The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-31
WHICH WINS, BARNS OR TROUT?
TAXPAYERS or CALEDONIA. y. y,
CUSS THE FISH COMMISSION.

TAXPAYERS or CiJEUVNIt, ". y,
! CUSS THE FISH COMMISSION.
You Men Get Your Barns on Our Brook.
Says the Commission To the voters--('an
Trout Vote Does II Pay Taves:
Barn Owners Inquire OF tho Wide World.
CALEDONIA, N. Y, May II The New
York State Fish Commission has ordered
that all barns and outbuildings along
Brady's Brook, stream feeding Spring
Creek, which supplies the States big trout
hatchery here, he moved. The Commits
sioners say that the buildings are nuisances
and endanger the lives OF the fish which
they are trying to propagate Many
Caledonia people take different view OF
the matter. They say that trout are q
nuisance when they interfere with mems
barns and that the Fish Conaniss!an csn
60 to thunder with its fish. They also
allege that trout eat angle worms and
other dirty things. and as for the men who
are employed at the hatchery and have
got to drink the water. why. they are work.
ing for the State, it's argued, and must
drink what the taxpayers give them. Be-
sides, fishermen here say the trout in Spring
Creek haven't been hurt any by sewage
In the past and are, II anything, finer trout
than can be found anywhere else. One
local sport, who signs himself Justice
writes to the town paper:
Il take this opportunity Of sending you
few lines to express my mind on the sub
feet that everybody is interested in; that
Is, liberty. Are we living in free
State? Do we own the land We bought
and paid for? If not. why not' l am
referring now TO those Fish Commissioners
issuing such an outrageous order compelling
us to stop using that nasty little ditch as an
outlet and sewer. Why, the people below
have always used the water at the Snapp
and Conner springs And the people
at the fish ponds don't look unhealthy.
They have always drunk it, and while
they have complained once In while they
had no right to-they are at work for US
and must take what we give them.
-The idea Of their finding fault with us
because we have outhouses located over
their drinking water sources! 1t is down
right shame and disgrace that these Off
man when he is on his own property |
for one am willing to put, up my. share and
hire lawyer to fight them. Yes, fight
them to the death! Let us force those fish
men to drink our :, sewage as they always
have some good friends at Geneseo Geneseo
is the county seat Of Livingstonl who will
help us in this matter. and what they say
to the Governor goes; l don't know but
at once. Have tho Governor fire the whole
durn shooting -match for insulting us and
warn tho people at tho fish ponds to take
their medicine and stop kicking or they
Perhaps this letter isn't wholly sincere.
The Brady Brook is about a half mile in
length. 1t starts from a big spring right
out Of tho limo rock in Jim Boylan's cellar,
near Main street. Butter and other destruct-
but the Commissioners don't object much
to that. The surface sewage Of Main street
empties into the stream, near the source,
back Of Smith Bros blacksmith shop.
and henyards near the head. Trout have
been known to come up to the spring of
their own accord when the creek was so
dirty with the sewage from tho street that
being lgs. injured by the drainage they seemed
John Pullyblank's livery barn, also, is
on the their. stream m He He washes the n. mud on "
cleans up his barnyard. Fred Days beer
cooler and his henyard, which are about
half way down the stream, also have got
other places near the foot Of the brook
orders will have to be attended to.
The Commissioners are taking extraor-
Of oint IL spids%io xhioh ocoSrre e: among
the fish In Spring Creek four or five years
ago At that time they lost more than
half the fish in the ponds and in the other
hatchery wa. badly crippled It is thought
that the epidemic was caused by polluted
water entering the creek from rnillpond
above, and ever since the Commissioners
They have expended 5000 in acquiring
land and water rights to the mllpond 80
that the water may have an uninterrupted
flow from the springs to the creek. and In
The creek on which the hatchery is IL only
about mile long, but it is one Of the finest
trout streams In the country. varying
only few degrees in temperature In winter
s and nng +. The The. entire ags is pro-
It. The hatchery, which 10 the one started
by Seth Green. is said to be the largest
trout hatchery in the world.
There is no love lost between the Fish
mans. The Fish Commissioners come up
here and fish on the States property, and
the local anglers, although the stream is
sort OF Caledonia institution, are outside
and muck and drop line on the sly.
But the Fish Commissioners, the local
sports contend, haven't any more right
to hsh on the State property than other
eat the States fish. Caledonians say. and
in the opinion Of some they don't contribute
any more toward the support Of the States
fish interests than the Fishermen here do.
So, what with the aggra walton Of not being
allowed to ash on It's own stream and Of
being Obliged to move ia buildings SO that
others may enjoy the sport and 80 that
fish may be raised TO stock foreign streams,
- l. - ~
equity Of th'ngs.
The reports published recently that
local anglers 'guddle" for their trout
that is tickle trout on the belly and catch
them in their hands-is emphaticaly de-
MED by everybody here who knows any
thing about fishing.
RETURN OF THE CRAWLING.