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to fight bears or attempt to drive them 

 away, and the owners reckoned upon the 

 loss of several hundred sheep every sum 

 mer. 



Shortly before the first of July the camp 

 was moved to Seymore Spring, about two 

 miles from the mill, where good water and 

 feed were plenty, and search for bear sign 

 was continued. Every day some deep gorge 

 or rocky ravine was visited and thoroughly 

 hunted, and a deer was killed occasionally, 

 but no fcign of bears was found until the 

 3d of July, when the tracks of a very large 

 grizzly were discovered crossing a ridge 

 between the Lockwood Valley and the Sey 

 mour. The tracks were followed across the 

 Seymour Valley to a spur of the mountain 

 between the mill ravine and a deep canyon 

 to the westward. 



Camp was moved to a green cienaga at 

 the head of the latter, which was chris 

 tened Bear Canyon, and the building of a 

 trap was begun near the mouth about 

 half a mile from camp. Three large pine 



