FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 





A member of the club writes: 



" We were in camp near Everton, Frank- 

 lin County, on the east branch of the St. Re- 

 gis River. Our quarters were at the Moun- 

 tain View House, from which 73 mountain 

 peaks can be seen, on a clear day. We fur- 

 nished our own supplies, employed our 

 cooks, had the hotel to ourselves, and you 

 can imagine we had a jolly time. The first 

 day of 'our hunting, which was Oct. 1, we 

 were unsuccessful, though Mr. Hunt had a 

 shot at a 5-prong buck. The next day Mr. 

 Danford succeeded in killing one, and my 

 score was 2 fine deer. This, I am sony to 

 say, compelled me to stay in camp for the 

 next 8 days. Mr. Wilson also shot a large 

 otter. On the 5th, Mr. C. H. McChesneyand 

 Mr. Bentz secured 1 deer each, making a to- 

 tal of 5. Several members of the party had 

 opportunities enough to have secured twice 

 the number, but owing to the cold weather 

 or buck fever, I hardly know which, they 

 failed to score. Bear were seen by Mr. 

 Hutchins and by Mr. C. H. McChesney at 

 different times. A large number of grouse 

 were killed. The scenery is grand, the 

 mountain air exhilarating, and our food 

 tasted so good that every one was sorry 

 when it came time to break camp, knowing 

 that it would be another long year before we 

 should meet again. I have neglected to 

 mention that we had four guides — W. H. 

 Harvey and Daniel McNeil, Jr., St. Regis 

 Falls, and Normal and Warren Peck, Santa 

 Clara." 



ANENT BEARS AND GOATS. 



Editor Recreation: 



There are more bears in the Chelan coun- 

 try this year than at any time since 1891. The 

 finest bear killed there, for many years, was 

 caught in a 45-pound steel trap last April. 

 It was a large dark cinnamon, and the skin, 

 which was an exceptionally fine one for these 

 parts, brought $32 when sold by J. L. Prouty, 

 the New York commission dealer. The 

 dense brush and extreme roughness of the 

 country make bear hunting difficult, and the 

 surest way of getting skins is by the use of 

 traps. However, several bears have been 

 shot lately, and a friend of mine, who is 

 camped up in the hills near the head of the 

 lake, sends me word that he has killed a 

 black one. He uses a 45-90 single-shot Win- 

 chester, and one shot, just behind the eye, 

 dropped the bear in its tracks. When with 

 him and three other friends, up near the 

 source of Railroad Creek, I saw some small 

 bear tracks, but we got no game on that trip. 

 The brook trout-fishing was grand, though, 

 and we had all we could use. 



satisfaction on two occasions. Tu 

 friends of mine followed a wounded 

 to a ledge that ended abruptly a high 



wall of rock. Hostility on the part of the 

 goat was wholly unexpected, but findii 

 self cornered it turned and, with head lowi 

 and hair on«end, advanced toward them, 

 with a bounding spring, like that ot ;i b 

 but at a slow, jog-tiot. He looki 

 fierce, and one of the boys, whost rifl< 

 empty, yelled to Ins companion, M S1 

 shoot quick, or he'll be OD 

 other fired, at close ran-.-, and the 

 dead; but the situation would hav 

 bad one for a hand-to-hand ei 1 . had 



it come to that. 



Several years ago a visiting sportsman 

 came to Lake Chelan, bringing with him a 

 large dog, somewhat resemble 

 deerhound. He had an idea that tin 

 would be useful in goat-hunting, 

 though he was told that the mounta 

 so rugged and steep that d- 

 he resolved to try a chase after a n I 

 He soon had the oppportunity. When nigh 

 up among the roughest of the cliffs 

 canyons, the dog managed to come up with 

 an old billy. A first-class circus ensued, 

 wnich I would have dearly liked to have 

 seen; but it ended in the total defeat of tin- 

 hound, who was fearfully used up, 1» 

 torn and ripped in several places and ni 

 killed. The old goat was one too man) 

 the dog. He would tackle no more of them 

 and although the stranger did get Ins game 

 it was with the rifle, the only manner in 

 which this or any other big game Bhoui 

 hunted. 



I have sometimes wondered of what as* 

 a mountain goat. Even the young an- very 

 inferior eating, and an old "nanm 

 yond the average stomach. I was eating the 

 choicest part of a kid some 6 weeks ago, but 

 elected to stay by the brook trout. Tin 

 of skinning a rank old billy-:: oat i-> about the 

 worst of its kind I know of. I would much 

 prefer skinning a skunk land I ha 

 both), but two large goat skins, taken lal 

 winter, make a wonderfully Bpringy, el 

 bed when lain one on the other. 1 !. 

 of no skin that equals them in this r< 



C. Greenwood, Lake Chelan, \\ 1 



Readers of the Cosmopolitan Magazine 

 must have noticed the admirable illustration 

 of a mountain goat in the August number. 

 1 have never seen these animals associated 

 with any fighting powers, but that they can 

 and will fight has been proven to my entire 



METHOYV NOT! 



Winthrop, Wash. 

 Editor Recreation: 



Albert Hedges, the mail came'- won ti 

 els the Chiliwhist trail, from Ma 

 a number of bears r< 



he met a bear with a 

 grown cubs. 1 Ie reported 

 "Methovt Gi 

 who found the 1 

 ing one and crippling the 

 stage of the game th< old 

 pearano ready for 



»r bear, and now hai 

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