CHAPTER XL 

 Pacific Coast Trip. 



TT^ I am always looking for taller timber to plant my traps in 



and as the drift of the trapper seems to be to the west, 



J I the Rockies and the Pacific Coast, and as 1 have had some 



experience in the Rockies, and along the Pacific Coast 



region, I will speak of some of the advantages and disadvantages 



that the trapper will meet with in that section. 



The trapper will find the fur bearers more plentiful and many 

 more kinds of animals to take, than is iound in the East, which 

 is a great advantage to the trapper. The hunter will find deer 

 quite plentiful in many places in the Rocky Mountains and on the 

 Pacific Coast. In 1904 I was in Humboldt and Trinity Counties, 

 California and I found deer so plentiful and tame that it was no 

 sport to shoot them. While the law limited the hunter to two 

 deer in a season, the people in the mountains made their own 

 laws, as to the number of deer that they should kill. Black and 

 brown bear are plentiful all through the Rocky Mountains and 

 in the Coast ranges. You see much written of the grizzly bear 

 in this region, but it is doubtful if a hunter or trapper would 

 see one or even the track of one during a whole season's trap- 

 ping. The trapper will find marten, fisher and lynx in many places 

 in the Rockies and in the Coast .Range but nothing to what there 

 was a few years ago. 



Now one who is contemplating trapping in the Rockies or on the 

 Pacific Coast, must bear in mind that the conditions that a trapper 

 meets with in this region are far different from what they are in 

 the East. The trapper who is planning a trip in that section before 

 starting out should examine his feet close to see that there are no 

 tender spots on them. The man who makes a success of trapping 

 in this region must be a man who can stand grief and hardships 



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