Hunting at High Altitudes 



As my ranch had not been occupied until May 

 30, there had been little preparation for winter's 

 vegetables. Jay Bradley had gone to a ranch fifty 

 miles to the north for a thousand pounds of pota- 

 toes, bought at four cents per pound, and was due 

 the next morning. I accordingly intercepted him 

 the next forenoon, the wagon was driven by the 

 carcasses, they were loaded into it and brought to 

 the ranch. In passing home we met my neighbor, 

 Richard Ashworth, who soon after moved to his 

 new ranch. He stopped and wondered at the 

 wagon box full of grizzly bear. These bear were 

 all weighed by a pair of ice scales; the old bears, 

 350 pounds each after dressing, equivalent to 475 

 pounds on foot, and the cub 100 pounds, equal to 

 135 pounds on foot. 



As it happened, Mr. Ashworth visited the U. S. 

 surveyors' camp, and told them of the result of the 

 firing the night before. As these surveyors were 

 giving names to all streams for their maps, the 

 name of this creek, at neighbor Ashworth's sug- 

 gestion, was changed from Rose to Four Bear 

 Creek. In after years, when a postoffice was 

 established in this neighborhood, the name Four 

 Bears was given it in the petition for its establish- 

 ment. 



I have given this night's happenings thus in 

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