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New claims would have been located in the vicinity of 
Othferg already made, and the people and transportation 
Companifes were rfeady for it. It was just in the preliminarjr 
Stages that the etectitive order came which placed a clieck 
on development of further Work, and caused capital, whose 
agents wete on thfe ground, to suddenly seek other fields of 
investment. It is in view of this sudden check that has 
been put upon the mining interests pending further con- 
sideration t)f the inatter at the National Capital that causes 
tne to demur to the assertion that we are like children 
frightened at a stump hear. We have certainly found to 
our cost that your stump bear was teal enough to make that 
capricious goddess of capital so suspicious as to put a stop 
to further work in our prospecting. 
I regret to notice that your paper, along with other repre- 
sentatives of the Eastern press, acts upon the assumption 
that we of the Northwest are so ignorant as to be unable 
to minister to our own wants. But you seem to forget that 
the men in Washington who are developing the resources 
of the State are from among the educated and energetic 
classes of the East who have widened their intelligence by 
labor in this new tield of operation. We have men who 
came here with theoretical ideas of the sciences of forestry, 
engineering, natural history and mining, learned at the 
universities of Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale, who 
have by contact with and study of the peculiar conditions 
met on this coast, under all conditions, added to their 
knowledge. These men have personally explored the 
cafions and snow-capped summits of the Cascades, trav- 
ersed the scrub-grown ridges and slopes, and penetrated 
the gigantic forests of the lowlands. They are also famil- 
iar with the local histories of the different sections of the 
State. They have also studied the homestead, timber and 
mining laws of the United States, and become familiar 
with the rulings of the Land Office. They are not timber 
thieves nor ignoramuses. 
These men say that if the object in creating the Wash - 
ingto reserve, as is asserted, is to preserve the forests of 
the State irom depredations of corporations or individuals, 
and for the prot,ection of the watersheds as a means of 
climatic equalization, that the objects will probably mis- 
carry. For the purpose of preserving the forests that have 
commercial worth, the order comes forty years too late. 
All of the valuable timber west of the Cascades grew at 
near sea level and within twenty-five miles of Puget 
Sound, This area has all been surveyed, and ne&rly all of 
it patented, and the mill companies have been assiduously 
at work culling the choicest timber under their purchases 
from the Government. The western line of the Washing- 
ton reserve barely touches timber of merchantable qual- 
ity. As to protecting the headwaters of our rivers, the re- 
serve or its object does not seem to cut an important 
figure. The twia great rivera of the State — the Columbia 
and Skagit— rise in British Columbia, far from the boun- 
dary, while nearly all of the rivers and streams of prom- 
inence in the State have their sources in the everlasting 
glaciers. 
In the Puget Sound district a diminution of the rainfall 
is rarely considered. Because when the timber on the low- 
lands is out a second growth springs up so suddenly that 
for one tree six will replace it in three years. As the new 
growth is more dense than the old it preserves moisture 
and shades the ground more completely than older trees. 
Even if denuding the lands of forest would diminish rain- 
fall as understood in the East, there is no reason to believe 
it would do so here; for so long as the winds sweep land- 
ward from the Pacific, and the great mountain chain favors 
condensation as we now witness it, there sliould be rain. 
There should be no fear that denuding the land of trees 
would favor sudden freshets by the melting of snow in 
large bodies, since here where the forests exist there is 
practically no snow, while on the other hand snow exists 
in large quantities in the sections where there is little or 
no timber. As to protecting the scrub growth that exists 
on the mountain sides and in the reservation from any 
depredation, every one here realizes that the prospectors 
and miners are particular to preserve all the trees in the 
vicinity of the mines as very useful barriers to snowslides. 
Furthermore it is current rumor that some of the forest 
fires that have occurred in the mountains have been 
started by tenderfoot hunters from the Eastern States. 
How well these conditions were considered by the com- 
mittee of experts is not known, but the sweeping nature 
of the order would indicate that they had given the mat- 
ters but superficial attention if any. Neither does the re- 
port show that the committee personally visited and in- 
spected the lands reserved, nor sought information from 
competent persons. It is currently reported here and be- 
lieved that the committee made no further examination 
than was available by a ride across the country in the 
cars. 
Most of the coast residents are aware of an existing rule 
of the Interior Department predicated on the law of 1891 
for creating reserves, which requires special agents who are 
requested to make recommendations for forest reserves, to 
acquire full knowledge of the proposed reserves and co- 
operate with the authorities and citizens of the States for 
whose benefit the reservations are to be made, and before 
recommending the reserves to publish in the newspapers 
in the county where the reserves lie full descriptions 
thereof and file the same in the Land office in the district. 
None of these requirements were obeyed, no distinctive 
tracts were reserved, but a blanket reservation was placed 
on the unsurveyed lands irrespective of towns, roads or 
mineral locations. The whole proceeding was so sinister 
in its appearance when first promulgated that many be- 
lieved it a part of a scheme in the interests of the railroads 
whereby they would be enabled to select sections in more 
valuable localities in lieu of the ones apparently withdrawn 
by the order. 
You state that the order was only an initial step to be 
followed by recommendations from the commission, per- 
mitting agricultural lands to be occupied and mining to be 
prosecuted, but the trouble is that the recommendations of 
such a plan was not concurrent with the order of reserve. 
People here who are familiar with dealing with the Gov- 
ernment, recognize that an order from the executive of the 
Interior Department means what it says, and must be 
obeyed; and they do not propose to transgress its terms 
with the thought that there may follow some unmentioned 
modifying edict. In your effort to defend the laches of the 
Oommissson in failing to have embraced in the order of 
reserve excepting clauses permitting settlement and min- 
ing, you say that in former reservations no settler or miner 
has been interfered with. I fail to reconcile the stateme»t 
with the Yosemite cases which the Federal Courts passed 
on, And deprived settlers of thousands of dollars invested 
in improvements; 
I notice that the Commission is defeiidirig its action 
through the Eastern press. It does not deny that inter- 
ests already established will be injured, but declares its 
purpose to prepare plans foi- the widest uses of the reser- 
vation compatible with the preservations of the "forests;" 
but uhfortunately in the meantime business interests must 
come to a standstill, ovfing to their oversight. Western 
people realize that when public lands are withdrawn from 
entry that no personal liberty ot rights can be exercised 
therein except by permission of the Department, which 
past experience has shown to consist of a slow process of 
red-tapeism. Hence this little oversight or matter of 
neglect on the part of the Commission caused locators and 
other interested persons to suspend operations pending an 
examination of the situation. 
The Commission further excuses itself by citing the 
action of California in declining to have its reserve opened. 
But if the members of the Commission have given the 
matter examination they should have recognized that the 
California reserve is a bona -fide forest reserve whose timber 
and-scenic effect constitutes its principal value. By its 
admissions and acts the Commission stands convicted of 
blundering in the matter, M'ith neglectful consideration of 
the rights of people concerned; hence the order of reserve 
should be revoked to make place for a further considera- 
tion of a reserve that shall be properly and justly made 
whereby the rights of persons shall be protected coexist- 
ent with the reservation. 
The people residing in the Puget Sound country favor 
public reservations when properly made. They will advo- 
cate the setting apart of such scenic regions as are em- 
braced by Mts. Rainier, Baker and Olympus as public j^arks 
or preserves for the protection of the fast disappearing 
fauna of our country. They would also favor the setting 
aside of a portion of the dense forests of giant firs, such as 
are seen on the Snoqualmie and Skagit I'ivers, to preserve 
them for their grandeur and beauty, before the unpatented 
lands on which they now stand pass into the hands of 
commerce. But they oppose the segregation of mineral 
lands, rich in gold, silver and copper, and devoid of mar- 
ketable timber, under a blanket reservation, equal to one- 
quarter of the State, and designated as a forest preserve. 
Caytga. 
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FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
April 7-10.- Stockton.— Stockton Kennel Club. 
April l4-!l?.—XiOs Angeles.— Southern California Kennel Club. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Sept. 6. Manitoba Field Trials Club, Jtorris, Man. 
Nov. 2 — Monongahela Valley Game and Fish Protective Associ- 
aiion's trials, Greene county. Pa. 
Nov. 8.— tJnion Field Trials Club's triab, Oarlisl«>, Ind. 
Nov. 15.— E F. T. Club's trials, Nesvton, N. C. 
The Dogs of Madagascar. 
An acquaintance of mine who has just returned from 
Madagascar tells many interesting stories of that far-away 
land of trouble, but being a greatadmirer of dogs he never 
tires of dwelling on the remarkable intelligence of the 
nondescript curs that infest the island. 
"Like the dogs of Constantinople," said he, ''they know 
no owners, permit no familiarities and make no friends. 
They are self-reliant scavengers, with all the cunning and 
intelligence that chronic hunger inspires. They are no- 
madic in their habits, and always travel in large packs, 
sometimes traversing great distances in an extraordinarily 
short space of time. 
"The island is cut up by a great number of deep, sluggish 
streams, and pestilential swamps which are infested with 
crocodiles and caymans. These voracious reptiles don't 
want a better dinner than a stray dog, and no one knows 
that any better than the dogs themselves. • When a pack 
of marauding canines come to a stream, they know that 
they have to resort to strategy in order to cross in safety; 
so the whole pack get together, and they bark and howl 
and bark furiously for several minutes. A crocodile or an 
alligator that has slept for- a month will wake up as soon 
as he hears a dog bark, and commence a still hunt for the 
dog. The result is that every reptile within hearing of the 
yelping pack hustles up as near as he can approach and 
waits for one to plunge in. When the river is full of them 
the dogs suddenly dash up stream about 300yds., plunge in 
and swim across before the alligators get done snapping 
their jaws together, and scurry o^f till they come to the 
next stream, when the strategy is repeated,"— ^'an Fran- 
cisco Post. 
Blended Odors. 
Ploeida, March 22.—Ijditor Forest and Stream: The fol- 
lowing recouutal of an incident showing the acute nose of a 
pointer dog may be of interest to my fellow readers of Pok- 
EST AND Stream and also to yourself: 
My pointer Cbummy, sired by Robert le Diable, and given 
to me by my friend Louis T. Duryea, of Glen Cove, L 1., is 
a remarkably good dog, and 1 have had many dogs. He is 
very rapid and a great fiuder of quail, and then goes to Eng- 
lish snipe— a bird so vastly different that but few dogs are 
real good or even passably good on both; hut he is. He 
seems to know how fickle the snipe are, and he is as careful 
as a cat over them, poiiUing them at distances thai thows 
acute sense of smell. 
Getting nearer to the poiBt, I will mention th't woodcock 
have been an almost unknown quantity in Florida, or at 
least, hereabouts ; for few sportsmen have seen any, and I 
only saw one in five years of shooting here until last winter, 
when we had a regular inUux of them in our swamps 
Chummy proved fine on them, working close and careful. 
Now for my story : Accompanied by my man Jake, we 
were hunting woodcock in tije swamps, when I heard Chum- 
my bark short and sharp. 1 quickly saw Dim haviog- a 
large white and black skunk at bay, which was facing him. 
I at once called him off, at which the skunk made tracks, 
putting a tree between us ia his run. I ran to get him in 
sight again, meaniog to kill him, for he ia an egg-ealer. 
Chummy took roy demonstration as an incentive to run in 
and grab Uiro, wuich he did, and paid the penalty, for he 
got it in eyes, nbse and mouth. The skunk ran into a shell 
of a palmetto log about 2dyds. long, and Chummy, blinded 
and foarning a1 the mouib, made off. We spent some five 
to eight minutes in locatiug thf-; skunk in the log, by punch- 
ing through here and there with a sharp stick. Meanwhile 
the air, filled with the skunk odor, was so strong as to make 
our eyes smart, like the effect of ammonia. The skunk lo- 
cated, was shot, and, noticing that Chummy was still 
gone, I called him several times. We concluded he had 
gone to the wagon or home, and we also started ; hut went 
no further than 40yds., when we came on him standing stiff 
and true on a woodcock, which I killed. 
I have often been tempted to write you this story, and 
now that 1 have I would like to know "if such experience 
has been known of before. T. B A. 
[In the chicken trials at Fairmont, Minn., in 1882, a dog 
pcinted chicken^ under similar circumstances. There have 
been other instances of a similar kind mentioned in the col- 
umns of Forest and ISthbam, though they occur but 
rarely ] 
The Catahoula 'H.og Ttog. 
A FEW weeks ago we had occasion to publish on the 
authority of our friend, C(>1. E H Lombard, a very inter- 
esting narrative regarding the celebrated hog dog of Cata- 
houla, and so remarkable were the performances of this dog 
as related to us that many of the deacons of the church, as 
well as personal friends of Col. Lombard, did him the in- 
justice to class him as a romancer. We are glad to be able 
to state, however, that Col. Lombard's story has been cor- 
roborated in every particular by no less an authority than 
Mr. Wash Wigsins, one of the best-known citizens of Oata- 
lioula parish. Mr. Wiggins says, and he has signified his 
willingness to be quoted, that the hog dogs of Catahoula are 
the most intelligent animals on the face of the earth, and as 
their arcestors before them were hog herders, they take to 
the woik without any training whatever. 
It is claimed that the wild hog of Catahoula is second 
only in the matter of jjugnaeity and ferocity to the roaring 
tiger of the Bengal jungle. In order to get a drove of th' se 
hogs into a pen the hog dog of Catahoula, as Mr, Wiggins 
informs us, operatesas follows: Keeping always in mind the 
direction of the pen or corral, the dog goes into th'i woods 
and flushes a drove of hogs Then keeping himself invari- 
ably in front of the hogs harks forth a challenge; the hogs 
accept the gauge of battle and make a dash for the enemy, 
and the dog, tucking his tail — if fortunate enough to have 
one, which is seldom the case — skedaddks toward the pen, 
regulating his speed so a^j to save at all times a distance of 
about 30yds. 
Should the hogs halt in their pursuit, the dog returns and 
renews his dare, and again he is charged, and again he slopes. 
In this way he lures the hogs on, until in their mad chase 
they follow him through the open gate into the pen, when he 
immediately proceeds to jump the fence on the opposite side, 
while his master, who has been .^eated on the fence during 
the pursuit, whistling and shooting tobacco juice at passing 
bumblebees, hurriedly climbs down and closes the gate on 
the entrapped porcines. The faithful and intelligent dog, 
which is found nowhere else but in the languorous shades of 
the Cataboulan wilds, is rewarded with a pone of corn bread, 
and the next day there is a great hog- killing time, followed 
by feasting and revelry — JSfeio Orlcarin State. 
Gordons at St. Ijouis. 
DwrGHT, 111., March 28 — Editor Forest and Stream: I am 
not in the habit of paying any attention to what the reporters 
say in regard to our Gordon setters. Mr. P. H. Bryson, in 
his report of the St Louis show, is either prejudiced against 
the Dwigbt Kennels or he dots not know a good Gordon set- 
ter when he sees one. Heather Lad has been shown since 
'93, defeating every dog that has ever been shown against 
him under A, K C. rules, and he has the best record oi any 
Gordon setter in America. 
Dwigbt Grouse, he says, is a very poor specimen. Dwight 
Grouse was good enough to win first in puppy and first in 
novice classes at Isew York in '96, and all the sporting 
papers claimed he was an extra one. He also won second at 
Boston in a class of nine. He won first in St. Louis and first 
in Chicago, where they claimed the Gordons to be extra 
good. A. L. Orr. 
And Good Riddance. 
It is reported that old age has made an end of a blood- 
hound known as Old King, at Butte, Mont. The dog was 
owned by ' Uncle Dick" Sutton, with whose "Uncle Tom's 
Cabin" Company the animal had traveled all over the world. 
It was so thoroughly trained that if anyohtS^began to recite 
the lines of the play it would go through its old part. 
Dixie Bed Fox Club. 
Waverlt, Miss., March Editor Forest md Stream: 
The third annual meet of the Dixie Red Fox Club will be 
held at Waverly, Clay county. Miss., on Nov. 1, 1897. \ 
G. V. YoDNG, Sec'y. 
American Kennel Club. 
A MEETING of the Executivt Board of the A. K. C. was 
held in the club rooms, 55 Liberty street. New York, on 
April 6. There were present Messrs. Hunnewell, .Jr. (Chair- 
man), Watson, Schellha.«s, Bloodgoodand Wilmerding. 
The matter of the St. Bernard Club, of California, in Its 
official intention to boycott the San Francisco Kennel Club's 
show, was first taken up. The official communications were 
read. Mr. H. T. Payne, secretary of the Pacific Advisory 
Board, on March 25 was notified that said contemplated boy- 
cott was illegal, and _ he was instructed to notify the St, 
B C. that if it did not rescind its boycotting resolution on or 
before March 80, the Pacific Advisory Board was directed to 
serve notice of suspension on it and its officers. On March 
27 the A. K. C, was notified that the Rfc. B. C. refused to re- 
scind, and appealed from the action of the Pacific Advisory 
Board. The latter was then instructed by the A. K. C. to 
siispend the St. B. 0. at once. On March 28 the Pacific Ad- 
visory Board reported that the St, B. C. was suspended, and 
notice served accordingly on its officers. On March 29 the 
St, B. C. notified the A, K, C. that it had consulted with the 
San Francisco Kennel Club, and had unanimously rescinded 
its boycotting resolution. On March 29 the Pacific Advisory 
Board was instructed by the A. K. C. to remove the St. B. 
Club's suspension. On March 30 the Board removed the 
suspension as directed. 
In regard to the penalties concerning incorrect entries in 
bench show catalogues, the club ruled as follows: 
That the forfeiture of deposit money in the cases of all 
shows held subsequent to September, 1890, be regulated by 
