The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-03-24
S
Club Has A
Good Meet
Reports Show 1000 Pounds
of Feed Had Been Furn-
ished Pheasants
VERMIN HUNT IN APRIL
Closed Muskrat Season in
Stearns and Adjoining
Counties

The meeting of the Sank Centre
Conservation Club held at the Club
rooms Friday evening brought out
a large attendance.
After the reading of the minutes
Of the previous meeting President
Carl Fischer introduced Deputy
Warden VonBrock, of the Melrose
district. The gentleman made a
short talk in which he urged the
close cooperation of the Sank Cen
tire and Melrose Clubs to the end
that fish and wild life could be best
conserved.
Melrose recently challenged the
Sank Centre Club for 'Vermin"
hunt to be held at a date to be
selected, probably the latter part
of April. The vermin in question
will be crows, owls and hawks. Mr..
Kind, of Melrose, explained the de-
tails of the proposed hunt closing
by stating that the losers would
furnish the winners a dinner at the
Melrose clubs headquarters on
Big Birch Lake. President Fisch-
er had accepted the challenge on
behalf of the Sank Centre Club and
a motion ratified his action. A COM
mittee consisting of DR.. A. A. Gales,
Alex Benson, L. L. Kells, Clarence
Trones and Walter Jung were ap-
pointed to work out the details of
the hunt with a like committee
from Melrose.
The Sank Centre Club has been
active in furnishing feed for pleas
ants during the winter. It was dis
closed that 1000 pounds of feed had
been put out by the farmers. The
Club furnished the feed only 1900
pounds of which they had to pay
for. A survey recently made indi-
Gated that the pheasants in the
Sank Centre community had ap-
parently come through the winter
in good condition.
The question of whether or not a
request should be made to have
Stearns open for a limited pleas
ant shooting period in 1882. There
was quite a diversity of opinion,
and the matter was laid over for
another meeting for further consid-
Grafton.
The Birch Lake dam at the low
er end of Little Birch blown out
a couple of times after having been
installed by the State Game and
Fish department was discussed.
President Fischer had interviewed
County Engineer Sam Chute at st.
Cloud. Mr.. Fischer said-the coun-
ty engineer stated the dam was torn
out by order of the county commits
sioners, claiming that the dam had
not been built according to the
specifications furnished by his de-
partment and under the supervis-
ion of a man from his office.
Mr.. Kind, of Melrose, took excep-
ton to the statements alleged to
have been made by Mr.. Chute. He
said the specifications of both the
county and State and Game and
Fish department were on file at
Melrose and that they were iden-
teal:
The dam was originally a Melrose
| Sportsman's Club project. Sank
Centre was brought into the pic
ture by several interested property
owners in this community. A mo-
ton was passed pledging Sank
Centres support and cooperation
to Melrose in the effort to have the
dam rebuilt in a manner which
will keep the lake level up to norm
al and not overflow adjacent prop
erty. The ever present bugaboo,
winter fishing, was brought up for
discussion, led by DR.. Gales. Mr..
Gales reviewed the condition over a
period of years and predicted unless
the practice was stopped cold de-
sirable fishing in Sank Lake would
soon be a thing of the past. The
sentiment prevalent at the meeting
was to petition to have Sank Lake
closed for gill-netting fish houses,
and with hook and line through the
ice. Final action was deferred un-
til later meeting.
A letter recently sent game war
dens by the department of game
and fish states that the spearing
of fish is absolutely unlawful.
The following letter has been
sent the Wardens relative to musk
rat season in Minnesota in 1882.
The letter which is published here
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