276 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
EXPERIENCE OF COLUMBIA COUNTY 
WARDEN 
By WarvEen Wo. Brown. 
Pursuant to your request for an article to be published in the 
“Oregon Sportsman” as to my experience as deputy game warden for 
Columbia County, I take pleasure in relating some of them during 
the summer months. 
On one of my interesting trips around my usual route I found 
a man by the name of Victor Venger, who had been lost in the woods 
for three days in the vicinity of Pittsburg, where he said he had seen 
plenty of deer, but it was so far from where he lived that all he could 
bring out was the horns of a five point buck and the two hind quarters 
and the rest of the deer was all that he had to live on. 
D. W. Richardson, of St. Helens, killed two deer in one day. That 
was the best “catch” Known, which was five miles back of Deer 
Island. Jack Watters got a two-pointer that weighed 150 pounds on 
Tide Creek. From what the hunters tell me Columbia County hunt- 
ing has been pretty good after such a severe winter. While on 
the same trip I met Fred Floter. He had the biggest number of wild 
cat that had ever been caught in such a short time, the number being 
eleven in one week. If this keeps up there won’t be many left at the 
rate he is killing them, which will be a good thing for the rabbits and 
birds. 
About the 28th of August I met a man by the name of James 
Shaw, who was working for Columbia’ County on the road, and he 
told me of a deer that had been run in where they had been crushing 
rock in the vicinity of Trinehome, but not a man had a gun. The 
deer was a nice buck. The best deer hunting that I have heard of 
is around Veronia. A party of four men headed by a man by the 
name of R. W. Duncan, got five deer in three days on the North Fork 
of Rock Creek. 
W. R. Lock, of Clatskanie, who is one of the oldest trappers, told 
me that a cougar will destroy 150 deer a year and all that he will 
eat out of the deer is two meals and then leaves the rest, and that 
the wild cats eat what the cougar will not touch when it becomes bad. 
In regard to fishing, the best fish were caught in the Fish Hawk 
and on Rock Creek. The reason for the fishing not being so good in 
the Nehalem was that the road builders threw so much rock and made 
so much noise that they wouldn’t go up. The road being finished 
now and the state having planted so many trout, we expect big fish- 
ing next year. 
GAME NOTES FROM CLATSOP Be 
By Warpven C. W. LouGcuHrey. 
The residents of Clatsop County are either law abiding, or take 
an interest in the preservation of game, as very few violations have 
been reported. Frequent trips over every section of the county show 
this to be the fact. 
George B. Small, of Baker City, where there is no game, so 
George says, picked up a little fawn while touring Seaside and gave 
it a ride in his auto, finally turning it loose. Some one told him it 
was a rabbit, and George didn’t know the difference. 
