The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-25
NEW SALMON PRESERVE.

Fat One, and Too Far From Cities to Encourage Pot Hunters. It will be unexpected news to many sportsmea that the new Grand Trunk Pacific Railway is going to treble thhe available salmon fishing waters of the continent, says a Lachiae, Canada, cor respondent of the Washington Post.
 The news is gathered from the reports Of engineering parties who have been
 at work this winter surveying for the projected road.
 In one instance, the guide located cache of dried and smoked fish. The discovery that the fish was red salmon, fat and good, and apparently not long from the salt water when killed, ex- cited the curiosity of the chief engineer of the party. As a rule, landiocked sal- mon do not attain the size of most Of these fish and the lake beside which 1 they were hidden was a good two hun dred miles south of James River. Their
 guide, however, informed the engineers ] that the outlet of the river discharged
 from it was into the great salt water to the north. So, although their maps
 gave no inxIing of the fact, it was de- cided that some little branch, probably , of the Ablttbi River, had it's rise there abouts, and the fish they were suhsist-
 ling upon had come in by way of the
 great Hudson Bay. .. Another party sent out their Indian
 in hunt for food from kinsmen, rab-
 bits being scarce, and were: delighted when he reappeared with another red
 skin, dragging heavy load of, frozen salmon upon a toboggan. Thehse were fine fish, plump and good and
 full of spawn. In weight they ran from ten to twenty-five pounds. They
 were not of the steel head Pacific Ocean variety, which is supposed not to be @ sportsman's fish, since 1t re
 fuses to rise at flies. They were the
 true Atlantic fish, exactly similar to
 those which the engineer in charge of this particular party had taken on the
 Moosic and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the previous summer. sss
 It was evidently from the marks up- Ion them that they had been speared, probably while on the spawning beds. How they come to be so well presery- led puzzled the white men, until the Indian explained that in that latitude ithere are deep ravines where the ice never melts. Traditional caches exit which have been used for cold storage Iby certain families for years beyond humber. There are also deep clefts between rocks and other sequestered hooks where it has long been the GUS ltom to cover over the snow and ice Iwith brushwood to keep it for presery. ing food.
 In fishing through the ice the favor. lite fish taken by the several partie:
 was the gray trout, which in size ap lproached salmon. Monster specklet trout were common enough, though th' linen did not consider them to- be of tht same variety as those caught i'll tn lwaters of old Canada. One man wht Icaught a two pound salmon was as lsured that if he could come to tha lake in July he could get as many a
 he wanted of the same kind of fish, on
 lly bigger than he would care to carr.
 laway. His informant, gray old half
 breed, said he had conducted mission iary to the same lake late last sumnie
 land the missionary had taken with ; , fly more than fifty salmon in two .day'' lretaining none less than three feet si:
 inches in length. The lucky angler toll , his guide that this was his unyaryin rule as regards size. .1
 When the new rxASy is built tn lheadwaters of these north-fiowin rivers will be brought within compara . lively easy reach of anglers and a T the distance from market is. grea enough to prevent pot hunting, it likely that the fishing rights there wi
 be much more valuable than those i t the waters now available. which ar D mainly those tributary to the St Law 0 renee, where there is easy access t large cities. .# t' Q