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MODERN CAMPING FISHING SEASON NOT TOO MANY YEARS AGO, opening of trout season climaxed weeks of preparation if camping was involved. Tents had to be rewaxed and patched, wooden cots repaired and more often than not, hours were spent reshaping smokepipes for woodburning stoves. Today's camper with modern trouble-free equipment is ready to go "at the drop of a hat." His concern is not equipment or even a place to stay. Although state parks also open their camping season April 15, the trend over the last several years has been to utilize private areas. It's no accident that campground owners in trout country plan their opening to accommodate fishermen. Anglers have readily learned to appreciate the luxury of electrical facilities, especially in the chill of early spring. Located in Blair County near such popular trout streams as Bald Eagle Creek, Big Fill Run and others, Bald Eagle Campsite offers the early-season angler excellent accommodations. Situated four miles north of Tyrone on Route 220, the area contains just ten sites, but reservations will insure camping space. There is no charge for electricity. As an added bonus, Bald Eagle Creek flows directly through the property. Write: R.D. #3, Box 230, Tyrone, Pa. 16686. In the high mountain country of Potter County, Deer Lick Camping Area provides just about the finest facilities 10 "DEAR, SHALL I OPEN THE SARDINES FOR SUPPER?" DEL & LOIS KERR found anywhere. Four miles southeast of Coudersport on Route 872, the 50-site area is centrally located to over 700 miles of mountain trout streams including Oswayo Creek, Big Moores Run, Cross Fork Creek, headwaters of the Allegheny River and many others. Write: Box 29, Coudersport, Pa. 16915. Stony Fork Creek Camping Grounds (R.D. #5, Wellsboro, Pa., 16901) lies just south of the famed Pennsylvania Grand Canyon and near popular Pine Creek, long noted for its elusive rainbows and browns. Campers are just discovering Hecla Park, a new spot, which recently opened in the Nittany Mountain section between Bellefonte (home of Fishermen's Paradise) and Lock Haven on Route 64. Fine streams are found nearby including Big Fishing Creek, one of the top trout waters in the state. The area contains 20 sites, fishing on the property and full facilities. Write: Box 47 Mingoville Pa. 16856. Anglers frequenting the Williamsport region may wish to try Haleeka Trailer Camp, four miles south of Trout Run on Route 15. Open all year, the 50-site campground has adequate facilities for cold weather camping. Address inquiries to: R.D #1, Cogan Station, Pa. 17728. Headwaters of the Delaware is a favorite of many devoted trout fishermen. Twin Falls Campground, located on the Pennsylvania side of Hancock, New York, contains two campgrounds, one of which lies directly on the shore. Open all year, the area offers a heated shelter as well as complete facilities. Write: Winterdale Road, Pennsylvania Side, Hancock, N.Y. 13783. In the southern portion of the state, West Branch of Brandywine Creek is growing in popularity among trout enthusiasts. The stream flows through the property of Brandywine Meadows. Also open all year, the campground contains 150 sites and all conveniences for cold weather camping. The area is located three miles southeast of Honey Brook in Chester County. For information write: Honey Brook, Pa. 19344. The above private campgrounds are only a small representation of organized camping areas throughout the state. For a complete listing, write the Campground Association of Pennsylvania, Mercer, Pa. 16137. Often, top trout fishing is found in state park lakes and in creeks feeding flood control reservoirs. While camping is usually available at the site, private campgrounds with modern facilities are almost always nearby. Parker Dam State Park, Chapman Dam State Park and Youghiogheny Reservoir are just a few outstanding examples. Each season brings a host of new camping areas. It may be wise to first select where you want to fish, then write the nearest Chamber of Commerce or Tourist Promotion Agency for camping information in their district. You may find you have quite a wide choice of campgrounds! PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER
OIL BOOM days found wooden derrick after wooden derrick spring up throughout the "oil country" as shown here in this old photograph taken in John Benninghoff Run and Oil Creek in 1865. PART THREE OIL MOON OVER PITHOLE During parts one and two of "Oil Moon" farm wife Annie Shultz, peddler Abraham Shalof, oilman Alfred G. Smiley, printer Tom Dunn and outlaw George Croyle watched the sky over Pithole turn red with fire, Annie Shultz was headed from the house to the barn where her husband tended a new calf when she saw the glow; Peddler Shalof headed toward Pithole City with his pack and visions of new profits when outlaw Croyle waylaid him at Tight Pinch Pass, rummaging through his pack missing a handful of diamonds concealed in the handle of the peddler's bell; Tom Dunn found the peddler there and carried him the rest of the way into Pithole where he was treated at the hotel Morey House; and oilman Smiley safely made his way through the night with $100,000. Tom Dunn has left the peddler and the Morey House to "see" the fire and look for newspaperman Lee A. Morton for whom he hopes to work. We begin this month just after the fire is noticed by publisher Morton and his "staff." Soon Pithole is to come even more alive with new prospects of even more wealth! CHAPTER NINE LEE A. MORTON was not a driving taskmaster. So that was not why Justin Richards sat down as soon as the editor hurried out to see what was burning in the next block of Holmden Street. Justin Richards wasn't the kind of man who began to slow up on his work as soon as the boss left. He was a tired man. Shadrach Bolden, Morton's runty rascal, shouted the first alarm up the stairs to the second floor of a shaky, narrow, barnlike structure called "The Office of The Pithole Daily Record." The bow-legged Shadrach was returning from the Chase House across the street where he had picked up a revised list of new guests who had registered at the hotel during the day. Each issue of The Record carried a "Registry of Important Persons Arriving" at all the hotels of Pithole. At the instant that Shadrach had shouted, "Fire up the street! Mistuh Morton!" Justin Richards and John Kelly, printers, had become aware that a strong red light had over STEVE SZALEWICZ come the yellow gas-jets illuminating the type cases and the office. The men ran to the windows. "Richards," said the editor unfastening an apron so black it could have passed for a wiping rag at the well drillers, "We've got ourselves another fire. It looks like a big one." And then shaking his head, he added, "They're going to burn this town down yet. I'm going to see what's burning this time. You see the edition gets on." The three had been setting type for the next issue since four o'clock in the afternoon. The daily burden had been lengthened to 12 hours now that Frankie Tarr, a bald-headed, round-bellied, tobacco-stained rule bender from Bradford had left his cases for the distractions and demonstrations of the Free and Easy Concert Saloon on First Street... and had not returned. That was three days ago. So Richards sat down because he was tired. He was seventy years old. At his age he had no responsibilities that should tie him down to the routine of a print shop except that almost a year ago he and Editor Morton had struck up a friendship at the Moran House in Oil City. Richards did not need the inflated wage being paid printers in the oil region —five dollars a day and room and board. Common labor wheeling dirt fill on the railroad grade in Plumer earned forty cents an hour. Richards had been enjoying the comforts and the cooking at the Moran House and watching the doughty freighters and packets churn up the winding Allegheny River and between times working with Publisher Johns of The Oil City Weekly Register when the Echo No 3 the Urilda and LeClaire tied up in the first week of March' 1865 They came up from Pittsburgh bringing engines, boilers, tools, passengers, type cases, paper and a newspaper press . and Shadrach Bolden, a stowaway from Emlenton. Morton's mission was to start another newspaper in Venango County. , . , The Echo and her "sisters" had just time enough to unload freight and passengers and load again and depart for Pittsburgh when the Allegheny River froze up with an extremely cold March snap. For three nights running the thermometer dropped below zero. Immediately after came a heavy rain, a deluge. It lasted two days. The rain was general along the Allegheny River watershed and brought on one of the most disastrous floods in the memory of the valley. Both Oil Creek and the Allegheny River poured their swollen currents over the flats of Oil City. A five million dollar loss swamped the property owners. Sixty thousand barrels of oil floated from the waterfront depots at the mouth of Oil Creek. continued on page 20 MARCH—1968 11 •p-*tri>
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