The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

tect them from the rowing, lawless In
dians, yet the fishes have increased in
numbers and furnish excellent sport for
anglers.
Under the act recently passed the
County Board of Supervisors have APP
pointed Frank A. Rowell Game and Fish
Warden. He is an old hunter and angler
and knows every part of the mountains.
Already he has appointed several deputies.
and the laws for the preservation OF game
will be enforced with vigor. Heretofore
the Indians have been in the habit of
weaving nets of brush and placing them
in the falls of the streams near their
rancherias. All but the very smallest tlsh
are caught, and the Indians destroy thou
sands that are too small to be of use.
The natives of the forest also destroy
great deal of game by means of trap and
gun; but now that the sportsmen have
united in a club they will be better able to
have the law enforced.
Already there are many varieties of
game in the mountains, and the Sports
mems Club is plann ing to introduce other
kinds. Mountain quail abound in certain
parts of the range and during the past few
years the little game birds have appeared
on the plains and now raise their young in
the vineyards and on the weedy ditch
banks. Doves also are found on the plains
and in the hills.
Coyotes, the destroyers of game, have
become scarcer, for when their scalps were
worth $5 apiece many hunters made
business of killing the animals. In the
foothills and on the borders of the county,
however, the hunter sometimes gets a shot
at one of those shy and cunning animals.
Badgers are seen more rarely than are
coyotes and they are even more difficult to
shoot, as the seldom leave their burrows.
A hunter will sometimes discover a
chaparral wolf in the foothills, but those
animals are not 80 bold nor so plentiful as
they were when the old-timers explored
the hills for gold.
Within a few weeks Fish and Game
Warden Rowen will receive 10000 young
trout, and these will be planted in the
larger watercourses, whence it is expected
they will ascend to the smaller streams.
Word has been received from the State
Fish Commission that other shipments
will follow this first one, and Warden Row
ell is confident that before many years
every stream of consequence will be
stocked.
Fish are expected also to ascend the San
Joaquin from its lower waters. Until very
recently their passage had been barred by
a dam across the river near Mendoza,
twenty miles below the railroad bridge on
the main line of the Southern Pacific. The
dam is an old one and was put in by the
great cattlemen Miller 81 Lux, who divert
part of the water out upon their land.
They had no screen to keep the fish from
being carried out with the water, and
thousands of them died on the land when
the water receded. A short time ago War
den Rowell insisted that ladder should
be put in at the dam, and now the fish
ascend it by hundreds. Gates will be put
in also to prevent the fish being carried
out to the land to die.
In different parts of the Sierras are lakes
of not incOnsiderable size. One OF these
is at the old Shaver & Swift sawmill on
Stevenson Greek. It was formed by build
ing long dam across one end of meadow.
The sheet of water is from two to three
miles long and from fifty to 200 yards wide
and is favorite resort for campers. In
rowing across it one finds, Just appearing
above the surface, the roofs and chlmneys
of log cabins built when the place was
green meadow, but abandoned when the
mill-owners backed up the waters OF the
ere elk and put in a water-wheel to furnish
power.
Five years ago the first fish were put into
the lake and three years later others were
planted They have thrived and now the
anglers who visit the spot find first-class
sport.
Along the course of the Kings, San Joa-
Quin and other rivers there are many
level stretches and deep pools only waiting
for fnny inhabitants. Sitting by one OF
these pools, Inc angler would De sur
rounded by some of the most sublime
mountain scenery in the world. Especially
is this true in the famous Kings River
Canyon, which is about eighty miles from
Fresno. There is excellent fishing, but the
long, hard climb into the canyon keeps
many pleasure-seekers away. Bierstadt
and other noted artists have painted the
great granite walls and the river that is al
most lost between them.
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and have thrived in their far-off stream.
Among the varieties to be introduced are
the rainbow, McCloud River, Tahoe and
fontinalis. Young black bass will also be
planted, and old anglers say they will do
well.
There is hunting of many kinds to be
had in the Sierra Nevadas. Back in the
pine timber are bear, deer, mountain lions
and other large animals. During the win
ter those beasts are driven down past the
sheep camps by the snow, but in summer
they must be sought for in their farthest