FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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the way, is a little out of date but never 

 goes back on a friend. Well, in short, as 

 this man is our kind of people, so I will just 

 go along with him myself, and will show 

 him over the finest hunting and fishing 

 grounds on the earth. 

 W. H. Hubbard, Glenwood Springs, Col. 



Recreation improves every month and 

 no sportsman can afford to be without it. 

 I'm glad to see you roasting the game 

 hogs. That's what they need. Enclosed 

 find 10 cents for the fresh-air fund. " It's a 

 good thing, push it along." 



C. G., Tacoma, Wash. 



It is estimated that 25,000 to 30,000 elk 

 have wintered on the East side of Green 

 river, and they have lately gone back to 

 their summer ranges in the mountains. It 

 is a picture not soon to be forgotten, to see 

 a band of 500 or 600 elk, moving swiftly 

 along the top of some high ridge, on their 

 way to their breeding grounds. 



Fully as many deer have also recently re- 

 turned to their summer homes. Antelope 

 are, in the words of the country sale bill, 

 " too numerous to mention." 



While on the range a few weeks ago I 

 saw 11 mountain sheep. Among them was 

 a ram with large horns. I also saw fresh 

 signs of a much larger bunch. In the fall 

 I shall try to get some of them. 



Anyone in search of fine hunting can 

 have it in this country, next fall. Grouse, 

 sage hens, geese and ducks are plentiful, 

 and trout are abundant. 



Come out, Coquina, and pull on my latch 

 string. I will send you away happy and 

 loaded with trophies of the chase. 



H. D. DeKalb, Big Piney, Wyo. 



I have been a subscriber to Recreation 

 only a few months, but consider I already 

 have value received. It is a magazine which 

 gives a sportsman an idea of what game 

 protection means, and what a game hog is. 

 We have some true sportsmen here and 

 also some " kill-it-all-to-day sportsmen." 



I heard of a party hounding deer near 

 by, so 2 friends and I took our 40-60's and 

 watched them several days. They got 

 scared and left the woods. Next season we 

 will not go after the dogs, but after the 

 men. I think they will then understand 

 lawful deer hunting. 



We are about to organize a boat and gun 

 club. I expect soon to get a number of 

 subscribers to Recreation. 



O. E. D., Siverly, Pa. 



Kendrick (the largest in the city), tell me 

 that each month the demand increases. 



I 'have had good sport coursing jack rab- 

 bits, with my greyhounds, near Denver, 

 and have also had several coyote hunts on 

 Kiona creek. During the winter, a tally 

 was kept on the coyotes killed by grey- 

 hounds, near the creek. The number was 

 106. The neighboring stockmen and sheep- 

 raisers are getting packs of greyhounds. 

 Mr. Nott, who made the big killing, has 

 only 5 hounds in his pack, but it is a rare 

 occurrence for a coyote to get away. 



L. F. B., Denver, Col. 



We have lately had an example of what 

 a game hog will do when he gets a chance. 

 A. S. Eaton, and a party of 4 or 5 others, 

 went out a few days ago and killed 240 

 ducks and 5 geese. It seems to me there 

 ought to be some way to punish men who 

 go to such extremes. Game is being 

 rapidly exterminated by men who are thus 

 wasteful of it.* 



Ducks are plentiful here just at present 

 and the black bass and perch, in Seeley's 

 lake, are beginning to bite freely. 



Ed. L. S., Greeley, Colo. 



A Canadian exchange reports that 

 George Soles, of East Chezzetcook, sjiot 2 

 moose and a bear in 2 days, last fall. He 

 got out the carcass of the first moose safe, 

 but lost the other. He left the second 

 moose in the woods to get help of neigh- 

 bors to bring the carcass out. When the 

 hunter returned for the meat he found it 

 torn to pieces and a large part missing. 

 The tracks showed a bear had been there 

 and had made a meal off the moose. Soles 

 waited for the bear, who came back about 

 dusk and Soles killed him. The bear was a 

 big black fellow, estimated to weigh 700 

 pounds. The skin measured 7 feet in length 

 and nearly the same across the body. 



I am pleased to see that Recreation is 

 getting the large circulation it so richly 

 deserves. My newsdealers, Hamilton & 



The correspondent who signs his letter 

 " An office man " is informed that many 

 articles, containing such information as he 

 asks for, have been published in previous 

 issues of Recreation, and if he will kindly 

 give me his name and address, I will gladly 

 cut out and mail him some of these. Other 

 articles, of a similar nature, will be printed 

 in future numbers. The list of guides who 

 live in points on Long Island, in Sullivan 

 Co. and in near by Jersey points, together 

 with the kinds of game and fish they un- 

 dertake to find for sportsmen, may be con- 

 sulted advantageously. By corresponding 

 with these guides the reader would get 

 valuable points and need not thereafter em- 

 ploy the guides unless he chose to do so. 



* I hope the Colorado Legislature will soon provide for 

 sending such swine to the State corral where they belong. — 

 Editor. 



