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and four or six mule teams then owned by David 

 Kaufman at he Forest Iron Works, as well as all the 

 collars for the mules, as he was an expert collar 

 maker." 



"Some time in the '70's a party trailed a bear in a 

 deep snow from White Deer Valley to the Sugar 

 Valley Narrows near the Rock Oak Spring or High 

 Walls, and abandoned the trail there, and Oscar Huff 

 and another man came up the pike, took the trail and 

 found the bear in a hollow tree still in sight of the old 

 pike road, and killed the bear and went home happy." 



"The most peculiar thing about bears is they always 

 hole up when real cold weather sets in. They go 

 into their lair real wobbling fa)t and' come out in the 

 spring very poor in flesh, as they suck their paw r s for 

 nourishment, which extracts all of the fat out of their 

 bodies, their feet being very tender in the springtime, 

 and if a dog gets after them, then will soon climb a 

 tree, as their feet won't stand much running on rocks. 



"Another remarkable feature about bears is they 

 have their cubs in February. Until that time the 

 male and female often live in one den, but when the 

 time comes for the cubs to arrive the female bear 

 drives the male bear out, and he must 'hunt himself 

 another den, regardless of how cold or how deep a 



