THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 149 
be nothing surprising if they traveled that far, or even farther. But 
as game gets scarce, and they are much disturbed by hunters, they 
are liable to shift back again, or to other localities. 
BEN S. PATTON, 
Deputy Game Warden. 
ALSEA CONDITIONS GOOD 
Mr. C. D. Shoemaker, State Game Warden. 
Dear Sir: I made a trip to Alsea. Was very much pleased with 
conditions there. While there I met a number of the members of 
the Game Protective Club, also parties who were not members. It 
was admitted by all that conditions had greatly improved, and there 
had been no hunting since the club had been working, as far as they 
knew. The time set by the club for the hunt to exterminate worthless 
animals and birds is the last week of April. It is up to every member 
to participate in the hunt. If he fails to do so, he is placed on the 
losing side. I will make it a point to be with them a day or two. 
Anglers are not having any great success. Yours respectfully, 
C. C. B. 
OLD OREGONIAN 
By J. R. Metzcer. 
All of the Wardens are requested to write a short communica- 
tion on what he thinks he knows and what he can back up. First, 
I remember when the first Chinese pheasants were liberated by Mr. 
Denny, and the people did not molest them for several years, and 
they became very plentiful in a few years and were hunted by the 
people with more care than they are now, and we did not have 
any hunting clubs, which I don’t build much hopes on as a pro- 
tection to any game. What is there to keep any one from joining 
the hunting club? A game hog can join the same as any one else, 
but I don’t say all the sportsmen are violators, but I do know that some 
of the so-called sportsmen will take a trip away from home and I 
think the change of air has something to do with him, and he will 
shoot everything he runs across. This is not confined to one locality, 
it is all over, and some tell me that the game laws are not right; that 
if they were so and so they would not need any one to look after 
them, and some of the people that live along the foot of the moun- 
tains think they have a better right to the deer because they are 
old settlers, and they take the liberty to kill them, and on the other 
hand they cry the wolf, bobcat and cougar and many other things 
and keep hounds to catch the varmints, and the dogs are so well 
trained that they will not run deer, they know that their owners won’t 
stand for it as there is no bounty on deer and it is a violation to hound 
-deer, and don’t like to buy tags to put on the hides, so they are not 
worth bothering about. And all those people who go to certain of 
the summer resorts do is to ask some of those good people that 
