The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-01
biggest CLUB ON EARTH.
FISH AND GAME ASSOCIATION IN
QUEBEC WITH 10000 SQUARE
MILES OF PRESERVES
FRESH WATER SALMON ABOUND
RObervaI, at Lake ST. John, Is the
Club Headquarters-Memb
ship to Be Limited TO
5000.

elites In the world of field sports Is the
announcement of the formation of a new
fish and game club for northern Canada,
which is to be the biggest thing of the
kind on earth The largest concession CT
crown lands ever granted a fish and game
club in Canada has been allowed the Ro-
berval Fish and Game association. be-
cause of the remarkable projects it has
on hand for the propagation and protec-
ton of fish and game.
While not exactly the moving spirit of
the association. the Earl of Mimic, Can
ada's governor general himself a noted
sportsman. is the head or patron, and Sir
Wilfrid Laurler and Mr.. 7. G. Shaugh-
nessey, president of the Canadian Pacific
railway. are among the original men,
bers. Put the bulk of the membership
will, no doubt, be composed of American
sportsmen, for, like Mr.. vanderbilt and
the late Billy Florence, many of Amerl-
ca keeneSt sportsmcn do mucf Of their
angling in Canada. This is true of w. H.
de Forrest, Dean Sage, Brent-Good, the
Rev DR.. Van Dyke, the Rev DR. Rains
ford, Bishop Potter, Senator Platt r. b.
Roosevelt, J. ]. Hill, OF st. Paul; Carter
Harrison, of Chicago; a. N Cheney, DR..
Lewis Rutherford Norris and many
others.
One Of the remarkable features of the
now club is the enormous extent of ter
ritory controlled by it-exceeding, so 1t
is said, $4,000 square miles, so that 10000
sportsmen might visit 1t all at once and
yet have a square mile Of country apiece
to fish and hunt In.
Pest of all, the club controls all the best
of the waters in which the far famed
ouananiche, or fresh water salmon, of
Lake st. John can be found. This is the
wonderful game fish of the north that
has puzzled anglers and ichthyologisis
alike. 1t combines the sporting and fight
ing qualities of trout and bass At
times 1t tugs and runs out the fisherman's
line like a monster trout. At others it
leaps repeatedly out of the water when.
struck with the anglers hook, turning
complete somersaults in the air and
causing the anglers heart to leap into his
mouth These fish are taken in the Wild
est OF rapid water, and usually from
birch-barl1 canoes, kept right side up in
the water by the skill of couple OF In
dian guides. Ichthyologists have worried
and argued over the classification Of this
beautiful tackle-smashing variety of the
salmonidae and have finally come to the
conclusion that it is not land locked
member of the great salmon family, as
was at first supposed, but that It repre-
sents the progenitor of all the salmons.
It's near cOngener, the salmon of the
sea- inhabits just such waters as those in
which the ouananiche is found, and the
Roberval Fish and Game association has
decided to add to it's possessions the
largest and richest salmon fishing prop
erty in the world which is to be Great ted
Gus of the thousands Of miles Of available
rivers and streams upon its preserves
The nrst plant Of young salmon from the
hatcheries of the Canadian government
has already been made in some Of these
waters and the young 1sh are ] rogress-
Ina splendidly These plants are to be
largely Increased. for the association has
now hatchery Of its own and others are
to be established, Salmon rivers COM
mand enormous pric "a and as there are
now no more TO be Dwight or leased the
members of the new club will make them
for themselves.
Genuine sportsmen of the angling va
riety are not much in the habit Of specu-
lating in their faVOrite amusement, but
As membership in some of the swell sal
mon 81 ubs costs thousands OF dollars, it
Is perhaps pardonable on the part of
members of the. new Canadian organiza-
ton to look for largely Increased value
Tor their present $500 membership shares.
K0DerVal, at Lake st. John, is the club
headquarters of the association, and the
club house will accommodate three hun
dred members. So viii the largest of the
passenger steamers on the great lake Sc
cured for the use of the association.
What adds much to the attractiveness
OF the club in the eyes of SpoTtSmen
and lovers of nature, who delight in vet
ting as far a S possible from cfViliZa ton
is the fact that while the outer edge
of the clubs preserve fringes upon par
italy settled territory and is touched by
existing means of communication in the
shape OF mountain railway and modern
steamboats,, its UnSurVeyed and unknown
northern boundary is the divide of
which the farther side faces the land of
perpetual snow, and that by far the larg-
est part OF the entife preserve has never
been tred by the foot of civilized man,
and is known only to the indian hunters
and trapperS and agents of the Hudson
Bay company Here the beaver builds
his dam in the retirement of the forest
and in many of the smaller lakes the
great trout that feed and fatten in the
ever coId sweet northern water have
never been introduced to the barbed
hook of the civilized angler.
The scenery of this north country is
exceedingly wild and beautiful almost
beyond comparison.
In addition to the fishing on the as
sociation's preserves moose caribou and
pear are abundant, while red deer are
SAID TO be so numerous that they are a
positive nuisance in the neighborhood IF
the sparse settlements on the southern
border. F"
The association or club, as it should
properly be called, was organized prin-
cipally through the efforts of H. j. BEEN
er a Canadian capitalist who has a fad
Tor doing things on big scale The two
pig hotels on Lake st. John, the Hotel
Roberval and the Island house both tba
property of Mr.. Beemer, are TO be turnad
INTO club houses. In the arrangement
made with Mr.. Beemer the association
VIII De relieved from assuming the risk