60 THE BLACK BEAR OF PENNSYLVANIA 



snow there is. So by following the back track of a 

 bear in February, you will find the mother's den with 



her cubs." 



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"David Zimmerman shoit at one time an old she- 

 bear and three cubs of about thirty pound's apiece on 

 Sand Spring Mountain, just north of Sand Spring, 

 or Jdhn Bobb Camp, now occupied by the Riverside 

 Rod and Gun Club. 



"Bears travel a long ways when once routed. W. H. 

 Treas, or 'Captain' Treas, as he is called by his 

 hunter friends, once took a track at Lake Knob, and 

 followed it until dark, and took up the trail next 

 A. M., and the bear was never overtaken, going into 

 Fourteen Mile Narrows. 



"Jake Zimmerman and Frank Hendricks followed 

 a cub one time for seven or eight miles, and in the 

 evening the cub was back k> near his starting place, 

 and Jake concluded to let it rest and get a party to- 

 gether and make a chase for it next A. M., which they 

 did, and at a certain old pine snag Jake placed. Mr. 

 Hendricks, who shot the cub in less than an hour." 



"A man by the name of Calhoun, living near Ham- 

 ersley's Forks on Kettle Creek, Clinton County, 

 tracked his 150th bear into a hole and set his gun 

 down and crawled into the d'en and blew his breath 

 in at the bear, and Mr. Calhoun's sweater caught on 



