PACIFIC COAST TRIP. 121 



are thinking of only the game, and not of the hardships they are 

 sure to meet with. Another thing that is well for the trapper 

 who is looking for a happy hunting and trapping ground to re- 

 member is, that he will no longer find game as plentiful as it once 

 was, in any place that is in any way easily accessible. If the 

 trapper will take into consideration the expense and hardship that 

 one must put up with in going on one of these outings, it might 

 >e that he can find quite as much pleasure and profit in looking up a 

 trapping ground nearer home. 



I will mention one or two places where one can find some sport 

 where it will not require the hardship nor expense, and at the same 

 time will find deer and some other game quite plentiful, with a 

 fair sprinkling of the fur bearers. 



In Humboldt County, in California, on Redwood River, deer 

 and bear can be found quite plentiful, and there are some marten, 

 fisher and a few lynx, coon, 'mink, skunk and fox. The fox are 

 mostly grey and you may by chance meet occasionally with a 

 mountain lion. To reach this section the best way is from San 

 Francisco by boat to Eureka, then by rail and wagon. 



Another section where game and fur bearers are fairly plentiful 

 and of easy access, is in the vicinity of Thompson's Falls, in 

 Northern Montana. 



But if only a good outing is wanted, that can be had in Pecos 

 Valley, New Mexico. You will not find much to trap other than 

 muskrats and coon on the river and lakes, but they are quite 

 plentiful, especially the latter. You will find coyotes and some 

 grey wolves, and some antelope, which are protected. Duck shoot- 

 ing is good, the climate is mild, only freezing ice the thickness of 

 window glass in the coldest weather, which is all thawed out and 

 gone by ten o'clock. This section is easily reached by rail. 

 * * * 



In July, 1902, I was spending a few days at Spokane, Wash. 

 Nearly every day I would take an old cane fish pole and go to the 

 river just above the falls and fish for bass. I would shift my post 

 fnom one point along the bank of the river to another and some- 

 times I would go out on the boom timbers and fish amon^ the logs. 



