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dissenting vote and was signed by President Wilson on Jan- 

 uary 26. 



According to Mr. Enos A. Mills, who has worked for many 

 years to have this area set aside as a national park, wild life 

 is abundant. There are more than two hundred bighorn sheep, 

 some elk, a fair supply of deer, several colonies of beavers and 

 plenty of ptarmigan and grouse. The streams are well stocked 

 with trout. 



"This park embraces about 360 square miles of the most 

 characteristic and striking scenery in the Rocky mountains of 

 Colorado. In it are more than fifty mountain peaks that are 

 above 12,000 feet altitude, about 200 lakes and tarns, primeval 

 forests of Engelmann spruce and lodge-pole pine, scores of beau- 

 tiful park-like meadows, several small glaciers and a number of 

 wild canyons. Longs Peak, 'king of the Rockies,' altitude 14,225 

 feet, is the highest point." 



Hen Pheasant and Young*. 



PHEASANTS GOING TO ROOST. 



BY 

 ALFRED C. SHELTON 



On the evening of December 10, 1914, the writer was re- 

 turning to Eugene from a two-days' shoot in the duck marshes of 

 the Long Tom swamp, some fifteen miles west of Eugene with a 

 party of local sportsmen. Some eight or ten miles west of town is an 

 old uninhabited ranch, the buildings long unused, and nearby an 

 old orchard, long uncared for. As we passed this orchard just be- 

 fore dusk, we stopped, amazed at the pheasants which were com- 

 ing into the old orchard apparently to roost. The orchard was fairly 



