CteO. 14, 1883-1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



883 



Tin.' subject of giving these wild animals protection comes 

 : ad Attention is called to tiiE ruthless destruc- 



.'Mi they are subjected bytlMS report of General 



'i ,!m m cflnieliroin which we print below. No m:in 



is bcltei Hii.i".. i i peak mi this subject than the, gallant 

 rili i ■■.'. 1. 1 'in we quote, and we wi«h with all our hearts 

 ! | i omtnendatiotis might be carried out. We wholly 

 i Ijiijj that lli«' limits of the Park should he cx- 

 tenfli i, and thai the duly of policing it should be entrusted 

 mi I bfoqpa under his command. 1 seems impossible to 

 - ylhing in the way of assistance from the interior 

 Di partttient, (Hat sink Of corruption which so disgraces our 

 eoveniini.nl, but the troops from Custer, Wesbakie and 

 EJllis could be employed in this duty without the cost of one 

 cent to the government. We bespeak for General Sheri- 

 dan's recommendation the heartfelt Bupport of every Sports- 

 man in the laud. He says-. 

 On arriving at the railroad, 1 regretted exceedingly to learn that 



■ I n rented out to private parties, The place 



is «tn -thy of being a National Bark, the geyser phenomena and the 

 • ■• Canyon having no parallel lu any nation, The improvo- 

 fnonfa in the Park should he national, the control ot It I" (he hands 

 of .in offiuer of the Government and small appropriations be ninrle 

 and i-xpiMiii -.1 e.i-1: voar for the Improvement of roads and i rails. It 

 has been now placed to the hands of private parties for money-mak- 

 Inspmaioses, from ivhieh claims and conditions will arise thai may 

 he h int r.n- the Government and the courts to shake off. 

 The same in the Park is being killed OS rapidly, especially in the 



winter. I have been cr blv informed that since its disco, en as 



were killed by skin hunters In one winter, and that 

 even las! winker, In and around the edges of the Part there was as 

 many as 2,0i.HI of these grand animals killed, to say nothing of the 

 mountain sheep, antelope, deer, and other game slaughtered In great 

 numbers, r would like to see the Government extend this Park to 

 »be castas far as a-nortli and south line through Cedar Mountain. 

 This would be due east about forty' mfles, at the same time placing 

 I. tern boundary of the Parle at the forty -fourth parallel of lati- 



tude, which would be due south ten miles. This would increase the area 

 of the Park by -3.3 1 4 square miles, and would make a preserve for the 

 large game of the West, now so rapidly decreasing. This extension 

 would not be taking anything away from the people, as the territory 

 thusnnuoxod to the Park can never be settled upon. It is rough 

 mountain country, « ith an altitude too high for cultivation or winter 

 for cattle. The game is now being driven toward the Park, 

 and if we. keep cat the skin hunters the game would naturally drift 

 to ..her,' it, can find protection, This year I noticed that buffalo were 

 on the edge of the Park, ami (he elk. deer, antelope, and big-horn 

 Sheep, from the Big Horn Mountains, are all drifting to the section 

 or the country which would be included in the National Park if it 

 were extended as 1 recommend. 



1 respectfully make an appeal to all sportsmen of this country, and 

 to the sportsmen's clubs, to assist in setting Congress to make the ex- 

 tension I describe, thus securing a refuse for our wild game. If au- 

 >d to do so, I will engage to keep out skin hunters and all other 

 luraturs by the use of troops from Fort Washakie on the south, Cus- 



'.st. and Kllis on the north, and, if necessary, I can keep 



sufficient troops in the Park to accomplish this object, and give a 

 place of refuge ands ifety for our noble game. If any of the game 

 which ii ill naturally dril '! to this place of safety break out again, let 

 it ba killed, but let its life he made safe while in the National Purk; 

 i- will then soon lea) n to sun where it will be unmolested. 



it might be Imagined that the, inhabitants of Montana 

 would lie far-sighted enough to take into their own hands 

 the enforcement of the game laws which exist on the statute 

 hooks of the Territory, and thus preserve to the Park, which 

 (tnnuftlly draws so many strangers to their land, one of its 



■ . '.-I attractions, but in our ever-busy, bustling West 

 every niau is so intent on the accomplishment of his own 

 private business ends, that he has little or no time to devote 

 to the public good. Still, it would pay the citizens of Boze- 

 mau and Virginia, the two cities from which most, of the 

 parties who go to the Park start, to hire half a dozen good 

 men. to do the work which the government will not do. 

 Better Hian this, however, far better than anything else that 

 could be done, would be the accepting and carrying out, in 

 detail, the recommendations of General Sheridau. 



The Park should undoubtedly' be extended as advised by 

 him, and this should be done at once, before, any settlers' 

 claims are taken iip within the proposed new boundaries. 

 1 1 : n extension would give to this public pleasure ground 

 an area of about 7,000 square miles, as against the 3. 700 

 Which it at piesenl contains, an increase which it is now 

 perfectly practicable to make without interfering with the 

 fights of any citizen. The people of the United Slates 

 would then have a public preserve and pleasure ground 

 which for extent, for beauty of scenery, for natural won- 

 ders, and for the variety and interest attaching to the in- 

 digenous life within its boundaries, would be unequalled 

 by anything in the world. 



For many years we have hunted and traveled and fished 

 and trapped and mined and fought Indians over the length 

 and breadth of the great West. We have seen it when it, 

 Was, except in isolated spots, an Uninhabited wilderness; 

 have seen the Indian and the game retreat before the white 

 man and the cuttle, and beheld the tide of immigration, 

 once small, like a tiny mountain stream, move forward, 

 nt, first slowly, and then, gathering volume and .strength, 

 advance with a constantly accelerated power which threat- 

 ens before long to leave no portion of our vast territory un- 

 broken by the farmer's plow Or untrodden by his flocks. 

 There is one spot left, a single rock about which this tide 

 will break, and past which it will sweep, leaving it untie- 

 filed by the unsightly traces of civilization. Here in this 

 Yellowstone Park the large game of the West may be pre- 

 served from extermination; here, like the almost extinct 

 aurochs of Lithuania, it may be seen by generations yet un- 

 born. 



It is for the Nation to say whether these splendid species 

 shall be so preserved, in this their last refuge. 



OUll irOLTDAY XVyWERS. 



rpiLK Christmas number of the FOREST and Stheam. 

 * that of December 21, will contain the following, 

 VI rfttau specially for it: 



I. "The Sea 8erp*3tt," 



An illustrated article, by Dr. W. O, Ayres, of Now Haven, 

 Conn, 



II. Hollywood Manou, 



A reminiscence of the Devonshire coast. By "John Alder 

 grove." 



III. " Any Letters for .Me? " 

 A stbring tale of adventure in N ew Mexico. By H. P. Ufford, 

 whose sketch entitled "The Big Bear of Hermosa," in out- 

 last Christmas number, was received with so much favor. 



The New Year number, that of December '.'8, will con- 

 tain, among other good things : 



ClttJSOES OI'' THE ANTAKOTtO, 



A deeply interesting narrative of the experience of the crew 

 of lite bark Trinity, cast away for fifteen months on a desert 

 island in the South Seas. Written for the Fokest A.ND 

 Stream by John Easmoud, second officer of the Trinity. 



ADIRONDACK SURV&Y IfOTES. 



XIV.— WORK OF THE STCVKV 



'TMIESE rambling papers have touched upon many things 

 *- and have, avoided reference to the work of the survey 

 party. There are several reasons for this; among them 

 maybe named the fact that I am merely a kind of an attache, 

 looking after the fishes, with a sort of roving commission to 

 go where there promises to be anything of interest in that 

 line, and consequently I am with the working party but a 

 small portien of the time. Again; I do not pretend to 

 know a great deal about the work and might mix things up, 

 and besides this I do not care to anticipate any portion of 

 Mr. Colvin's report. By the way, those reports, made to 

 the Legislature of New York, are most excellent reading, 

 and give one a better idea of the Adirondacks than he can 

 gain in any other manner, unless he devotes years to actual 

 travel there. 



Ib paper No. XII. of this scries, I referred to the working- 

 parties then on Raquette Lake. This might give the im- 

 pression that all the work this season had been done there. 

 This is not the ease. Since July Mr. Colvin has had some 

 fifteen separate surveying parties in the field, some on the 

 Schroon waters, some on the St. Regis, some in the Sacon- 

 daga country, some among the West Canada lakes, and 

 others on the Independence River; in fact, he has had a 

 party in nearly every county here, and several in Hamilton 

 county, all at the same time. His headquarters at West 

 Mountain, on Raquette Lake, were so situated that he could 

 oversee those nearest him, and also readily communicate 

 with the others. His tent is uow T (Nov. 22) at a height of 

 about three thousand feet above the sea, with suow and ice 

 all around. The lakes are frozen and at night the ther- 

 mometer is often about, or below, zero. 



Since I have learned how necessary this work is in order 

 that the State may know what land it owns and also be 

 able to define the boundaries of tracts that it has sold, I 

 have wondered that the survey was not undertaken years 

 ago: It is just as well, however, for if it had been at- 

 tempted with the appliances of fifty years ago it would not 

 have been as thoroughly done as it will be now. The old lines 

 have been nearly obliterated, posts have rotted, and witness- 

 trees have grown so that the old marks are either covered or 

 the tree has reached the limit of .its life and fallen. The old 

 compass lines ran from side to side and were anything but 

 straight, being inclined to travel ui circles about deposits of 

 o>e which coquetted with the magnetic needle, so that what 

 was mapped out on paper as a straight line was apt to re- 

 semble the wanderings of a bear hunting for beech nuts. 



The exact work, now done with instruments wholly.inde- 

 pendeut of the magnetic compass, will be, when completed, 

 of great value for all time. The monuments are of copper 

 set in the rock, where the conditions will admit of it, and in 

 cases where there is no solid rock, large boulders are buried, 

 and the copper bolts in them can be readily found. Conuty 

 and township lines are firmly established, and there will be 

 no more evasion of the payment of taxes on the plea that 

 certain property is incorrectly mapped or described. When 

 it is known that au ordinary compass is entirely useless in 

 many parts of the Adirondacks, owing to the immense de- 

 posits of magnetic ore found here, in consequence of which 

 tho variation of the needle is so groat as to cause it to point 

 in many directions, including due south, then the unreli- 

 ability of the old compass surveys will be understood. The 

 old maps show level ground where some of the highest 

 mountains are found to-day, and, unless some malicious 

 person has since placed those great hills there to puzzle 

 engineers, the maps must lie incorrect. Yet tracts contain- 

 ing thousands, and even a million, of acres have been sold 

 on the basis of the surveys made seventy years ago by com- 

 pass lines aud which, as before stated, are almost as crooked 

 as the traditional ram's horn. 



The work of the survey goes on all the year round, and 

 consequently it brings much exposure to the weather. Tak- 

 ing observations from mountain tops in the Adirondacks at 

 any time from November to April is not boy's play, or man's 

 either, and there is no lack of winds which blow all the cold 

 air that most people w r ould ask for. In the summer the flies 

 and their companions in crime make life a torment near the 



streams, and a month in the spring and two in the fall is all 

 the surveyors have of comfort, m the shape of weather and 

 relief from insects, throughout the year. Men who go to the 

 woods in summer lofish expect the Hies, so do the surveyors, 

 loo. Tor flwif matter, (nil il tnftlies much difference whether 

 an annoyance is a daily accompaniment of one's business or 

 whether he can escape by leaving when he pleases, if his 

 tormentors come too thick. At present writing snow-shoes 

 are in fashion, and are not liable to be superseded before 

 MftrCh or April. 



The Still-hunters are out in force now and the season for 

 driving deer with dogs is past. The music of the hounds no 

 more rings through the forest. This suggest the line: "The 

 hom of the hunter is heard on the bill." I have never 

 beard this, but. 1 saw a hunter have one lust week. It was 

 not "the merry winding horn' that poets rave of, the horn I 

 saw him have was "straight, ""and about three fingers. 



F. M. 



Tut: New Your M.utrAm ,Si'u<t.— Governor-elect 

 Grover Clevelaud, of this State, has made up an excellent 

 military staff of young men, energetic and ardent, and the. 

 old -fogy blood which the late administration inflicted upon 

 the National Guard will be allowed to congeal in private. 

 The selection of Capl. Chits. F. Robbins for the post of In 

 spector General of rifle practice could not ha\ c been bet- 

 tered. 



The Children's Aid Society' has issued its annual ap- 

 peal for remembrance at the Christmas season. The efforts 

 of this society are worthy of the highest praise and of sub- 

 stantial support. The secretary's address is C. L. Brace, 

 No. 19 East Fourteenth street, New York. 



$h* Sporfaninn §£owi$t. 



ONE DEER. 



DICK and I were camping at a beautiful lake in the 

 Adirondacks. It was rather late in the season and the 

 deer that a few weeks previously* had been in the habit of 

 coming to the edges of the streams and lakes to nip the lily- 

 pads and wade about iu the shallow water were seldom seen. 

 Occasionally an old buck would come out at evening and 

 take a stroll along the sandj margin of the lake, adding for 

 the moment a touch of wilder beauty to the dark forest 

 background, and after standing proudly at some rocky 

 point and surveying the scene would disappear again into 

 the woods. , 



A small bay half way up the lake seemed to be a favorite 

 place for the deer, as innumerable tracks were always to be 

 seen in the sand along the shore, and one afternoon when 

 we were almost out of venison in camp I suggested to Dick 

 that it would be the proper thing for us to make a trip in 

 the evening to this place. 



The wood for the camp fire was cut and piled at a con- 

 venient distance from the mouldering back log all ready for a 

 glorious blaze on our return, and just before sundown I took 

 my place in the bow of our little boat with the Ballard 

 across my knees, while Dick took the stern with the paddle. 



Long shadows were reaching out from the big pines and 

 hemlocks on the west shore, the valleys were already in 

 darkness, and the long red rays of the fast setting sun 

 streaming through the tree tops illumined the rest of the 

 forest with a hazy evening light. Great tree trunks lav 

 half sunken in the dark clear water, their arms reaching 

 grimly out, aud quiet reigned over all, the paddle in Dick's 

 skilled hand making not the slightest sound. 



As we silently glided along, a loon far up the lake caught 

 sight of us and his wild querulous call ringing through the 

 forest was answered by echo and sent wavering from cliff to 

 cliff. Again ami again the weird cry echoed and re-echoed 

 from the mountain sides and was sent from shore to shore, 

 and an eagle soaring high overhead answered with its 

 screams. The reverberations ceased and the stillness was 

 broken only by the song of a white-throated sparrow within 

 the short range of his little voice. A mink came swimming 

 alongside of us, his bright mischievous eyes trying to make 

 out what we were. Suddenly an otter's head* appeared 

 above the water, and soon another, and another, and iu the 

 most amusing way they bobbed up and down and spit at us 

 in their spiteful way. For two or lb rec minutes the otters 

 swam along ahead of us. diving and appearing again, and 

 finally they rlissapeared all at once, probably going to pursue 

 their calling of catching the big trout which abounded in 

 1 he lake. 



Gradually we ueared the little bay and as we rounded the 

 rocky point Dick slopped paddling The boat glided slowly 

 along with its own motion as wo carefully scanned evei'v 

 fallen hemlock for a sight of red hair, and iu a moment '[ 

 heard a low whisper, "See that buck on the right!" at the 

 same instant, catching sight of a, .pair of horns behind a 

 stump that stood quite - way out in the water, and not 

 more than ten rods from lis. The old fellow had evidently 

 been watchiug us just a lit. le longer than we bad been 

 watchiug him and had taken good pains to keep his eyes 

 over the stump and mighty little of the rest of his body' in 

 sight. 1 felt the tremor of the boat again as Dick cautiously 

 plied the paddle, aud WG trier! to move to a position where I 

 could see enough to shoot at, but the buck knew what we 

 were up to and kept backing around until he could go no 

 further, when with five or six long bounds, with flag raised, 

 he made for a windfall and stopped behind it tor a minute, 

 snorting and stamping, before biking his final leap into the 

 underbrush. He stood tail toward me, with his head turned 

 and looking over his shoulder, supposing tlui I, he was well 

 protected by the brandies, but there was where he made a 

 miscalculation, tor at least a square foot of the seat of his 

 pants was in sight, Quickly I leveled the rifle, and as the 

 echoes rang through the forest the buck made one grand 

 leap and stumbled as he struck the ground, rolling clear over 

 with feet kicking wildly in the air. In an instant he was up 

 ugaiu and had disappeared. A few quick strokes with the 

 paddle toward shore and Dick jumped out and started iu 

 the direction that the deer had taken, stopping long enough 

 to motion to me that he found blood. 



For several minutes I waited in suspense. It was fast 



