Page Six OATSmUi IIOIIMTAIM MEWB Margaretville, N. Friday, April 19. 1987

Gatskfll Mountain NewsTdephone 2231

rU lU SH ED EVERYi FRIDAY

OwncTi rr-ABITF. A. SANFOBD

M arearet^e, N. Y.ROSWELL R. SANFORD

l^gaietrille, N. Y.

th e w orm s slowly. A fisherm an WaSTOll HoUSe FirC had to “le t ’em ta k e it" fo r a con- ® siderable length of tim e before the fish swallowed th e worm fa r enough to be caught when the line w as given a sudden pull.

CLARKE A. SANFORD Publidier

ROSWELL R. SANFORD Business Manager

ROWLAND G. HILL, Editor

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MOUNTAIN DEWMoney ta lks loudest when given

to charity .

L ife is a grind — sharpens m an’s w its.

A m ateur gardener raises health th an vegetables.

The Old F arm er’s A lm anac says A pril 22-30 is the la st big snow of the w inter.

Friday, A pril 26, has been set aside by th e s ta te commissioner of education for A rbor day and W ildlife day.

T here w ere hundreds of fisher­m en along th e stream s. In early hours the line froze in th e guides, the m oim tains w ere covered w ith snow, th e re w ere snow squalls dur­ing th e day. M any fisherm en never had a bite.

• » *I know a sm all boy who w ent

fishing, cam e home em pty handed. W hen he fe lt a "b ite” he gave his line a jerk . This pulled th e worm ou t of th e m outh of the fish to the lad’s dismay. The excitem ent of th e b ite was too much to over-

There are m any reports of large fish caught, a m an a t H alcottville took nine rainbows, Phoenicia fish­erm en caught big rainbows, the O neonta S ta r tells of good catches taken "over in D elaw are county.”

* * *The Pepacton reservoir high­

w ay was lined a t one tim e S a tu r­day forenoon w ith 192 care of fisherm en. M any of the men caught fish, m any o thers got never a bite.

A w orkm an on the M argaret­ville sew er construction cam e to town early w ith a handsome catch, all natives. T he fish on top of th e basket was a native or brook trou t, 15 inches long.

Brought Heavy LossRoTdHuy, A pril 13.—^The wagon

house on th e farm of H ow ard Greene was com pletely destroyed by fire discovered shortly before 9 F riday n ig h t by M rs. Howard

G reene wh&x she han>ened to w alk in to th e kitchen. Flam esw ere shooting from th e side of 75 laying hens, four ducks, one of

p a rtly covered by insurance, la tte r’s M assey-H arris ■ trac to r. D estroyed w ith th e building w ere ■ Also destroyed w ere a quan tity of

th e building. ’The fire company arrived prom ptly, saved th e cow b am and th e tra ile r home of H ow ard’s son, Gerald.

The loss is a t le ast $10,000,

which was s ittin g on a nest of eggs; also the 1954 C hevrolet of G erald Greene, and hi^ new mow­ing machine, th e 1947 m ilk truck of H ow ard Greene, and also the!m en , Mr. Greene and a neighbor.

m iscellaneous tools, farm m achin­ery, a quan tity of lum ber and lime.

Saved was a new trac to r, which was stored in the cow bar^. Two

Loren R oberts, stayed in the hay mow m ost of th ^ n ight and 'ex tin - guished sparks blowing into the hay. The firem en rem ained m ost o f th e n ight to help save the o ther buildings.

The origin of the fire is a

been caused by a shor^ circuit is a question fo r the experts. T h e re was e lectricity in th e building—a w ire w ent from th e house to th e building. M r. Greene had to sh u t off th e electricity as he knew th e w ires would fall. The oar had been driven in a t noon and th e

m ystery; W hether it could have tru ck in m id-aftem oon.

A large flock of wild geese has been enjoying the scenery of the Pepacton reservoir. Scouts have been sen t out to ascertain how fa r no rth the ice has m elted. ’The geese go no rth as fa s t as the ice m elts.

Dick Sanford, 10, Doug Cowan,12, and Billy Cowan, 9, M argaret­ville lads, w ere fishing on Tues­day when they saw a psirtridge fly headlong in to a fence post and b reak its neck. P artridges have

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So fa r as I know there w ere no accidents, no one fell into the cold w aters o r suffered injury, ex­cept to his expectations. Those who caught fish w ere happy. The largest fish I heard about was 23-inch beauty caught by Lynn Jaquish of Andes w here the Trem perekill creek joins the P e ­pacton reservoir.

* * *Fishing is th e w orld’s oldest

and g rea test participating sport. E arly m an probably caught fish before he killed anim als for food.

* « *’There a re m any kinds of fish-

instinct to pirevent TTie boys w ill rem em ber the in ­cident as long m they Bve.

Yes, the woode ar* Im portant in m ore ways than being a pleasant w alk o r a hunting area. Each of us uses on the average about 78 cubic feet of wood per year.

* * *There a re 1,800 sawmills in this

state, 40 pulp mills and 29 veneer factories. Over four p er cent of the s ta te ’s income is based on use of tim ber and tim ber products.

» * *The forests of t h e ' s ta te are

R ow ing 36 billion fee t of saw tim ber on 14% million acres of

TRwest~land.

Ice on th e Pepacton reservoir is gone. One m an says i t sunk, ano ther it m elted, ano ther never concerned his thoughts as to w hat becam e of it.

My idea is th a t th e ice melted. » * »

Ice is about 10 per cent m ore buoyant than w ater a t th e surface. As the w a ter deepens th e pressure is g re a te r and the ice would be m ore buoyant.

» ♦ »• Also if ice could sink, pools and ponds would freeze from th e bot­tom up and become solid. ’This would k ill a ll kinds of pond life emd indirectly a ll life.

T he ice on the reservoir one day seem ed quite solid. B ut a tr ip across it would have proved i t largely slush. The next day it w as gone. I am certa in it m elted.

A news sto ry elsewhere in this issue te lls th a t D elaw are is the best county in th e s ta te fo r hunt­ers. R eports from Saturday indi­cate i t is th e best fo r tro u t fishing. The m oim tains of th e county are tops fo r skiing. D elaw are, and o th er counties of the Catskills,, e n te rta in im told thousands of reso rt visitors. W hat a region! Tops in fun, in resorts, in m ilk production, in health and happi­ness!

* * *N ot long ago I rode from New

York to K ingston in a bus which traveled th e Thruw ay. A fter we le ft New P altz and approached K ingston, I began to see these w onderful hills rising in the w est­e rn sky.

* * »My m ind tu rned to W ashington

Irving’s Sketchbook in w hid i he describes th e C atskills as magic m ountains seen from a boat sailing up the pudson. I believe the ’Thruway gives a b e tte r look a t these h ills th a n can be obtained from th e deck of a river boat. W ould th a t a m odem Irv ing m ight describe th e hills firs t seen froA th e Thruw ay!

areas on the continent have tro u t fishing, n ear autom obile roads, to equal th a t of the Catskills.

» » •’The pure w ater which poure

from thousands of springs on all th e m ountain sides of the region is exactly w hat tro u t need for th e ir h ab ita t. They grow rapidly and are fu ll of pep in the cold spring w aters.

* * *’The B eaverkill is the m ecca of

tro u t fisherm en from all over the world. H ere, fly fishing was in ­troduced in America. The Esopus which flows from Pine H ill to th e A shokan reservoir is another fam ous tro u t s tream w hid i a t­tra c ts fly fisherm en from a wide area. O ur own E ast B ranch was fa s t becoming fam ous w hen New York took ou t 20 m iles of the best fishing fo r th e Pepacton res­ervoir.

* * »W hen the shad bush blossoms,

skim k cabbage is p a rtly grown, fields have become a healthy green, w hen woodchucks have be­come wide awake, when song birds a re nesting, then comes dry fly fishing—tops in the taking of trou t.

• * *P ictu re a singing creek winding

down a p re tty valley, w ild flowere along the stream , opening buds in the trees above, blue sky fa r up w ith w hite cloud islands slowly drifting.

T hat is the scene in which the dry fisherm an steps to cast his im itation fly fa r up the current, w atch i t float dow nstream to him, hpping a handsome fish w ill come up through th e clear w ater to jum p fo r the fly and be caught —if th e fisherm an posses skill capable of “setting the iron.”

Yours truly,’The M ountaineer

M any fisherm en caught "the lim it” of tro u t in th is a rea S a t­urday, f irs t day of the season. The lim it is 10 fish a t least seven inches l<Mig, no m a tte r w hat the w eight. I f i t w ere possible to catch 10 tro u t which weighed th ree pounds each, the 30 pounds would be a legal catch.

♦ • •S atu rday’s tro u t w ere taken by

th e m ethod used in th e early days —^the b a it was worms. A boy w ith a b ird i pole, cu t along the stream , a s trin g and a fish hook, one fo r a cent, could catch m any fish as a m an w ith a $100 rod.

Up and Dqwn Main Street

M argaretville angler who lo s t his fishing rod April 5 did not ad­vertise fo r it un til a week a fte r tro u t season opened.

N ot all fisherm en took the ir lim it out of th e stream s Saturday. By evening Bussy*s sto re was com­pletely sold out of frozen Danish trou t. H ie m anagem ent said none was bought by local fisherm en.

Closing of post office windows over the w eekend saved a sm all am ount in M argaretvU le as well as o ther post offices. The savings cam e from th e tim e lost by woricers who are paid hourly wages.

M ore than a score of local res­idents, m ost of them businessmen, owe a thank-you to P ostm aster R ichard G avette, who stayed in th e post office fo r tw o hours be­fore m idnight M onday to insure th a t income tax re tu rns w ere postm arked before the 12 o’clock, A pril 15 deadline. ,

W hile th e Orvil Rosa fam ily spent tw o m onths in New P o rt Richey, Fla., th is w inter, the youngsters w ent to school. One of them was in a class ta u g h t by M rs. Gleason Tiffany, form er MCS teacher.

A liberal application of calcium ' helped keep down dust s tirre d

T rou t w ere too cold-to be in te r- 'u p by ’Tuesday’s fresh spring ested in flies. In fac t they took breezes.

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