Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18


Wv feel the appeal Of northern
climes. Each section of the
country has it's cool spot. Many east
erners are lured to Maine, which is
noted not only for it's invigorating sum-
mer climate but also for it's historic
background.
The name of Maine may or may not
be French; it certainly is not Indian,
like Massachusetts or Connecticut. OF
the sixteen counties, five recall the
mother country, being named for Eng
fish shires; five others honor American
personages of the colonial or Revolu-
tionary periods, and the remaining six
retain the Indian names Of the rivers
within their borders.
AS for the other names which have
received specific legislative sanction
for something over 400 cities, towns,
and townships, the larger part are
simply descriptive, or repetitions of
towns in other New England states.
Of the rest, so far as the origin of
their names is known, &c bear Old
world names, so that in that delight
full tale by Laura Z. Richards, Mar
cissa, or the Road to Rome" the road
side signpost might have pointed to
Vienna, Belgrade, or even China, and
kept within the jurisdiction of the
County of Kennebec.
Proprietors and first settlers are
known to have given their names to So
towns; governors, generals, and Presi-
dents to 16, u, and 6 towns, respective
ly; while Indian names, which so
plainly tell their own origin, number
only %.
An interesting touch Of idealism was
the selection of such distinctive town
names as Harmony, Amity, and Hope
Freedom, Liberty and Unity, these
last three being neighbors in Waldo
county.
From the beginning the economic
life of Maine was founded on fish, fur,
and forest. These three furnished
powerful incentives for exploration
anu tIe Clilel leWdluS lol oellielllSHl.
The fisheries of the Gulf of Maine
were even an issue between king and
parliament early in the Seventeenth
century, when the English fishermen
won their fight for free fishing along
the Maine coast, despite the monopoly
granted by James l in his patent to
the council of New England.
Fisheries Major Industry.
So it came that the earliest sites of
permanent settlements were chosen
not for mildness of climate, but by
reason of proximity to the cold waters
where dwelt the fish that could be
converted into profitable export,
without license fee being paid to any
patentees of the crown.
The fisheries continue major in
dustry. The value of the states fish
ing products as marketed approXi-
mates six million dollars, the two larg-
est items being the plebean herring
and the aristocratic lobster
Along with the ancient business of
fishing a place must be given to the
popular sport of angling, for which
Maine offers unsurpassed inducements,
in the lakes and streams and also off
shore.
Last year $4,000 fishermen and fish
erwomen from outside the state, and
nearly five times that number of resi-
dents, obtained licenses. The fees re-
ceived went directly to Matching, plant
ing and protecting a new crop of game
fish.
The state maintains SO fish hatch
cries and rearing stations, and from
these last year went 100000 trout,
togue, and salmon for stocking the
brooks, streams, and lakes. Nearly
half of these planted" fish were above
legal size, and 10000 weighed from 8
to pounds each.
The policy of protecting wild life is
enforced by corps of 100 game ward
ems, who seek to be big brothers to
the youth of the state in training
them to be good sportsmen In the
severe winter of 1884 airplanes were
used to locate deer yards and then
cedar trees were cut to feed the starv-
ing deer confined there by the deep
snow.
Moose are far from being extinct.
They can be shot only with a camera
but deer continue plentiful, 1898 hav-
ing been killed legally in 1888. More
bears are killed in Maine than in any
three other states. Grouse, woodcocl,
and ducks complete the game Offering.
with pheasants promised as a future
attraction.
The Early Explorers.
AS early as 1905 Capt George Way.
mouth and his companions on the
Archangel-many of them world trav.
elers for that day-were deeply stirred
by their first views of Maine river
which the captain named st. Georges
(now st. George).
An exploratory trip inland toward
the great mountains" the Camden