The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-05-04
WHAT FISH COMMITTEE
HAS ACCOMPLISHED

The fish and game department of
the Canon City Chamber of Commerce
about year and haif ago took up
the work of trying to stock the Arkan
dale with trout.
Its first work was to put in two large
retaining ponds at Coaldale. In these
retaining ponds the young fry are
placed when abo t three-qua, ters of
an inch Ions. They are fed every day
and given the best of care until they
reach a length of five or six inches.
Last fall the committee having charge
of the undertaking to stock the river
with game fish built retaining pond
at Parkdale and the same care and
attention was given the fish there
had been the case at the Coaldale prop
osition.
Last year the committee fed in the
Coaldale ponds something more than
1 5000 fish and in the Parkda'e pom I
about $4,000. With the care that was
given these fish they grew very, rapid
ly and this spring. when the last
of the trout were lihe- ated, some
of them had attained length of eight
and half inches. With the last
month or SIX weeks the committee
cleaned out and enlarged the retaining
ponds at both Coalda!e and Parkdaie
readiness to receive the spring al
lotment of FISH from the state hatcher
les. There has been a lot of work
done on all the ponds, ard with the
cement work dcne on the outlets anil
inlets. the committee feels that every
thing is in frst-clas share for the
coming sumner.
There has been received already two
consignments of fish from the state
authorities this spr ng; 10000 of
which were placed in the ponds at
Coaldale and $4,000 at Parkdale The
committee has been promised another
allotment in May. These FISH Will be
cared for until August when they vii
be turned into the river. and. what
tteeomes of them after that. will be
up to the fisnermer- The fish now on
hand are of the Eastern brook variety
and. when the ponds are enptied next
summer. there will be released in
them 10000 fry of Rainbow variety.
The members of the committee have
given generously both of their time
and money to make the undertaking. 4
success. In their endeavors they have
been given hearty support from tneir
fellow fishermen. who have contribut
ed their time and work on the pords
this spring, and have also been vesy
liberal in offering their automobiles
To take the workers to the ponds AMI
Hack; all CT which has beer daeiI,
appreciated.
Of this kind cannot he carried on with
out money. and in tsat the committee
is lacking. The work of stocking ;hs
river with game fish is being done in
the interest of the fishermen II The
community generally ani the commit
tee is going to call on them for finan
cial assistance in their enterprise. II
will cost several hundred dollars this
year to carry on the work the com
mittee hopes to be able to do and il
will appeal to all public-spirited citi
zens to dig down in their pockets af
ter cash and give the undertaking
all the support they can
In sreaking of the matter en- Thurs
day Theodore NJ. Harding, chairman o
the committee sa d. We need the
money to make this matter a go an
we all need the fishing. Let's boos
this game to the limit as the more
money that is raised the more fish
the committee can handle. II we al
Join heartily in this work it will only
be short time until we will not have
to so to the Gunn'son river for on
fishing. but we can catch basket o
trout right here at our door"