty or thirty miles of the city be 
closed permanently for the hunting of any 
species of deer or game animal, as a band of 
jumping deer has been reported to be roaming 
at large in the vicinity of St. Charles, south of 
the Assiniboine River, and another is said to be 
in the district south of Bird’s Hill. The Win¬ 
nipeg city parks zoo and that of the street rail- 
wav has confined within their respective in¬ 
closures animals which often escaped and were 
in danger of being shot by parties who had paid 
no respect for the game laws. 
The following changes in the game conditions 
are proposed: 
Bison or buffalo—Close season for all time. 
Mountain sheep and goat—Close season at 
present, Dec. 15 to Oct. 1. Close season pro¬ 
posed, Oct. 1, 1909. No limit to bag. 
Antelope—Close season at present, Nov. 15 to 
Oct. 1. Close season proposed, Nov. 1 to Oct. 1. 
No limit to bag. 
Caribou, moose, elk, wapiti, deer—Close sea¬ 
son at present, Dec. 15 to Nov. 1. Close season 
proposed, Dec. 1 to Nov. 1. Limit, one of each 
species. 
Ducks, geese, swans—Close season at present, 
Jan. 1 to Aug. 23. Close season proposed, Jan. 1 
to Sept. 1. Twenty per day for first fifteen days. 
Cranes—Close season at present, Jan. 1 to 
Aug. 1. Close season proposed, Jan. 1 to Sept. 1. 
Snipe, sandpiper, plover, curlew—Close season 
at present, May 1 to Aug. 23. Close season pro¬ 
posed, Jan. 1 to Sept. 1. 
Rails and coots—Close season at present, May 
5 to Aug. 23. Close season proposed, Jan. 1 to 
Sept. 1. 
Grouse, partridge, pheasant, ptarmigan, prairie 
chicken—Close season at present, Dec. 15 to 
Sept. 15. Close season proposed, Sept. 15, 1908. 
Limit, twenty birds per day, 200 in season. 
Mink, fisher, martin—Close season at present, 
Apr. 1 to Nov. 1. 
Otter—Close season at present, May 1 to 
Nov. 1. 
Muskrat—Close season at present, May 15 to 
Nov. 1. Close season proposed, May 15 to Dec. 
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Beaver—Close season at present, Dec. 31, 1908. 
Close season proposed, Dec. 31, 1912. 
advise any of my readers, who want to spend 
a pleasant hour, to go to the Show and have a 
chat with the Newfoundland guides. They come 
from the very best shooting and fishing regions 
of this island, and to those interested,' parties 
who have been here or who intend to come, they 
can a tale unfold that will make the red blood 
of the woods lover course more freely. 
W. J. Carroll. 
Wyoming Notes. 
Saratoga, Wyo., Feb. 24.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The weather here has been very mild 
during the past six weeks, and the river is almost 
entirely free from ice. Bait fishing is good and 
some fine catches are reported. Last week Steve 
Michael, one of our local sportsmen, caught a 
fine rainbow trout measuring sixteen inches in 
length and weighing exactly four pounds. The 
fish are in fine condition and feed in the river is 
plentiful. 
One of the best laws passed by the State Legis¬ 
lature, which adjourned recently, was an act 
prohibiting the deposit of refuse from factories, 
smelters, etc., in any of the streams of the State. 
This is particularly appreciated by the people 
of this vicinity, as the fishing in the Platte River 
(which is unexcelled) was threatened by the de¬ 
posit of tailings from the concentrator of the 
Jenn-Wyoming Copper Company at Grand En¬ 
campment. Among other changes in the game 
laws affecting this section is the change of the 
law regarding the killing of antelope, which re¬ 
duces the number allowed each person to one 
antelope during the season; and the change in 
After the Wolf Hunt. 
Even though it is not a practicable means of 
preserving the cattle and sheep in the regions 
where wolves are abundant, hunting wolves and 
coyotes with dogs is very good fun. We publish 
the picture of a successful killer of coyotes on 
the plains of Alberta, a man whose dogs and 
horses are good and who himself is a hard rider. 
A recent letter from Mr. John Willis, of Mon¬ 
tana, whose name has frequently appeared in 
Forest and Stream, tells us that hunting wolves 
and coyotes is his winter sport, and that last 
winter he caught a white wolf—as white as snow. 
He says also that it was reported that a black 
wolf lias been seen on the Missouri River in 
northern Montana. 
Why Such Absurd Legislation? 
Elizabethtown, N. Y., March 2. — Editor 
Forest and Stream: I am surprised that an at¬ 
tempt is being made to have legislation enacted 
into law which will prolong the season for catch¬ 
ing trout to Sept. 15 of each year. Any man 
who has taken trout out of Adirondack streams 
during the latter part of August or the early 
part of September knows that the female trout 
are then almost invariably full of spawn, espec- 
iallv when taken from warm waters, that it is 
like killing female deer in March when they are 
heavy with fawn. To kill a female trout in 
September means destroying hundreds of trout. 
Why such absurd legislation? 
George L. Brown. 
In Newfoundland. 
We have had a very mild winter to date. The 
cross country train has been running on time 
nearly all the winter. 
The trouting season opened on Feb. 13 and 
numbers of anglers took a day off and enjoyed 
some fishing through the ice. I have seen items 
in the papers crediting two parties with catches 
of 50 dozen and 54 dozen respectively. 
Notwithstanding that there is a close season 
here for beaver, reports have reached the Minis¬ 
ter of Marine and Fisheries, that numbers of 
them have been destroyed lately. He has sent 
a man to the beaver regions to investigate, and 
if possible to bring the guilty parties to justice. 
A man in Alexander Bay trapped a beautiful 
black fox last week. It is said the skin is mag¬ 
nificent and that nothing to equal it was ever 
before got in that neighborhood. 
The Reid Newfoundland Co. have dispatched 
to New York for exhibition at the Sportsman’s 
Show a grand exhibit of what Newfoundland 
is capable of, as a sportsman’s resort. Mr. I. 
N. Johnstone, the courteous G. P. A. of the 
