48 THE BLACK BEAR OF PENNSYLVANIA 



homes of hermits or "pioneers/' Such a ruin can be 

 seen near the cold spring on top of North Mountain, 

 climbed by the Pennsylvania Alpine Club, October 15, 

 1920. There is another such away up on the slopes of 

 South or White Deer Mountain, near the headwaters 

 of Lick Run, Union County, on the road to the "Lost 

 Valley." 



Bears sometimes like an indoor life, as the black- 

 bear which enjoyed a sight-seeing tour about the 

 streets of Woolrich, Clinton County, in 1919, had, it 

 is said, spent the previous night in a ba'rn attached to 

 the celebrated John Rich and 1 Brother woolen mills. 

 On Oregon Hill, Lycoming County, about 1897, a 

 large bear went into a barn at night, but, having been 

 noticed, the doors were slammed on him, and he be- 

 came an easy captive. Along the Juniata River it is 

 generally considered that Solomon Miller, of Ger- 

 many Valley, Huntingdon County, was the oldest bear 

 hunter, as he killed a bear on his 98th birthday. He 

 had ibeen killing 'bears all his life, and was noted for 

 his skill in the chase of his favorite variety of game. 

 A hunter named Carrier, at Kane, McKean County, 

 killed his forty-eighth bear in 1914. Chauncey E. 

 Logue, a younger hunter, as already stated, has killed 

 over two score of bears. 



Bears have always been objects of great interest to 

 foreign travelers in Pennsylvania. Dr. J. D. Schoepf, a 

 German traveler, shortly after the Revolutionary War, 

 tells how they annoyed German settlers along the Blue 

 Mountains, in the vicinity of the Wind Gap. Thomas 



