The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-02-07
Two Good Moves.

gotten up by the people of the western
part of the county and which were sent
here for the signatures of the people OF
Grand Mara1s and vicinity. One is for
the establishment of government fish
hatchery at the mouth of Cross river,
and reades as follows:
Honorable Page Morris;
Washington, D. @.
Honorable Sir:
We, the undersigned residents of
Northeastern Minnesota, many of whom
are fishermen, do respectfully request
that you use your influence and good
Offices to have the government establish
fish hatchery at the mouth Of Cross
r1ver, in the county of Cook, MINI.
Many of us have pursued the fishing
industry on the North Shore OF Lake
Superior for from five to twenty years,
and it is our serious conviction from
observation and experience, that unless
hatcheries additional to the one at
Lester Park are established, the supply
of fish will soon be exhausted and the
fishing industry ruined.
While Cross river offers every desira-
bic requisite for a hatchery, there are
other points where hatcheries might,
and of q verify should, in time be estab-
lished, such as Poplar, Cascade and
Brule rivers, and numerous other nearly
as desirable points.
To many people fish are an important
article of food, and the protection and
fostering of the Same will assure to con-
sumers variety in the supply Of food
as we'll as having it's influence against
the moroply of the various sources of
food supplies.
The other is for the enactment of q
state law prohibiting the catching of
fish in Lake Superior between the 18th of
October and the LIST of December, and is
as follows:
To The Honorable, The Legislature of
The State of Minnesota.
Honorable Gentlemen:
We, the undersigned fishermen and
other residents of Northern Minnesota,
do respectfully petition your honorable
body that law be enacted at the
present session Of the Legislature pro-
hibitlng the catching of fish in Lake
Superior in any manner from the 10Th of
October to the last of November, each
year, for the following reasons: ;
The month of November is tho time OF
the spawning of the fish.
This will protect the fish and enhance
the increase thereof.
It will protect and upbuild the fishing
industry for the present and future
generations.
We believe that both these move
ments merit the support of our citizens.
The supply of fish has been diminishing
year by year and unless something is
done in the way of protection. and
replenishing the stock it will not be
long before the fishing industry of the
North Shore will be thing of the past.
The government hatchery at Duluth is
doing good work but it's territory is so
large that when It's product is distribut-
cd it amounts to but ''drop in the
bucket" With government hatchery
OF two on the North Shore, and state
law prohibiting the catching of fish dur
ing the spawning season, the fishing
business would soon develope into an
industry of no mean proportions and
would add materially to the commercial
wealth Of the North Shore. '. -,
We believe that both these petitions
will be effective if our people will but
take the trouble to see that their names
are placed upon them. < 1s*@.S !: X