108 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



Mr. J. Ross Leslie reports counting fifteen Chinese pheas- 

 ants from the car window on a trip between Enterprise and 

 Joseph during the winter. On one occasion he saw a flock of 

 thirteen where some hogs were being fed. This shows that the 

 pheasants which were liberated from the State Game Farm are 

 thriving well in Wallowa county. 



Mr. J. A. Dewey, who lives on the headwaters of Cow creek, 

 killed six cougars and eight bobcats since November 1, 1914. 

 All of these were treed hj his dog, Keno. About March first the 

 dog was lost between the head of Cow creek and the South Fork 

 of the Umpqua river, near Tiller. It may be the dog has met with 

 foul play by falling in with a pack of wolves. Mr. Dewey is 

 anxiously seeking information as to the whereabouts of his dog. 



The state of Wisconsin recently received twenty-nine elk 

 from the Jackson Hole country in Wyoming, to be placed in a 

 state game refuge. In the herd there were six males and twenty- 

 three females and all except two reached their destination in very 

 good condition, considering the long ride they had to make in 

 freight cars. Howard Eaton, an old hunter, accompanied the 

 herd from Wyoming to Wisconsin, and saw that the animals were 

 fed and watered every day during their journey. The elk cost 

 the state of Wisconsin nothing except for their capture and 

 transportation. 



Anglers in and around Pendleton, Oregon, are having great 

 sport these days, owing to a run of steelhead trout in the Uma- 

 tilla river. Man} T big fish have been landed, but a still greater 

 number have taken tackle away with them. The unusual run is 

 attributed to the work of the fish and game commission in 

 liberating 100,000 steelhead fry in the headwaters of the river 

 four years ago. The fish had been kept in a nursery pond until 

 they were from three to five inches long before being liberated. 

 They are believed to have remained in the stream until they were 

 two years old, when they went to the ocean and are now return- 

 ing to spawn. The fish being caught are all the way from 

 eighteen to thirty-two inches in length and many of them have 

 a weight of ten pounds. — American Field. 



