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Reliable parties from Daisy, on the Columbia 

 river, west of Springdale, report game plenti- 

 ful. The woods are said to full of grouse, deer 

 and bear. 



PITTSBURG AND THEREABOUTS. 



K. 



Gray squirrels are plentiful in western Penn- 

 sylvania this year. The mast crop is good, 

 especially chestnuts, on the mountain ridges, and 

 this has brought the game in from other portions 

 of the country. 



The visitors to the Cheat Mountain game 

 preserves have been unusually successful this 

 fall in deer hunting. Bear and turkeys are also 

 reported plentiful on the beech ridges. Game 

 fishes are increasing rapidly in the Ohio river, 

 thanks to the good work of the game wardens. 

 If the work is kept up we shall have fine fish- 

 ing in a few years, in all our rivers. 



The McKean Club members are having fine 

 sport at their reservation 12 miles below Pitts- 

 burg. Quails are abundant and this shows what 

 can be accomplished by stocking farms with 

 these birds and keeping the pot hunters away. 

 Ruffed grouse also afford good sport on this pre- 

 serve. 



Black bass are increasing rapidly in our 

 streams and some fine catches have been made 

 this summer and fall. 



The elk and deer in our parks are doing well, 

 and are a source of great pleasure to those who 

 have not had a chance to see them in their 

 native wilds. 



GAME NOTES. 



Baker City, Ore. 

 Editor Recreation : 



I saw enough sage hens yesterday, near 

 Auburn, to load a freight wagon. 



A rancher at Durkee, twenty-five miles south 

 of here, told me he saw three big-horns, near 

 there, Sunday. 



Trout fishing at Florence lakes near here, is 

 now the chief occupation of sportsmen. 



I had a good laugh Sunday. We had dinner 

 at a ranch, and there was some good venison on 

 the table. I supposed the other chaps knew 

 what it was and made no remarks until one 

 said, "That is the best mutton I ever ate;" 

 and the others said it was so much better flavor ed 

 and more tender than mutton usually was. The 

 rancher's wife nearly fainted and I didn't hesi- 

 tate to smile, audibly. 



About three weeks ago, an Indian, near 

 Wetherby, forty miles south of here got a stand 

 on a bunch of black tails and killed nineteen. 

 Deer are reported plenty this season in the 

 hills north of here. 



M. W. Miner. 



Dr. Clayton Parkhill, of Denver, recently 



made a hunting trip in the Rockies, mainly in 



search of bear, and writes that he was not so 



successful as he had hoped to be. He says : 



'The great mistake we made, I think, was in 



not taking our dress clothes with us." By this 

 I presume he means that the mountains were so 

 full of sportsmen that there was little game to 

 be found, and that the principal occupation of 

 the sportsmen was visiting with one another. 

 However, it is not all of hunting to kill game 

 and it is to be hoped that all sportsmen who are 

 disappointed in rinding it will, in time, learn 

 to value this fact. 



Hon. L. A. Huffman, of Miles City, Mont., 

 writes, hurriedly, as follows : 



" Took in a rainy day lately. Lonely bar on 

 river ; dozen mallard decoys ; me ; Colt gun you 

 bought for me, years ago ; oilskin and hip boots 

 outside ; just a drop inside ; ' hit a rainin' and 

 spittin' snow ; didn't care a cuss ; smoked a 

 little and waited. 



" Pretty soon, from the other side and a mile 

 below, came 'clap-bang, clap-bang.' I knew then 

 that the Wiley boys were operating at the old. 

 stand, on the slough. That stirred up half a 

 dozen bunches. From my rye grass blind I got 

 my dozen, all mallards but two. Sometime I 

 may give you the story of it ; also of the big, 

 broad gauge buck we had the scrap with, right 

 in the trail." 



Mr. W. P. Lett, of Ottawa, Canada, writes : 

 I arrived home safe from my hunting trip. Our 

 party consisted of J. D. Roberts, Toronto; 

 Charles Maltby, Montreal, and W. J. Johnstone, 

 Dr. W. R. Bell, E. A. Black, S. A. K. Whiten, 

 N. II. Lett, F. P. A. Lett, R. C. W. Lett and 

 myself, all of Ottawa. 



We hunted in the Opeongo country, in the 

 Province of Ontario, and had a very pleasant 

 time. Result, five deer, and about ninety 

 partridges. 



Rochester, N. Y. 

 Editor Recreation : 



I have used and tested nearly all the powders in 

 the market — black and nitro — and notwithstand- 

 ing all the talk about the cleanliness of the 

 latter they do not equal, in this important point, 

 my old favorite, the Dupont, No. 2 Eagle 

 Duck powder. I have shot away many kegs of 

 this within the past ten years, frequently firing 

 100 to 200 shots in a day, and have never found 

 it necessary to clean my gun during a day's 

 shooting. 



At night I simply wipe out my gun with a 

 dry brush and a rag, oil it with gunoleum, and 

 it is ready for the next day's work. I have 

 given this Dupont powder the most rigid tests 

 in all kinds of work — at the trap, on salt water, 

 on prairie chickens, snipe, quail, woodcock, 

 ruffed grouse, etc. Have never failed to stop 

 the toughest old gander or the swiftest wood- 

 cock or grouse, if within a decent range and if 

 the gun was held right. Neither have I ever 

 had a miss fire that I could trace to any fault of 

 the powder. Smoke ? Well, the smoke has 

 never troubled me. It makes but a little more 

 than the nitro powders and I have never lost a 

 bird from it that I can remember. I have 

 several friends who profer Dupont's Crystal 

 Grain powder, or Choke Bore, for different 

 classes of shooting, but I stay by my old favorite 

 the year round, and to this I attribute a great 

 deal of my success. H. G. W. 



