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Show 4 "FISH "IN MINE PITS. hOVEL 8PORT IN OLD PNNSYL. VANIA IROrl flEQION. Abandoned Shafts, Stocked with Small Fry, Now Ideal Sport for Anglers Terrapin Also Raised for Profit. Altetilown, I'n I'ethaps the most peetillar fishing place In the country nte found In (.ehlgli county When the falluto of Jay Cooke & (' of New York started a panic which two year later aept over this count) It s-d every hematite ore mine In Lehigh , and caused the loss of millions of dollar Thou abandoned ore mine, covering acre of land and ranging In depth from 30 tea 10 feet gradually began to fill with water and In that ismrilllon they remained for years It waa a hoy who lint conceived the Idea that lh ore mine would lie Ideal breeding piece for fish II bad read a look on fish culture, and he noticed that a particular pit j hri.l the kind of iiitlc vegetation which the iHKik nal.l was tiece nary Ho he tauihl a hit of uu fish, eatflsli, eucker eel and chilli nnd dumped them Inlo the water of the pit and then forgot all about It I These fish undisturbed for several yean, multiplied with amailng ra phlll) rtevual year later n fish ermau on hi way Iwnio from a trout stream happened In pas this particular pit Slerel) a a Jnko ho I tmlleil hi hook with worm and made a cast I In had scarnly dono so when his reel commenced to alng and In hi great nimtiemcnt he pull od out two enormous sunllsh In side of half mi hour he had nihil hi creel lln mado a qnlet loiestlcaliui. and readily obtalaed triiilslon from the owner of tke pit to ei pertinent In nh eultsrs Ho com-menewLtn com-menewLtn plant black and yel low perch, ll went nlxiHt serrellr nd tho owner, who did not nt '" t'o "' noyiil by applicants for nshlng prlv-llegee, prlv-llegee, nlsn kept quiet To da) those pit fairly teem wlik 8sh In the slmllow pits the same enterprising en-terprising Imllvldiisl Introduced land terrapin, which are now bring Ing In n substantia! revenuo Homo of the pit, however " " ilsnger-ou ilsnger-ou of approach, using to teci, overhanging and crumbling hnnks, that only the most daring venturo within casting dlslsare At one pit u nearby tree airords n lodging plaro for those who injoy the novelty of fishing from n tree One man ha erected a tall eoAfTulillsir. from which vantage point hn cast s heavy weighted weight-ed hand lino. Ilhick bam llirlvu better In theso pll than any other flti They grow to enormous site sod tho cold-ness cold-ness and purity of the atcr give them not only a gamen but a solid. Ity of nh which they do not acquire ac-quire In tho finest has streams In thl stale Hot era! year ago the owner of n pleco u( property on which wa an j nlHtndoncd ore pit rtumHil a lot of has and pickerel tr) Inlo tho pit i Just a noon a they grow big enough tho tatter promptly do- j slroyed tho has, but he now baa I nno of the finest plcktrel presorves With tho advent, of cold weather, , when tho pit will freene over, ho ex ' pects to uinko inane) by leasing out fishing privilege. |