THE 



OREGON 



SPORTSMAN 



W. C. Block, who believes in the 

 use of the drifting bait, hooked 

 five fine fish in one day recently, 

 but managed to get but two of 

 them ashore. This was Block's first 

 experience with steelheads, and as 

 they were unusually hard fighters 

 it isn 't surprising that some of 

 them made their getaway. 



time. One may see thirty to fifty 

 in a band about the farms through 

 the central part of the valley. 



UNION COUNTY. 



All the game birds liberated in 

 this county during the past season 

 have wintered well except the gol- 

 den pheasants. A few of these were 

 liberated as an experiment at the 

 State Agricultural Farm last sum- 

 mer. Although several trials have 

 been made in different parts of the 

 state, the golden pheasant is not a 

 success as a game bird. 



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On February 20th a big buck deer 

 visited La Grande. He was seen at 

 the barn of Mr. Bert Hughes. A 

 dog chased the animal away, but 

 it stopped on the side hill where 

 several people had a chance to see 

 it. It finally made its way back to 

 the. mountains. 



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The good news comes from Union 



and Cove, Oregon, that there is talk 



of organizing a joint Rod and Gun 



Club for the two towns. A club of 



this kind is sure to make game con- 



ditions in that immediate locality 



better. 



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The Chinese pheasants in the 

 Grande Ronde Valley are thriving 

 well this winter. The snow has not 

 been over three inches deep at any 



UMATILLA COUNTY. 



One of the heaviest penalties ever 

 :nflicted for a violation of the Ore- 

 gon game laws was imposed on Jan- 

 uary 19th by Judge Gilbert W. 

 Phelps, at Pendleton. He sentenced 

 George Forrest, the rancher con- 

 victed of killing two elk, to pay a 

 fine of five hundred dollars. This 

 carried with it the costs of the 

 case, amounting to about two hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars additional. 

 By the time he has paid the two 

 attorneys, Mr. Forrest will have 

 paid approximately one thousand 

 dollars, or two dollars and fifty 

 cents a pound for his meat. The 

 arrest was made and the case 

 worked up by District Warden E. F. 

 Averill, of Pendleton. 



WASCO COUNTY. 



E. B. Dinsmore, Fred Temphuier 

 and W. A. Marsh, three sportsmen 

 from Mosier, Oregon, went out Jan- 

 uary 8th after a big cougar that 

 was reported in the woods on the 

 west fork of Mill Creek. They had 

 two Airedales and two Fox hounds, 

 and on the third day treed the 

 cougar and killed it. The animal 

 was unusually large. 



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The sportsmen of The Dalles have 

 organized a Rod and Gun Club and 

 elected officers for the year 1914. 

 There are twenty-five charter mem- 

 bers. 



