Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20

A FISH HATCHERY
One Will be Established Near
Here Soon
AN EXPERT IS in TOWN
And Says There is no Better Place
For 1t Than Irvine Lake owned
BY Conley & McTague.
Col. Tom McTague went to Helena
yesterday on prison business.
J. f. Hample of Helena, the wool and
hide buyer was here Yesterday.
George Pratt, Of the Rocky Mountain
Bell Telephone Co, Anaconda, was in
town today looking after his line.
A. Parker a cattle buyer from Helena,
is in the valley buying cattle for his firm.
He will find them scarce just at this time.
Henry Neill, of the Helena land office,
is in town and is looking after the inter-
ests of the department under the guild
ance CT Mayor Conley.
John Geerdts, merchant, rancher and
stock grower and capitalist is III W
from his rural possessions, enjoying a few
days at home.
Mrs. J. LedouX arrived from the east
Thursday evening and was met by Mr..
I1edoux who is employed at the Emery
mine, where they will reside in the flu
ture.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. j. LcdOux. Montreal,
Canada; Henry Neill, Helena; e. j. Car
ter, Missoula; Geo. Pratt, Anaconda; A.
Parker, J. r. Hemple, Helena are at the
McEurney.
Mrs. G. D. Joslyn was among those
who attended the State Sunday school,. as
ISOLATION in Anaconda this week, whose
name was unintentionally omitted from
the list of delegates already published.
DR.. Vaughn assisted by several other
base ball enthusiasts did some excellent
work on the grounds yesterday in pre-
paration for the game on for this after
noon, in which betting seems to be about
even.
The Deer Lodge fire department met
Thursday evening and decided unanf-
nlously to participate in the memorial day
exercises. It is desired that every man in
the service appear in full u inform, at the
engine house. at 9 O'Clock, a. m. on the
day preceding the day of celebration.
committee was appointed to look after
the proper recognition of the graves OF
dead fremen from this city.
George H. Ta1hert. an officer of ths
United States Fish Hatcheries. now sta
toned near Anacorda. gathering -spawr
from The trout in tha private reserves OF
Burt Vincent, wasin Deer Lodge yester-
day, and in company with Messrs. Frank
Conlcy and N. j. Bielenberg visited Irvine
Lake, now the property of Conley & Nc
Tague. In the opinion of Mr.. Talbert
Irvine Lake is one of the most inviting
places that he ever saw for the establish
ment of a fish hatchery.
I'm all my travels from Tennessee t,
the British line said Mr.. Talbert afte
returning to his hotel here. II think I new
err saw such a number of large trout II
any reserve as / watched today in II
vine Lake. 1 took thorough observation
of it's worth as a location for a hatcher.
and in my opinion it has few, if an,
equals in the northwest. The two small
er lakes above the one of which I speak,i
another great advantage as the differen
ages Of spawn can be planted to nue.
better advantage. During my visit I ha
the pleasure of watching a trout, amonI
many others, that was fully 20 inche
long. They are of a very fine variety an
are very game-the abundance of feed i
the lake probably accounts for the fac
of their Indifference to the. hook just now
Yes, I nave talked with Mr.. Conley abou
a fish hatchery and l think that by mex
season it will be in Operatio1l-at least
expect to visit here again, probably in 3
days."
Mr.. Talbert is a quiet, unassuming ger
tleman, attired in uniform and thorough
~ posted in his work. During his outin
yesterday Mr.. B~ielenberg landed a beat
tiful trout weighing three pounds and TIL
was exceptionally pleasing to him. I'll
trout can be seen in large numbers, BIT
for some reason they are slow to respOn
to a cast, but as Mr.. Talbert says there
too much feed in the lake for this time
the year. Messrs. B%ielenberg & Conle
arranged yesterday for 10O.0 900 your
trout, half to be placed in the small LAX.
above Irvine and the other half to I