32 THE OREGON SPORTS MAN 
started out to find the elk. It is no small task to find 56 elk in a 
pasture the size of this one. However, we succeeded in finding 28 
elk that afternoon, the largest herd having 15 head—13 cows and two 
bulls. They are all doing fine. The increase in calves this past year 
was 17, which is pretty good. There were 28 head liberated in this 
pasture four years ago and now we have 56 head. 
On November 15th I started from the J. T. Steen place with three 
four-horse loads of hay for the pasture, to be used in feeding the young 
elk. The roads were very bad and the snow was from ten to twenty 
inches deep. We left Steen’s at 7 a. m., and did not get nine 
miles that day. It snowed and blowed all day and we did not stop 
until 9 o’clock that night. 
The next day we had 11 miles to go to reach the pasture, and it 
was still snowing, the snow by this time being from two to three feet 
deep. We arrived at the pasture at 6 p. m. that night, wet and 
cold. 
The hay taken into the pasture is to be used to feed the young elk, 
while the State Fish and Game Commission is capturing them and 
preparing to ship them to some other part of the state to be liberated. 
I have just completed corrals to be used in capturing the elk. There 
are three corrals, one large one to be used in feeding, and one smaller 
inside of the larger to be used for capturing the calves, and one just 
on the outside to be used to hold the elk until they are ready to ship. 
I left there for Enterprise on December 10th. I had to go about 
a mile and a quarter through the pasture on my way out to the south 
gate, and in traveling that distance I counted 33 elk in different herds. 
They are quite tame. 
I have not been able to cover my district thoroughly as yet, as I 
have had my appointment as warden only a little over two months and 
have been very busy at the elk pasture a good share of the time, but 
where I have been able to visit the game seems to be very plentiful— 
deer and grouse being the most plentiful. Not many bag limits were 
reported during the past season on account of the extremely dry 
weather. 
We have liberated quite a number of Chinese pheasants in Wal- 
lowa County in the past year and they are all doing fine; also, we 
have a goodly number of Bob White quail and some California quail. 
With good protection we should have a regular sportsmen’s paradise 
here in a few years. 

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