Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-01


you haven't and are a lover of the
speckeled beauties all other ex-
periences will be cast in the shade if
you go to the Nepigon properly
equipped. Where is the Nepigon? 1t
is one of the largest and swift4st
trout streams in the world and flows
from Nepigon Lake from the north
| into Nepigon Bay on the north shore
of Lake Superior about 70 miles east
| of Port Arthur, Ontario. The river
| is a protected stream and is now
within a great forest reserve or
Canadian national park and game
preserve which also includes Lake
Nepigon, body of water fifty miles
wide and eighty miles long, with
countless islands and high, rocky
promontories not unlike portions of
the north shore of Lake Superior.
Numerous streams fed by smaller
lakes, flow into this great reservoir,
the only outlet of which is the
Nepigon river In high water a
I veritable torrent rushes down this
natural water course, now through
deep gorges, then into small, some
times quite large lakes and then
through comparatively level stretches
Of woodland-birch, poplar, spruce
and tamarac with an occasional
maple or ash to give additional glow
Ito the panorama that presents itself
at every turn of the river when the
frost has touched the autumn leaves
It was to this resort-the ambition
of many years-that Secretary OF
State E. F. Porter, Chairman L. B
Hanna of the republican state com
mittee, Wesley J. Moorish of the Page
state bank and Editor M. H. Jewell
of the Bismarck Tribune betook them
selves the second week in August fol
a couple of weeks outing.
| A part of day and a nights ride by
rail from Bismarck to Duluth, day
and nights ride ON the Booth line
steamer America, Capt Hector
brother of Martin Hector of Fargo, to
Port Arthur, a couple of hours ride
on the Canadian Pacific to Nepigon
station, LIS miles in birch bark canoes
and 100 miles by small tug across
Lake Nepigon and back, with six In
dams including a guide and a cook
with fine weather, good fishing anG
of this trip. Although a wild, unin
habited region, through a non-prod
uctive country with no signs of civil
ization except the old Hudson Bay
fur trading posts, one of them the
Nepigon House on Lake Nepigon
,, which is over 200 years old, it is MOI
rough or venturesome trip. 1t pre-
sents few obstacles and the natura
and convenient camping grounds a
distances from three to ten miles al
the way up the river and with numer
Gus portages of from hundred yard.
to two miles and half, where canoe!
and supplies have to be packed" b!
the Indians to get around falls ant
rapids too tortuous for navigation
, there is a variation that dissipate
: monotony, and adds charm to thi
region which is considered by ex
perts, the greatest anglers paradis
in the world. Here are ENCOUNTERED
fishing cranks from all over the world
and not infrequently three, four AM
half a dozen parties are encountered
1 going or coming-a veritable fioatin
fotilla of canoes. And now sine
the construction of Jim Hills ne,
trans-continental Grand Trunk roa
has begun this water course and LAX
Nepigon, that great body of waite
near the height of land" where tn
e streams flow to the northward, forr
y a natural highway for the transports
s ton of supplies and material for tn
e engineer corps engaged in that grea
l. enterprise-the most northerly of a
- II Aa1l W 1yo o4 ILL
s continent. Just now there are actiy
mineral explorations going on in thi
Iregion and away up in this northlan
s. the diamond drill is at work, unde
the guidance of representatives {
the United States steal corporation
s to latham the mysteries of the eartl
: iron, mica, copper, gold and othe
e minerals having been evidenced b
]. the upheavals and curious formation
dim this region. The timber IS ainaoi
/ worthless, although some spruce an
iscrub pine may some day, with tran
q portation facilities, have some markt
d value. There are no wagon roads
u all this region, and no horses or oxel
e itbut with streams and lakes eyer
# where, with good trails and portage
# canoe transporta tion i'd comparative
q easy and in the winter season dc
+ teams make very good substitat
for other beasts Of burden" and a