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FORT’S ISLAND. 
ONE of the best known river characters in 
South Dakota is Eli Fort, who for a period of 
twenty-two years has received the greater part 
of his income from catching fish in the Missouri 
River, 
He is now the owner of an island, formed 
by the whirling waters of the river, which came 
into existence through the obstruction formed 
by the loss of some of his fish traps in the river. 
Fort states that thirteen years ago he lost three 
or four large fish traps at the point where his 
island is now situated. 
He expected to get good hauls of fish when 
he went to raise his traps three days after they 
had been placed in the river, but found they 
were so weighted down with sand that they could 
not be removed. Fort thought-it was all clear 
loss at that time, as he little dreamed that the 
loss of he traps would cause him to become the 
owner of one of the most valuable islands in 
the “Big Muddy.” 
A sand bar formed over the obstruction made 
by the fish traps and each year the sand bar 
grew larger. Finally cottonwood and _ willow 
trees covered the tract. The last four years the 
island, formed in this unique manner, has grown 
until the surface is now entirely above high water 
mark. 
Mr. Fort is of the opinion that he has after 
all been well paid for the loss of his traps. Some 
of the cottonwood trees on_ his trap-formed 
island have grown to such an extent that they 
are as much as five inches in diameter. 
The island is many acres in extent and doubt- 
less will each year continue to grow larger. Fort 
has seven acres cleared which he will put in 
crop the coming season. He is now devoting 
some of his attention to dealing in fruit and 
forest trees, and states that he expects to have 
twenty thousand living fruit trees on the island 
within the next four years. 
His island is located near American Island, 
one of the well known islands of the Missouri 
River. Should the action of the stream continue 
to add to his island as expected, Fort will be- 
come known as the Island King of Missouri. 
—Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. 

STURGEON IN THE FRASER RIVER. 
ACCORDING to reports from Vancouver, B. 
C., after having been almost entirely fished out 
a few years ago, the sturgeon are returning to 
the Fraser River. For the past six years, says 
the New York Fishing Gazette, the business 
connected with the curing and shipping of this 
fish and the preparation of caviar. has been prac- 
tically at a standstill, a condition brought about 
by the fact that in the old days there were no 
efforts made to protect the industry. During 
the past few days the sockeye fishermen have 
been troubled by finding a large number of 
small sturgeon in their nets. The law requires 
that those fish under four feet shall be returned 
to the water, and so they are probably, but in 
most cases it is after the fish have been clubbed 
to death in order to get them out of the nets. 
The fishermen say that it is because the sturgeon 
fight so hard on being brought into the boats 
and owing to their prickly spines, it is almost 
an impossibility to clear the nets of them until 
they are killed, or at least stunned until it is 
doubtful if they live after being returned to the 
water. All the fish so far taken have been, with 
one exception, far smaller than the average a 
few years ago, when a 500-pounder was a com- 
mon catch. Only one of these old-timers, about 
eleven feet long, has been taken. No so many 
years ago fortunes were founded on the Fraser 
River sturgeon by men who found a market 
for the fish and the caviar prepared from the 
roe. It is to be trusted that some means will 
be found to preserve the small fish now ap- 
pearing in the river until such time as there can 
be a revival of this old-time business. 

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