GAME NOTES. 



ST. PAUL AND THE NORTHWEST. 



C. H. KINGSBURY. 



Kennedy Bros., of St. Paul, have one 

 of the largest buffalo heads I have ever 

 seen. It is valued at $500. The bull 

 who wore it must have been a veritable 

 monarch of the Bad Lands. 



country and where and how to find the 

 birds. This statement is made without 

 his solicitation and, indeed, without his 



knowledge. 



A party of four, consisting of R. S. 

 Kennedy, of St. Paul, and three friends 

 from the east, recently spent a few days 

 in the vicinity of Dawson, N. D., where 

 a number of sloughs afford good breed- 

 ing ground for mallards, and other local 

 ducks, and attractive stopping places 

 for flight ducks. The shooters found 

 mallards in abundance, with a goodly 

 number of canvas backs, redheads, blue 

 bills, widgeon, teal, &c. The party was 

 there in September, too early for geese. 

 They went via the Gt. Northern to Hal- 

 lock, Minn., and enjoyed some fine 

 chicken shooting in the vicinity of that 

 place. 



E. O. Hurd, of Plamsville, Ohio, 

 makes an annual trip to northern Minn. 

 This year he left the Gt. Northern line 

 at Crookston and went into camp about 

 fifteen miles north and east of that place. 

 He moves camp at intervals, making his 

 way north. He is now at his sixth camp. 

 His wife accompanies him on these trips 

 and both thoroughly enjoy them. Mr. 

 Hurd is a careful and conscientious 

 sportsman, limiting himself, in his shoot- 

 ing, to the amount of game actually 

 needed for use, and when the birds get 

 up gives them every chance by selecting 

 the most difficult shots. Some valuable 

 hints here for greedy shooters. 



To those wishing to know of a reliable 

 guide in one of the best sections of the 

 country for ducks and geese, and where 

 good sport at sharp-tail grouse and 

 prairie chickens can be had, let 

 me give the name of Henry Mar- 

 coe, of Church's Ferry, N. D. He 

 is within an easy drive of Devils 

 lake, McGowans lake, Bass lake, 

 Irwin lake, and other smaller lakes and 

 sloughs. He has teams and knows the 



Malcolm E. Nichols, of the Great 

 Northern Railway, St. Paul, has nearly 

 completed a summary of information 

 concerning the game animals, birds and 

 fishes to be found in all the localities 

 reached by that line. By an ingenious 

 and simple process of classification and 

 reference the most important details are 

 readily found. This compilation will 

 be of great value equally to those who 

 know what variety of game they want, 

 and to those who simply know that they 

 want to go where good hunting or fish- 

 ing can be found. The enclosure of a 

 two cent stamp to Mr. Nichols will se- 

 cure a copy of this valuable pamphlet. 



Lewiston, Idaho. 

 Editor Recreation : 



I have just returned from the moun- 

 tains, where I have been hunting big 

 horn sheep, mule deer and bear ; and 

 between chases casting flies for trout. 



I found a big bear, and a sheep with 

 big horns. I saw the largest bull trout 

 ever landed and weighed. He was 

 caught with a salmon fly (not with bait- 

 ed hook) and weighed twenty-one 

 pounds. I found these sportsman's 

 treasures at the Willowa lake, in Ore- 

 gon. That is the grandest resort in the 

 northwest. It is a lake five miles by two 

 miles, and is three hundred feet deep. 

 The water is cold and clear. The snow 

 is perpetual all around it, not to exceed 

 2,000 feet above. This is the home of 

 the red fish, as well as of three kinds of 

 trout, of large size. The river (Willowa) 

 which flows through the lake, has a fall 

 of 400 feet in a mile and a quarter. It 

 is an ideal trout stream. Ten miles 

 from the lake it is now bridged by fro- 

 zen snow. Think of the thunder of that 

 river and its cool spray while other sec- 

 tions of the country were at white heat. 



Newton Hibbs. 



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