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butt. Have done some target shooting and like 
it very much. RoBERT MAcLavry. 
398 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Sport in South Dakota 
I have been reading your magazine for a long 
time and think it is time you heard something 
from this part of the Northwest. There are a 
good many wolves, foxes and a few coyotes here 
and the finest duck and goose shooting there is 
in the Northwest. 
Seven miles west of our town is the largest 
lake in South Dakota. It covers an area of 8,205 
acres and is well stocked with bass, perch, pike, 
pickerel and catfish. Is quite a place for camp- 
ers; people come here from all over this part of 
the Northwest to spend the hot months. I 
came out here in 1881, and since that time have 
killed 343 wild geese and ducks, and chickens in 
proportion. I use a Savage rifle for geese and a 
L. C. Smith shotgun for ducks and chickens. 
Some of your readers from the East would 
enjoy a few weeks’ sport out here, and there is 
room for all who will come. 
Estelline, S. Dak. F. J. ROBINSON. 

The Mud-Eaters of New Brunswick 
Up among the hills in the center of the New 
Brunswick wilderness, where the Tobique, 
Nepisequi and Upsalquiteh rivers head, there 
are several places where the moose, caribou, 
deer and even bears gather to eat the mud> 
around:-springs that flow out from the foot of 
high hills. Why it is that they want the mud at 
these particular places is more than I know. I 
cannot taste any salt nor can I see any difference 
in the water or mud there from any other place; 
yet the facts remain the same, and they come 
there regularly, from the time these places thaw 
out in the spring till they freeze up in the fall, 
and in some of these places the mud is e ten 
down for a depth of two or three feet and sev- 
eral square rods in extent. 
One of the most frequented of these places is 
on a small stream that enters the litile Tobique 
about twenty-five miles above the forks. I have 
known this place for eleven years, and at first 
there were no deer and not half as many moose 
as at present, but the place was alive with cari- 
bou. The reason for that was that the lumber- 
men were cutting that country then, and the 
caribou gathered there to eat the moss off the 
1gI 
spruce tops, and when the lumbermen got 
done there the roads were left for game trails, 
and sprouts came up where the big trees had 
been cut, making it a perfect homing place for 
moose, so that at present the moose and deer 
are very much more abundant, while the caribou 
are much scarcer than eleven years ago. 
This mud restaurant of the game is an ideal 
place to get photos of big game, but I have very 
little chance to carry a camera. But last June 
I built what we call our photograph gallery, on 
the edge of this hole, on the advice of a sports- 
man who had been with me and saw the place. 
It is a little log cabin about ten feet square, with 
five small windows, and a small shelf inside 
each window to set the camera on. Moose and 
deer take no notice of the gallery and walk and 
stand round it for hours within a few feet. Last 
October Mr. W. D. Griscom, of Philadelphia, 
and his guide were in the gallery and two cow 
moose came about sundown and stayed for an 
hour, and all that time they were within a dis- 
tance of thirty feet of the gallery. They got 
some photographs of them, but the light was 
rather dim for clear pictures. I don’t know of 
another place that is nearly as good to photo- 
graph big game. The game comes in there at 
all hours of the day and night, but the favorite 
time in the summer is from the time they finish 
feeding in the morning till noon, and again 
about sundown. ADAM Moore. 
Scotch Lake, N. B. 

“Mule-Tail’’? Deer! 
In RECREATION for May there appeared a 
mild criticism of my article in the March num- 
ber, in which I said there were no mule deer in 
California. Of course, I know that negative 
evidence is not conclusive, but I based my state- 
ment on the best evidence I could obtain. Mr. 
Brown’s statement is the only one that I have 
seen in print, claiming for a certainty that mule 
deer were found in this State, and while I may 
have been mistaken, the evidence as I find it 
certainly is very largely in favor of the truth of 
my position. Neither in the literature on the 
subject nor in conversation with old hunters 
have I found any one who claimed differently— 
excepting one man who claimed to have seen 
“‘mule-tail deer” near Kings River Cafion. 
This was a new one to me. I think they must 
have been related to Mr. Brown’s San Jacinto 
deer. Cuas. W. Harpman, M.D. 
Laton, Cal. 
