Jan. 16, 1909.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
BEAVERS IN TOWN. 
Wild animals often destroy the works of man, 
but it is very seldom that they repair the dam¬ 
ages caused by time and the elements, but such 
an instance, quite remarkable in its import¬ 
ance, has been brought to light recently, says the 
Phillips (Maine) correspondent of the Boston 
Globe. 
At Phillips upper village is a woolen mill, 
driven by water power, coming over a large dam 
in the Sandy River. Recently this dam has 
leaked freely, and though repairs have been at¬ 
tempted the task was found so complicated and 
difficult that the dam has never been put in 
proper shape by man since the leakage was first 
discovered. 
Suddenly, however, the leakage stopped, and 
an investigation showed that a colony of beavers 
had taken up their abode in the mill pond, ap¬ 
parently coming from further north on the Sandy 
River, where these creatures have been known 
in past years to be quite numerous. 
All summer there has been a colony of beavers 
industriously at work in a pond on woodland 
owned by Joel Carlton, of this town, and Mr. 
Carlton thinks this may be the same colony that 
has now come down to the village to live, quite 
as though metropolitan life were the proper 
thing. 
The colony was discovered by Judson Pease, 
superintendent of the woolen mill, while he was 
passing through the woods on the south side 
of the stream to look over the dam property. 
His first intimation that beavers had been at 
work there came when he saw two felled trees, 
one four inches in diameter and the other six. 
On his next trip over the same route he found 
more signs of the same kind, including several 
trees that had not only been cut down, but lodged 
in quite the proper woodsman style, disproving 
the popular claim that beavers never lodge a tree. 
Immediately Mr. Pease dislodged one of these 
trees, and then he saw where the animals had 
dragged the trunks of a number of trees into 
the mill pond. 
Upon advancing toward the shore of the pond 
he heard a noisy splashing in the water which 
sounded like stones thrown into the water. Going 
nearer he plainly saw two beavers at play. They 
paid no attention to their visitor, though they 
must have seen him, for he made no attempt to 
hide his movements. 
The attention of the operatives in the mill was 
called to the play of the two animals, and the 
young women watched them from the upper 
windows for some little time. 
It is believed that when the beavers came to 
the mill pond they decided to appropriate it to 
their own use, and discovering the imperfect 
condition of the dam, set out at once to repair 
it, for beavers are known to be very painstaking 
in their work and equally methodical in their 
habits. 
It is known that they have not only sunk many 
poplar trunks in the mud just above the dam, 
but have also placed two large birch tree trunks 
there. 
The cutting down of trees by the beavers was 
done a considerable distance from the pond, the 
poplars being selected from quite a dense growth 
on the sunny side of a hill, and evidently having 
been dragged to the pond by easy stages. 
Beavers have been protected in Maine since 
1905, and are undoubtedly becoming more tame 
each year, but that they should carry their work 
almost into the heart of a busy and growing 
village is considered remarkable. 
EAGLE CAUGHT IN HARLEM. 
A BIG gray eagle was locked up at the East 
104th street police station yesterday to await 
a claimant. According to the Bertillon meas¬ 
urements, he was two feet tall and spreads eight 
feet from tip to tip of his wings. Abraham 
Pfefier found the bird in his back yard at 1624 
Madison avenue. Near it lay an overturned 
refuse can—empty—and around the yard was 
strewn enough cat fur to furnish a dozen do¬ 
mestic pets. The eagle was so heavy that he 
could hardly stir and Abraham easily threw a 
bag over him.—Sun, 
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