The sun., 1919-06-15
TROUT ABUNDANT IN
KATAHDIN COUNTRY
Natives Can Be Had at All
Times Of Season; 20 Ponds
Within Three Miles.
MOOSE AND DEER AT HOME
Beaver Swims Alongside
Canoe, Bears Tiptoe Through
the Woods.
ny FREDERIC BULKELEy HYDE.


There's still one place left In Maine
where the native brook trout can be had
at all times Of the season in abundance
where you can roam over territory as
large as the State Of Rhode Island and
rarely ever meet another human: where
the nights are cool in midsummer, and
where good camps. well managed, are
still to be found. And that country II
reached from Norcross. on the Bangor
and Aroostook Railroad.
Few there are that know of this land.
Thoreau in his Maine Woods tells of
penetrating at great effort this wonderful
wilderness and making the asosnt OF
Mount Katahdin. that granite seminal
that dominates northern Maine.
Some there are who have made the
famous West Branch trip ana passed
down the Penobscot with only = casual
glance at the upland from which the
mountain rises with never a care as to
what kind OF a country that lies just
above them.
And only those few who have been
there appreciate what It means TO find a
real wilderness in which the trout scarce
know the lures of man and the bears
roam through the woods.
From Norcross. where one finds COM
Portable hotel and where one usually
| pauses long enough to change to rough
| clothes, there is a small steamboat that
runs to the head OF Ambejejus Lake,
where the guides await their expected
sport"
In Heart of Katahdin Country.
Duffle is slowed away In the stanch
canoes and the trip UP the west branch
of the Penobscot is begun Pitman's
J camp IL reached in time for q rest before
supper and where the night Is spent A
splendid camp. we'll managed, where one
of the most beautiful views of Mount
Katshd!n may be had from your camp
veranda.
The next morning you enter the walt
! ing canoe and go further on up the
lovely river. carrying past two or three
roaring rapids. until very shortly scrrd-
nahunk stream is reached and you make
shore,
A three and a half mile walk through
the woods along this wild stream, full
OF trout. brings you to the great table
land, coo feet above the river you have
Just left. from which Katahdin rises
only three miles away.
You have reached your journeys end
almost for 1t is only half q mile to
either the famous campo at Kidney
Pond, now owned by Roy Bradeen. or
TO the camps of Morris York, on Daisy
Pond. You are in the heart of the
Katahdin country!
II you have come just for the sheer
delight OF the woods and streams and
ponds and mountains you may have
them all In abundance. and you can
follow trails and old logging roads II
you are careful without ever getting
lost. for ever can he seen the giant
Katahdin or Double Top. the sentnals
of this silent wilderness.
| Twenty Trout Ponds Near BY.
If you have come for the brook trout,
those big fellows that. scarcely know
the craft of man, you can choose from
any one of twenty ponds within three
miles of you for the days sport or you
can cast your fly in the turbulent waters
of the widest stream in Maine! II
you want the tiny brook II is just over
there.
The moose and the deer challenge
you to unlimber the camera and catch
them feeding in the ponds or with
startled pose watch you as you pass
along the old tote road. The beaver
swins alongside Of your canoe and
fears you not. Old Bruin steals on tip
toes through the woods and the sob
OF the loon pulsates through the
stiffness
; The guides are good, the camps are
good. the fishing is good. and to be there
Is the best thing that could happen 20
you! And Katahdin in all his majesty
bids you welcome! y