Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-06-15
Third District.


character as that is as dangerous a
powder house and worse charaete
than Jesse James or Rubs Burrow
dared to be for they never would stool
so low As to trespass on public or pri
vate property which was intended foI
the worship of God. If you need ms
to step down there and do a nice littl,
piece of detective work for you art
find out who it was that did that low
down, dirty crime, just let me know
in due time and / will show You all in
few hours just who the gentle sin.
ner is that ruined that organ, and af-
ter | get thru with the case it will be
in fine shape to pass over to the next
grand jury at Jasper. | know that the
better element of the people of Caro-
line Chapel will not lay down on such
dirty conduct
The fishing business throughout this
part of the country is an entire failure
this year from start to finish. ] want
to say just one word along the line of
the fish law. OF course it is like the
dog law as far as Marion County is
concerned. Our people do about as
they please in regard to fishing l see
the law and statute books say it is a
misdemeanor to fish with dynamite or
any explosive of any kind, or gig,
trap, seine, net or grab, but yet l see
some of the best of people and fully
acquainted with the law, go right to
the brook and seine all day long, and
some are using a number of nets, too,
and yet they know it is in strict viola
ton of the law. If some poor, unfor
tunate victim happens to get too much
tea and gets little booty, then some
of the same parties ride him bug
hunting for public drunkenness, but
nobody rides the fisherman that breaks
the law. What brings about the dis
tinction between the. two characters
They are both violators of the law,
but see here, one is in business and he
is above reproach' by some. They say
whatever example he sets before the
people is not criminal and don't say
anything about it. Well, l won't say
any more. l wouldn't this time, but
wanted to say few words to the leg
islature to enact law on another
point as fish preserver. We want to
especially call the attention of the leg
islature to enact law to prohibit any
and all saw mills from locating saw
mills on running streams and dump
ing saw dust in the same and make it
a misdemeanor and fine of $50 and
all cost and damage that may arise
therefrom, and on second offense i'm
prisonment for from go to 80 days in
the work house at hard manual labor,
for tell you, readers, as one who is
dear lover of the fish creation, and
one who by experience has thoroughly
investigated what has brought about
the shortage of fish in our small
streams in the valley, is because there
are so many saw, mills located on these
small streams where fish heretofore
Matched and accumulated by millions
and filed our creeks, rivers, ponds and
lakes to their utmost capacity. I'M
mense quantities of saw dust from red
and white and chestnut oak timbers
are cast into the stream and the saw
mental to the fish creation, and the
is it has just about killed
out all the fish up and down the Val
ley. l have seen some streams up here :
colored nearly as black as ink that
heretofore were noted for their good
FISK ing qualities, and people went for !
miles around to pitch tent at these
streams and have good fishing sport, |
but now there are no fish to be found :
in them. On one little stream up here !
there we're located three saw mills last l
year, and the water was black with
alkali The result is that there are no }
fish in that stream. The saw dust !
killed out all the young brood and \
drove the larger size down to purer '
water where they could live. The fish
cannot live in pool of tan bark ooze
you we'll know, neither can fish stay
and live any length of time in
stream full of saw dust. There are
of questions asked daily as
TO what has got wrong with this !
country concerning the fish shortage, u
and have given my experience and h
free. am ready to be
criticised SO let me have your opinion =
and views on this subject. l am not \
making any fight against any saw mill
but do make kick when
hey are slaughtering all the fish all
,ver our country and probably don't
Know that they are the cause of it.
Let the legislature pass law prohib-
ting any and all saw mills from be-
ng operated on running streams and
lot dump and carry saw dust into the
treams, and thus preserve the fish of
ur country from this deadly poison,
or it destroys more fish than all the
dynamite and powder explosions and
rigs, seines, traps, etc, that ever
AVE been used by the inhabitants of
ne country.
What has become of some of the old q
vriters of tho Nawa T fail IN see n