THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 291 
line in Nevada, a few miles away, there is an open season. They say 
the antelope are raised and fattened in Oregon, and then because large 
numbers of them go to Nevada for their winter range, the hunters of 
that state get to kill them. They feel that the animals belong to 
Oregon and that Oregon hunters should be permitted to get them 
without getting a non-resident hunting license and going to Nevada 
to do it. 
The numbers of antelope in that country vary in different years, I 
presume, according, to the amount of feed and water. 
While passing around the south and west side of Warner Lake, 
we saw large numbers of young mallard ducks, these birds evidently 
being very plentiful there. 
Going back to Lakeview and north through Paisley and around 
by Summer Lake, we were informed by the Houston brothers, who 
have a ranch there, that ducks and geese were very plentiful in that 
section of the country, too. While passing Silver Lake we saw large 
flocks of honker geese standing on the mud flats, and although we 
passed within a hundred yards of them and honked the horn on the 
car, they just craned their necks and watched us. 
From here we continued on through the town of Silver Lake, down 
Williamson River to Chiloquin and back to Klamath Falls, having 
completed what we considered a very successful trip. 
Although I have killed antelope on the prairies of Canada, I 
never saw antelope in Oregon until this trip, and I and the other 
members of the party are satisfied that these animals are plentiful 
and that there are at least 10,000 of them in this state. And maybe 
the sportsmen of Lake County are right in thinking the game iaws 
of this state unfair, when they are prohibited from killing at least 
one buck antelope a year when the hunters in Nevada can kill Ore- 
gon-raised, Oregon-fattened antelope after they cross the line into 
that state. 
a PASSING OF THE ANTELOPE” 
By Warpen F. W. TRISKA. 
The antelope is rapidly becoming an extinct animal. Doubtless 
in a few more years there will be scarcely any left. These animals 
cannot stand civilization, and even with the best of protection by the 
game laws they will decrease. There are, rough estimate, about 1200 
antelope left yet in Harney County, while a few years ago thousands 
roamed the sage-covered plains. The few antelope that are left stay 
close to Baitey’s Butte, in the southern end of Catlow Valley, near 
the Nevada line, while a few are scattered over the Steins Mountain 
game refuge. 
An interesting experiment was made a few years ago by Dr. ihe EB. 
Hibbard, of Burns. He captured several pairs of young antelope, 
most of them being about ten days old. These he fed with a bottle 
until old enough to wean. He then turned them loose on rocky hill- 
sides, and saw that they were provided with their natural food. As 
near as possible they were in their native surroundings, but with all 
of this care none of them lived over three years, while most of them 
