136 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
Bert Dunning, a trapper residing at Voltage, Oregon, probably 
holds the belt for having trapped the largest number of muskrats 
of any trapper in the state during the trapping season which closed 
February 28. Mr. Dunning caught 1292 muskrats and is proud of the 
achievement. 
Mr. Anton Flint, of Dee, Oregon, reports that on February 10th, 
he went out across his fields on skiis over six feet of snow, and stand- 
ing around a big fir tree just one-half mile from his house, he saw four 
buck deer which were browsing on the tops of small trees sticking up 
through the snow. He said that he got within 50 feet of them and they 
made no attempt to run Off. 
George W. Mitchell, Deputy Game Warden in Wallowa County, 
made a trip to the Billy Meadows pasture, where the elk are located, 
in February. The snow was four feet deep and packed so solidly that 
the elk were running around on top of it practically without food, as 
they did not care to move over to the feed yard, some distance away, 
Warden Mitchell was compelled to carry hay to them. He also reports 
that there are many deer in Wallowa County, and that few violations 
have been reported this winter. 
CAN YOU BEAT IT? 
Harry L. Idleman, a prominent sportsman of Portland, says he 
has a friend who caught a trout weighing 59 pounds, in Round Lake, 
one of the Saranac Lakes in Northern New York State. 
As a usual thing Harry is very truthful, *—__________LL_‘the 
one we caught got away. If you can beat this write the Editor of the 
Sportsman, and send twenty-five cents for a year’s subscription. Harry 
did. 
IT PAYS TO SUBSCRIBE FOR THE 
SPORTSMAN 
Away up in Sherman county a man a-fishing went on the first day 
of April. He was duly caught, surrounded and forced to subscribe 
for the Oregon Sportsman by Deputy Game Warden Stewart. Upon 
reaching home he told his wife about it, and she was so pleased at his 
sportsmanship that on the following day she presented him with a ten 
pound boy. 
GOOD NEWS! 
Fish and Game Commission, Portland, Oregon— 
Dear Sir: Your letter of the 27th inst. just received, giving price 
of annual subscription to the Oregon Sportsman as 25 cents. I will 
enclose that amount, which seems altogether too small. 
Many thanks for the sample copy. Yours sincerely, 
W. A. SHELDON, 
15 Franklin Street, Northampton, Mass. 
