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GAME AND GUIDES IN IDAHO. 



Egin, Fremont Co., Idaho. 

 Editor Recreation : 



We had a hard winter for game. Snow 

 was deep in the valleys and crusted so it 

 was hard for game to get any food. There 

 was more snow in the mountains than 

 has been for several years. Game was 

 rather scarce here last fall. All the hunt- 

 ers in the country were hunting and but 

 little more game was killed than was re- 

 ported, more moose being killed than elk. 

 In the fall of 1897, there was more game 

 here than for years before. I don't under- 

 stand why the game changes so." I have 

 noticed that occasionally game will be 

 plentiful for one season, then for 3 or 4 

 years we have scarcely any. 



We haven't a fourth of the game here in 

 Idaho we had 15 years ago. Then we had 

 plenty of white tail deer, as well as black 

 tail, and plenty of antelope. Now we hard- 

 ly ever see a white tail deer or an antelope. 

 We have a good many black tail deer, elk 

 and moose and small black bear, and, in 

 some parts, a good many mountain sheep 

 and a few white goats. 



There is good trout fishing in all the 

 streams; during the fall there are a good 

 many ducks and geese. We have several 

 kinds of game birds. Birds of most kinds 

 are getting more plentiful, because there is 

 no market for them, and they are hunted 

 very little. 



I went hunting the latter part of last No- 

 vember for my winter's meat. I was gone 

 about 9 days from home, and got one bull 

 elk. It took me 2 days to go to where I 

 hunted, and 2 to come home, and the 

 weather was so stormy I couldn't do much 

 hunting. It snowed about a foot 'and a 

 half where I was. 



I saw only 5 elk on the trip. They were 

 all bulls. It was reported the other day 

 that there were 5 or 6 head of buffalo 

 about 35 or 40 miles Northeast from here. 

 A partv has gone after them. They no 

 doubt came out of the park. 



I have lived here in Idaho over 20 years ; 

 have hunted and trapped through Idaho 

 and Wyoming. I am well acquainted with 

 all of the country and the game ranges. 

 Anyone contemplating «a hunting trip in 

 Idaho or Wyoming, who wants informa- 

 tion regarding the country or the game, 

 may write me and I'll be glad to answer all 

 questions. I can also furnish parties hunt- 

 ing outfits and good guides. Camping par- 

 ties wishing to go through the park I can 

 provide with teams and wagons cheaper 

 than they can be obtained at any railroad 

 station near the park. 



Market Lake, Idaho, is the best place for 

 tourist and hunting parties to leave the 

 railroad. At St. Anthony, about 35 miles 

 Northeast of Market Lake, on the main 



road to the park, they can get anything they 

 need in the provision line. There is good 

 trout fishing and chicken shooting all the 

 way from Market Lake to the park, and 

 good camp grounds after leaving St. An- 

 thony. Camping parties can either go or 

 come through Jackson Hole. The latter 

 part of July till the first of September is 

 the best time to visit the park. 



W. L. Winegar, Guide, 



GAME AND WARDENS. 



Hickory, Wis. 

 Editor Recreation : 



In this part of Wisconsin we have the 

 genuine game hog in abundance. In a few 

 years the deer and smaller game will be ex- 

 terminated, at the present rate of slaugh- 

 ter. We have had deer fairly plentiful 

 this fall, but they were hunted with hounds 

 weeks before the season opened, and for 

 weeks after it closed. There seems to be 

 no game wardens in the country. Scores 

 of deer were shot out of season and 

 shipped on the railroads. 



I know a local dealer who has been ship- 

 ping ruffed grouse since the season closed, 

 as dressed poultry, and sometimes as 

 ginseng. He has even encouraged young 

 farmer boys to go out and shoot them, that 

 he might make a few dirty pennies by thus 

 violating the law. 



If I had come within reach of those 

 hounds I heard running deer last fall so 

 often, I should have been tempted to give 

 them a load of buskshot. 



One of the market hunters told me a 

 week before the season closed that he had 

 shot and sold 6 deer; and he was lament- 

 ing that he had not done so well as 

 in former years ! He usually killed a 

 dozen or more ! 



What can we do to stop this? The 

 game wardens will not do their duty, and 

 most people do not care to interfere, as it 

 makes more or less enmity. In the mean- 

 time the game is being slaughtered. 



This part of Oconto county abounds in 

 small lakes full of pickerel, pike, black and 

 Oswego bass, perch and other varieties of 

 fish. There are enough deer to perpetuate 

 themselves indefinitely if they were not so 

 ruthlessly slaughtered. Ruffed grouse 

 were plentiful last fall, and wintered well, 

 but there are numbers of foxes, and some 

 birds fall victims to their cunning. 



T. H. Downs. 



If you have followed the L. A. S. depart- 

 ment in Recreation, you know what we 

 have accomplished by thai move in New 

 York. We have absolutely checkmated the 

 cold storage warehouses, the hotels and 

 restaurants, and everyone who buvs game 

 from the pot hunters. Such prominent 



