Aug. 7, 1909 ] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
still very much alive and had improved the in¬ 
terval by crawling about and prospecting the 
ledge. The result was the discovery of the 
Uncle Sam, a mine that produced a million and 
a half a month for ten years, and is a very 
good mine to-day. Modesto, having no money 
to develop it, sold it to an English company 
for $150,000, the same to be paid out of the first 
proceeds of the mine. A sixty stamp mill was 
erected and three months after it began opera¬ 
tions he was paid in full, payment being made 1 
in two gold bricks of $50,000 each and two of 
$■35,000 each. Just how long this nice little 
stake lasted the festive Modesto is not a matter 
of record, but the people of Kennett declare 
that six months had not elapsed after the pay¬ 
ment of the last instal'ment before he was back 
in his old cabin, dead broke, and thirsting for 
new worlds to conquer. 
Some curiosity will doubtless be felt in re¬ 
gard to the subsequent career of the brindle 
dog. He was known to every man, woman 
and child in the town, and whenever he put 
in an appearance with his master he was petted, 
feasted and lionized in a manner that would 
have spoiled an ordinary dog. He lived for 
several years after, and when he died he re¬ 
ceived a burial that eclipsed anything of the 
kipd that Kennett had ever seen, the whole 
town turning out to do homage over his grave. 
A favorite trip of ours after Morrich came 
was to the cool waters of the Ventanna, five 
miles up the river. The large fish were more 
numerous and better fighters there, and the 
trail, though rather hard, was a delightful one, 
running for miles along the side of chaparral 
covered hills a thousand feet above the river 
bed. It was the season of the greatest floral 
display and flowers were blooming everywhere, 
the most conspicuous being the great cream- 
colored tree-shaped torches of the mescal, fif¬ 
teen feet high, and thinly scattered here and 
there upon the hillside and sometimes showing 
clearly against the sky upon the very summits. 
These it was stated bloom every seven years 
in this section. In places the trail ran through 
timbered gulches where small streams pitched 
over beetling cliffs like miniature Yosemites 
luring us to rest in the shade beside their 
refreshing waters. 
There was also a pathetic interest connected 
with this trail, for close to it were the graves 
of the two last survivors of the Carmel Indians, 
a mother and her son. The mother, who was 
the last of her race, died about a year ago. 
No one knew just how old she was, but it is 
certain that she had passed the century mark. 
Two little mounds, a few faded flowers placed 
there by some of her paleface friends, and a 
rude cross were all that indicated their last 
resting place. 
The pleasant June days drifted away until 
early one morning Lewey Elmer drove the 
stage to the door and told us to get ready for 
our return, and so we bade good-bye to the 
Sur. Forked Deer. 
Under the new Massachusetts regulations any 
person who has propagated trout may, when 
they reach a length of six inches, dispose of 
them for sale or otherwise, provided that to 
each trout is attached a tag bearing the name 
of the person who raised the fish and the num¬ 
ber of his permit allowing disposal of same. 
Fighting Stream Pollution. 
Edward B. Rice, of the Committee on Pollu¬ 
tion, of the Anglers’ Club of New York, is dis¬ 
tributing a large number of the little booklets, 
“An Appeal to Anglers.” These are now being 
sent to all of the sportsmen’s publications in 
America, and to those daily papers and periodi¬ 
cals which devote space to outdoor sports. 
In his letter accompanying the club booklet 
Mr. Rice says, in part: 
“We believe that the most important factor 
in the propagation of game fishes in this coun¬ 
try to-day is to have the waters in which they 
are planted pure. Of what benefit is it to en- 
a french angler. 
As pictured in Le Chasseur Frangais. 
gage in the stocking of waters which, on account 
of pollution, will not support the fish? This 
club is becoming more and more influential each 
year and is commencing a determined fight 
against the pollution referred to. We believe 
that the very best way to begin this fight is to 
appeal, as we are now doing, to the magazines 
throughout the country, to help. We do not ask 
you to help this club; we ask you to use your 
great influence in the shaping of public opinion, 
for the benefit of every sportsman throughout 
the country; every lover of outdoor life; every 
one of your own subscribers. 
“We ask you to use your columns to such 
good purpose that the reading public will not 
forget the importance of this matter, and that 
in the end water pollution will be stopped. 
“Let us engage in this great work before our 
streams and rivers, lakes and ponds are beyond 
redemption; before the barrenness of our beau¬ 
tiful inland waters cause the great multitude of 
pleasure seekers, who now go to the mountains 
each year, to turn to other pastimes in years to 
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come, perhaps not so healthful, so clean or so 
uplifting.” 
The booklet contains an address delivered be¬ 
fore the Anglers’ Club by Charles H. Town¬ 
send, director of the New York Aquarium. We 
quote liberally from it, as follows: 
The pollution of public waters is our most 
common act and our most uncivilized practice. 
The casting of refuse in a stream results only 
in transferring it from one neighborhood to an¬ 
other. 
The great evil with which practical fish cul¬ 
ture in America has to contend at the present 
time is the contamination of public waters by 
sewage and the refuse of manufactories. 
Although the propagation of fishes by artificial 
means has, in this country, reached a degree of 
efficiency unequaled in other countries, the pres¬ 
ervation of streams in condition desirable for 
the maintenance of fish life has been singularly 
neglected. In a majority of those States which 
possess fishery resources there exist more or 
less effective restrictions upon fishing and the 
operation of fishery industries, but it is seldom 
that enactments against the depositing of waste 
matter in fishing waters are enforced. 
The annual output of fish fry from hatcheries 
in various parts of the country, operated by the 
Fisheries Bureau at Washington, has now reach¬ 
ed the enormous figure of something like three 
thousand millions. The fish cultural work of 
the different State fishery commissions, taken 
collectively, yields probably equal numbers of 
young fry. The Government part of the work 
is done from no more than thirty-five or forty 
hatcheries scattered over the country—a remark¬ 
able illustration of the efficiency of artificial 
fertilization and rearing of fry. 
It would be safe to state that fish planting in 
America exceeds that of all other countries put 
together. Fish culturists from Europe and from 
countries as far away as Japan and New Zealand 
come here to study our methods. 
All our fish commissioners of experience, both 
National and State, are agreed that the decrease 
in the supply of food fishes is traceable more to 
the pollution of waters than to any other cause, 
and stream pollution is going on at a rate pro¬ 
portionate to the increase in population and the 
development of manufacturing industries. 
The effects of pollution are most serious in 
the more densely populated States. It begins 
almost at the sources of streams and extends to 
the very mouths of the largest rivers. 
The conditions would probably not be so seri¬ 
ous in their effect upon the supply of fresh water 
fishes had not the flow of streams been lessened 
by deforestation. With the cutting away of 
forests and the cultivation of the land, the sum¬ 
mer temperature of streams has become higher 
and the breeding grounds of game and food 
fishes covered by silt washed down by floods. 
Happily the movement for reforestation is 
gaining ground. It is most important, and all 
anglers should be active supporters of the efforts 
now being made for forest preservation. The 
pollution of streams not only affects fishing for 
sport and commercial fishing, but the all-impor¬ 
tant matter of public health. 
The agencies at work are almost too varied 
for enumeration. With such facts confronting 
us there is no need of inquiring why we do not 
get better results from our admirable National 
