The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-13
GRAFT THAT FAILED.
Paretic No. 29's Private Trout
Stream Ruined Just When
It Was Best.
Envious Cousin Brings to Naught
the Scheme Evolved by a
g. Brilliant Mind.

Speaking of flshing,' said Paretic No.
1s, when the Paresis club assembled the
week following Paretic No. EOS narrative
Of the loaded bass, some Of you people
who like to make record catches should
have tried the trout fishing on my private
stream in Wyoming
Paretic No. 1G ordered another round
and then got busy with his story, while
No. 20 took pity and settled with the
waiter.
TN the early nineties.'' continued No.
16, i conceived the idea of establishing
a private trout stream, which would pro-
vide good fishing all the year round. The
place selected was in Wyoming. as I
said, just outside the Yellowstone reser-
walton. There was little stream there
which was so full of trout in the summer
time that they would actually fight to take
a hook. 1t occurred to me that there was
a fortune for any man who would provide
some of these wealthy anglers with a place
for winter fishing, and / thought had
found the way.
I bought up strip of land a mile long
on each side Of the stream and built a big
inn on one bank, just about the middle
OF my land. Land was cheap there just
then, and the strip didn't cost much. Then
I built shed, about five hundred yards
long, which spanned the brook, each side
being about twenty yards back from the
nearest bank The walls at each end of
the shed came down to the waters edge.
1.-THE next problem was to keep the
stream open during the winter, for Wy
oming winters, as you know are the gen.
uine goods. L had solved this problem,
however, before 1 started to carry out my
scheme. About a mile and a half from my
stream, just inside the reservation, was g
little geyser, but one which thought
would be quite large enough to answer my
purpose.
IT tapped this geyser with a six-inch
pipe, and laid the pipe eight feet under
ground thru the country between the gey-
ser and my trout stream. The pipe was
protected from the cold by thick layers
of paper, and whether you know it or
not, paper is the best conductor OF
heat there is. I had no fear that any
heat would escape from that main. When
the pipe reached the stream, I turned ii
into the stream, just a little way above
the upstream end OF the shed.
1.-THE result was just what expected
That hot water come pouring thru
the pipes into the stream, and when the
brook came down thru my shed the water
was about 45 degrees, Fahrenheit, JUS
the temperature a trout likes. My shed
was a substantially built affair." with
double wall, the space between filed Will
earth, 50 that it never got very cold II
there. ".
''All thru the winter not a bit Of ict
formed upon the stream, and it never wa!
cold enough in the shed to bother fish
erman, especially since there was no wind
Was it a success? My boys, the way tn
trout swarmed to that little warm batl
had provided for them was only equalet
by the way the milionaires from north
south, east and west swarmed to my I'M
to pay four prices for the privilege O
catching fish. There never was such fish
ing known in the world. E
"For miles up and down that stream thu
trout spread the news of the comforts O
my stretch of water. On a Particular.
cold day you could see them comm,
in perfect schools from up and down tn
brook A bunch Of big fellows would rae
in. side UP close to the intake pipes, tax
off the chill of the water outside, an
then swim lazily off to some deep hole
where they would lie and wave their fin
with an expression Of perfect content
There was. lots of fighting among them
for there were moro trout than there wa
room for, and consequently only the big
gest ones could get in. That of cours
made it all better sport for my boarders
In the two years ran my winter resor
think there was hardly a trout take
that weighed less than three pounds, an
monsters of seven and eight pounds wer
not uncommon.
"Once in a while some young and reck
less trout would get too near the 1ntak
pipe, and when the hot water struck hi
his fins would CURL up, and he would tur
over and come floating down the stream
have often picked boiled trout right OF
Of the water. ...... ....
"And talk Of fishing made easy. A
my milIionaires had to do in the mornir
when they wanted to fish was to step o,
of the door Of the inn, inside the shed,
to the bank, and throw in a line. They a
ways got strike inside three minute
and then they would have anywhere fro
fifteen minutes to three-quarters Of q
hours sports with the fish. I had vel
small but very select company, and
never allowed more than four to GsA
q time, two on each bank. A man cou
catch one fish, and then he would yield
the next. Usually one would get ten
twenty trout day, according to the tin