THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 101 
ONE OF OREGON’S FAMOUS MOUNTAIN 
STREAMS 
By WARDEN W. O. HADLEY, The Dalles, Oregon 
The Metolius River is one of 
the finest mountain streams in 
Oregon, and is famous for its 
gamey trout, ice cold water and 
beautiful surroundings. The 
river heads from a big ice-cold 
spring at the foot of Black Butte. 
This spring is about 16 feet wide 
and 3 feet deep where the water 
rushes out of the rocks. 
The Metolius River is about 40 
miles long and the volume of 
water that it carries is in- 
creased several times by the hun- 
dreds of springs pouring in from 
the vicinity of Heising’s Ranch 
and on down to where the river 
empties into the Deschutes 
River. At Heising’s Ranch a 
beautiful spring of water, 6 feet 
wide and 2 feet deep, pours out. One of Oregon’s Famous Mountain 
Over this spring a _ springhouse Streams 
stands and big Dollyvardens and 
other thout are often seen and caught while swimming around the milk 
cans which are kept in the stream flowing through the spring time. 
The Metolius River Valley may be reached by auto from Sisters. 
Along the river is to be found good horse feed in season, and splendia 
camp grounds have been set aside for the publie by the “National 
Forest service. ——_—_—__—_-—— 
MANY DEER WINTERED IN UNION COUNTY 
By WARDEN J. W. WALDEN, La Grande, Oregon 

Several nice herds of deer have wintered along the creeks in the 
lower foothills of Union County. During the cold weather and deepest 
snow I went out and made a count of them every few days, and I am 
pleased to be able to say that I have missed but one. I am sure that 
I know who did the work of killing this deer, but I have not yet secured 
sufficient evidence to convict. 
The deer here in Union County have all kinds of friends among the 
farmers especially. They are feeding them and in other ways giving 
protection. Along Catherine Creek there were two bands—one number- 
ing 28 and the other 32 head. Mr. Sam Booth says they lived off his 
haystacks and that he would have surely killed anyone found molesting 
them. There was another band on Ladd Creek that did fine. They 
remained within a quarter of a mile of a farmer’s house, using the 
south side of the hills where the snow was practically off and they can 
eat the bunchgrass. There were eight bucks and six smaller ones in 
this band. There is another large band up on Rock Creek and these, 
too, came through the winter in good condition. Twenty-three were 
counted in this band by a farmer who looked after them. 
Chinese pheasants are doing fine in this county and there will 
probably be a large crop this season, 
