The daily gazette., 1879-06-07

man, Hon. Z. L. Martin, that II the gov
ernment was running . fish matching
troupe, would like to have some sal
mon and lake white fish, such - those
in Lake Erie. Congressman Martin
wrote me letter inclOsing one from
the superintendent of fish hatchihG, say
ing that neither salmon or lake white ASh
would be suitable, but that Z fab ffom
the Danube, q German fish, similar TO
carp, and q good pan fish would be
thought, be the very fish. l wrote back
to send them on, but no fish came.
After delay of about two months
wrote to Cong Tessman Martin FIR him 70
tell the fish superintendent at Washing-
ton that no fish hal come. I was tired
of waiting and to send me anything In
the way Of fish from bull-dozed min
now to q whale, and / would rather have
received q few sea serpenfs than have
been altogel her disappointed. waited
awhile longer and wrote again TO Mr..
Martin, and yesterday he sent me long
letter to him from the fish commissioner,
telling him that wanted salmon and
white fish, which would not SUIT; not one
word In his letter about the Danube trout
or suckers, but if wished salmon could
get the eggs from Oregon for S25 10 80
expressage besides other cost. Now u
salmon Is sent by the government to b
put in the Pocomoke, Nanticoke d Chop
tank that poke their noses into Delaware
and Maryland pine and Cypress swamp,
why will not salmon live in . cool mil
pond in New Castle county and pxss
| down out of that pond and through
Noxentown pond TO the Appoquinimink
creek, out of said Greet to the Delaware
where they can either 90 to sea or up the
Delaware to the mountain streams. f+
And as to lake white fish, Lake Erie pro-
duces the finest 1 have ever seen, and
Lake Erie is the shallow est lake with on
ly an average dept of 12O feet, and the
water in 1t during August and Septem-
Der is as warm as the mill ponds which
my property borders on. The fact il the
great blowing of going to stock the rivers
with fish is somewhat Q humbug and 1
am an old fogy, and take such blowing In
moderate doses. I thonght I would
make an experiment if it did not cost too
much, but do not propose 10 pay $25 to
$50 txpressage from Oregon, fr salmon
eggs, fix up a fish Matching establishment
and pay to have it run. va ,
believe, so far, there has been two
salmon caught in the Delaware, and /
think, two in the Chesapeake, and two
seals in the Delaware, and Chespeake
each. Now the question arises, as the
salmon and seals made there appearance
about the same time, did these fish
mongers bring them both together In
their tanks, from the Columbia river /?
or were the seals sent out by the heads OF
their families to watch out where these
r,vers were being stocked with salmon
Did these seals come the overland route
or via Behring's Straits, and the North
ern Ocean to the Atlantic or the Cape
Horn route think the heads Of any
OF the creeks in New Castle or Kent
counties, Delaware, are far better places
10 let loose salmon, than the Eastern
shore creeks or naDticoke river on the
Eastern Shore, for the heads of our
creeks are only short distance from the
Delaware. 8 y
Now, Congressman Martin, 1 am
much obliged 10 you and the very able
fish correspondent of yours in Washing.
ton, and close the application through
that channel for fish, but shall renew il
10 the Pennsylvania Commissioner whcE
: have time and feel like it.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend, June the 9th, 1879.