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cougar. The trap had a large fir 

 bush tied to it and the cougar had 

 dragged the bush to a large cliff 

 and had crawled under the rocks. 

 Mr. Daugherty pulled on the bunch 

 of brush several times and finally 

 the cougar came out with a rush 

 and with his fore paw slashed 

 Daugherty 's arm the entire length. 

 Fortunately, he did not get a good 

 hold. One of the other men in 

 the party shot the cat with his 

 .22 rifle. 



Charles Durgin, of Eoseburg, 

 caught a large wolf in one of his 

 traps a short time ago by making 

 a " blind set" in a trail where it 

 passed around a ledge of rock. 

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Quite a number of white tailed 

 deer have been seen in the vicinity 

 of Eoseburg lately. They are quite 

 different from the blacktailed deer 

 and are very similar to the Vir- 

 ginia whitetail. 



HARNEY COUNTY. 



Forest Eanger Edgar W. Don- 

 nelly, of the Ocheco National For- 

 est, while on a business trip to 

 Burns in the middle of December, 

 told of seeing sixteen large buck 

 deer near the head waters of Silver 

 Creek. He says the snow at the 

 time was from six to twelve inches 

 in depth and that the deer are 

 still well up in the mountains. 

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During the month of November 

 six trappers caught 3060 muskrats 



on the Malheur Lake Reserva- 

 tion. The Department of Agri- 

 culture regulates the trapping of 

 furbearing animals on the bird 

 reservations and limits the number 

 of trapping permits, with the result 

 that the fur product of these pre- 

 serves is rapidly increasing from 

 year to year. 



Mr. C. E. Tullock, of Berckley, 

 reports having seen in the neigh- 

 b rhood of one thousand antelope 

 near Desert Lake, west of Catlow 

 Valley, on a recent trip through 

 that section. 



JACKSON COUNTY. 



George Grigsby and a party of 

 friends, of Central Point, were out 

 on a trapping trip the middle of 

 last month, and on December 14th 

 they found a five and a six-point 

 buck that had been fighting. The 

 animals had their horns locked. The 

 six-point buck was dead. The men 

 separated the two deer and the 

 five-point, when free, took to the 

 brush. 



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Chinese pheasants were quite 

 plentiful in the Eogue Eiver Val- 

 ley this season, a noticeable in- 

 crease over last year. 



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The Hungarian partridges liber- 

 ated this season in Jackson County 

 are doing very well. One mother 

 partridge was seen with eighteen 

 young, two with fourteen and three 

 with six. 



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