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Game Protection and 



We were compelled to take two teams to the wagon and a complete 

 camping equipment with plenty of hay and provisions. In all there were 

 twenty-one men, nineteen teams and two saddle horses. From the first 

 day out we encountered snow. We found the roads heavy and almost 

 impassable in places. In two hard days of traveling we did not make 

 over twenty-five miles. We had to double up eight horses to the wagon 

 in some places and in others all hands had to help out of a hole or prevent 

 a wagon from tipping over. Where the road led along the steep moun- 

 tain-side, guy lines had to be used frequently to prevent the wagons from 

 overturning. One might think the elk would make the load top-heavy 



but on the side hill they 

 proved expert in balanc- 

 ing the load. 



At the end of three 

 days we were still some 

 twelve or fifteen miles 

 from the pasture. Snow 

 had been getting deeper 

 until it was from five to 

 seven feet. It was im- 

 possible to go further in 

 wagons. A number of 

 rough sleds or "go-dev- 

 ils," as they are called, 

 were constructed to use for the remaining part of the journey. It was 

 impossible to take the elk out of the crates so as to change them from 

 the wagon to sled. We pulled in under a pine and with block and 

 tackle hooked to a big limb. We hoisted the crates containing the elk from 

 the wagons and let them down on the sleds. By sending teams and men 

 in advance to buck snow and make a road, we reached the pasture the 

 following day, March 19th. 



All the elk reached the pasture alive, although several were injured 

 when they were first captured. During the spring one of the buns and 

 four cows died. The increase during the past summer consisted of one 

 calf, making a total of eleven animals at present in the pasture. 



The Biological Survey has offered the state another herd of fifteen 

 elk, which will be added to the present herd during the coming winter. 

 The people of Wallowa County have offered to meet the expenses of 

 feeding and getting these elk to the pasture, if they are delivered at 

 Joseph. 



Half-Grown Silver Pheasant 



