Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-25

Lady Evelyn lake, that the first lie
ferms. begiE. 10 appear eprti fled
4 cpustacea and minute marine cfea-
4 lures that swarmed the prehistoric
seas of Canada before the advent of
the first fish and long uncounted ages
before the earliest winged reptiles,
the ancestors of the hoofed and feath-
cred game that now abounds in its
woods.
All this is written in books of geol-
| ogy and can be read-with the help
of maps and Greek lexicon. But il
is written more indelibly in the coun-
/ try itself, in the rocks and lakes and
streams of this last wilderness.
Never was there such a land of
| lakes and streams The map of the
reservation looks as If it had .been
! splashed with bucket of quicksilver.
/ Lake Temagami has an area of a hum
dred square miles. It's twisting, writh-
| ing shore lihe is long enough, if pulled
out straight to reach from New York
Hafbor to Los Angeles. Yet this is
only one Of thousand lakes Lady
| Evelyn Lake, Bay Lake, Rabbit Lake
rand Nina Nipissing are replicas in
ininiature-and between all and bind
| ing them into comfortable fellowship
\ is a network of silver streams, empty
| ing into comfortable fellowship is a
| network of silver streams, emptying
| into one another, and finally into the
Montreal and ottawa rivers to make
their way thence to the st. Lawrence
| ana tie sea.
! SO close are the streams that the
| shortest route between two points is
always by canoe SO numerous are
the lakes that many still wait to be
named by the tourist who first dis
covers" them
The name Temagami is an Indian
word and means deep water" The
! lake was so called by the Oiibways
less because of its actual depth than
| because of its crystal clearness, which
renders objects visible frequently to
! the depth of thirty or forty feet
Many are the Indian tales and le-
| gions that have to do with this noble
body of water, the home of trout and
! bass and the haunt of duck and loon.
The whole land is full Of history,
too--not geological, but human On
rocky island, one of fourteen hun
! dred that dot the surface of Lake
Temagami, may be seen the remains
of an old trading post of the Hud-
sons Bay company. A hundred years
! ago this noSt was the KEY to the fur
| trade of the northwest Eastward lay
civilization. To the west and north
| stretched the realm of the mink and
sable, league upon league of unbrOk-
en- forest and plain to the banks of
! the Mackenzie and the shores of the
Frozen Sea But before that the coun-
| try was the hunting ground of the
! Ojibway Indians and the scene OF
bloody battles between them and the
Iroquois for control of the Mahamoo
| Sebee, or trade route of the Ottawa
river.
At the outlet Of Lady Evelyn Lake,
where the Montreal river gathers it.
self together for the wild rush over
the Matawabika Falls, a band of Iro-
quois braves dug trenches one day and
lay in wait for the Ojibways. When
a luckless party of these Algonquins
came down the stream to point OPP
poste the trench they were greeted
by a deadly flight of arrows. OF the
entire band but two escaped and made
their way back to their tribe on the
shores of Lake Superior there to
rouse their fellows to the campaign
that swept the Iroquois out of Onta-
rio and across the lake. That was two
! hundred and fifty years ago, but the
trenches are still there A hunting
party stumbled on them last fall and
shot 4 deer on the spot that had once
run with Oiibway blood.
The game laws of the reservation
are strict, but no stricter than those
Of Minnesota or Maine. Under the
protection they afford the moose and
caribou have increased In numbers
and the lakes now TEEN with trout
and pike and bass.
The moose are driven to the water
by flies in June, but the flies disap-
pear in July, and then the big ami
mails keep more to cover, but they can
be heard at night spashng and
coughing as they take their drink al
the lakeside. The open season fol
moose is from October 1G to Novem-
Der 15. inclusive The caribou are
more timid and harder to get. They
are thickest in the hilly country neal
Smooth Water Lake. The red deer
are found everywhere, south to Lake
Nipissng Bear are occasionally
met with, and the reserve Is a breed
ing ground for otter and beaver. but
the latter are protected until 1910.
Among the game birds that aDounc
i'm the woods and along the streams
are ruffled grouse. pine grouse, part
ridge wild geese. wood duck. mallard
blue bills, meTgansers and other water
fowl.
The small mouthed bass are very
gamey and some Of the lake trout
have been known to run as high as
forty to fifty pounds. IN fact the
land Is a veritable sportsman's para
disc, maintained by the government
for the benefit of the few who know
of 1t. The number of these Is grow
ing, and eventually the place will be-
come crowded each season, but as 1t Is
yet it is as wild as the hunters hear
could desire
TO the south and west the case Il
different. The gradual extinction OF
the game in some parts of the Rocky
mountains and the reckless fishing oi
the trout streams has led some of the