THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 277 
Bert Godfrey and H. L. May killed a fine two-point buck and 
crippled another very large one, which they lost. 
Geo. Sholm, of Portland, killed a fine large buck at Grand Rapids. 
Henry Baumgartner, of Olney, killed a two-point buck in the 
pasture with the cows. This shows the deer have not been frightened 
either by chasing with dogs or molested during the close season. 
There are several campers on the Nehalem below Elsie and also 
on the north fork of the Nehalem at Hamlet. They have not had 
any luck so far, but are going to remain several days. 
Some of the campers claim that Geo. Small scared all the game 
away when he was here. George runs a law grist mill at Baker and 
he didn’t come to Seaside for game, that is, the kind you hunt, but 
larger game, the kind that votes. Since George joined the prohi’s 
and the state went dry, he has to depend upon his friends for Demo- 
cratic eye water. He often follows a Republican with a suit case half 
a day. Baker City people claim George was born in Portland and 
Portland people claim he was born in Baker. Neither city seems to 
want to be responsible for his being put on earth. 
Til D. Taylor, of Pendleton, who ran a successful Round-up in 
that city, attended the Regatta at Astoria and visited Seaside. Tii is 
some sportsman but when Dan Moore told him that he had killed a 
fine buck and would have venison for dinner, Til said the Clatsop 
venison tastes like a bucking bronco in Pendleton. 
THE BEST TROUT STREAM IN OREGON 
By Warven W. O. Hanptey. 
The Deschutes River, I think, is the best trout stream in Oregon. 
I will go further in my claims for this wonderful stream and its trib- 
utaries, and say that if it is not already, it soon will be the best trout 
stream in the United States. This will be accomplished by continu- 
ing the good work the State Fish and Game Commission is doing in 
restocking and introducing new species of trout. This stream has a 
steady flow of good cold water and only varies a few feet from extreme 
high to low water. 
There is some very important work that should be done on this 
river in building fish ladders where needed. I have such a place in 
my district at Shearer’s Falls, and within the next few weeks I 
expect to have a good fish way around these falls. I have already 
raised about $130 to start this work. This money was donated by 
the good sportsmen of Tygh, Wapinitia, Maupin and The Dalles, and 
I am expecting the help of other districts which will benefit by this 
improvement. 
This fishway will open up the Deschutes River to migratory fish 
to Steelhead Falls, a distance of 80 miles above Shearer’s Falls, and 
will, in that distance, open up the spawning grounds of tributary 
streams which will total 600 miles. 
Very few hunters in this district went out after big game this 
season. Wm. Marsh and John O. Beldin, of Mosier, got a buck and 
a bear near Cascade Locks; John Nickolson and Wm. Lasier each 
killed a nice buck in the upper Hood River Valley, and Ted Wilson, 
of Maupin, killed two bears in the Clear Lake country. 
