86 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



Mr. H. W. Harris, Forest Supervisor at Wallowa, reports by 

 actual count thirty-seven elk in the Billy Meadows pasture. He 

 places an estimate of the total number of elk in Wallowa county 

 at 265. 



Mr. A. A. Derrick and his son, who live at Jamison in Harney 

 county, are engaged in ranching and stock raising. They are 

 very enthusiastic in matters of game protection and report quite 

 a few antelope in the Steins mountains. 



The Brownsville Rod and Gun Club are furnishing and deco-« 

 rating their club home. The members are keeping up their push 

 and enthusiasm which dominated the club from the beginning. 

 As a result of stocking the streams in that' part of Linn county, 

 fishing is very good. 



The Big Luckiamute in Polk county is among the finest 

 trout streams in the state. Sportsmen of that locality have com- 

 plained on account of the lack of adequate fish ladders over some 

 of the dams. An effort is now being made to have these con- 

 structed. A new railroad is soon to be in operation up the stream 

 which will make the region more accessible to anglers. 



The fishway over the dam recently constructed by the gov- 

 ernment at Three Mile falls in the Umatilla river has been com- 

 pleted and the run of steelheads which was being held back by 

 this obstruction are now ascending the river. Until recently the 

 water in the river was very low, but at the present time the fish 

 are having no difficulty in ascending. 



Mr. J. H. Nichols, president of the Rod and Gun Club at 

 Baker, reports over two hundred members. The anglers in that 

 locality are enthusiastic over the improvements in lake fishing 

 since these waters were restocked. The pheasants liberated by 

 the Fish and Game Commission in Baker county have survived 

 the winter in good shape. Mr. E. A. Lincoln, a rancher at Keat- 

 ing, has been feeding seventeen pheasants on his place during 

 the winter. 



