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Identifier: californiagamema00mayw (find matches)
Title: California game "marked down";
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: (May, W. B.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal., Southern Pacific company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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facile pen of Doctor David Starr Jordan, President ofLeland Stanford Jr. University: Everywhere on the Pacific Slope, inevery clear stream of the Cascade, the Sierra Nevada, the Coast Range,Rocky Mou... ind all their flanking ranges, some variety of trout abounds. This region should be the Mecca of anglers, as it is of alllovers of the beautiful and the sublime of nature. In the East the trout or charr has almost passed away. The trouthog has devoured him, and the angler is turning his hand unwillingly to ( 8) black bass and tarpon, as the successor of Izaak Walton fills his basketwith gudgeon and chub. Says Myron W. Reed, a veteran angler: This is the last generation of trout fishers. The children will not be ableto find any. Already there are well-trodden paths by every stream inMaine, in New York, and in Michigan. I know of but one river in NorthAmerica by the side of which you will find no paper collar or otherevidence of civilization. It is the Nameless River. Not that trout will
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RUFFED GROUSE.Bonasia Umbelhis. PRAIRIE HEN.Tetrao Ctipido. cease to be. They will be hatched by machinery and raised in ponds,and fattened on chopped liver and grow flabby and lose their spots.The trout of the restaurant will not cease to be. He is no more like thetrout of the wild river than the fat and songless reed bird is like the bobo- (9) link. Gross feeding and easy pond-life enervate and deprave him. Thetrout that the children will know only by legend .is the gold-sprinkledliving arrow of the white water, able to zigzag up the cataract, able toloiter in the rapids, whose dainty meat is the glancing butterfly. President Jordan then adds: But on the Pacific Slope the riversare still many and the anglers few. The trout-hog is with us, butMother Nature is too much for him. For a hundred generations she willbe strong enough to make good whatever mischief he may do. Inwriting of the trout of California, one does not willingly lay down the penat the end. The most beautiful of fishes

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