DISAPPEARING GAME 189 



reference is not to Colorado alone. Other 

 States are equal sinners. 



One rank open case of poaching came to my 

 knowledge in Routt County. During July, 

 1910, a New York City man, who lives on Riv- 

 erside Drive and whose name and address I 

 know, appeared at Yampa with two compan- 

 ions. At the local livery stable they em- 

 ployed a guide who took them with their outfit 

 to a point in the Flat Tops, near what is known 

 as the Devil's Causeway. Here the guide fitted 

 up their camp, made them comfortable, and re- 

 turned to his duties at Yampa. The party w r as 

 presumably on a fishing trip, as at this season 

 there is no open season on any game. The 

 guide applied for and secured the necessary li- 

 censes. Here they spent six weeks, moving 

 camp a short distance once. 



A guide who had a camping party in the 

 mountains observed them from a distance and 

 brought his party, consisting of a Chicago man, 

 another gentleman, and the Chicago man's wife, 

 to a rendezvous where, unseen, they witnessed 

 a wigwag signal from above the Devil's Cause- 

 way to some one below. The Devil's Cause- 

 way, it may be explained, is a narrow natural 

 bridge spanning a gorge. Presently shooting 

 began. 



