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ping them to another for their 

 bounty, bc'cause a higher price is 

 paid. In Idaho the bounty is $2, 

 in Montana $2.50 and in Wash- 

 ington $1. Sheepmen are at pres- 

 ent attempting to devise ways and 

 means of making a uniform boun- 

 ty law in all Western states. The 

 sheepmen are great friends of the 



bounty laws. They declare that 

 since the law went into effect the 

 decrease in the number of coyotes 

 has been noticable. They believe 

 the bounty laAv will ultimately 

 solve the coyote problem in East- 

 ern Oregon at least. In West- 

 ern Oregon there is an entirely 

 different situation". 



Texas Wild Hogs 



In connection with the forego- 

 ing reminiscenses, a few data 

 may be recalled of the Texas wild 

 hog of olden times — a descendent 

 of the domesticated swine ; and 

 also, and in particiilar, of the Tex- 

 as javelin hog. 



In olden days such pachyderma- 

 tous mammals as the wild swine 



where large areas of land were 

 torn up and undermined with the- 

 huge tusks of these wild animals, 

 in search of food. 



I recollect in my boyhood days 

 having joined hunting trips, when 

 occassionally groups of wild hogs 

 were encountered and some of 

 them killed by my elderly brothers 



Texas Javelin. (One of L. A. Guessaz' Trophies.) 



a "no man's property" roamed 

 about promiscously in various 

 parts of the Texas prairie jungles 

 and marshy lowlands, — near San 

 Antonio along the pecan and oak 

 forests and river bottoms, as well 

 as in pastures and the thickets of 

 cactus jungles and prairie plains, 



and brought to San Antonio, 

 which in those days, was a mere 

 frontier village. As far as I recol- 

 lect, the hogs were of a grayish- 

 black color and the body covered 

 with wooly hair, interspersed 

 with course and thick bristles 

 along the back. In old specimens 



