Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-11
VETERAN SPORTSMAN
AXE Region Anglers Owe
Much to H. E. SaIsich for
Fish Propagation and Con-
servation.

Fish Propagation and Con-
servation.
Il is mighty good to meet up |
With a real herman sportsman in
Iese days of high taxes and fish |
hoes; and after having listened to
his fund Of stories of early day
fishing and the hardships we fell
ms now have to endure in tam
ng hoggish sports, one can really
take off his hat to H. E. Salsich,
now Of Hartland, Wis, but for
many many years a resident Of
Star Lake and that section of the
lake region.
The wriosr had heard Of SAL
! (dch' for many years and it was
given over one night last week to
! visit him at his hunting and fish
& Ing lodge over on Johnson creek,
about a half dozen miles north of
Star Lake as the crow flies. He,
in company with Judge Hayden,
Dr. Kepperman and DIR. Hewett of
Milwaukee, were out at the lodge
for a two weeks vacation, and
these old cronies were certainly
enjoying all the law allows in true
craftsmanship and scenic attri-
butes; just enough fish to- eat and
the remainder of the time was fill
led in with pony rides over the
vast miles of that section where
mo habitation mars the wilderness
of nature.
Mr.. Salsich some eighteen or
twenty years ago was connected
with the SaIsich- Williams Lumber
Company with headquarters at
Star Lake. About this time the
company disbanded on account of
the supply of timber having been
cut from around the Star Lake
territory. Both Mr.. SaIsich and
Mr.. Williams are classed as the
founders and builders of Star
Lake, both as village and as a
summer resort stopping place.
They first started in Star Lake
some thirty-one or more years ago
when that country clear through
to the Michigan line north was a
virgin tract of timber. That they
were successful in their business
ard business relations is better
told by one of their old-time en-
pIoyes who still resides alongside
the Star Lake-Black Oak Lake rail
road track-or where it used to- be
a score of years ago. Last winter
the writer fell in conversation
with this old-timer and when Mr..
SaIslch's name was mentioned the
oId-tlmer remarked in answer as
to what kind of a man NJ. S. was:
We'll aye tall you; Herman vas a
bully Taller to us Yacks in the
woods. We used to always have
plenty of tabac' when he was
round, an he used us yust like
himself" No greater eulogy could
be given any man.
But his logging history is not
what started this article; it was
his great love for the Big Outdoors
and for fishing and hunting. Not
Tor the sake of a full creel or
game bag but a try in matching
wits against the trout or deer that
inhabited that sections streams
ana woods. 1t is told us that had
IT. not been for Mr.. Salsich, very
little trout fishing would have re-
suited IN the Star Lake section.
lie years ago and for succeeding
years planted millions of trout fry
III every stream north, east and
"eSV Oh Star Lake. Would hire his
own men and pay them himself
eAOra' have them carry cans of
Trout IN pack sacks for miles
through the forests to some
!. stream hidden away. His efforts
1 PROPAGATION bore good fruit and
we OF today who fish trout in that
section of the lake region can we'll
Snank 'Salsich" for placing the
seed there.
Inc opinion of every sportsman
VINO knows Mr.. Salsich is that he
Is one Of Natures few noblemen;
- " True disciple of the world fam
gu lzaak and his memory should
S .GIg be preserved for the good he
"lu IN the past and the splendid
example he is still setting for
game and fish protection. He is
S a. OF the greatest conservation
n ~;s lne state of Wisconsin holds
'''''in her boundaries bar none.