160 RECENT HUNTING TRIPS. 



mined to make their headquarters at the mining 

 camp, twelve miles up Slate Creek, and hunt 

 from there in the Russell Mountains, a magni- 

 ficent range, whose rugged peaks, new-clad 

 with recent snow, were now glittering in the 

 sun above us. Mr. Armstrong reported that 

 moose, caribou, sheep and bears, were all to be 

 found in these mountains. 



Early in the afternoon we reached the forks of 

 the MacmiUan, and Mr. Sheldon and I, with our 

 two men, Coghlan and Louis, and two canoes, 

 pushed on at once up the North Fork, leaving 

 our companions, Messrs. Cameron, Patterson and 

 Judge Dugas, to proceed up the other branch to 

 a range of mountains about thirty miles distant, 

 known as the South Fork Mountains, where 

 game had been reported to be plentiful by a 

 Mr. RiddeU, the only trapper who had ever 

 been there. 



For all of us to have hunted in one 

 district would, I think, have been highly 

 inadvisable, and Mr. Sheldon being of the same 

 opinion, he and I had determined to try the 

 North Fork together, though we had been able 



