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Isle Royale in 1904, writes that he saw no moose there at 

 that time, and heard of none. In one instance, however, the 

 party observed low maples which had been broken down, and 

 the small branches eaten away, and this may have been the 

 work of moose, although at the time it was attributed to 

 earibou. But William P. F. Ferguson of Franklin, Penn., 

 who has spent several weeks every summer at the island for 

 a number of years past, writing recently to the game officials 

 of Michigan said: 



"As possibly you realize, you have there one of the finest 

 moose preserves in the world. The island is admirably adapted 

 for moose, and feed is plenty. The moose herd is rapidly 

 increasing, and is producing some splendid examples. . . . 

 Moose are now to be found in all parts of the island, though 

 less numerous at the northeastern end, where the country is 

 not so well adapted to them. From Washington Harbor up 

 to Lake Desor and the Siskiwit country they are especially 

 numerous. I was over that country very fully, and never saw 

 any place where moose were more in evidence." 



The game officials are arranging to station a deputy on the 

 island, to remain the entire year, to protect moose and other 

 game. No moose may legally be killed in Michigan at any 

 time. 



Mr. Ferguson tells the story of an amusing encounter which 

 he had with a bull moose on the island. He was walking 

 along a trail alone, carrying no weapon but a 45-caliber re- 

 volver, when he met the moose, whose antlers spread some 

 four feet. As the animal came nearer Mr. Ferguson shouted, 

 but, w^ith antlers lowered in a threatening manner, the moose 

 continued to advance. Mr. Ferguson took shelter behind a 

 big cedar, expecting the moose to continue on his way, but 

 the animal turned from the trail, and came to still closer 

 quarters. 



*'I thought I would have to kill him," he wrote, "but there 

 flashed into my mind a case of a deer knocked out by a bullet 



