Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-06-02
GRAND LAKE STREAM. May 2s, Is

GRAND LAKE STREAM, May 2S, 1888.
The ROUTE AND THE Place.
To the Editor of the kenaebec Journal;
Outside or aside of those that love to least
their lines in pleasant places" how many of
your readers know where misplace is? Take
the p. M. train in Augusta and the next
morning at 3 o'clock the cars will roll you
into ST. Stephens, N. b., which is on the
opposite side of tie river from Calais, and
connected by bridge the same as the east
and west side of Augusta are connected. The
east side at Augusta always reminds me OF
the English side from the similarity to the
situation of Calais and St. Stephens. Two
hours after your arrival the cars leave for
Princeton, 20 miles distant. From this
point you can go at once by slow gong
steamer, that connects with the train, which
10 used for towing up freight boats, or by an
Indian canoe which can be obtained at this
place, or by an express across the Indian
township. This water conveyance takes you
across Lewys Lake, Long Lake, part of the
Indian settlement at Peter Dennys point,
and Big Lake, IL miles in all, to the foot of
~
Englishman, resides. He will immediately
take you and your luggage in strong ex-
press cart over the remaining three miles at
n walking gait to the dam of Grand Lake.
This 10 the headquarters of the land locked
salmon here 10 where you obtain your guide
and canoe to take you up the lake, where
they, the salmon, do mostly dwell here the
Shaw Bros. have built the largest tannery in
the world, directly on our old fishing and
camping ground. Here you will find quite
town built up about this mammoth tannery
and boarding houses where you can obtain
good accommodations while casting your line
with your eight OF. rod Gin pleasant places"
The FIsHINe AFFECTED RI THE TANNERr.
When the branch railroad was building
from the Central Pacific to Salt Lake City.
some one asked Brigham Young what effect
the road would have upon the saints. His
reply was that /" it was poor religion that
could not stand one railroad" The land
locked salmon are quite unlike the Mormons
they cannot stand one tannery. Originally
the 6shing bordered on slaughter, the num-
Der taken with the fly at times being so great;
now, one must be satisfied to fish all day for
HE Ave or ten fish instead of his forty to
eighty. And were it not for the government
Matching houses, where our townsman, Mr..
Atkins, 10 doing good work in Matching the
eggs artifcially and keeping up n supply of
young 6sh. the taking Of these game fish, the
land-locked salmon. would soon be known
only ~ . pleasure of the past The weight
Of the full grown fish is about three pounds
some are taken weighing as high as four and
four ard one-half pounds.
The LAxp-LocKKp SALMON.
The lake trout is quite plentiful here also.
The Indian name for it is togue, by which
name it 10 generally known. The land-loc
ed salmon were originally called by the ma
tives sinner" after that salmon trout. :"
But they are pure salmon in every particu-
lar. and undoubtedly originally were sea
salmon, but by some convulsion Of. nature
they got locked in the lakes and became ac-
cuatomed to live entirely in the fresh water
losing in size but retaining the characteristics
Of the larger fish, the sea salmon, that visits
our rivers every summer.
ABour LAKE Trout.
These lake trout belong to the same family
of nsh, and are found in all our large lakes,
but are often known by different names. In
Chamcook, near st. Andrews, N. B., there is
. lake of that name, in which is caught fish
known as the Chamcook trout. have seen
them ~ large as thirty to forty pounds in
weight. In Grand Lake they have been
caught quite as large. and are called
foRue (the Indian nancy In other lakes
west they are called by different names. but
they are all lake trout. or ''lakers." They
all evidently belong to the same family.
LARoEsr TANNERr IN THE WORLD.
said that this tannery was the largest in
the world. From all the information I can