THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 31 
In the state of Maine fishing and hunting is one of the biggest 
industries. Yet the Eastern state has nothing on Oregon. What more 
can a sportman ask than a fishing trip to the McKenzie, the Rogue, 
Deschutes, Sandy, Marion Lake, in Southern Oregon; a journey into the 
Nehalem country, to the Salmonberry, Oswego Lake, Lost Lake or 
any other of the favorite spots where Oregonians go to rest and enjoy 
the call of the wild? 
There are approximately 10,000 anglers in Multnomah County. If 
every one of these spends $40 a year there’s $400,000 spent by the 
boys seeking fishes in this county alone. 
EASTERN BIRDS COMING INTO OREGON 
Mr. Stanley Jewett, of the Biological Survey, reports some very 
interesting data concerning the spread of some of the commoner East- 
ern birds into the Eastern part of Oregon. The early records do not 
show that the Catbird was a resident of this state. The first record 
which Mr. Jewett secured of this bird being in Oregon was August 
11, 1906, at Sparta in Baker County. The birds seem gradually to be 
spreading out more through the state and coming over toward the 
west. In 1915 he saw one bird at Mt. Vernon in Grant County. One 
ef these birds was also seen at Prairie City. 
The Catbirds seem quite common this year in the vicinity of La 
Grande, where Mr. Jewett saw five or six. He also saw the birds in 
Wallowa County at Minam, Wallowa, Enterprise and Joseph. 
A still further western record is noted by Mr. Jewett, who col- 
lected one of these birds September 3, 1916, at Pendleton, Oregon. He 
also saw two others. He knows of two broods of Catbirds which were 
raised in that locality during the past season. 
Another very interesting record is the appearance of the Bob- 
White in Eastern Oregon. We first saw this bird in Harney County 
in 1908. For the past ten years they have been quite abundant in 
the meadows about Burns. Mr. Jewett has recorded the Bob-o-Link 
at John Day in Grant County. Also he saw two at Wallowa and two 
at Halfway in Baker County. 
CURRY COUNTY A PARADISE FOR BEARS 
By' ALFreD PoweERs 
Bear hunters, bear dogs and bears—this is a natural trinity down 
in Curry County, Oregon, like faith, hope and charity. 
You have played with Teddy bears, you have seen bears dance at 
the command of some Neapolitan gentleman, you have perhaps devel- 
oped the ‘‘willies’’ by watching some polar bear swing his head in a 
perpetual affirmative in a cage. You have read ‘‘Johnny Bear’’ and 
how Charles Dudley Warner executed a bear, and ‘‘How We Killed a 
Bear—Betsy and I.’’ In toyland, in cages or chains, in literature you 
have come into an across-the-fence contact with Bruin, but did you 
ever meet him face to face in a huckleberry thicket or a skunk ecab- 
bage patch? 
You have met him more than once if you ever lived in Curry 
County. This is his home. There are about the same number of real 
bears in Curry County as there are Teddy bears in Portland. 
