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hides. He thought so Httle of them that they 

 rotted where they hung and were blown apart by 

 heavy gales. German buyers secured many panther 

 skins, as there was a steady demand in the "old coun- 

 try" for these hides, like there always has been for 

 walnut. Schroeder & Co., of Lock Haven, sent their 

 last consignment to Germany in 1893. William Perry 

 killed a mature male panther on Yost Run, Centre 

 county, in 1875, which was seen in the trap by S. A. 

 Wadsworth and J. A. Roan, residents of Clinton coun- 

 ty, now living. Roan says that the animal's head was 

 covered with old scars, showing where it had been in 

 sanguinary battles with rivals in the past. James 

 Wylie Miller, veteran hunter of Clinton county, but 

 formerly of Cameron county, killed many deer in the 

 old days the flanks of which had been scarred by 

 panthers in their ineffectual eft'orts to bring them 

 down. On one occasion Miller saw the tracks of nine 

 panthers on a "crossing" on Up Jerry Run, in Cam- 

 eron county. In Miller's boyhood days, he was born 

 in 1838, the greatest panther hunters in the Sinnema- 

 honing Valley were Joe Berfield, John Jordan, Arch 

 Logue and Henry Mason, who resided a short dis- 

 tance up the East Fork. According to Jonas J. 

 Barnet, born in 1838, of Weikert, Union County, 

 panthers were so prevalent on Penn's Creek in the 

 first decade of the Nineteenth Century that his uncle, 

 Jacob Weikert, was unable to keep pigs for a period 

 of seven years. Mary Hironimus, of Weikert, was 

 followed four miles by a panther ; the experience 



