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FISH IN MINES. 
Perhaps the inost peculiar fishing places in 
the country are found in Lehigh county, Penn¬ 
sylvania. When the failure of Jay Cooke & Co., 
of New York, started a panic which later swept 
over this country, it closed every hematite ore 
mine in Lehigh and caused the loss of millions 
of dollars. These abandoned ore mines, cover¬ 
ing acres of land and ranging in depth from 30 
to 100 feet, gradually began to fill up with water, 
and in that condition they have remained for 
years. 
It was a boy who first conceived the idea 
that these ore mines would be ideal breeding 
places for fish. He had read a book on fish 
culture, and he noticed that a particular pit had 
the kind of aquatic vegetation which the book 
said was necessary. So he caught a lot of sun- 
fish, catfish, suckers, eels and chubs and dumped 
them into the waters of the pit and then for¬ 
got all about it. 
These fish multiplied with amazing rapidity. 
Several years later a fisherman on his way home 
from a trout stream happened to pass this par¬ 
ticular pit. Merely as a joke he baited his hooks 
with worms and made a cast. He had scarcely 
done so when his reel commenced to sing, and 
to his great amazement he pulled out two enor¬ 
mous sunfish. Inside of half an hour he had 
filled his creel. 
He made a quiet investigation and readily ob¬ 
tained permission from the owners of the pits 
to experiment in fish culture. He commenced 
to plant black bass and yellow perch. He went 
about it secretly, and the owners, who did not 
want to be annoyed by applicants for fishing 
privileges, also kept quiet. To-day these pits 
fairly teem with fish. 
In the shallower pits the same enterprising in¬ 
dividual introduced land terrapin, which are now 
bringing in a substantial revenue. Some cf the 
pits, however, are so dangerous of approach, 
owing to steep, overhanging and crumbling banks, 
that only the most daring venture within casting 
1 distance. 
At one pit a nearby tree affords a lodging 
place for those who enjoy the novelty of fish¬ 
ing from a tree. One man has erected a tall 
scaffolding, from which vantage point he casts 
his line. 
Black bass thrive better in these pits than any 
other fish. They grow to enormous size, and the 
coldness and purity of the water gives them not 
only a gaminess, but a solidity of flesh which 
they do not acquire in the finest bass streams in 
the State.—Baltimore Sun. 
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