242 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
. The center wall was covered with original water-color paintings 
of birds and animals and enlarged photographs of live creatures. 
' The enlargement series of bear cubs attracted much attention. 
Around the top of the booth was a row of mounted ducks and 
game birds with a fox, bob-cat and martin for corners and center. 
The object in view was not to over-label the specimens, but rather 
to interest the people and lead them to ask questions. The scheme 
worked almost too well for the attendant had a crowded booth from 
the opening hour to the closing. 
Many interesting expressions were heard, following are some of 
them: ‘Now! here’s something worth while.” “Oh! we must stop 
here.” “Why, I could stay here all day.” ‘Here, we can’t miss this.” 
And so on, all day long. 
Many children coming first brought their fathers and mothers 
later on, or the parents brought in the children a second, third and 
fourth time. 
One of the most interesting visitors was a boy of nine years, a 
lad whose sister reads nature stories to him every night, and he cer- 
tainly had a fund of Knowledge that would shame many older folks— 
and what he did not know he could ask intelligent questions about. 
He spent several hours each day in a corner of the booth quietly 
reading one of the bird books. 
Of prime importance was the fact that we have had nothing to sell, 
but were freely giving and gladly receiving information of the great 
out-of-door world. 
Among the questions asked and answered were the following: 
“How can I catch the gophers in my lawn?” “What can I do to stop 
the moles,” and “What is it eats the bulbs and roots if the moles 
do not?” “Why are the pheasants so scarce throughout the Willam- 
ette Valley this year?” Many expressing themselves as in favor of 
a complete closed season on them this year, and even for five years. 
“Shall I kill the skunks on my place?” was another and the 
eternal house cat was discussed and cussed over and over. “How 
can we attract the small birds?” ‘Which are our friends among the 
hawks and owls?” “Which are the best books?” Questions on pre- 
serving specimens and taxidermy, and a host of others. 
We believe that more lasting good was thus accomplished in a 
short time among those thousands of people than could have been 
possible in any other way. 
BIGGEST DEER POPULATION IN THE 
UNITED STATES 
From Forest and Stream. 
_Curry County, Oregon, is -the westernmost county in the United 
States and is one of the wildest and least explored. It is said to have 
more wild deer than any other county in the nation. Its deer popula- 
tion is estimated at 20,000. Its human population is only 2,628. 
-In this county is Cape Blanco, the windy headland where this na- 
tion reaches farthest towards the sunset. In this county also is Lake 
port, once a thriving town, now a ghost city in the wilderness, its good 
hotel still keeping its appointments intact except for a few minor dis- 
arrangements, its register telling the history of the town’s sudden rise 
and fall in its multitudinous entries at first and dwindling till the clerk 
wrote, with original orthography but with unmistakable meaning, ‘Not 
a dam sole.”—Alfred Powers. 
