FOREST AND STREAM LETTERS 
MEETING OF AMERICAN 
FISHERIES SOCIETY 
P RESIDENT Wm. C. Adams, of the 
* International Association of Game, 
Fish and Conservation Commissioners, 
is urging all of his members to be pres¬ 
ent and get acquainted with the Amer¬ 
ican Fisheries Society members at the 
coming meeting to be held at St. Louis, 
Mo., on September 17th, 18th and 19th. 
At this meeting the scientific and prac¬ 
tical men are going to discuss that which 
is uppermost in their minds in a round¬ 
table informal talk on informal sub¬ 
jects. This will be followed by lantern 
slides with short talks on conservation 
of fish and game by prominent mem¬ 
bers. A few 15-minute talks will be 
made on some of the topics of to-day 
and to-morrow. 
Arrangements have been made to 
house the Society in the Hotel Statler, 
where we may all be under one roof 
and have the advantage of the best 
service and an excellent assembly room. 
Our tentative program with a list of 
subjects and contributors will be issued 
about September 1st. Remember our 
slogan: “Let’s go.” 
NEW ENGLAND FIELD 
TRIALS 
'T'HE New England Field Trial Club 
* will hold its annual field trial and 
dog show at Cataumet, Mass., on Oc¬ 
tober 11th and 12th. The grounds are 
located on the main highway to Cape 
Cod about 75 miles from Boston. The 
Terrace Gables at Falmouth Heights 
will be the headquarters of the trials 
and there ample accommodations will 
be found for visiting sportsmen. 
This year membership stakes only 
will be run: puppy, derby and all-age. 
The dog show will be for trial entries 
only. Aside from the usual cups offered 
by the club, there will be special prizes. 
The New England Field Club is gain¬ 
ing ground by leaps and bounds and 
their future trials bid fair to be the 
shooting dog classic of America. 
Further information may be had by 
addressing: 
Vinton W. Mason, Sec., 
Cambridge (39) Mass. 
STANDING THE TEST OF 
TIME 
CPORTSMEN of Yankton, South Da- 
^ kota, were interested a few weeks 
ago in the tests of some old Du Pont 
powder which had been recovered from 
a hiding place where it had lain for 
35 years. In 1888 a group of lively 
boys in that town had raided a mag¬ 
azine on the outskirts to obtain powder 
for a small cannon with which they in¬ 
tended to celebrate the Fourth of July. 
One of the boys, Will Bordeno, after 
using part of the powder stored it in a 
barn and then before the next Inde¬ 
pendence Day rolled around, his family 
moved to Kansas City, Kansas. Bor¬ 
deno returned to the old home town 
this summer and searched for the 
powder which he had hidden so many 
years ago, and recovered it. The in¬ 
cident created considerable comment. 
The powder was tested and pronounced 
“as good as ever.” 
The powder had a historic interest 
because it was believed to be some of 
a consignment sent out in old frontier 
days. It was packed in one-pound cans 
and pictures of buffaloes and Indians 
adorned the labels. The cans bore the 
inscription: “Du Pont Superfine H. F. 
Gunpowder, Wilmington, Delaware, 
1859.” 
Dean D. Gross, a hardware dealer of 
Yankton, stated in regard to the 
powder: “I have one of the one-pound 
cans of powder mentioned as having 
been hidden in the old barn and can 
verify the statement that it is in ex¬ 
cellent state of preservation. In fact, 
I would take it for new powder. It is 
FFF rifle powder of which considerable 
quantities were used in this section of 
the West at that time.” 
The cans were of the screw type top 
and when found were very rusty, but 
age had not deteriorated the material. 
Remington .30 Springfield 1906 Hi- 
Speed, with the new Remington Mush¬ 
room Bullet weighing 110 grains, de¬ 
veloping a muzzle velocity of 3,500 foot- 
seconds, a muzzle eenrgy of 3,000 foot¬ 
pounds and the flattest trajectory of 
any game cartridge, no matter what its 
caliber. 
The mid-range trajectory of the bul¬ 
let when fired at 200 yards is 1.8 inches; 
at 300 yards 4.5 inches; at 400 yards 
8.9 inches. The accuracy range of this 
cartridge is between 700 and 800 yards. 
At 200 yards, groups of approxim¬ 
ately 3 inches and under in almost any 
rifle may be expected from this speedy 
cartridge. 
In the entire list of game cartridges 
and of the military small arms cart¬ 
ridges of the world there is no bullet 
developing the terrific speed of this 
latest Remington Game Cartridge. 
Therefore, combining speed, killing 
power and flatness of trajectory in a 
popular game caliber for use in any 
rifle chambered for the regular Gov¬ 
ernment .30-’06 cartridge, medium and 
big game sportsmen now have for their 
consideration the most modern and 
latest of game cartridges. 
THE FASTEST CARTRIDGE 
IN THE WORLD 
'T'HE Remington Arms Company, 
1 Inc., has just announced a new 
game cartridge for all rifles chambered 
to take the .30-’06 Government Cart¬ 
ridge. 
This new cartridge is known as the 
Dear Forest and Stream : 
C HOOTERS from coast to coast, who 
expect to attend the Grand Ameri¬ 
can Handicap at Chicago during the 
month of August, have requested the 
Ithaca Gun Company again to send 
Frank Knickerbocker, who is known to 
the shooting fraternity as “Nick,” to 
the Grand American Handicap to re¬ 
pair any man’s gun of any make and 
do the work free of charge. “Nick” has 
been the official repair man at the 
G. A. H., in fact this will be the ninth 
consecutive year that “Nick” at the ex¬ 
pense of the Ithaca Gun Company has 
repaired a gun for any shooter who 
had gun trouble at the G. A. H., and if 
there is ever a time when a man needs 
his gun fixed up in a hurry it is when 
something happens to it in the middle 
of an important race. The Ithaca Gun 
Company is only too glad to help the 
trapshooting game by complying with 
the request of several hundred shooters. 
Ithaca Gun Co. 
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