52 pioneer life; or, 



if fattened wholly on corn. We then kept three 

 hogs through the winter on fish. Our supply lasted 

 until about the middle of April. At that time, eels 

 were worth in that country, from five to seven dollars 

 dollars per barrel, according to the demand. Sal- 

 mon and other good fish were worth from four to six 

 dollars a barrel. We estimated the fish fed to our 

 hogs to be worth no mor e than seven or eight dollars 

 as corn was very cheap at that time. If we had 

 sold our fish at a very low rate, the four barrels of 

 salmon, at five dollars a barrel, and five barrels of 

 eels at seven dollars a barrel, and the fish we fed to 

 hogs at eight dollars (besides, two months of the year 

 we caught enough to supply the family all the time,) 

 this would show the value of our fish basket for the 

 first year. We estimated that the fish caught in it 

 was worth to us, at the lowest rate, from sixty to 

 seventy-five dollars, besides the supply for the family. 

 The trout caught that season, which wo kept for the 

 family use, would have been worth twenty dollars 

 more. 



During the first few years of our residence here, 

 we would often look up the creek in the morning, 

 and see a deer, coming at the top of its speed, fol- 

 lowed by three or four wolves — sometimes two on 

 each side of the creek. We would immediately 

 prepare and go out to meet them. Sometimes we 

 captured the deer with very little trouble, but often 

 the wolves would catch and spoil it before we came 

 up. In this manner the wolves ran the deer from 

 the first of July until the last of January. During 



