182 TRUE BEAR STORIES. 



through the open pine forest on the top 

 of the mountain. 



Superintendent McCullough, who has 

 charge of Haggin & Carr's sheep camps on 

 Pinos Mountain, stopped at the Examiner 

 camp when he made his inspecting tours, 

 and consultations were held with him 

 about the bears. From the reports given 

 him by the herders he judged that only 

 the bears that lived on the mountain were 

 prowling about, and that the invading 

 army had not arrived from the Alamo and 

 the Sespe region. A large cinnamon bear 

 had walked into one camp about ten miles 

 distant and killed two sheep in daylight, 

 but the grizzlies had not begun to eat mut 

 ton. In July or August there would be 

 bears enough to keep a man busy shinning 

 up trees. Last year, he said, there were 

 at least forty bears on the mountain, and 

 they visited some of the sheep camps every 

 night. Sometimes two or three bears would 

 raid a camp, tree the herder and kill sev 

 eral sheep. The herders were not expected 



