May 2, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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THE ARKANSAS RIVER. 
Replying to your question as to the possi¬ 
bilities of the Arkansas River being made a 
tourist stream, says B. F. Rockafellow in the 
Canon City Cannon, in all that term implies, 
would say without hesitation that I believe it 
can be, by simply stopping the dumping of one 
hundred thousand cubic yards of yellow clay 
monthly, from May to November, into the river 
by the Cache Creek placer flume, not only mak¬ 
ing the river unsightly, but unquestionably driv¬ 
ing the trout out during spawning season and 
keeping them out, as every one knows who 
lived in the valley formerly. 
When the Arkansas was a beautiful stream, a 
joy to enjoy, like the Gunnison, and other rivers 
that have their source in the same Continental 
Divide, it abounded with gamy trout, and our 
sportsmen, old and young, never thought of go¬ 
ing over the range to take speckled beauties. 
As a few of those who enjoyed our river in 
those days, will mention Porter S. Goodwin, 
now at Los Angeles, whom many remember, wha 
caught a great many trout, both above and be¬ 
low Canon City. A.t one time he brought in a 
wily king of the canon waters that had before 
taken two hooks from him and kept them in his 
gills as trophies until he tried the "‘three times 
and out” experiment. He weighed three and 
one-half pounds. Mr. Kline, whom Frank 
Bengley and others remember well, used to 
make the catching and sale of trout here quite 
a business. He at one time kept the Canon 
Hotel, and travelers were often treated at their 
morning meal with the luxury of speckled trout 
taken fresh from the water to the pan before 
his guests were out of bed. My father, who 
enjoyed and was, expert in taking trout, often 
caught them from First street to the Gorge, 
that weighed from one to three pounds, and 
never came home without a mess. 
Of course all the fishermen, scores of whose 
names can be given if desired, lost the “whop¬ 
pers,” but the fish are all gone now. It is an 
aggravation to consider how tamely the public 
have submitted to this outrage by a foreign 
company, and recent years by less than a score 
of men. We have an offer from a responsible 
party, who is familiar with former conditions 
along the river, and who takes a deep interest 
in the good looks of our river, for the general 
good of the country, that he will furnish a half 
million young trout towards restocking it if 
we succeed in stopping the pollution referred to. 
We believe legal action to stop the perpetration 
of the nuisance, and damage to all our interests, 
will be speedily commenced and result favor¬ 
ably. 
FLOODS SUPERFLUOUS. 
From the standpoint of those who know floods 
are superfluous. There is no more need of the 
periodical inundation of great areas of fertile 
land, the sweeping away of mills, factories, 
Railway tracks and residences, and the de¬ 
struction of lives by river overflows than there 
was need for water pouring, at every rain, 
through the roof of the patient native interro¬ 
gated by the Arkansas Traveler. The up-to-date 
man mends his roof before the rain comes. 
When, as a nation, we get up to date we will 
mend our river systems before the floods come. 
No informed man claims that forests alone 
will completely prevent all floods. The forest, 
however, is a potent factor in flood prevention. 
Reservoir systems, well understood by engineers, 
are other factors. Here, as "in the case of the 
roof and the pestilence above referred to, the 
remedy is incomparably less expensive than the 
disease. Which shall we have, asks the Ameri¬ 
can Forestry Association? 
DOG ADRIFT ON RIVER ICE CAKES. 
Frank Quarrell and Edward Hayes of the 
Street Cleaning Department saw a big black 
and white dog floating down the East River on 
an ice cake yesterday afternoon, howling dis¬ 
consolately. They threw a rope from the pier 
at Fifteenth street and drew the ice near shore. 
Quarrell held a ladder while Hayes descended 
to the cake of ice and rescued the dog.—Times. 
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