150 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
keep trained dogs where they can kill a deer, and they will tell 
you that if you will watch the river that some time, either morning 
or evening the deer sometimes cross the river and those well trained 
dogs are after a cougar or some wild varmint and scare the deer 
and they come to the river to drink. 
There are quite a number of these well trained dogs on the 
South Fork of the Santiam. Those expecting to take a summer 
outing will find the fishing and hunting good at Cascadia and Canyon 
Creek, Moose Creek and any place on the South Fork of the Santiam 
up to Upper Soda. All are ideal places to fish and hunt. 
I ask for information: Why was it that in the early days, when 
there were cougar, wolves and cats a hundred to one now, why did 
they not eat up the game then as they claim they do now? I answer 
this by saying that all along the foot of the mountains you can 
hear the hounds running most all the time. Those hounds run when- 
ever they want to. And take deer with fawns, the dogs either catch 
the fawns or separate them and they die, and when it snows and they 
are obliged to come down to the low hills on account of the heavy 
snow these people are just like any one else—don’t want to be hurt 
by the deer and kill them. Can’t blame them, they are dangerous. I 
had a tame buck once and he was cross, and these people don’t need 
to be afraid of the Game Warden, for he can’t get over the county 
more than once or twice a month, and if he does and we find him 
will take a shot at him. He has no business around here. I don’t 
blame the people around the foothills and mountains for carrying a 
eun. A saw a man plowing carrying a gun. I guess it was for 
cougars or bear. 
PLENTY OF GAME THIS YEAR 
I take a keen delight in reading every page of The Oregon Sports- 
man. To every Oregon sportsman it should be invaluable as a ref- 
erence on field and stream in Oregon it cannot be excelled. To intelli- 
gently peruse its pages is to become familiar with the sport situa- 
tion over the entire state, and we learn many surprising things too 
numerous to mention. I think the reports of the more remote and 
isolated parts of the state, of which we hear little as regards game, are © 
especially interesting. I trust a word or two of the other extreme 
will not be out of place. 
The report for the last year shows that Multnomah leads any other 
county by more than two to one in the number of arrests and con- 
victions. It is significant, for considering the number of people in 
this county in comparison with other parts of the state the ratio of 
arrests is very small indeed. 
I do not hesitate to say that there are more game and song 
birds in Multnomah County than any district of like size in the entire 
state. I will venture farther and say that within the corporate limits 
of the City of Portland are to be found more birds, both game and 
non-game, than any other city in the entire country. If this is true 
there must be a vital reason. Why wild life should thrive in such a 
thickly populated district is no secret but an gpen book to every school 
child, due to the educational campaign conducted by the biological 
department of the State Fish and Game Commission. The bird walks 
