84 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



held near Beech Creek, CHnton County, in 1849. 

 A "Ring Hunt" was held in Tioga County in 

 1818. One took place in Snyder County, led 

 by "Black Jack" Schwartz, "The Wild Hunter of 

 the Juniata," in 1760, in which 109 wolves were 

 slain. Settlers on the Blue Mountain and Second 

 Mountain held a "drive" which centered in the Cran- 

 berry Bog on the Berks and Schuylkill County line, 

 in 1830, as a result of which fourteen wolves paid the 

 death penalty. About that same year a "Ring Hunt" 

 was held by farmers in Crawford County. The last 

 wolf in Sugar Valley, mentioned as having 

 been seen by Daniel Mark in 1870, lingered 

 on about his favorite haunts for quite a few 

 years longer. J. D. Eckel, while on a hunting expedi- 

 tion in 1875, with William Beck, an old hunter, crossed 

 the mountain on the north side of the valley by way of 

 the Karstetter Path, when, on the north slope of the 

 mountain, about fifty steps from the summit, they 

 noticed a large grey wolf standing on the path in front 

 of them. Beck, who knew the wolf well, declared 

 that it was the last of its race left in Sugar \'alley. 

 Mr. Eckel described it as about the size of a full-grown 

 shepherd dog, with stiff ears, and a greyish black in 

 color. When Dan Treaster, for whom Treaster A'^al- 

 ley, Mifflin County, formerly Black Wolf Valley, was 

 named, was living in the little valley also known as 

 Treaster Valley in Centre County; his cabin was fre- 

 quently surrounded' by wolves at night. On more than 

 one occasion, when, with his wife, he went to the log 



