Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-11-14
M 7 8 Q Ell L A N Y
The Caledonia Trout Pond.

One of the greatest curiosities in
Western New York-we may almost
say one OF the greatest in the world
is the trOut-breeding establishment OF
Seth Green, in Caledonia, Livingston
county, to which we paid a brief visit
last week. His house and ponds are
on the border of the stream called the
Caledonia Springs, which flow in vast
volume of the purcst water from Il
small hollow in the village OF Caledo-
MIA, and after a course of mile unites
in the village of Mumford with Aliens
Greek, one of the tributaries Of the
Genessee The country through which
it flows is thickly settled, and one of
| the richest and best farming towns in
the State. The surface of the land is
| quite level, with banks but little above
the surface of the water. The stream,
in places, is very rapid, and in others
has gentle current of mile or more
per hour
The springs as now situated cover
about six acres, being damned slightly
for mining purposes. They afford
ond, and make a creek from three to
four rods wide, and from eighteen
! inches to six feet deep, according to the
| current. The bottom is covered with
small white shells and gravel The
water is clear, pure and perfectly
transparent, SO that any object can be
seen for three or four rods very dis
| tinctly. It's temperature at the springs
is forty eight degrees the whole year
round, but down the creek, three-quar-
ters Of mile, it rises in the hottest
days in summer to fifty-eight degrees
by night, but it is down in the morn.
ing to fifty-two degrees. In winter ii
settles at times to torty-three degrees
but generally keeps up to forty. five OF
forty six degrees. The temperature o
the water to Aliens Greek is very ever
the year round, but very cold in sum
mer and quite warm in the winter
never freezing in the coldest weather
The water through the whole length
of the creek, as we'll as every stone
stick, weed and blade of grass, is alive
and literally covered with numerou
| luSCCbS anu do VI nISS, suHlIltE ant
winter so that the trout, however M
merous they are, easily obtain all tn,
food they want at all times of the year
There is but very little surface waite
that makes into the creek, hence tht
volume of water is very even. Th,
first settlers of the country found tn,
creek literally filled with trout of grea
size and beauty, and it has remaine'
so to this day, Notwithstanding it ha
been almost constantly fshed, night a
we'll as day, from that time to this
, The largest and finest trout are takel
: in the evening with a large al tificia
:: white or gray miller.
The number Of trout in this stream
of mile in length is compared at uI
wards of 100000, the largest of whic
: are each four or FIVE pounds in weight
: About 1000 pounds of trout are ta kcI
a from the creek yearly. Mr.. Ainswortt
t of West Bloomfield, TO whose exceiler
article published in the Tribune las
winter we are indebted for these sta
tistics, says that on the 18th of Decen
ber, 1865, be took with the fly hur
L dred and ten fine trout In about thre
4 hours, and on the next day took eigf
}. ty five splendid fellows from one place
| These trout, he says, were as tat, az