Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-29
STATE HOUSE.
Fishing Season Opening Up
All Over the State.
Compilation Of Census Figures Nearly
Completed by Labor Bureau.
Who Will Gov. Hill Appoint TO Christcn New
BaitIeship Maine?

The fishing season for 1901 is openine
up on the ponds and lakes and the
fshermen are collecting their tackle
ana striking off for the wilds This
season promises To be one of the great
est in the history of Maine. Letters of
inquiry from the most part from peon,o
who have never visited the State are
pouring into the office Of the fish and
game commission and Chairman Carrie
ton says that during all the time he
has been a member of the commission
he has never seen so much interest
manifest in fishing as this spring.
the guides are registering in lar~,r
numbers and earlier than usual and n
ruInher of them have already made
engagements. The conditions for sat
tsfactory catches of trout ana salmon
are first class III at least 100 lakes and
a thousand streams. About 200 900 fed
fish, hnSerlinSS. were placed. last fall
in the waters of Somerset. Piscataouis.
fenobsoot, AroOStook. Washington and
Hancock counties. The product of the
ha'cheries to Il Very large extent has
kept IN with the supply.
Though the ice is not yet ont of
Moosehead. il is we'll broken up and can
remain but a few days at the least.
The time generally set for the clearing
of the lake is May I. The outlool, for
4 successful fishing season at Moose
head is Very promising.
Nice-President Theodore Roosevelt
has been elected an honorary member
Of the DebsconeaS Fish ana Game club
and the guides and others living in the
vicinity Of Debsconeag lake. are pre-
p2 ring to entertain him. this summer.
as he has signtied his intention OF
visiting the camp.
In speaking Of the fishing outlook
and other matters. Commissioner l.. T.
Carleton says:
The building of large hatchery
With a capacity of a million fed fish
yearly. at MooSehead lake. provided
for by the legislature. can but have a
wonderful beneficial effect upon the
fishing in the waters of eastern Maine
AS soon as possible we shall locate
the place where this hatchery shall be
built and have it ready 20 receive eggs
at the spawning season next fall
The inland fish industry. so TO
! speak. is worth vastly more to Maine
, than the game. and both are of sutti-
| cient Importance to amply justify the
expenditures made by the State in this
direction. returning TO our people in
revenue millions of dollars annually.
| MAINE will continue TO be the great
vaca ton State of the nation. The con-
fitions and surroundings in different
parts of the State are so varied that
even the most fastidious cannot fail OF
being, suited. We have every grada-
| tiongof rustic beauty-beautiful rivers.
towering mountains and hilly districts,
broad valleys and level tablelands.
poHr{fous and thriving cities. rural
villages and the sombre. unbroken
+, wilderness.
| "For the great majority of city toll
ters who seek relief for Jared nerves
hand over-w wrought brain. physicians say
F.! there is nothing SO delightful or so
as the peaceful quiet and
E1aIre ozone of the woods and noun
ffains. In these days of rapid transit
sfhose having even moderate means and
1 limited time have learned that they
can leave the dust and toll of distant
cities behind them Of morning or
evening and in twelve, twenty-four or
th;rtv-six hours breathe the sweet
breath of the piney WOODS q
Maine above them. or iooN
out upon old ocean from her
| rock bound coast. and, looking up
through forest trees or ocean mist, de-
youtly thank God they are there