The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-03-20
Letter from Mount Hood.

Mount Hood, March 5, l902.-Editor
Glacier; Talking to gentleman who
was one of the committee who planted
Eastern trout in Hood River and its
tributaries, he informed me the five
years was up whereby they were to be
protected. He said that last summer,
anxious to know how large they had
grown, and whether they still remain
In the stream in which he bad planted
them, which was Neal creek, he with
another person went fishing in Neal
creek. He caught numbers of native
trout, but not one easlerner did he see.
/ have seen quite number of trout
caught in Neal creek the past season,
in this section, which would be some
five miles further up than where the
other parties fished, but not an Eastern
trout was to be seen. have seen hun
dreds of trout caught In the different
forks of Hood river and Lake branch,
but not an Eastern trout has shown up.
A Mr. Bailey claims to have caught
two in the vicinity of the Van John
son place. AS there were some ten
thousand planted and they have re-
mained practically undisturbed by
man, the question arises, what has be-
come of them? Has our native trout
eaten them up, or has some of the con-
ditiOns of the water here destroyed
them? The fact that they were prop
agated East may have given them a
better education and more delicate
refinement of taste, and they refuse to
be allured by our ordinary confideIce
game called the ety." However the
case may be, the fact remains that up
to date they are gone, and the exper-
iment so far has proven q failure II
might be well If any are caught this
coming summer, that, if possible, they
be shown the Glacier for verification
and the fact published, as there may
have been more caught than the par
ties desired to tell.
curious incident happened here du-
ring the last snow storm. When NJ.
Dumas came here from California he
brought with him two California
quai!s. He kept them in cage, but a
year ago this past fall they got out Of
the cage and he saw them 10 more.
Imagine his surprise when passing the
cage at the time of the first of the
storm to tind the two old birds with
seven young ones trying to get back
into the cage. He opened the door and
they all marched in. 1t is needless to
say they were kindly cared for.
Relative to an ad appearing in the
Glacier about dogs chasing cattle, it
might be we'll to state few facts which
may save dog and cattlemen bit of
trouble aud expense. IL Is a curious
fact that the people of this district,
owning as most of them do 160 acres or
more Of land, have found 1t incumbent
upon them TO build their barns right
on the county road, and fail to provide
a corral for their cattle, but use the
county road in lieu thereof 1t seems
to have been the common practice
when some one else's cattle infringe on
the road rights of some one else, dog
is called and the intruders run off. II
might be well to call attention to the
fact that county roads are not cattle
corrals, neither are they pasture for
cattle. They are rights of way for pub
lie travel. No ones dog has right to
malieiously annoy another persons
cattle, but when 25 or 80 head of cattle
block the highway and a man comes
along with a dog which the cattle
promptly try to hook, and the dog
chews the cows tail, and the man who
owns the cows yells to the man to call
off his dog, and the man with the dog
yels for the other man to cali off his
cattle, why won't 1t be fun in court to
see who has the right of way? 1t may
be expensive to both parties trying to
prove which was right, the COW that
hooked the dog or the dog that bit the
COW, but it will be fun just the same to
the outsider and lawyer.
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