Jan. 17, 1914. 
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sharp rock formations in moccasins is to “beard 
the lion in his den,” and so is it much the same 
to wend your weary way up a mountain with 
heavy shoes dragging at your feet. Mine, with 
Hungarian hobs in the heels and screw calks in 
the soles, weighed just 3% pounds. This seemed 
to be a perfect combination so far as slipping 
went. When the shoe went down it stayed put. 
The worst time 1 had was along the grassy side 
hills to keep from turning my ankles. But the 
mountains do not invite the intruder. They throw 
out a thousand obstacles to prevent his approach. 
It seems as though they occasionally lean over 
in an effort to push the climber off into space. 
We spent several days on the Clearwater, 
then again hit the Red Deer lower down at the 
ranch. 
Ike Brooks was in town as boss and bronco 
buster. He once won the championship of 
the Golden West riding bucking horses, has 
traveled with Wild West shows, and had a place 
in Reno when it was at its best. He has a boy 
CAMP IN WINDY GAP. 
about seventeen and a girl of thirteen years, to 
whom I took a great shine, and we spent an 
afternoon together fishing below the falls, and 
they are pretty pretentious falls, too. On the 
way we caught grasshoppers for bait. As the 
falls dropped into a deep canyon, which could 
only be entered about 150 yards below. The- 
stream did not fill the bottom, so then we went 
along up its side to where the spray from the 
falls struck us. The girl wore knickerbockers 
and seemed at home on the rocks and in the 
stream, which she waded across in places. We 
found the carcass of a deer, a young one, which 
evidently had been killed from a fall off the cliff. 
I noticed buffalo and sheep skulls as well as elk 
horns in this canyon. The grave of an Indian 
chief is nearby this place, on one of the high 
mountains, overlooking the place where he was 
killed, in a Buffalo hunt. 
After we had caught a string of trout the 
girl took them and ran all the way to the ranch 
to tell the news, a distance of over a mile. 
We took three weeks to this trip and four 
or five is necessary, since so much time is spent 
in the park, going out and returning. Perhaps 
it was due to our hurry that we did not see much 
game, and perhaps it is not there. Six blacktail 
deer, one goat, one coyote, and one mountain 
sheep about covers what we saw. I shot the 
sheep and the shot that stopped him cut open 
his belly as though done with a stroke of a knife. 
The result of the shot was remarkable, but I 
do not like to go into details. I used a Spring- 
field, made over, and the 150-grain service bul¬ 
let, but shot at no game except the bighorn. 
Against Repeal of Game Law 
EPRESENTATIVE organizations engaged 
in the protection of the wild life of the 
country have united, in a meeting just held 
in New York City, in an appeal to the people of 
California to resist the attempt that is being 
made, through the medium of the referendum, 
to repeal its recently enacted law forbidding the 
sale of game. Organizations signing the appeal 
are: 
The New York Zoological Society. 
National Association of Audubon Societies. 
New York Association for the Protection of 
Game. 
Camp Fire Club. 
Long Island Game Protective Association. 
American Game Protective Association. 
The meeting was held at the offices of the 
last named organization. In addition to the above 
named it may be mentioned that the Boone and 
Crockett Club has adopted a resolution of simi¬ 
lar import. 
The appeal attributes the agitation for the 
repeal of the California law principally to the 
market hunter and it characterizes that indi¬ 
vidual as one who “destroys but never produces.” 
Every movement to legalize the sale of game is 
dclared to be “in the interest of and backed 
to a large extent by market hunters and game 
dealers; absolutely opposed to the best interests 
of the people as a whole and a death blow to the 
real conservation of game.” 
Emphasis is laid on the fact that the sports¬ 
men of the country would be repelled from, not 
attracted to the Panama-Pacific Exposition by 
letting down the bars so that “the State of Cali¬ 
fornia could be turned into a game shambles ‘for 
the benefit of’ those who visit the exposition.” 
The appeal closes with the expressed hope 
that “the people of California in particular and 
the American people as a whole will show such 
determined opposition to the agitation now on 
foot that it may quickly pass to the oblivion it 
so richly deserves.” 
Organizations signing the appeal also adopted 
a resolution requesting a conference with Mr 
William Randolph Hearst at which in view of 
his frequently expressed interest in wild life con¬ 
servation and his wide influence in California 
affairs, he will be asked to lend his aid in keeping 
the no sale of game law on the statute books. 
Largest Fine on Record 
HE largest penalty for the violation of a 
game law ever collected has just been paid 
by the Franco-American Poultry Company 
and August Silz, its president, of New York 
City, to the New York Conservation Commission. 
The amount is $20,000. Mr. Silz is the largest 
dealer in game in the United States and probably 
in the world, and he imports most of the game 
that comes into this country from Europe. 
The New York Commission is being con¬ 
gratulated on what sportsmen throughout the 
country consider an excellent piece of work. It 
is the general opinion among those interested in 
wild life conservation that this case will make 
more effective than ever the enforcement of the 
laws prohibiting the sale of game. 
The original information regarding this case 
was obtained by the United States Bureau of 
Biological Survey, and important aid in working 
it up was furnished by the American Game Pro¬ 
tective Association, the national league of the 
sportsmen of the United States. This is one of 
a large number of cases in which this association, 
through its special agents, has brought to earth 
violators of the game laws. 
Upon investigating the case, it was found 
that Silz, under the guise of conducting a farm 
for breeding wild ducks, was importing native 
wild ducks from Virginia contrary to the law. 
It was definitely shown that he was not legiti¬ 
mately engaged in the breeding of ducks, but 
was using his farm for a blind. Wild ducks 
which had been captured in nets were bought 
alive in Virginia in large quantities, and brought 
to the Silz farm at Goshen, N. Y., where they 
were immediately killed and put upon the market. 
In some instances, these birds had not been taken 
to the breeding farm at all. 
New York has to its credit also the largest 
previous fine ever collected for the violation of a 
game law, the amount being $14,000, secured as 
a penalty from dealers who stored game illegally 
in New York City in 1909. The working up of 
the present case required the very best detective 
and legal talent and the Conservation Commission 
dserves congratulations on its wholly successful 
outcome. 
MAGNETIC SURVEY NEARLY FINISHED. 
Results of the Yacht Carnegie’s Three-Year 
Cruise Now at the Service of Mariners. 
Washington, Dec. 28.— When the non-mag- 
netic yacht Carnegie dropped anchor in New 
York Harbor on December 19, concluding a voy¬ 
age which covered more than three years, the 
great task undertaken by the Carnegie Institution 
of Washington eight years ago, to make a com¬ 
plete magnetic survey of the globe, was two- 
thirds accomplished. Already virtually all of the 
data gathered in nearly one hundred and fifty 
thousand miles of voyaging is in the hands of 
hydrographers, and much of it now is in use by 
the shipmasters of the world. 
Professor L. A. Bauer, director of the de¬ 
partment of terrestrial magnetism of the institu¬ 
tion and originator of the project for the survey, 
has prepared his report for 1913, which he made 
public today. It includes the data of the most 
recent voyage of the Carnegie and a chart show¬ 
ing the voyages of that vessel and her predecessor 
in the work, the Galileo. 
Observations of compass readings were noted 
every two hundred miles or so, and in every part 
of the world the accuracy of the delicate instru¬ 
ments was tested by “swinging the ship” and 
passing her through the circle of the compass 
card to prove up the correctness of the readings. 
On the ship’s charts all inaccuracies of regu¬ 
lar navigation compass points have been noted, 
and the institution is now prepared to furnish 
to shipmasters true compass readings against 
which their own instruments may be checked 
and the error noted due to magnetic attraction 
aboard steel vessels. 
In his report Director Bauer lays stress on 
the fact that not a life has been lost nor a man 
seriously injured during the voyage of the Car¬ 
negie or the Galileo. 
