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SIX THE IRONWOOD Friday, October 28, 1932 Formerly Were jn Abundance in Michigan; Now O.n'.ly In One River in Houghton County NICER THAN SPECKLED TROUT With the announcement of the Conservation Department that the most recent Trout Feeding Station, to be located on the Otter River Houghton, will attempt to propagate the Michigan Grayling, a species found nowhere else but in Michigan waters; a new chapter opens in the history of this unique fish. The Michigan Grayling was first brought to the ken of piscatorial interests about eighty to ninety yqars ago. Several of these fish were exhibited in Grand Rapids as early as 1858. It came to the attention of the country at large through the pages of the "Wildwood Magazine" of the early 80's. Quoting from that publication.

The year 1862; the scene is on the shore of the Michigan Jordan. There fishermen are encamped in the then Carpenter, as was his custom, was up with the sun; taking his line he cut a switch from the undergrowth, and was soon fishing for breakfast for the company. He went to the creek, put on a grasshopper and began pulling in a mess of 'peculiar fish whose name at that time was unknown to him. Taking them up to the tent Dr. Carpenter and Mr.

Clarke began dressing them ready for cooking and Judge Martin at the moment sticking his head out of the tent, exclaimed: Clarke- Where did you get them? Why, they are grayling, Scotch "'No, Martin! Seth Green claims there are no grayling in "'Well, I know better! I've caught hundreds of them in' the streams of Scotland. By the bye, I have some ichthylological works here in my traveling case, let us He found the books, compared the structure, color, position of the fins, spread out the dorsal fin, carefully counted the spines; examined the mouth for the position of the teeth; finishing his examination with: 'Let your fish experts say what they please about there being no grayling in Michigan. These are grayling, sure as fate, only 'tis a handsomer fish than his English In 1865 the scientist Edward D. Cope described the "peculiar kind of trout" and it became the -Michigan Grayling. A decade later the outdoor magazines were deep in a heated controversy.

"Forest and then a weekly magazine, devoted much space to the new discovery. The New York Times published ac counts from the pen of Louis Agassiz. Michigan Grayling was well known. This fish was later found to occur in vast abundance in many of the streams of north-central Michigan. On the west coast of the lower peninsula some of the streams that it once inhabited were the Muskegon, Board, man, 1 Boyne, and Jordan; in the north and east, the Au Sable, Cheboyga'n, Bay and Rifle rivers.

In the year 1873 James F. Milner, then Assistant U. S. Fish Comissioner, in company with D. H.

Fitzhugh of Bay City, made a trip to the headwaters of the Au Sable to study the habits of the grayling. Extracts from his report are as follows: "In these days of extensive pioneering and wholesale exploration, the man is favored who finds himself in the midst of a really untrodden wild. The character of the land and the timber in this locality little attraction for the seeker after productive soil or investments, and the timber in this locality have little attraction for the seeker after productive 'soil or investments, and the timber in this locality have little attraction for the seeker after productive soil or investments, and the sportsman and the naturalist find here a patch of nature left in almost primeval purity. As we embarked in our light boats, in the early morning, and our bows broke the trailing mist that covered the river, it was as if brushing the fresh bloom from newly plucked so untouched by the hand of man did everything seem. "Quietly the guides poled the boats down the rapid current, while we adjusted rods, lines and leaders Dropping the flies at just the spots where trout would be sought for, finding the grayling similarly located hooking a large one we had good evidence of his plucky qualities; the pliant rod bent as he struggled against the line, curling his body around columns of water that failed to sustain his grasp, and setting his great dorsal fin like an oar backing water, while we cautiously worked him in, his tender mouth requiring rather more careful handling than would be necessary for a trout." (Editor's note: Did you ever read a finer description of a fighting trout than Prof.

Mjllner's phrase "curling his body around columns of water that failed to sustain his Milner continues, "There is no species sought for by anglers that surpass the grayling in beauty. They are more elegantly formed than the trout, and their great dorsal fin is a superb mark of beauty. When the well-lids were lifted and the sun's ray's admitted, lighting up the delicate olive-brown tints of the back and sides, the bluish-white of the abdomen, and the mingling of tints of rose, pale blue, and purplish-pink on the fins, it displayed a combination of living colors that is equalled by no fish outside of the tropics It will probably be found to have the same habits as its European relatives, and spawn in the spring. It is adapted, like all the salmonoids to artificial propagation Prof. Milner was right in saying that it would be found to spawn in the spring, and we hope that he will ultimately be proven right in his claim that it is adaptable to artificial propagation and transplanting.

For now, sixty years the Michigan grayling has been extirpated from all of its former habitats except a few miles of the Otter river in Houghton county. The first of the western hemisphere grayling to be discovered was an Arctic species found by Captain John Franklin's expedition in 1819. The Montana Grayling was discovered in 18 60 in the headquarters of the Missouri. The former abundance of the Michigan Grayling, like the stories of the passenger pigeons, are hard to believe. Instances were frequent of their blocking waterways during the spring movements up stream.

There is a tale of two men who held their boat across a lower peninsula stream at the foot of a waterfall and caught 700 in a half day as the fish attempted to ascend the current. Today these fish are found only in a certain section of the Otter River in Houghton Grayling have been recorded as large as nineteen inches, weighing up to four pounds. Average fish were nearer fourteen inches and weighed less than two pounds. Various attempts have been made to artificially propagate this fish. All have resulted in- failure.

The planting of fry hatched from eggs removed from natural spawning beds caused no, noticeable effect in the rapidly diminishing numbers of the grayling back in the 80's and 90's. Two problems face those who will again attempt to restore the grayling to Michigan streams. First, to find means to propagate these fish in sufficient numbers to make stocking possible. Second, and probably the difficult, to discover what factor or factors now existing in streams other than the Otter, are unfavorable to the grayling; and, having found the detrimental factors, to find means for their elimination. To accomplish this save a species from almost certain extinction, and to bring back its numbers to something like former be positive, construe live conservation practice.

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October 7 October 28 PROBATE ORDER STATE OP MICHIGAN, the Probate Court for the County of Gogebic. At a session of said Court, held at the Probate Office in the City of Bessemer, in said County, on the 4th day of October A. D. 1932. Present, Hon.

Harry K. Bay, Judge of Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Hilda Marander. Deceased. Ida Bcckmnn, having filed her petition, praying that an instrument filed in said Court be admitted to Probate as the last will and testament of said deceased and that administration of said estate be granted to herself or to some other suitable person.

It is Ordreed, That the 2nd day of November A. D. 1932 at ten A. at said Probate Office is hereby appointed for hearing said petition. It is Further Ordered that Public notice thereof be given by publication of a copy hereof for three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing in the Ironwood Times, a newspaper printed and circulated in said County.

HARRY K. BAY, Judge of Probate A true copy. R. C. SOLBEEG, Register of Probate.

October 28, November 18 PROBATE ORDER STATE OP MICHIGAN, the Probate Court for the County of Gogebic. At a session of said Court, held at the Probate Office in the City of Bessemer, in said County, on the 26th day of October, A. D. 1932. Present, Honorable Harry K.

Bay, Judge of Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Erick J. Erickson, Deceased. It appearing to the Court that the time for presentation of the claims against said estate should be limited, and that a time and place be appointed to receive, examine and adjust all claims and demands against said deceased by and before said Court; It is Ordered, That all creditors of said deceased are required to present their claims to said Court at said Probate Office on or before the 1st day of March, A. D.

1933, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, said time and place being hereby appointed for the examination and adjustment of all claims and demands against said deceased. It is Further Ordered, That public notice thereof be given by publication of a copy of this order for three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing, in the Ironwood Times, a newspaper printed and circulated in said County. HARRY K. BAY, Judge of Probate. A true copy: R.

C. SOLBERG, Register of Probate. October 28 November 18 PROBATE ORDER STATE OP MICHIGAN, The Court for the County of Gogebic, At a session of said Court, held at the Probate Office in tho City of Bessemer, in said County, on the 25th day of October, A. D. 1932.

Present: Hon. Harry K. Bay, Judge of Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Walter Russel Bade, Deceased. William G.

Eade, having filed in said court his petition praying that the administration of said estate be granted to himself or to some other suitable person, It Is Ordered, That the 23rd day of November A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, 'at said probate office, be and is hereby appointed for hearing said petition; It Is Further Ordered, That public notice thereof be given by publication of a copy of this order, once each week for three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing, in the Jronwood Times, a newspaper printed and circulated in said county. HARRY K. BAY, Judge of Probate A true copy.

B. ANDERSON, Dep. Register of Probate October 21 November 11 PROBATE ORDER STATE OP MICHIGAN. The Probate Cour for the County of Gogebic. At a session of said Court, held at thi.

Probate Office in the City of Bessemer in said County, on the 19th day of October A. D. 1932. Present: Hon. Harry K.

Bay, Judge 01 Probate. In the Mattter of the Estate of Anton Wierczynski also known as Anton Wiercinski, Deceased. Eva Wiercinskl having filed in said court her petition praying that the administration of said estate be granted to herself or to some other suitable person, It is Ordered, That the 16th day of November, A. D. 1932, at o'clock in the forenoon, at said probate office, be and is hereby appointed for hearing said petition It Is Further Ordered, That public notice 'thereof be given by publication of a copy of this order, once each week for three successive weeks previous to said day of hear ing, in the Ironwood Times, a newspaper printed and circulated in aald county.

HARRY K. BAY, Judge of Probate. A true copy. L. ANDERSON, Deputy Register of Probate.

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