32 THE ORBGON SPORTSMAN 
Jake Fry, Frank Fry, Walter Fry, Will Lake, Delmar Colgrove 
and Elmer Miller are all well-known Curry County bear hunters. 
Jake Fry has probably killed more bears than any other man in 
Oregon. He has been hunting bears for 50 years, since he was 11 
years old. In that time he has owned 100 bear dogs. He has kept 
four on hand steadily for half a century. Eight years is the ordinary 
life of a bear dog. In eight years, often before, he goes to the Val- 
halla of brave bear dogs. Mr. Fry remembers the heroie services of 
dogs dead these 40 years. During retrospective evenings the ghosts of 
those 100 dogs that he has owned come back to him, eager for the hunt, 
nimble of foot, musical of voice, with Spartan courage, no yellow streak 
in the whole 100. Bloodhound and beagle hound are standard breeds. 
Bloodhounds, mastiff and shepherd are a poor cross, says Mr. Fry. 
The bears that Jake Fry has killed run up into the thousands. He 
has killed as many as 10 in a day. A low average would be 25 a year. 
That would make 1250. But he has killed more than that. He now has 
one of the finest farms on the whole Rogue River. Everybody, no mat- 
ter who he is, is welcome at his big house near Illaine postoffice, Kill- 
ing bears, with this man, has surely been a ‘‘pious pastime,’’ for he is 
constructive in every other way. If bear hunting and bear killing pro- 
duces such citizens, we all would do well to turn bear hunters. 
Frank Fry has hunted bears in Curry County for 33 years, averag- 
ing 25 a year. Delmar Colgrove has hunted for 20 years. Will Lake, 
Elmer Miller and Walter Fry are also veteran hunters. 
During the summer the bears travel along the river, in the fall they 
eat huckleberries and acorns, with such miscellany as they can find in 
the way of food, and in the spring clover, skunk cabbage and grass are 
the principal features of their menu. 
Almost every day you can read in the papers of the killing of a bear 
somewhere in Oregon; annually they kick the beam by hundreds; but 
for many years to come there will be bear hunters, bear dogs and bears 
in Curry County. 
TROUT STREAMS OF EASTERN CLACKAMAS 
COUNTY 
Eagle Creek, Oregon, January 15, 1917. 
Editors Oregon Sportsman, 
Portland, Oregon. 
Gentlemen: Your editorial comment in the October issue of the Ore- 
gon Sportsman on the question of raising the price of angling and hunt- 
ing licenses meets with my approval. We all know, or should, that if we 
as sportsmen expect to have fish in the streams a system of restocking 
must be kept up. Every sportsman should take a deep interest in help- 
ing to maintain good fishing in our streams, for it is a fact that the 
streams of eastern Multnomah and Clackamas Counties have been about 
whipped to death by the sportsmen. 
Only a few years ago one could fill a basket with fine trout in a 
few hours on either the north or south forks of Eagle Creek—where a 
good lot of anglers do their fishing now. It is far different at this time. 
The Eagle Creek trout feeding station has been a great help in 
restocking the streams in the eastern part of Clackamas County, and the 
people generally are taking more interest from year to year in assisting 
in the liberation of the young fry from this station in the different 
