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One time 400 carcasses left to rot around 
Trembling mountain, in that district. On 
Lake St. Joseph, he counted 200 deer in a 
more or less advanced state of decay. 
Mr. Cormier will prosecute a number of 
offenders, among them some high Ameri- 
can officials. 
Ottawa, Ont., Journal. 

A SHOT FROM MEXICO. 
San Luis Potosi, Mex. 
Editor REcrREATION: Your favor 26th 
ulto. I am at present unable to reply defi- 
nitely to your question, but think the pigeon 
here is not the American passenger pigeon. 
I have killed many of them from time 
to time. We call them blue rocks. They 
are large, strong flying birds, of a dark 
blue color on neck and part of body. .I 
do not remember their distinct marking ; 
will in a few weeks be out again and will 
kill one and advise. 
While we have an open season ail the 
year,.we hunt only in the fall and winter 
when the game is in good condition. 
We are not game hogs down here. I have 
hunted all over the Republic and can vouch 
for truth of this statement. Have killed 
game from the Wilson snipe to mountain 
lions and bear. Have lived here 17 years. 
Lake Chapola is the ideal spot (in this 
country) for wild fowl shooting, only there 
is such great numbers of -wild fowl that it 
is hardly sport to shoot them. I have killed 
48 wild geese from 3 to 6 p.m. and many 
ducks (all kinds), not in the count, and 
still I am not a hog as comparison would ex- 
culpate me, i.e., numbers of geese found as 
to number killed would probably figure 1,- 
000,000: 48::, etc., you to supply the miss- 
ing term. 
AW Wanton 
If the killing of 48 geese in a day does 
not entitle you to a place in the pen I don’t 
know what would.—EDbIrTor. 

A REFORMED POT HUNTER. 
Editor REcrEATION: I like your way of 
writing up the game exterminators, the 
spring shooters, etc. They are criminals and 
should be put behind the bars. In a few 
years the ducks will be gone, and they will 
never come back. I have shot ducks on the 
Saginaw river and bay for over 20 years and 
can see the difference every year. I prob- 
ably killed my share of them, and in the 
spring, too, but I think it time to reform 
and save what are left so they may hatch 
a flock or 2. 
Spring shooting was prohibited in this 
state last spring. Some of the duck shooters 
want the law repealed so as to allow them 
to shoot in the spring again. I hope the 
legislature will not make any change. The 
present law is good, and our game wardens 
RECREATION. 
have been keeping a sharp look-out for vio- 
lators. Very few ducks were killed here 
last spring. 
One of our game wardens keeps a summer 
resort hotel close to the best duck shooting, 
and he kept after the duck shooters very 
close last spring. 
A law should be passed prohibiting the 
sale of all kinds of game. That would stop 
a great deal of slaughter. If the shooters - 
could not sell their ducks or other game 
birds, they would not shoot so much. When 
the profit stops they will stop. 
I am telling you this because I know by 
experience. I am called the worst market 
hunter in this part of the country, but it is 
not so. I have quit: and hope others will 
follow. 
John R. Cotter, Essexville, Mich. 

OUTLOOK IN COLORADO. 
The big game of Colorado has had a deal 
of trouble to keep out of the way of the 
market hunter in the past, but things have 
changed somewhat and a new era seems to 
be opening up. During the past season, but 
little was killed because of the forest fires 
which compelled the game in many local- 
ities to change its habitation; so, when the 
hunters went to their favorite grounds the 
game was gone. Another reason why but 
little game was killed last fall was that the 
season was so dry. It was almost impos- 
sible to stalk large game, as an ‘animal 
could hear the hunter long before he could 
Seems 
I went out on 2 occasions with 3 or 4 
others. We were in a good game country 
but no large game was killed. I know of 
many parties who went out with no better 
success. 
It is reported that over 50,000 deer crossed 
the Grand river below Glenwood springs ~ 
last fall while the forest fire raged North of 
there. They no doubt wintered on the 
South side of the Grand and went North in 
the spring. 
Now, if the market hunter and the Ind- 
ians can be kept hobbled awhile, we shall 
soon have plenty of both deer and elk. Cat- 
tle are being run in all the game ranges in 
this part of the state. Last fall I saw cattle 
ranging above timber line. 
Bart, Gunnison, Col. 

- RABBIT COURSING IN OKLAHOMA. 
As I think the lady readers of RECREA- 
TION are not in sufficient evidence in its 
pages I send an account of our principal 
Oklahoma sport—rabbit coursing. I have 
not ventured to introduce any sporting’ 
terms because I am not acquainted with 
them. A 5,000 acre tract of government 
timber—an old military reservation—West 
of the city was chosen as the place of meet- 
ing. Several sportsmen with 6 or 8 grey- 


