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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 12, 1902. 
vation. He offers to turn these options over to the Gov- 
ernment without any commission or profit to himself, and 
states that his object is simply the preservation of the 
species. It is believed that the Yellowstone Park herd 
needs_ new blood before there can be any general multi- 
plication of its numbers. It is stated that President 
Roosevelt turned over the matter to Secretary Hitcheoc^ 
-Risking that action be taken in the premises. 
The only thing militating against this proposition is 
the old axiom which runs to the effect that it is wise to 
let well enough alone. The buffalo herd in the Yellow- 
stone Park was once far more numerous than the Allard 
herd. None the less, poachers cut it down to its present 
pitiful remnant Sometimes the buffalo Avander out of 
the Park on the western side and are killed outside the 
Park limits. There is no reason to suppose ijiat the same 
conditions will not prevail in the future. Now the 
Allard herd is at least doing fairly well in the FJ^thead 
country. Unless Uncle Sam can better protect Yellow- 
stone Park than he has ever shown himself ahle to do, it 
is a grave question whether it would be wise to transport 
these buffalo into what might prove to be the burial 
ground of their race. 
Vants Chickens. 
Mr. Edward Banks, of New York, has a friend; a Mr. 
Cleave, of Altoona, Pa., who wants chickens. I would 
refer these gentlemen to Deputy Warden Stephefis, at 
Detroit,^ Minn. _ State Warden S. F. Fullerton could no 
doubt give advices also. Friends of mine who shot with 
Mr. Stephens last year reported very good success, and 
said that then he had a good string of dogs. 
About the Magnetawan, 
Mr. J. W. Evans, of Steubenville, O., writes in regard 
to recent inquiries about the Magnetawan River! '^You 
may say to Mr. E. L. Brown that the trip down this 
river is not only possible, but also pleasant, but canoes 
should be used. I have forgotten the number of portages 
to Byng Inlet, but they number about forty. To go in a 
boat takes away the pleasure to a great extent. I have 
gone down the Moon, Magnetawan. Mitsquash and 'Sevef¥ 
Rivers, using both kinds of boat, and will never go again 
except by canoe. Mr. Brown should write to George 
Ross, Magnetawan village, the best guide in all that 
region." 
I have a letter at this office, addressed to Mr. F, L. 
Brown. If the latter will forward his address I should 
like to send him this letter. 
Wbete to Get Year Moose. 
The number of big-game hunters in this part of the 
country increases annually, and there are several men 
here in Chicago who have asked me where to get a 
moose next fall. Therefore, the following letter from 
Adam Moore, of Scotch Lake, New Brunswick, comes 
most opportunely at this time. The pistol to which Adam 
refers is the Mauser which I gave him for his spring 
bear hunt. His remarks regarding this arm, and aho re- 
garding the new moose coimtry which he has discovered, 
will be found interesting: 
"I have had the best kind of luck ; got eight bears, good 
ones, too, and the Mauser is just the thing to kill them 
with. It punches a clean little hole that don't bleed 
any, but kills them all right. The bullet is not expansive. 
There is such a small part of the bullet not covered with 
the patch that it is just the same as a full metal patched 
bullet. 
"I had John (ray son) with me, up the Tobique,_ and 
a nephew of mine, that has the ambition, to be a mighty 
hunter, so I took him this spring to give him his first 
lesson, and he is learning well. When we got tip there we 
started out to put out a line of bear traps northeast of 
Nictou Lake, where we went last winter looking for 
moose. I found your U. S. tin cup at the brook where 
you lost it, and then my luck began. John and I climbed 
to the top of the moimtain and climbed trees to take a 
look at the country, and about two miles northeast we 
saw water, so we started for it, and found the nicest pond 
for moose you ever saw. There is about ten acres in it, 
and the bull moose signs that were there was a sight 
for sore eyes. I told the boys that I was better pleased 
to find that pond than I would be to find ten bears in our 
traps. It is about six miles from the lake, and the wo.ods 
round it is a perfect park. You can see 200 yards. We 
decided at once to build a camp there, and we did — a good 
one — the size of the camp at Bathurst Lake, all" peeled and 
finished in good shape. W e even cut about two cords_ of 
wood, so we could go in there and not make any noise. 
1 am going to get a new light cooking stove and take it in 
there when I go up in August. 
"But that is not all. We struck out over the divide on 
the same course, northeast, found another brook with a 
chain of five nice ponds and lots of beaver. _ These are 
about two miles from our new camp. It rs a perfect 
moose country, has never been hunttd, and by the horn 
marks it looks as if they were all bulls. I saw nothing 
to compare with it on the route we took last winter. 
"We set five bear traps out in that country^ and got 
five bears in them, and the place is alive with caribou, too. 
I found two big moose horns near where we built the 
camp that had been shed last winter, Efnd by the looks 
of the sign the whole country has been a moose yard. 
"If Mr. Robinson, of Chicago, will come, I will give 
him John for guide and my nephew, who has been with 
me this spring, for cook, and that camp and country to 
himself. I never do guarantee a man a moose, but I have 
so much confidence in the country and the kid, that for a 
small advance on regular charges, if he is a fair hunter 
and will do as John tells him, I would be willing to say, 
no moose no pay, if he will stay a month. I think you 
know me well enough to know that I am not overdrawing 
the facts to try and get a party. I have Mr. Weed again, 
and a friend, and I don't need that ground for them. I 
don't think this offer is going begging very long, and if 
he wants it, let me know at once. 
"We cut out a good clean trail from the lake to the 
furthest ponds about eight miles. But that is not all 
we have done up there. We cut another camp the same 
size and style, on the river, in a fine moose country, and 
I have a good stove there now, the same as the one in 
Nictou camp. You see, since I have got that country 
alone I am going to work to develop it. I have never 
seen rnore big bulls than this spring, an4 th^re is no 
doubt of^it they are plentier than ever, and I never felt 
as confident of being able to get every man a moose as I 
do this season. We worked very hard up there ; we were 
t\yo days each week tending our traps, and four days of 
each week to build camps and cut trails." 
So Adam found my old Yellowstone Park U. S. tin 
cup ! I lost it up there last winter in the snow, five 
miles from camp, and with it lost my luck. Adam found 
luck again when he found the cup. Wouldn't take a 
thousand dollars for that sooty, dirty tin cup, so I reckon 
I'll have to draw on Uncle Adam for it, 
E. Hough. 
Hartpoed Building, Chicago, HI, 
The Hunting Rifle, 
i Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, S. A., May 28. — 
Editor Forest and Stream: I have just been enjoying a 
pleasure I have not had for a number of months — a chance 
to read Forest and Stream — which I owe to a new- 
found friend. Dr. H. W. Peard, of Coronel Suarez, an 
important wheat market town south of this city. He is a 
born naturalist and sportsman of the Ijetter class, whose 
observations in this country have added to the world's 
kijowledge of numerous birds and quadrupeds. 
But the motive for this letter is to say a few words, 
just -a few, about the small-bore, high-power rifle, after 
having read' the interesting accounts of personal experi- 
ences by Mr. C. M. Stark and Mr. Frederick Irland in 
-your issue of Feb. 15, 1902. It would seem from tjoth 
their accotmts that they refer to the all-jacketed .30-cali- 
ber -bullet. If this is true, they are both right and both 
wrong. It is, of course, well known that the steel- 
jacketed projectile, long and slender, with a comparatively 
sharp point, will even penetrate a bone withovit crushing 
it or at once stopping the man who is hit. For this 
reason, because it wounds and disables but does not kill, 
its use isi^dvocated in civilized warfare. One might fill 
almost airy large game animal with holes with a .30- 
caliber gun, 'Using ■all-jacketed bullets, and never get the 
animal unless he happe;ned to be hit in a vital spot, and 
perhaps not then. 
But 1f the ..30-caliber bullet is steel-jacketed only part 
of the way, leaving a soft lead point of about .35 of an 
inch in length, there will be a different, very different, 
story to tell. In fact, I am quite siire, though I have 
never tried it on moose, that there is no gtm made of 
greater killing, crushing power than the .30-40 Winchester, 
model 1895, when soft-nosed b^illets of 220 grains weight 
are used, backed by from 36 to 40 grains of nitro pow- 
der., specially adapted as to rapidity of burning, for this 
gun and projectile. The soft-point, when it spreads upon 
contact, ilnpelled by the weight of harder metal and the 
tremendous force behind it, tears a hole big enough for a 
•man's fist, and nothing can stand, or run, against it. I 
have used it in the Rocky Mountains on deer, and have 
hunted there with old-timers, men who have lived in 
thi mountains for 3fears, and they are getting rid of 
their big, clumsy, large-calibered guns in favor of the 
small-calibered guns, simply betause they have seen what 
the latter will do. Give me one good chance at any animal 
with my .30-40, and I will agree to stop him. But it 
would be only silly and cruel to go about punching holes 
in the few game animals left in our country with all-steel- 
jacketed bttUets. T have seen the difference in an experi- 
ment'on a beef animal, where the steel-jacketed bullet in 
the head seemed to produce no effect and the soft-nosed 
bullet felled the animal as if struck by lightning. 
The advantage of this gun, with its box magazine, is 
very great, because the balance of the gun is preserved 
and is always the same, while in the old-style guns the 
heavy cartridges are in the magazine under the barrel, 
and every time the gun is fired tiie balance, or "hang," of 
it changes. So by all means use the neat, light, powerful 
small-calibered gun. F. W. Bicknell. 
Illicit Game in New Yoiffc Restatjfants. 
Suits have been brought by State Game Protector 
Overton, in the Eleventh District Municipal Court, Man- 
hattan, against Shanley's Restaurant, Broadway near 
Forty-second street; Healy's. corner Columbus avenue 
and Sixty-sixth street, and the Manhattan Oyster and 
Chop Hcaise, Sixth avenue near Fortj'-fourth street, for 
Sf;rving quail out of season. 
The penalties amount to about $1,200. Protector Over- 
ton obtained the evidence by taking parties to late supper 
to the places, and after ordering, carrying a part of the 
carcass of each bird away, so as to allow no question as 
to evidence. 
Massachusetts Quail. 
Boston, Mass., July 5. — It is astounding to see how 
plentiful quail are. June 12 I was at Georgetown (near 
Haverhill) and was driven around to several ponds by 
ex-Senator Wm. Butler, President of the Georgetown 
J"ish and Game Club, and Mr. Abbott, President Grove- 
l^nd Fish and Game Club. All day we could hear the 
\fhistle of Bob White, and on one occasion saw a big 
covey fly across the road, while a pair sat on the rail 
fence until we had driven by. J. W. Collins. 
100 Spommen's fina$. 
Some of fbe Queer Discoveries Made by These Who Are 
Looking for Game or Fish. 
84 
In the Scientific American an interesting communica- 
tion appears regarding a large wild goose, weighing 16 
pounds, which was shot by a hunter on the shore of Lake 
Liberty, Washington. On picking up his game the hunter 
was surprised to see a piece of polished ivory protruding 
from the breast of the goose. The ivory projected about 
two inches. With great difficulty the man pulled the 
stick out, for the flesh had grown tightly round it, and the 
wound had entirely healed. He then saw that it was the 
long, sharp point of an arrow, which was made of ivory, 
about eight inches long, and as large as an ordinary lead 
pencil, Th% ivory had on it some delicate carvings, and 
was quite unlike any used by Indians. The bird must 
have been wounded by an Esquimau, and flown several 
thousand miles with the arrow imbedded in its breast. 
85 
Forest and Stream's list of 100 curious sportsmen's 
finds presents many notable instances, but none more 
remarkable than one made by Oscar Dougherty, a citizen 
of Alton, although he did not go to the woods to find it. 
Oscar, like many other good Americans, is fond of the 
succulent chicken, and last week went to a local butcher 
shop, where he bought a fine young cockrel, which he 
took home for his wife to prepare for dinner. The good 
lady went about this duty philosophically, until she opened 
the crop of the bird and emptied out what appeared to be 
a small arsenal of modern ammunition. Mr. Dougherty 
was Called and picked out from the contents of the crop 
twenty-four No. 2 percussion primers of standard make, 
only a portion of which had been fired, and two No. 22 
short rifle cartridges. The presumption, of course, is 
that gravel was scarce and ammunition plenty where that 
bird lived; but the writer did not push the inquiry 
further. For the absolute veracity of this circumstance 
as related above, however, he is prepared to vouch. 
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Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them m Fobest and Stream. 
Random Notes of an Angler. 
Salt-Water Anglers are Rarely Ecthusi? sis. 
In the course of a conversation with a gentleman a 
hw days ago, he remarked that "There is a strange 
dearth of literature on salt-water fishing, which is most 
unaccountable to me; it is only very rarely that an 
angler writes for publication anything in relation to the 
attractions of his outings on the "briny deep," and when 
he does put pen to paper it is in a most perfunctory, 
matter-of-fact way, and he never permits himself to in- 
dulge in rhapsodies. I wonder why this is the case. 
Sometimes I imagine that it is because of the deadly 
monotony of sitting in a boat and waiting for a fish to 
bite, sometimes for hours at a stretch. What is your 
opinion in relation to this matter?" 
The question was a diffieult one to answer offhand, 
but on giving considerable thought to it I have come 
to the conclusion that while angling with the fly lot 
the nobler game fish is in consequence of the sUrroUnd- 
mgs m which it is pursued, an art which appeals to the 
.poetic mstinct in the angler's nature, fishing In the salt 
water fails to arouse that Sentiment except in a very 
slight degree. What can be compared with the ecstatic 
feeling whh which one follows the meanderings of the 
trout brook or the rush of the salmon stream through 
scenej-y which is always picturesque and often sublime? 
And IS It to be wondered at that the devotees of the fly 
rod become enthusiastic in relation to the charms such 
sport bears for them and delight in tolling of them? 
But salt-water fishing has its attractions, and in the 
absence of the opportunity for enjoying the higher sport, 
It affords to anglers a recreation which"~is far from deSpic= 
able. I daresay that all would be glad to have a chance 
to try their skill on the lordly salmon or the gamy trout 
of the northern lakes and streams. But salmon 'fishing 
is not easily obtainable by the great majoritv of anglers; 
It takes tinie, which cannot well be spared by most men 
who are tied to business, and it is also an expensive 
recreation, which is an important consideration with 
many. Of course, almost everyone would like to own 
an automobile or steam yacht, or a nice trotter, but as 
all cannot do so they have to content themselves with 
that which is attainable. I doubt very much if salt- 
water angling ever aroused much of a poetic feeling in 
any one, but it certainly affords an exhilerating pastime 
that even salmon fishing does not eelipse. One cannot 
be upon_ the mighty ocean breathing the ozone and 
iodine with which the breezes are laden without feeling 
that there is something in life worth living for; there is 
no other tonic that compares with it, and it i4 free to 
all. New York has exceptional fishing advantages. 
The fact is not generally appreciated, but I have no 
hesitation in saying that there are available to the angler 
within easy reach of New York many more and better 
localities for good sport than are found near any other 
large city on the Atlantic coast. In fact, there seems 
to be no limit to them, and no matter how persistently 
they are taxed their supply of desirable game and food 
fishes shows no indications of diminution; for the aver- 
age catch_of the angler is as good to-day as it was ten 
years ago, and of some species it is even better. 
In hardly any other locality does this condition ob- 
tain. 
For example, within my memory the striped bass was 
a common species in the Charles River, near Boston, 
and it was taken in dozens of localities all along the 
north shore and south shore of Massachusetts Bay, and 
even in Dorchester and Quincy bays, but it is now' very 
rarely met with even in waters which have not become 
polluted and which would seem to be its natural abid- 
ing places, and I doubt very much if anglers now- kill 
fifty of these splendid game fishes in any one year 
north of Cape Cod. 
And so with many other species. The tautog or black- 
fish, which used to be very abundant, is now so scarce 
that anglers have ceased to follow it except at a very 
few points, such as Cohasset, the rocky shores near Scit- 
uate and the rugged ledges at Eastern Point, Glouces- 
ter. 
The black sea bass is, north of Cape Cod, becoming 
almost a curiosity, and bluefish, which were so common 
that large catches were formerly made by "trollers" 
as near the city as Dorchester and Quincy bays, is, I 
believe, never found in those or adjacent waters, and 
Boston fishermen depend now almost entirely on Buz- 
zards and Narragansett bays for their bluefishing. 
From this it will be seen that tl?e salt-water anglers 
of the "Hub" have hut very litt% aport left to theni. and 
