THttXT TKA&fl A. Hl'WIX*. 



W Run, across 



".be east §io 



reek, three mile* from its mouth. Th« coun- 

 try h rock;/ an generally trareled op 



k, this being a g 

 place for them ri fifteen or siz: 



.cs furthe .me to the head waters of Tioga 



ilk would much farther ea- 



consequence of the.- - a settlement at a 



Mt of the 

 back by Trout and Mill Bum, 

 bur. itl/, from the head water-. 



BoumI I-Jands there were t:. 

 licks. The elk in the winter season used to stay 

 •f the head water-, of the areains, where feed was 

 abundant. About April they would go to the small- 

 I here the feed wa- earlier, and stay there 

 until about the first of May. They would frequently 

 v .o Big Creek, where the mountains were high, 

 and remain for some time. They would stay among 

 the mountains during the season of breeding, until 

 their young had obtained considerable size — say 

 from the first of May until the end of June. 



At this time large quantities of moss was to be 

 found in the bottom of the river in the ehoal places 

 when the elk would come to the river in great droves 

 to eat it; generally in the evening. Sometimes they 

 would come in the day time, in droves of from thirty 

 to forty, and could be seen by the hunters, feeding 

 on moss. They would generally stay around the 

 river until the middle of August, and if they went 



