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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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bits. Lake five miles distant supplied with wild riee. Boats, but not 
guides, liew=sary. 
Missouri Valley— Duc^, prairie chickens, quail plentiful ; four to 
six miles. 
>4Z.(7oraa.— Prairie chickens abundant five miles away. 
Schaller.—Fr&irie chickens, ducks and geese; ducks especially 
plontiful five tr> ten miles distant. 
Laurens.— Dncka, geese, prairie chickens plentiful, two to ten mUes, 
Marattion.-Pra.iTie chickens especially plentiful. Ducks in moder- 
ate quantities. Hunting grounds adjacent. 
Favorable reports also received from Harcourt. Sioux Raoids, 
Gowrie, Dayton, Dakota City, Burt. Denison, Glidden, Grand Junc- 
tion. Baldwin. Lyons, Ooawa, Turin, Peterson. 
- Tracy —Ducks, prairie chickens, sreese. Prospects for ducks es- 
pecially sood, and lakes within eight to ten miles suppUed with wild 
rice for ducks. 
Lake Bewiow.— Excellent prospects for ducks, geese, prairie 
chickens. Numerous lakes. Good duck shooting on Lake Benton, 
as well as surrounding lakes and towns. 
Tyler.— Ducks abundant at Dead Coon Lake, eight miles north. 
Prairie chickens also plentiful. Guides not necessary. 
Redwood Falls.— Jixxcks and prairie chickens abundant, four to 
fifteen miles. Guides and boats not necessary. 
Morgan —Good prospects for prairie chickens, ducks and geese, 
one to ten miles away. 
New TOit.— Prairie chickens and ducks especially plentiful, and 
lakes seven miles distant, supplied with wild rice. 
St. Peter.- Prairie chickens and quail. Guides necessary and ob- 
tainable. 
Favorable repons also received from Nicollet. Walnut Grove, Eagle 
Lake, Plainview, Essig, Claremont, Porter. Balaton, Kasota, Hankato, 
Smith's Hill, Owatonna, Douglass, Pine Island, Zumbrota. 
SOUTH DAKOTA. 
CZflrfc.— Ducks, prairie chickens and geese. Ducks most plentiful. 
Hunting grounds three miles distant. 
Elrod.-Dnoks. prairie chickens, geese plentiful surrounding the 
station and beyond. 
■pFofeej/.— Diicks and chickens one to ten miles distant. Plenty of 
lakes and sloughs. Guides, but not boats, necessary and obtaina"ble. 
Watertoion -Prairie chickens, ducks and geese abound on several 
lakes within two to twenty-five miles, supplied with wild rice. 
FoZg-a.— Prospects good for ducks, prairie chickens and geese, es- 
pecially ducks, within two to twenty miles. 
Harr old. —Ducks and rabbits plentiful, one to ten miles distant. 
fi=?-ofon.- Good prospects for ducks and chickens. 
De Smet. — Ducks and chickens abundant within five to eight miles. 
Dewtpsfej-.- Ducks, geese, prairie chickens abundant within four to 
fifteen miles. Plenty of lakes. 
Favorable reports al<o received from Grandon, Oasflewood, Bruce, 
Brookings, Athol, Aurora. Wnkonda. Pierm. Condo. Gettysburg, Iro- 
quoi", Aberdeen. Yankton. Wessington, Volin. Northville. Monroe, 
Miranda, Lebanon, Kranzburg. Huron, Houghton, Her-la, Goodwin, 
Frankfort, Faulkton, Estelline, Esmond, East Pierre, Blunt, Broad- 
land. 
NORTH DAKOTA. 
OaJces- — ^Prospect for ducks best ever known. Chickens and geese 
found in veij moderate quantities Plenty of lakes and abundant 
grain feed Hunting grounds about five miles distant. 
iwdden, —Ducks, prairie chickens and freese abundant. Wild rice 
on James River and several small lakes. Guides and boats necessary 
and obtainable. Chicken shooting is very fine here and in this vi- 
cinity. 
Yellow Jack and the Tourists. 
Dr. L. W. Cock, of San Marcos, Texas, writes me from 
New Orleans that he is stopping at the latter city for a 
while, and that his hotel is nearly empty, no travel goine on 
at all in that section on account of the yellow fever, Gal- 
veston, Texas, according to the report of yet another friend, 
is also paralyzed in business and tourist traffic. The same 
is no doubt true of many Gulf points, and it is very likely 
that the widely advertised fever scare will keep a great 
many sportsmen tourists out of that region this winter, 
although the natural season for such travel is not yet at 
hand. E. Hough. 
1306 BoYCE Building, Chicago. 
NEW ENGLAND NOTES. 
Boston, Oct. 30. — Snaring and shooting partridges for the 
market are not done yet, not even in Massachusetts, where 
so much has been done for the enforcement of the statutes 
concerning fish and game, In the bottom of one of the 
wagons of a local express I saw, on Monday, more than fifty 
partridges. The express comes from the" vicinity of Ply- 
mouth and Brockton. Not a bird appeared to have been 
shot, and yet all seemed to be fresh, as though recently 
taken. The Eod and Gun Club is after the snarers with 
several wardens. They have secured a number of convic- 
tions. I saw a bird the other day that had cost the snarer 
just $20. 
Some good bags of partridges, woodcock and quail are 
being made in Hiidson and north of that section. The other 
day four Boston gunners could stand the desire no longer; 
the flight of woodcock must be looked after. Procuring a 
team the night beforehand, they were off by 5 in the morn- 
ing. Driving fifteen or twenty miles they came to the sec- 
tion thev proposed to hunt; somewhere north of Peabody. 
A.las! afire a few days before had burned the woodland all 
over, and there were no signs of birds, only smoking ruins. 
They did not even put out their dogs, but fed their horse 
and then drove a number of miles further to where they suc- 
ceeded in getting a woodcock and a partridge. A few days 
before another Boston party of gunners secured eighteen 
birds — woodcock, quail and grouse — on the same ground. 
A gentleman writes me from Oxford county. Me , that there 
is not one partridge in the sections he has heard from where 
there were five last year. The Lewiston and Auburn gun- 
ners after partridges are returning empty-handed. 
Messrs. I. S. Kelley. A. B. Kelley, A. T, Barbank, ,J. W. 
Carlton and Herbert Burbank have been into the Maine 
woods on a hunting trip. They secured three deer, and Mr. 
Burbank stayed behind the rest of the party witb the full in- 
tention of securing a moose. Mr. I. S. Kelley had never 
been into the Maine woods after big game before. He is 
much pleased with his trip, though he did not secure a deer 
personally, getting only a couple of running shots. They 
went to Norcross, on the Bangor & Aroostook R. R., and 
frorn thence to Lake Pemadumcook, and to camps in that 
section. He mentions the shooting of a man who was gath- 
ering cranberries, by a New York sportsman who had never 
been in the woods before. The guide told the New Yorker 
to be careful, as there were cranberry pickers on the bog. 
But this caution did no good. The man stooping over was 
a deer or caribou to the inflamed imagination of the fellow 
who never ought to have been in the woods. The poor cran- 
berry picker was wounded in the leg. The hunter gave him- 
self up to the authorities, was brought out to Bangor, and 
put under heavy bonds to appear in^court when wanted. At 
least ten cases of shooting men for big game in the Maine 
woods have already been reported— not many of them fatal, 
but bad enough. 
Mr. Frank O. Hallowell, with a hunting friend or two, 
has been on a trip to the Maine woods after big game. They 
traveled a number of miles by canoe and on toot in the vi- 
cinity of Mount Katahdia ; saw a great many deer, one of 
which they shot, but saw no moose. They might have 
killed a great many deer, but could not make any use of 
more than one. Transportation of big game would also 
have been almost impossible. 
tt..Mr, Heath, of Boston, has just returned from an extended 
hunting and fishing trip to Maine. With a friend he went 
into the woods above Moosehead Lake and up one of the 
celebrated hunting routes, going in before the close of the 
season on trout and remaining till the open season on moose. 
They found most remarkable trout fishing, claiming that 
they easily took five trout to one at the Rangeley waters, 
where Mr. Heath has fished many seasons. They saw 150 
deer and took all they could use, which was only one or two. 
Nineteen moose they saw before Oct. 15, counting cows 
and all, but not a single bull moose did they see after the 
open season began. Mr. Heath feels certain that bull moose 
understand the game laws sufiiciently to keep out of sight 
when they can legally be shot. 
Now they are laughing at a Boston crack shot on coot and 
ducks. He claims that the sights of his rifle are wrong. On 
his Maine hunting trip, from which he has just returned, he 
did not get a deer, though having a number "of good chances. 
He would shoot, but every time the deer up and away. At 
last the boys put him to a severe test, Tw.o of them were 
out one day, one shooting a deer which they did not bring to 
camp that night. The next morning they were off to bring 
it in. They sent a couple of guides ahead with instructions. 
B, was invited to go along with the hunters ; they "might 
see a deer." B. went with his rifle cocked. "Sh! There's a 
deer!" from one of them. "Where? Where?" whispered B. 
Quickly he saw it, and as quickly took aim and fired. The 
deer did not move. Again pump — bang! pump— bang! 
pump— bang! till the magazine of his rifle was empty. There 
stood the deer; hadn't moved a foot. The guides had heard 
of the dead one. B. was ruffled at first, but saw the joke, 
and, like the good fellow he is, joined in the laugh, then in 
the investigation to see how many shots had hit the dead 
deer. Only two had touched it, but the ground and the 
timber for a circumference of 8 or 10ft, around had suffered, 
E. will take lessons in shooting a rifle this winter. 
Special, 
A TWO WEEKS' HUNTING TRIP IN 
NORTHERN COLORADO. 
It was the first week in October that three of us started 
off to lay in our winter supply of meat. Our hunting 
grounds were to be west of the Rabbit Ear Range, near 
Steamboat Springs. The sixty miles' drive was made in 
two days. On the third day out we were on the hunting 
grounds, after a very dilficult pull of a heavy wagon over 
an old, long- disused game road. 
When we reached the end of this road, we found two out- 
fits already camped there. They had done considerable 
hunting near their camp, and with good results. The six 
deer and four elk hanging up near their tents made our 
prospects bright. 
But we thought that the country wifehin a radius of four 
miles must have been already pretty well hunted, as these 
two outfits were old hunters and good walkers. Hence we 
decided to leave our wagon and most of our grub at the end 
of the game road and pack over some ten miles further west. 
We soon had our bedding, our provisions and cooking utenl 
sils packed, and leading our ponies we made the ten miles 
in about three hours. We pitched camp near a little stream 
which flowed into the Bear River, between two game trails 
and close to a much-frequente d water hole. I say much fre- 
quented, for there were hundreds of fresh deer and elk tracks 
leading down from the range to it. This is always the kind 
of camp the Western hunter calls his ideal ; for we had 
plenty of firewood, good shelter, lots of water, but the most 
important thing of all, plenty of fine feed for our ponies. 
It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon when we left camp" for 
our first evening's shooting. We made our way across the 
nearest hill or "hog-back," as they say in the West, to a 
large, wide, long park. This park was lined on either side 
with heavy timber, and through the middle of it flowed a 
cool, clear stream. Just the place for elk to come into 
when once the sun had gone down behind the mountains. 
For so shy are elk and deer that while the sun shines they 
keep in the thickest part of the timber, but when once a 
shadow falls upon the openings (or "parks" in Western 
language) they come out for water and feed. Hence the 
best chance a hunter has is to sit down along the borders of 
these parks and wait for the game to come in sight. 
Accordingly, we took our position some 300yds. from one 
good water hole, and about 100yds. from another, behind a 
clump of bushes, and awaited the game. We had been there 
not ten minutes, when four large bull elk came out of the 
timber to drink at the further hole. Our rifles rang together 
and an elk dropped, A second one was badly crippled as it 
ran. Leaving the dead one, we started on the trail of 
the cripple. This was easily followed; but it is pro- 
verbial that an elk will often • 'carry his weight in lead " 
and hence you may often follow a wounded one for many 
miles. After two miles, we decided to give up the chase, as 
it was getting dark, and we were some two hours' walk 
from camp. 
Our next move was to dress our dead elk. While about 
half a mile from where we had killed it, what was our sur- 
prise to see one of its band coming back to find out what had 
made the noise of our rifle reports. We immediately 
dropped into the willows and crept on our stomachs; but the 
inquisitive elk saw its dead companion, and smeUing its 
blood darted into the thicket. This was the last we saw of 
him. In half an hour we had our dead bufl cleaned, and in 
two hours more, after groping about in the timber, falling 
over dead trees and getting stuck in the swamp (for it was 
very dark), we reached camp. For supper we had elk liver 
fried, and a fine breakfast of the elk tongue, roasted in the 
hot coals over night. 
The next morning saw us up early, for we had a good 
half-day's work before us. We saddled the horses, and in 
an hour reached the dead elk. After quartering it, our hard 
work began. One who has jacked meat on a^frightened 
horse can appreciate our task. We first tried the blindfold, 
but the horses smelt the blood. Then we tied the front feel 
up to the horn of the saddle. This worked beautifully, and 
we were soon "all aboard" for camp. 
But what was our horror when we reached camp to find 
a fresh forest fire raging some five miles off, with the wind 
blowing toward us. Camp had to be moved, and that 
quickly, we decided ; for a man must not be long in the 
West before he learns of the great danger and rapid flight of 
a forest fire. After a hasty meal, we jacked our horses with 
bedding, grub, meat, etc., and hit the trail as fast as we 
could for our wagon. Once there we were safe, as the fire 
was working away from us. 
The country we had just left was full of elk, but the deer 
had gone lower down ihe range. In fact, our wagon camp 
was as good a place as any to hunt from. The next few 
days we spent bunting deer, • There were lew doos up so high 
as we were, but there were plenty of bucks. And they were 
big, fat ones, too, as the running season had barely begun. 
Three bucks and an elk were all we could haul out, for our 
wagon was heavy and the road was rough. In fact, we had 
on about l,6001bs., more than enough for two small horses 
to pull over a bad mountain road. 
We left a little earlier than we had intended, owing to the 
warm weather's bad effect upon the meat, and to the fact 
that we had enough of a load. But before we went we had 
one da^'s grand trout fishing. All I have to say about trout 
is that if once the Eastern fisherman fishes in the West, he 
will never be satisfied with Eastern trout fishing again. 
"Go West, young fisherman," if you want to win laurels 
over the finny tribe. F, B. W. 
IN PIONEER DAYS. 
(^Continued from page SS9.') 
These passages, from the private diary of a resident of Cleveland, 
O , have never before been printed. They have a doubled interest 
now as showing the wilderness conditions of Ohio and Michigan a 
half-century ago, when there were elk and wild turkeys and wolves, 
and when the home conditions of the residents were more primitive 
than those whicb prevail to-day: 
Nov. 34, 1841. — In company with L., on his first deer 
hunt, we left Cleveland at 8 A. M. for Russia, Lorain 
county, O. At 13 M. we reached Avon in a heavy, but un- 
usually warm, rain, got dinner and reached Eleria just after 
dark. Inquiring the road to Oberlin, we started on, when a 
most terrible thunderstorm came on. The rain fell in tor- 
rents, the thunder and lightning were truly awful, equal to 
any summer storm we ever experienced. The night was 
horribly dark, we got completely drenched and the houses 
were far between; we were continually getting off the 
muddy, rough road, and our horse being hardly able to walk, 
L. was anxious to stop at the first house we came to, but I, 
insisting in keeping on, we took iturns in leading the horse 
and feeling the way. In this way we kept on seven miles 
through the woods until we reached Oberlin at 11 P. M. 
We stopped at a kind of a tavern, when, after finding a 
man, we gave him half a dollar to thoroughly clean and rub 
down my horse. _ The landlord made us a large fire in the 
kitchen and while we were drying prepared our supper; 
and by 2 A. M. we found ourselves dry and in bed. 
In the morning the ground was well covered with snow. 
We took our rifles and carpet bags and started west, intend- 
ing to stop at the first house that would keep us. At the 
first house the folks were all sick, but at the second one, 
owned by one Mr. Smith, no objections were made, and we 
stopped. Smith's house was made of logs and was very old, 
it had two small rooms partially partitioned off below, and 
an upper loft, which was entered by a ladder. His family 
was composed of himself, wife and nine children; he was 
dreadfully poor and the accommodations we got corre- 
sponded with his poverty. Deer and turkeys were abund- 
ant in every direction. In the afternoon we started and, 
soon secured a fine gobbler from quite a large drove, which 
served for a feast all around that night. The next morning 
we were up early, but a slight crust on the snow made hunt- 
ing with success impossible. After a two days' hunt we 
came in at night gameless, though we had seen many deer 
and shot at long range several times. L. soon came in drag- 
ging on the ground the fore-quarters of a fawn which he 
said he had killed. On my expressing to him my surprise 
that he should have left the skin in the woods and dragged 
in that part of the deer, he wanted to know "what part he 
should have brought in." I told him of course the saddle. 
"Well," said he, "I'll know better next timejwhen I kill a 
deer." 
Toward the next evening, while following the edge of a 
black ash swail, I noticed something walking along some 
eight rods in front. Soon I made out three deer, a doe and 
two fawns. It being too dark to sight on my rifle, I pointed 
it toward the dne and fired, I distinctly heard her fall, 
making a loud crackling in the brush As I was less than a 
mile from Smith's, I returned for supper, and when the 
moon rose, took two of Smith's boys and went after my deer. 
We found her about twenty rods from where I had shot her, 
and drawing her to the house, we hung her up and dressed 
her, cutting out some choice pieces for the family breakfast. 
Our log house was well crammed with occupants this 
evening, Mrs. Smith's sister having come on a visit with her 
entire family of five children. One of the visitors, a young 
damsel of seventeen summers, was quite pretty and intelli- 
gent. L. and myself being very dvy^ from eating a great 
many hickory nuts during the evening, kept Miss D. and 
Catherine S. quite busy in handing us teacups of water. 
Fifth day, L., caring little for deer hunting and getting 
none, turned his attention to smaller fare, and to-night 
brought in a possum and fifteen squirrels. The squirrels 
Mrs. Smith served up as a stew in a large iron kettle, which, 
with a fat roast of venison from the live coals of a huge wood 
fire, made a meal all enjoyed, and there was enough to go 
several times around. After supper I walked two and a half 
miles to Oberlin, got my horse and buggy, and drove back to 
Smith's. After settling for our board and lodging at 75 cents 
a week, we drove three miles beyond Amherst, or seven 
miles in all, and put up for the night. Smith's house being 
quite too crowded for a much longer stay. 
Smith was born in the CatskiU Mountains, N. Y., was 
very tall and slim, some fifty years of age, and wore a very 
long beard. He was a most industrious man, working hard 
on his clearing all day, and making boots and shoes at night 
for his neighbors and family. He showed us a vest and 
other clothes he was married in thirty years ago. 
Remaining at our new camp two days only, we returned 
to Smith's. We found the deer had about all left the local- 
ity, having been hunted out by hound-hunters. There is 
nothing so bad in the woods for the still-hunter as the In- 
dian with his cur dogs and the white man with his bellowing 
hound. The deer soon leave the locahty, and those few 
that remain become too wild for the most quiet hunter to 
approach within shot. 
At Mr. Smith's we were well received, and that night we 
went with the daughter Catherine three miles on foot 
through the woods, across lots, to a "spelling school." 
Sunday we took my buggy and went four miles to Po- 
dunk Swamp (Amherst) to church. After church we re- 
turned home, but stopped on invitation on the way and took 
dinner at the "nearest neighbor." 
Monday morning Catherine wanted to visit her sister, 
who resided six miles oft'. I told her she could have my 
horse to ride in case she would saddle and bridle it, inform- 
ing her in the meantime that it was entirely new work for 
the animal. The harness bridle was soon in place, and for 
saddle a small coon skin robe was improvised and kept in 
place with the ckcingle. She mounted like an expert and 
was soon off a hard, long gallop, while L. and i^yself 
