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FOREST AND STREAM. 



T'Iak. A. 1883. 



''•we ik the Wood Rivet? CoTJ$T!RY.— A eorrespou- 



denl of the Oakland. Gal, Yi.hil, , writing from the Wood 



iiio country, says: The country abounds in game, 



|| : : u deer within a shori 'distance of ttiiilev, 



"| once merely, but man) liim-r- during hist season, These 



il." by i hr Lrautera. 

 in ' i 800 pounds each. 

 lug not infrequently met 

 ..... killed the past slimmer 

 1.400 pounds and which was 

 of the town. Of smaller 



•zu i..<: 



There i 



I he 



Little Wood K 



■v of two 



dei 



i Wbi 



1 Riv 



ehiekei 

 rer, Dei 



furnish 



Ihi 



while, 



ipecies, 



their 



killed 



The 



reek. 



best 



•ight 



-, the 

 To 



talu 



are of the -tpi ii - 

 They sometimes atta 

 Bi nr are numerous, n 



with. On. t>l Mr -. m 

 a1 Muldoon. whieli wi 

 shot within spee di b 

 game many kinds aboi 

 igi i i, and "fool 

 nam:- from their habit 

 w ithoul on attempt t 

 good ammunition for 

 rivers, the Wood liiv 

 Malftde and the other 

 n i.n | to b hai I .■ i ' 

 havi bi 1 1 i iki n frrji 

 up toward the headwaters of each ,-ir. 

 -- ■ smaHer and smaller hut not less 



uuds of speckled trout in a day does not over- 

 tax the Idaho fisherman. All these resources in flesh and 

 C i m necssible at a very short distance from, the princi- 



1 i i ' ■ - to the Sawtooth mountains, some 



half-a-hundred miles away, he can add elk and moun- 

 tain sheep to the before-mentioned varieties of game. 

 So much for the ways of pleasure. Now for business 

 affairs. Bellevue, Hailey, Galena, Muldoon are places in 



<> mlv of Wood Ibver which haw been founded and 



Settled since the fall of L880. Hence they are 1ml little 



in old. In the next priori Shite] had a half-dozen 

 inhabitants, who In in. following autumn had increased to 

 000 and then Suffered a falling off to 300 on account of ihe 



11 ' ■ In wint. a' eveiyhody leaves the riv. r » . 



s The camps which through the summer have 

 h.e.i hives of enterprises become the abiding place in wintei 

 ..!' a few win. reinain to protect their property 01 to I 



Ij iu the spring, llailev. the chief town, has a 

 daily newspaper in the open season, which is now owned 



ainl run by -Mr. T. E. Picoitc, formerly proprietor of a. 



paper 



• Pacific 



and wdio is well known .... 

 Journalism on Wood River has its hardships, and it 

 would, perhaps, amuse Mr. Picotte's San Francisco friends 



to i" 1 l I" ■lei-' i. f how he has been brought to book 



h\ aggrieved neighbors, who usually pummel iiim soundly 

 11 to .-..ad the next day a full and unreserved account of 

 how the editor of this sheet wa- painfully thrashed last sow- 

 i> Arizona Jack and other gentlemen. This sorl ol 

 CantlOfhaS won the respeel of the miners In eon i.di i Lble 

 degree, and the editor ttnda now sufficient lime to admin- 

 ister the affairs of bis paper without n-.im -. • 



tercnee. 



A Stf vvcF. BtitsTTXi:; of a Ol-;< -A cm -I. 



-'■- ■■■:.- , i i tub rail 



.' . i. - "I neb will doubtless be interesting to 



; rs of tiic Four i i- i ,.r . ,i [i i ,, 



, olemau over the low Clemel marsh on tin 



inn- opposite ib* upper tL ,d of Tinhorn Island, and 



■ i r;i.il birds Mr. Given found the tide would 



1 ■■' ■ 'i, .ii ■ , , , portion of AlouiuVs Island, 



be same side of thi river some distance Eiel . th, 



Cletael marsh. Takmgfhe oat's to pull dowi 



save bis pusher's strength he soon reached the "gut," which 

 makes in above tin elyeerine works located tberel Jusl as 

 hewa? rounding the pier previous to getting readi i y on 

 the marsh he got upon his feet with gun in hand' and bis 



01 upon. the puahibj fted bi the skiff A steam- 

 boal passing down the river at the lime made his boal dame, 

 and finding she rocked a little too much, and thinking she 

 would whip water, Mr Given supposing he was nearer the 

 bank of the "gut" and in much shoaler water jiimped over- 

 board With his gun in hand. Instead ol finding | w0 ,„• 

 three feci of water he found himself going down in ;. depth 

 of twelve or fifteen fpel with his^gun in hand in the ordin 



arj positio holding inusszle upward. Hcainktothe 



bottom, rather allowing himself to do so that he raighl 

 make au upward spring '.vhen be touched the ground. 

 When he fell bottom he quickly shifted bis gun to the other 

 hand and tiu-rjed the muzzle downward, gra-pim: ii a- h. 

 Ihoughl. just back of the guard. Al this moment he beard 

 a muffled reporl and fell a stinging sensation dot* n his leg. 

 On coming in lb.- suib.ee he swain lo the boat, boluiii" up 

 bis gun with one hand. On reaching the skiff he found his 

 gun had burst under water, laying one barrel completely 

 over, and the load passing through into the right hand bar- 

 rel, bad utterly ruined hi- gun. Examination proved that 

 he had not been shot, ajjd that the stinging sensation Was 

 caused, by the concussion. The rigid band cartridge iyas 

 found iiini and whin he hadgrasped the gun at whal he 

 supposed was the small of the stock he Bad pulled the 

 trigger of the left hand barrel and discharged ii under 

 water. This certainty wa- a uarro« escape. Mr Given 

 showedyour correspondent tin bur-nd barrel and I coa 

 fes I have neyi r seen the like before,— Homo 



over four pounds in weight. The water is clear, and affords 

 a. stream ruuning out to the river, only about sixty Ol 

 seventy five feet, large enough to run a good sized mill. 

 We have had fine sport at this spring. This is a haven of 

 rest to me. Splendid quarters— big" log fires, Comfortable 

 rooms. We have game or fish every day, 1 am up at S;80 

 every morning and exercise as 1 fancy .I'miicj the day. We 

 generally ride out in the woods or fields, with ahoj along 

 to let down fences, hold lenses, and carry the came. A 

 light snow fell yesterday (Sunday), and I ani off this morn 

 mg for rabbits and birds.' Cadiz can be reached b\ rail 

 to llopkinsville, Ky., thence by stage to Cadi.'. Mull and 

 Joel MeKinney will gladly assist anv strangers to make 

 themselves comfoi table, and put them on thelTtK'k of game. 

 — J. D. H. 



□ PA3 o>.— Belleville.— The deer sbootiug this season has 

 been one ol the most successful on record, no less than 500 

 head of these beautiful animals having been killed in the 

 northern t6wnship> of this county (Hastings) since thie sea- 

 sou opened, and one of lie l.u.;. v, ,i-|.,,. '.Wl pounds 

 dressed. Ducks were also more plentiful than usual, and 

 sgufrrels, woodcock and plover were numerous, but suite 

 free. Iu order to prevent the indiscriminate 

 slaughter of ducks, arrangements are being made to protect 

 | real marshes a few miles northeast of the city which 

 comprise some of the best feeding grounds iu Canada.— 

 R. S. B, 



Tenxesskk.— Savauuah. Dec. 5, 1883.— Since I In twi 

 you we have had several killing I'rosls and a light i, J: 

 As ii consequence the weeds have been killed and lb. shoot 

 mg greatly improved 1 was out one dov last week and 

 bagged seventeen quail. Several ducks have been killed 

 recently near here, but have not •come in" in any large 

 number as yet. Some geese arc reported in Hit river bottom 

 and a hug.' Hock Hew over town yesterday, flying uniti bi 



Cn.VKLKSTON. 111., Dee. 28.— John Oartrighl has bagged 

 L02 quail from 10th to Slid inst. The largest bag was made 

 or, the 18th mst. -thirty-one quail. The qieiil are getting 

 along finely in this locality. John Parker and IHask'a 

 Moore killed a large coyote vesterday noon, one and a 

 quarter miles northeast of this city.— Fox Sqt iiinr.i, 



Sxii-k— Owen Sound. Out.— Four years ago. while iu 

 Manitoba, 1 shot and killed or wounded twenty-two snipe 

 (the long-lulled with stripes on the back) in otie shot hav- 

 ing a charge of yc,,. 7 shot. I have told this to several but 

 tle-v generally looked incredulous or laughed.— H, 0. T, 



gamp rgire ^Uchmn^. 



H BEE is a little fu 

 : 



l.lio 



ad i 





! T„l.i.-,i ..l In 



sspoudejits. 



Mr 



Size ok Dkkh.— I'hiladelphia, \\"e Imvehad anafg 



u 1 io ibig.nc r.d -iz.-oi our Eastern deer(Cl rem i 



anut). 1 maintain I bal.-mv animal .-eiaibv excited -p. i t-i 



thewoods a-. b exaggerated piop'ortio,,- and th, 



Buck, \i ben he comes prancing through the leafy coi 

 looks as large as a mule, Se is only threi and:, balf to 

 and three n.uarters feel high „t ibeshouldcrs and a bulle 

 two and a half feel from the ground will grass i,|m„. 



n tber of aforesaid species if aimed far enough for 



1 fain y that a fc.ol rule would bring down proportions 

 ■ distance to the surprise of many a story teller wl 

 ilbuksh.U hui telling the facts.— T. M ' 



■•■ i> \ ..it. SI:, 

 ■ Rushtoxd, S S - -Bee «., r , , •■ 

 | <'..,- N 1 -ii.) -i ii i M,- i, ,,, pjg J,, jij,, 



c"i ■ '■! m,i . ,„r ol v.. ur ran 



'-' '■ S f'i'.i Washingtoi! |. bl ' Iguij ■ in ,„i uerca-in 



eerreer aunt, is pariaue- .lots u me 



"JUue F.... it si Wiii t....i..-: ! ..:.i,iietttwlosant.'us a J 



'Maine Fox iJimt _ nlec.se favor as wan his a.l.lr.s- - 



H [ | - ['•'•'-' ' ! ■" " m -■ ■■ •■ tUcmakBi 



■ -i : v, ■ i not Hunk the grip liable to fp I out uj order, 



I U -1 Boston Mass For note abovir Hi,- i'..nihmau.in int.- ..u.l 

 "" ■ '■' i- ■- > rhesany arm .- adfertiaed .,,„|.-, bn 



oll.ei iiain..' 



■', , F , U ; ' "ii'tl^n .ii- |,i' -: .i.i ,. i. . 



I ■ iipi.ni I '..ii .. ' ,|. . oan )..- nh 



tained in this couutrj 



i The Ropm- elm nas an iauirovement .... ,-i tin- old imizjSle- 



'".■"l 1 ' \ ,,,: ""' : "i IMl '" ■' '"'' ' ''"■'". ] ' "' i" 'I ■>. The mechanism 



,t.K I'lev.-husJ. 0. The urn, « as ,nauula t .tnr,-,l to i l ... 

 ilener- I,... Coinpaey. ^ on can probably s,-,.n- ,.„. i,: «-,iti„,f ,,, 

 bha New York or Bos lealers ' ^ 



Ii.M..N.i, Fork Read Bar) 's| k mi n.ai.ia. published M 



^iT^A^naah,'^^ " V ^ "' Mw "" i! 



.1. F. W. DttDburv. Conn. Ili;.-hla:,.l>. In . 

 ('aroliini. is rcaili.-.i via ihe Ih.-.lmonl Air Fine Kail 



Fbed S. h'.. Chicago, ,\ Y. - The ...I 

 Van Ilvk •• i'.r.- ••Flirlaii.iii Cainp: or. 1; 

 Dia," and "The still Hunter." We a 



V.. Ani.-lia C, ii.. Va. I tound the 

 !•■ .lay. I btov n.vi-i round one beron 

 tlv- \i.-,. Ii is tin- parr ridge fly. We 

 "ii .piail. 



ii. II. P, Mi.i.lh-town. Cc. Wh.-iv. 

 .•.•.•■liii,;s or the l'hiladt Iphia Acadeim 

 Alls. A|.o!v Io l-Mwaiil ,J. N'olan." 

 Seiriices. eoiii.r Ninelei-illh anil Itace 

 whole volume $0.86. 



W. P., I'hil.l.-Can voudiivei loe ho 

 .sort; .... ii....-, .•ulriu.- A.is. -Domes 

 Stone, pul,li-ii.-.l I iv o-gooil, Uosion 

 to Wl . se, . cbari.--ii..un X. II . 1..1 1 



W N. M Bellevue, Ohio, 1. >i ou ca 

 Ihroiigli any of (In- ilial.rs in rilles. : 

 lioneu will answ.-r. ilievar.- all in uso 



n eouuty, .' Ol 



i-i(i,l. 1., Waihalhi. 



TJiat i-enjlnds me.' • 



jl for the camp-fire. Jack is a good 



sort of a fellow, but is "given" to telling fish and 

 Miake -tones sometimes. We were down at Smith's grocery 

 one evening roosting around on the barrels and boxes. The 

 wind was howling' and the snow drifting outside at a fearful 

 rate, and Jack was drawing on his imagination and telling 

 us about, how many charges of shot he used in trying to kill 

 a cat. when Bill -Y— , an old frontiersman and miner ,-v.tri- 

 cated himself from the cracker barrel, sliced off it piece of 

 cheese and exclaimed: 



"Talk about tenacity of life and hard critters to kill, you 

 ouglitcr sold some shootin' that, 1 did once!" 



Jack opened his eyes and invited Bill to go ahead and 

 lie benefit of his experience. Expecting a story 

 izzly or some other "varmint" we hitched around 

 . . all attention. 



"Well." said Bill, "It was out in the Black Hills. 1 bad 

 been down to Cheyenne and bought a new Winchester. I 

 wauled to try it oil something to see how she would carry 

 so I went out hack of the camp, and I be first 'thin" 1 set 

 eyes on was old Ike Irvhtg's horse. I thought that 'would 

 be a good thing to practice on, so 1 drew a bead right square 

 between ils eyes and pulled. 1 saw the critter kinder jump 

 a little as the bullet struck, but it did not tumble SO I un- 

 hitched again, i saw where the second bullet struck— redd 

 between the eye-,— but the eves kept staring at. me just The. 

 same S3 before, so (helping himself to a handful of loose 

 muscatel.-,) 1 tired again and again, until I had emptied the 

 magazine, and every bullet .truck between it- eves and 

 thai air horse stood (here past as well as ever "' 



"Now Bill!" exclaimed Jack, "that's too thin altogether 

 How far away were you from that horse?" 



"About forty yards." 



"And you— you tired seventeen . (-1 aalihre bullets i n be- 

 tween his eyes and didn't knock him off his feetj" 



"Yes," responded Bill, sidling toward the door, "vou see 

 old Ike was a ,-arpeuter, Ihe twol'swere capitals (old Ik^B 

 initials), the horse was ;i sawhorse, and—'' 



Bill bad jusl time to get outside the door wdien a starch 

 box crashed against it and flew into kindling wood, But 

 Jack called him back again, aud in a few minutes the store 

 was blue with the smoke of Smith's best Havana*. 



, Iron Ramrod. 



Jtei mid §iver fishing. 



-s„„o«... Worse and w<v«e, nut how «ilr thou Uve) 



EpHo't 1. anglfog Q Ha a stately oocnpaHUn to staiid foure 



hour.-- In ft crjlde morning, ami to have his nose bitten with frost before 

 a; bait be mumbled wuh a fish. 



Rndjr, 1 I uih; i..ui. 1,1/1 , | 



WINTER TALKS ON SUMMER PASTIMES. 



VIII. — odds a:-,o e:st,- 

 1 would do what i pleased, anddofng what 1 pleased, 1 should have 

 in, Will; and having my will, I should be contented, and uben one 

 isciucMed there is no men- to he desn Hi: and ulu-,, there is DO 



1.. '..1 .-.1 there is an end of H GereanUs 



i T a recent sitting of the local brotherhood, one of theth 



- V was moved to murmur thus. 



-My usually placid lempei is often disturbed by ihe 

 -Lipid ciiticism-, which outside barbaiiuns sometimes pro 

 iioiiu.v upon our genllc pastime. Their ignorance is their 

 only excuse. Bui men have no business to speak dogmat- 

 ically upon a subject of which they know nothing. ' And 

 this is just the mental stains of those who speak ' dispar- 



ity r 



two books published by ii 

 le. Rod and Hun In C '" 

 1 supply either: price, 

 uelosed :ly on a .pini! In) 

 Perhapsit Is the partrli 

 iaye frequently found th. 



:ieiugl\ of angling and t 

 i- a thousand truies more of 

 lin.-- in our harntli ss aud h 

 din worm habit of peipetuall} 

 there i> a greal di al more of i 

 man who cheerfully spends t.i 

 than in one who would rather 

 a dollar. >'<> honest angler W. 



were nothing in the ait besides 

 affords him. Bui ii has otb 



attractions which leach into ll 



votaries up to the very hoiilci-l 



■We can all. I am -lire." 



"speak from our own persoi 

 Two or ihree hours a day of tl 

 ingling-wnter 



.se wdio engage in it. There 

 ihe divine element of -aim 



•alllil'ul recreation than in the 

 di King for filthy lucre, and 



■o.'k-i.' •! common -. use in a 



1 dollars to preserve his health 

 jeopard his health than spend 



Tin 



rvcniua ti 



nibling rl: 

 M.ine iimluageoi 



d 



ild ever wet a line if there 

 the mere man rial pleasure it 

 r and higher attractions ■ 



• a--' In tic mini and lift its 



-aid another of our number, 



al experience on this point. 



a forty or til'ly I pass on 



ar. give me all the lishiug I desire. 



filled up very delightfully in Ids- 



'■ 'be silent woods; in 'reclining 



bor, 



• green leases quivei- »iih the cooling wind, 

 make a eheeker'd shadow 011 the ground.' 

 arlook- the lake or stream on the borders of 



pitched my tent ; in clambering to Hie summit 



• eminence which gives me an enchanting \i.-w 

 ui-ts spread out inimitably before me: in Host- 

 el thither, where the kingly aalrnou 



,'k I .ul-xMlh hi- II lshin.-ouislliv silvorv stream:' 



iu listening to the music of singing bird- and Io Ihe nn-lody 

 in of rippling waters; in laziiy loitering about our cosy camp; 

 ..,. in tilling my exulting lungs with the pure atmosphere an 

 •y which 1 am enveloped, and in inhaling the delectable odors 

 |P of the virgin woods as ibey are borne to me by the summer 



be has a 



V A. 



I four tro 



A Kkntickv (Jamb Resort, -Na-hvill.- Dec 80 — 

 Milor l-\. r ,*t ami OnoM.- I Uaye just received a letter 

 from Col. Geo. !■' Al,,-,- Here are some extracts whirl, 



'V 11 ,'"' """' u ' teresl u >' ,h "^ desirous of visiting one 



ol the 1,.,-t shooting and fishing grounds in the Middle 

 blaies. llewriii- from Cadiz. K v., Dec. I ft, as follows - 



I Ii fve been in the chase, and hunting birds, ducks sriuir- i ai 

 id,-, rai, tuts, etc., which are abundant here The turkeys U™ 1 

 wild and hard to get a shpta't The rivor is yet in h |' : 

 line Bshing oi-der Aboul balf a mile from Joel McK's thel 

 nd deep spring, near the river aboutSOfc ' ■ 



deep. 1 Hiring high water the river hacks its water into this : !"' , 

 spring, and thousands of Msh find .dear water and make it ! one' 



■ | i Hue for the winter. We have plenty of minnows ' " : 



.■veiling we go down and catch 11*8110 strin- of i ,s ' la - »- 



black na.« and perch. I bay,, caught, has, in this ^g I SftSSfe ffi&'5S$g££!&£ ^ 



:,pln 

 villi th 



i'en.j,, 



•lad mountains 



•efreshjng balminess of the breath of the morning. 



.but. 1 pleasant incident in these forest experiences. 



simply gives Beat to what, independently of it, 



[•of perpetual delight. Possibly, at first. I might 



sought out these quiet places if I had had no taste 



g; but certain it is that angling would never have 



etomewii.u ii i- if it had not been associated 



if it were not a part of. these other and higher 



mental and physical delights. 1 am sure, also, 



not exceptional either iu my tastes or in mv habits 



greal maaa of the brotherhood. There "is not a 



leaf, a rippling rapid, a silver cascade, a mo- 



uti-idiui. a passing shadow, a bird note, a tiny 



feathery fern, or any one of a thousand other 



beauty' we see and bear whore our pasliuie 



[ draws us, which is not remembered by the appreeiaiiye 



^v^ioo°'baS^vsMaS!e^ 1 ^ I !1D =' ( ' r Equally with the rise and strike and swirl of trout or 



tank tor the.n, 'ro ™t.,y"° Ajat,. I aalrnou." 



I ' That is true, every word of it, " was the Teply. ' 'Angling 



f..r 



'thi 



