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Mr. R. G. Low, Mountain View, Franklin County, N. Y. [Hotel Proprietor.) — I 

 think hounding should be prohibited entirely in Franklin county, and a law passed 

 that there should be no deer killed in five years. When I first came to this place 

 fourteen years ago, from fifteen to twenty deer were killed night-hunting that season. 

 It is a very rare thing for a deer to come to the water now. From sixty to 

 seventy deer were killed every fall hounding. This fall only twenty-eight were killed 

 hounding, and if hounding is kept up, I do not think there will be a deer left in this 

 locality in five years more. 



Mr. George C. Lewis, Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, N. Y. [Secretary of the Granshue 

 Club?) — This club has since its organization made every effort to protect its deer. We 

 know that the private game preserves have been about the only friends the deer have 

 had for several seasons past, and the only protection they have had the past season. 



Anyone who wanted to kill a deer at any season, or in any way, has done so 

 without any fear of the law ; and it is the opinion of this club that unless the 

 law is enforced that a very few years will exterminate the deer in the Adiron- 

 dacks. Our club was informed last March that hunters were on our grounds 

 slaughtering deer. We sent our game keeper to look after it, and found that 

 several had been killed when so poor that they were entirely useless to anyone. 

 The law is all right, but it is not looked after. We believe the State should 

 appoint all keepers of private game preserves, special game protectors without pay, 

 giving them the fines collected through them. In our section the deer-licks have 

 been the means of killing more deer than any other means by far. The woods 

 are full of them on preserves as well as public lands. Our club has destroyed 

 many such licks the past two seasons. 



Mr. William H. Burnett, Lake George, N. Y. [Special Game Constable.) — I think 

 that all dogs which hunt or chase wild deer should be chained up, or enclosed 

 in a yard during the close season. 



Mr. John H. Miller, Saranac Lake, Franklin County, N. Y. [Secretary Adirondack 

 Guides' Association.) — I believe it would be better, on the whole, to discontinue 

 the hounding of deer for at least five years, and to prohibit hunting and shooting 

 them by a "jack light." 



I am Secretary of the Adirondack Guides' Association, and have acted in such 

 capacity for five years. During that time, and also during the past eighteen 

 years in which I have been a guide in the Adirondack forests, I have become 

 acquainted with the views of almost all the prominent guides. Our association 

 numbers 236 of them, and with a few exceptions, the majority of them are of my 

 opinion on this subject. This was not the case until within a year or two, however. 



