46 THE PENNSYLVANIA LION OR PANTHER. 



Eagle Mountain to the Tussey Mountains, thence into 

 the Seven Mountains country. Hon. C. K. Sober says 

 that he feels confident that panthers still come into 

 Pennsylvania by these paths. Panthers had a regular 

 crossing from Nittany Valley to the Summit country 

 at Hoppleton, Clinton County ; thence across Sugar 

 Valley, and from there south to Treaster Valley, Mif- 

 flin County, where they bred. Emmanuel Harman, 

 as a boy, encountered panthers on this crossing, while 

 A. D. Karstetter, Postmaster at Loganton, can recall 

 panthers crossing Sugar Valley within the past thirty 

 years. The panther which Wilson Rishel heard on the 

 Sugar Valley Mountain, south of Tylersville, Clinton 

 County, in 1870, was heard the day previously at 

 Lamar, and the day before that in the east end of 

 Nittany Valley, according to Dr. Jonathan Moyer. 

 Emmanuel Harman heard the same panther the week 

 before in Gottshall PIollow. David Mark, born in 

 1835, says that panthers were always a rare animal in 

 Sugar A^alley, only passing through there at intervals 

 by their regular paths. The Seven Mountains was the 

 last stand of the native panthers in Pennsylvania. 

 Clement F. Herlacher camped in Treaster Valley in 

 the summers of 1892 and 1893, as has been stated pre- 

 viously, having heard rumors that the pair of pan- 

 thers which he tracked to the valley were breeding 

 there. As the result he captured four cubs in 1892 

 and two the following year, bu' he old ones escaped. 

 He says the old panthers "look on" terribly over the 

 loss of their young. It was probably these unhappy 



