| Show t El I The attention of our legislators is requested t6 the following letterfrom practical fishermen In jUtah county There is much truth in it and thee the-e 0 < < > t question treated of is of importance to the public as weK as to the people who make a living by supplying the I market with cheap fish It is address iI 3l to a legislative committee and ought to be considered by every member mem-ber of the Assembly Lehi City Feb 10 1894 To the Honorable Committee of Fish and Game GentlemenHaving ibeen informed that there had been an attempt made to stop seining in Utah lake for the space of two years we believe it is our duty to inform your honorable body 3f the true condition with regard to the fish question of Utah lake and county especially If seining is stopped it will fully protect the suckers and carp as they cannot be taken by any other means but seins As no fish can be successfully success-fully taken in Utah lake except It be around the mouth of streams where the clear mountain waters enter the lake so Utah lake is not for sportsmen sports-men If seins were stopped not less than 50000 to 60000 people will be deprived of the only fish food within their reach From eighty to one hundred thousand pounds are consumed in Salt Lake city alone each year which we know the railway company can show receipts re-ceipts for If necessary and we ship fish as far as 100 miles north and south and in fact all over the territory as far as we can reach by railway and teams It costs us at least 150 to prepare ourselves for seining and 50 a year to keep it in repairs We sell our fish at 1J4 and I1f cents a pound and carp at 3 or 4 cents We take all kinds of produce as weH as cash in payment which ought to prove I to you that there is plenty of fish In Utah lake These are facts that cannot can-not be successfully contradicted as there is plenty of proof I If you stop seining you will do an act of injustice to the people of this territory ter-ritory it will also permit the suckers suck-ers carp and chubs to increase to the detriment of imported fish You can not overstock > a fish pond any more than you can a pasture because all the young fish have to live on insects and what they can find as they cannot can-not live on other fish until they are two or three years old These facts I are proven from many years experience experi-ence and years of careful study Then what would be your object in stopping the seins You could not materially increase the trout by so donig They are by nature compelled to go up the stream to spawn and not more than one out of every ten comes back to the lake again they are taken by the sportsmen all that can toe taken large and small in their endeavors to get bade to the lake with their young ones when the water in the streams get low and clear but they are run I off into the canals both large and small by solid banks across Provo river and other streams that enter in to the lake so they are lost The trout has dedreased ever since the dams have been put across these streams year after year Nothing but a hatchery can counter act this wholesale destruction These are all facts that can be proven by the people that have farms that are irrigated irri-gated by these streams And another fact is that there has never been a law made since the law was first made In 1867 or 1868 for the protection of fish in Utah county that has had any attempt in reality to pro tect the trout but has been a protection protec-tion to the suckers and common fish that the sportsmen care little for and will now prohibit the poor ciass of people peo-ple to have If a hatchery is put up the young spawn can be protected until they are ready to put into the lake and there will be the first aim in a direction of protection on the same principle as our black bass which are now doing fine they are in the lake to stay except ex-cept the young spawn get destroyed by the chubs and carp which do their spawning on the same ground but when they get in a fishermans net they are turned loose again and are protected If your honorable committee will consider this and make an attempt to counteract this destruction done by irrigation which we cannot do away with but put up a hatchery and turn young trout in the lake in the proper time and season the fishermen will help you in protecting them At the present rate of destruction through turning off the streams when the trout runs it will be but a little while before the sportsman that seems to take such a deep Interest in them will not have sport in catching them but It will be a thing of the past and furthermore the idea of a few sportsmen sports-men that will not think of eating a sucker make a law to hinder thousands thou-sands of poor people that are satisfied with them from getting them We could get up a petition signed by thousands of names but they would in all probability in majority of cases be as ignorant of the true state of affairs as the true sportsmen seem to be Wishing your honorable body will please give this due consideration and attention for the benefit of the public Yours respectfully O HOLMSTEAD MAT PETERSON Fishermen of Lehi A new process for making cider is in operation in France If is not to manufacture manu-facture the drink from chemicals but uses apples while it dispenses with the cidermill It Is done by diffusion The juice is first washed out from sliced fruit with cold water Warm water acts more quickly but the result Is not nearly so savory The water passes from one compartment filled with fruit to another and the process is so arranged that in each It meets fresher fruit than in the last so that it leaves saturated with juice or rather it and the juice change places so that nearly pure juice issues from the machine The results are said to be satisfactory in the highest degree |
