RECREA TION. 



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GAME NOTES. 



Pelan, Minn. 

 Editor Recreation : 



I have just returned from a trip to 

 the big Muskeogs. Lost a wounded 

 moose by not having a dog to trail 

 blood ; shall have one before next fall. 

 I found a cow with two calves and 

 made a sneak on them. Caught one 

 calf and told my man to make a dash 

 for the other at the same time. I had 

 to shoot over the cow twice, to drive 

 her away. When I got my calf 

 safely roped and secured, I looked 

 around to see how my man was making 

 out with the other, and there he stood, 

 with his mouth open, looking at me, 

 while the calf I had sent him after was 

 trotting across the prairie with its 

 mother, half a mile away. Of course, 

 there was no use of saying anything. 

 No words have yet been invented that 

 would express my opinion of him. I 

 have since sold the calf to a man who 

 was collecting, and who had a permit 

 from W. P. Andrews, state game and 

 fish commissioner, to catch all the young 

 moose, elk and deer he could find. He 

 was collecting for some railroad man. 

 Later on he bought the three year old 

 bull moose from Ellerton brothers. I 

 shall keep on with my work of catching 

 moose calves and raising them, if I have 

 to go ioo miles into the interior to find 

 them. I believe it is much better to 

 •preserve them in domestication than to 

 allow the Indians to kill them off. 



A correspondent, writing from Waha, 

 Idaho, says : 



'' Sarvis berries are ripe over on 

 Wapahilla creek, in the Salmon river 

 country, and there is a whole herd of 

 cinnamon bears in there, feeding on 

 them. They hide in the thickets and 

 swampy places, so that we can not 

 see them in daylight, but they make 

 deep trails to and from the feeding 

 grounds. A few dogs would furnish us 

 a week's sport in the gulches. 



" I have been too busy to have any 

 fun shooting, except at blue grouse, 

 which I pick off with my 24 calibre 

 Stevens' pocket rifle; though I did let 

 the life out of a fine torn cougar which 

 had the impudence to visit a spring at 

 the same time I called there, for a drink. 



His pelt will adorn sister's library, 

 as soon as the squaw finishes the tanning. 

 " The Salmon river, with its breaks 

 and canyons, is a wonder, and would 

 keep a camera fiend busy for a week." 



Winthrop, Okanogan Co., Wash. 

 Editor Recreation : 



This is one of the best big game 

 ranges in the west. Deer are abundant 

 all through this country, sheep and 

 goats fairly plentiful, and there are 

 some bear — both black and grizzly. 

 Owen Wister, a classmate of mine at 

 Harvard, hunted the white goat in this 

 region successfully and wrote an article 

 descriptive of his experiences, which has 

 already appeared in print. 



If any of your readers think of visit- 

 ing the west for the purpose of hunting, 

 I shall be glad to have them come this 

 way and to give them any assistance 

 and information in my power. 



Guy Waring. 



A friend at Waha writes that elk 

 are abundant in the vicinity of the 

 Payette lakes and that near Joseph's 

 lake, in Oregon, Rocky Mountain sheep 

 are plentiful. He says all the ranch- 

 men there butcher them for their 

 mutton supply, using all kinds of old 

 guns to hunt them with. 



James Rasor, who lives on General 

 Gibbon's Big Hole battlefield — writes : 

 "I have had lots of sport here during the 

 past year. Have killed ten moose and 

 two bear since you were here ; sold the 

 skin of one silver-tip grizzly for $35. 

 I killed a black tail buck, the other day, 

 that dressed 160 pounds." 



Mr. D. H. Bruce, of Syracuse, N. Y., 

 writes that a family of flying squirrels 

 has lived in his attic for many years, 

 passing in and out through a knot hole 

 in the cornice. 



Mr. H. G. Dulog, of Estes Park, Col., 

 reports having seen a mountain sheep 

 feeding with a band of cattle, near a 

 wagon road, a few weeks since. 



It is believed that there are at least 

 25,000 elk and 150 buffaloes in the Yel- 

 lowstone National Park. 



Read the advertisements; you will 

 find them interesting. In answering 

 them please mention Recreation. 



