T H E 



OREGON 



SPORTSMAN 



NOTES FROM COUNTIES 



BAKER COUNTY. 



The Chinese pheasants liberated 

 on the North Powder Kefuge have 

 increased rapidly. A. B. Davis re- 

 ports that he frequently sees flocks 

 of these birds in his fields. Mr. 

 West, who is superintendent of the 

 Hutchinson property, gives a sim- 

 ilar report. Prairie chickens have 

 also increased in number since the 

 formation of State game refuges in 

 that part of the country. 



BENTON COUNTY. . 



Mr. James Mulkey, of Pleasant 

 Valley, trapped a fine black bear 

 at the foot of Alsea Mountain, 

 about five miles west of Philomath. 

 This bear weighed two hundred 

 pounds dressed, and was very fat. 

 It was bought by one of the meat 

 markets in Corvallis and sold for 

 twenty-five cents a pound. Accord- 

 ing to reports there are quite a 

 number of bears in this locality. 

 This was the second killed by Mr. 

 Mulkey this winter. 



CLACKAMAS COUNTY. 



Since the illegal chasing of deer 

 with dogs has decreased in the 

 Estacada country, deer have in- 

 creased rapidly. A big effort is 

 being made this winter by local 

 hunters to kill off wolves, cougars 

 and other predatory animals as an 



additional protection to deer. 

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With all the Chinese pheasant 

 shooting that was done in this lo- 



cality during the open season, these 

 birds do not seem to be depleted 

 to any great extent. With a fa- 

 vorable winter and spring there 

 will be about as many next season 

 as there was this. 



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Fishing has been very good in 

 the Clackamas Kiver below Eiver 

 Mill for the past three weeks. The 

 fish caught are salmon, steelheads, 

 white fish, rainbow trout, and once 

 in a while a Dolly Varden and Cut- 

 throat trout. 



CLATSOP COUNTY. 



Spoon fishing for silversides has 

 been good at Seaside. Good aver- 

 ages catches were made. Among 

 the successful fishermen lately were 

 Mr. Bushong, who caught seven of 

 the gamey fish with a casting rod. 

 Bert Godfrey caught six, C. W. 

 Loughery four and Louis Henry 

 three. 



CROOK COUNTY. 



Trapping is reported as especially 

 good this winter. Mr. Kelly, from 

 Lava Lake, has out two hundred 

 traps. Up to December 1st he 

 caught twenty marten, two otter 

 and three mink. The skins were 

 large and unusually good. 



DOUGLAS COUNTY. 



L. B. Daugherty, of Yoncalla, 

 while visiting his traps about ten 

 miles west of Yoncalla one morn- 

 ing discovered he had caught a 



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