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around much himself, but hears that 12 or 15 have been found in the 

 Tahawus Club grounds. He closes his letter, however, by expressing the 

 opinion that the mortality has been exaggerated and that we will find that 

 there are plenty next fall. Mr. David Hunter, Tahawus, thinks the condi- 

 tion of deer about medium. He knows of fifteen being winter-killed and 

 thinks that there are probably many more. 



As to the rest of Essex county, reports appear to be quite different. 

 Mr. H. G. Alford, of Newman, in the town of North Elba, Essex county, 

 says that the reports from the district bounded by Newcomb on the south, 

 Long Lake on the west, Saranac river on the north and Lake Champlain 

 on the east, show that not a single carcass has been found. Since the 

 Pruyn preserve is in the southwest portion of this district, this report is 

 manifestly not literally true, but is probably approximately so for the rest 

 of the region. Mr. B. R. Brewster, also of Newman, says that he has been 

 in the woods himself and does not think that any dead deer have been 

 found in Essex county. Mr. David G. Helms, Long Lake, knows of only 

 two dead deer being found, and thinks that they wintered very well. Mr. 

 John Shandrow, Blue Ridge, Town of North Hudson, Essex county, saw 

 one carcass in February, near Lake Henderson, but thinks that the deer 

 wintered as usual. Hon. George A. Stevens, Lake Placid, Essex county, 

 says that he has been in the woods a great deal this winter, having two 

 lines of sable traps, one fifteen and the other twelve miles long. He saw 

 many signs of living deer, but not a single dead one. He says "the deer 

 have not suffered much in this section. My information is from actual 

 travel in the woods." This evidence is much more reliable than what 

 some one has heard that some one else told his informant. 



It the above information is correct, it is clear that most of the deaths 

 in this region were in two preserves, that of the Tahawus Club and Mr. 

 Pruyn's. In this connection it is interesting to note the reports from other 

 preserves. Byron P. Ames, of Ne-ha-sa-ne Park, Dr. Seward Webb's pre- 

 serve, says "we found thirty dead deer in the Park. Much ground was 

 burned over last year and destroyed their food. Six of us went through 

 the woods and lopped down small trees; otherwise many more would have 

 died." Hon. Warren Higley, President of the Adirondack League Club, 

 whose preserve covers 67,000 acres, writes that five dead deer were found 

 in the Little Moose district; and seven in the Bisby district. As to the 

 Honnedaga district, Mr. Nelson and his son, on March 13, 14 and 15, went 

 through the north part of Township 5, Yule Brook, Cobble Stone creek and 

 headwaters of the Indian river, into Township 8 and .back through Town- 

 ship 7 to Forest Lodge, without finding a single dead deer. 'There were 



