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This was in Potter Co. In the spring of 1857, we saw tracks of many wild 

 beasts in wet places in the bottoms near Austin, where I had settled the pre- 

 ceding year. One morning my 2 boys saw some tracks and said that some- 

 body's cow had got lost in the woods. Now no stray cow could have been in 

 that place at that season. I saw the tracks ; they were strange to me, but 

 Mr. John Glassby, and Cliff Haskins, old hunters, pronounced them Elk 

 tracks, and said they were probably some strays passing from Pine Creek 

 [Potter Co.] to Elk and Forest counties, and would take the route through 

 the deer licks up the creek (Freeman's Run) to the Salt Spring in Portage 

 Twp., this county. This they did as known by their tracks ; I myself seeing 

 them for three miles on their route, and hearing of them to beyond the big 

 Salt Lick. No others were ever seen to my knowledge after these." — E. O. 

 Austin. 



Somerset Co. — " Exterminated. Last seen in this section [Elk Lick] 

 about 45 years ago." — Mier, 1902. 



Sullivan Co. — "The last one killed was in the early part of the 19th cen- 

 tury, in the western part of the county." — Behr. 



" New Albany, Bradford Co., Pa., 

 March 26, 1901. 



" The information I can give you in regard to the elk in what is now Sulli- 

 -van Co. is very meagre indeed. I am sorry I cannot give you something more 

 definite, but to fix dates definitely after lapse of many years where there are 

 no records, is almost impossible. Elkland township, now a moderately sized 

 township in Sullivan Co., adjoining Bradford Co. on the north, was erected as 

 a part of Lycoming in 1804, and contained at that time a large territory, 

 larger than all of Sullivan Co. now. It was so named on account of its terri- 

 tory being a great range for elk long before the township was erected : it was 

 known as " The Elklands." A small lake in this township bears the name 

 Elk Lake. Joel McCarty, one of the early settlers, saw at one time seventeen 

 elk in this lake. He shot some, I cannot say how many. This was about 

 ninety or ninety-five years ago. Wm. J. Eldred, Esq., who died in 1888, 

 aged 82 years, and was born here, often told me of seeing a drove of four- 

 teen elk as he was traveling along the " Old Gennessee " road which leads 

 over the mountain from here to what is now Towanda. As near as I can 

 tell, this was eighty years ago. Chas. Mullen killed at least one elk in this 

 township. 



The last elk killed in this region (Sullivan, Bradford and Lycoming Cos.), 

 was killed near Ringdale, Sullivan Co. [on the south branch of Loyalsock 

 Creek], about 1830, by Messrs. Wilcox and Northrop (presumably Sheff. Wil- 

 cox). They started him near New Albany, Bradford Co., and chased him, 

 the snow being deep, they wearing snow shoes. 



" I know of no specimens left here. When a boy one of my uncles had 



