Jan. 24, 1914. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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The Finest Resort Hotel in the World has been built at Sunset Mountain, 
Asheville, N. C. Open all the year, Absolutely Fireproof. 
Mr. E. W. Grove, of St. Louis, Mo., has built at Asheville, N. C., the finest resort 
hotel in the world—Grove Park Inn. Built by hand of the great boulders of Sunset 
Mountain, it is full of rest and comfort and wholesomeness. The front lawn is the 
hundred-acre eighteen hole golf links of the Asheville Country Club, and with it sixty 
acres belonging to the hotel. 
The purest water obtainable is piped seventeen miles from the slopes of Mount 
Mitchell, over 6,000 feet altitude. 
Biltmore milk and cream exclusively, supplied from 200 registered Jerseys on the 
estate of Mr. Geo. W. Vanderbilt. It is doubtful if this famous dairy is equaled in the 
world. 
Four hundred one-piece rugs were made at Aubusson, France. Seven hundred 
pieces of furniture and ove* 600 lighting fixtures of solid copper were made by hand 
by the Roycrofters. 
The plumbing material is the finest that has ever been placed in any hotel in the 
world. The bath tubs and fixtures are all solid porcelain. No pipes visible anywhere. 
No radiators to be seen—all placed in recesses under windows. No electric bulbs visible. 
For the golfers there are lockers and shower bath rooms, with a forty-foot swim¬ 
ming pool that is not excelled by the finest clubs in existence, and the players are less 
than 100 yards distant when on the links. 
Especially available for northern guests in the Spring, Fall and Winter, going and returning 
from farther southern resorts, or for an all Winter resort. Persons *vith any form of tubercular 
trouble will not be received at the Inn. 
Rates—American Plan—$5.00 a day upward. Reached by the Southern Railway. 
GROVE PARK INN : Sunset Mountain, Asheville, N. C. 
New York Booking Office, 1180 Broadway 
like coals, but the whole big spectral spread of his 
antlers would stand out against the darkness— 
not only the horns of one, but of perhaps half a 
dozen. When the hunter fired at one elk all the 
others would make a break for shore, but the 
instant they landed, their great black shadows 
would fall before them from the light of the 
blazing fires, and back they would rush in ter¬ 
ror to the water. Then a hunter might kill every 
elk in the herd, or several of them, before their 
fright at the gun overcame the terror of the 
shadow and the survivors fled to the impenetrable 
darkness of the woods. 
The biggest set of elk antlers ever captured 
in the Pennsylvania woods was secured in the 
Kettle Creek country by Major Isaac Lyman, 
Philip Tome, George Ayres, L. D. Spoffard, and 
William Wattles. Philip Tome was a great 
hunter, and the famous interpreter for Corn- 
planter and Blacksnake, the great Indian chiefs. 
He came over from Warren County to help 
Major Lyman capture an elk alive, and the party 
started in on the first snow, with plenty of ropes 
and things. They camped, but the elks were 
in such big herds that they couldn’t get a chance 
at a single buck for more than a week. Then 
they got the biggest one they ever saw and gave 
chase to him. They started him from his bed 
on Yocum hill. The dogs took him down Little 
Kettle Creek to Big Kettle, and up that two or 
three miles. There the elk came to bay on a 
rock. He kept the dogs at a distance until the 
hunters came up, when he left the rock and 
started away again. Tome, knowing the nature 
of the elk, said that all they had to do was to 
wait and the elk would return to the rock. They 
dropped poles and fitted up nooses. They wait¬ 
ed nearly half a day, and then they heard the 
buck come crashing through the woods, down 
the mountain-sides, the dogs in full cry. He 
mounted his rock again. The hunters he did 
not seem to mind, but the Cogs he fought fierce¬ 
ly. While he was doing thit the hunters got the 
nooses over his immense horns and anchored him 
to surrounding trees. They got the elk alive to 
the Allegheny River, and floated him on a raft to 
Olean Point. From there they travelled with 
him through New York State to Albany, exhibit¬ 
ing hirr. with much profit, and at Albany he was 
sold for five hundred dollars. That elk stood 
sixteen hands high and had antlers six feet 
long, and eleven points on each side, the usual 
number of points being nine on a side. 
The last elk killed in this State was in 1864, 
by Jim Jacobs, an Indian. This elk had been 
pursued for several days, and in despair sought 
his “rock” near the Clarion River, and was 
there shot. He was too old and tough to be 
used for food. The buffalo, elk, panther, wolf, 
and beaver are now extinct. The last buffalo 
killed in this State of which there is a record 
was about 1799. There were originally in this 
State over fifty species of wild, four-footed an¬ 
imals. We had three hundred and tyenty-five 
species and sub-species of birds, and our waters, 
including Lake Erie, had one hundred and fifty 
species of fish. 
Forestry Notes. 
The navy department has asked the forest 
service to investigate guijo, a Philippine wood, 
for possible use in decking boats and ships. 
Hongleaf pine, sugar maple, and beech are the do¬ 
mestic woods most used for decks. 
The state university lands in Arizona are to 
be lumbered under a co-operative agreement be¬ 
tween the government and the state land com¬ 
mission. Arizona is the first state in the south¬ 
west and one of few in the country to cut its 
timbered lands on forestry principles. 
The annual meeting of the American For¬ 
estry Association will be held in Washington on 
January 14. A president, twenty-one vice-presi¬ 
dents, a treasurer, an auditor and five directors 
are to be elected and plans made for an active 
campaign for forest conservation during 1914. 
The association has 8,000 members. 
An Archer Hunter. 
Forest and Stream.—Please find enclosed draft for 
$3.00 for which renew my subscription to the F01 it and 
Stream from date of expiration. 
I am especially interested in the articles on ardhery 
and hope there will be much increased interest in this 
sport the owning year. I am a “lone archer’’ but my wife 
and I have good outfits and enjoy the target practice 
very much when we get time to get away from our 
work. I would like to see more articles on “Hunting 
with the Long Bow” being exact to state just how 
arrows are made for this purpose. I recently made 
some arrows out of old seasoned hickory feathered with 
They fly straight, are very inexpensive and I find it 
great sport to hunt rabbits when the weather is right 
turkey-feathers and armed with trowel-shaped points, 
and the game not too wild. ^, TTT _„. T 
Audubon, Iowa. JOHN M. FULTON. 
