FOREST AND STREAM 
Made-in-America Scenery 
By John G. Worth 
(For illustrations, see page 149) 
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publicans, that he wanted Dr. Kalbfus and the 
Game Commission ‘‘called off,” and also that the 
case was being tried in Allegheny County, which 
would involve a big expense to the accused and 
the Club, as their witnesses were all in Clearfield 
County. Like the Governor, the Senator referred 
the matter to the Game Commission. When the 
case was tried in Clearfield County, Mr. Harris, 
as an attorney for the defense, used this against 
the Commission, claiming that it was attempting 
to put the costs on his County. 
Mr. Harris wrote the Game Commission that: 
“the law was primarily intended to protect does 
and should be so amended that if a deer has 
testicles, horns or no horns he is a lawful kill.” 
Mr. Harris also wrote a letter to one of the 
officers of the Commission from which I quote: 
“As for Dr. Dickinson. He is head and shoulders 
above any one of the Game Commission. He is 
a gentleman sportsman and has violated none -.>f 
the contemptible laws for which they, are re¬ 
sponsible.” 
Yet Mr. Harris was a member of the Com¬ 
mission when the “Buck Law” was passed by our 
Legislature, a- -member .from his own County, 
Clearfield, being sponsor for the bill. 
Mr. Harris was State Treasurer and later Garre 
Commissioner under the Pennypacker administ.a- 
tion, but upon the expiration of his term Gover¬ 
nor Stuart refused to reappoint him. 
While Game Commissioner,“• Mr. Harris was 
trusted by his Colleagues to locate a Game Pre¬ 
serve in accordance with the law, “within the 
State lands” in Clearfield County, about 7 miles 
from his home, where deer were extinct. Upon 
these sanctuaries, no hunting is permitted by any 
person at any time. At that time, the State 
owned or held options on many thousand acres 
of land surrounding the Game Preserve located 
by Mr. Harris which consisted of about 3,200 
acres, marked with a single wire so that game 
could come and go at will, with fire lines outside 
the wire. A man was put in charge of this sanc¬ 
tuary by Mr. Harris and it was stocked with deer 
and later with elk at the State’s expense. 
It was not until Mr. Harris became active in 
the defense of the accused that the discovery was 
made by the Commission that Mr. Harris and his 
associates had acquired 420 acres of land adjoin¬ 
ing the State sanctuary and extending to the 
marking wire, organized a club of 50 members, 
and posted the lands. When the Commission 
learned of this state of affairs, its first thought 
was to abandon the sanctuary entirely, but owing 
to the impossibility of moving the game, it was 
finally decided to cut off one end so that the 
public >and hunters could pass around it without 
tresspassing on the Club’s property. It was on 
one of these fire lines surrounding the sanctuary 
that the accused killed the fawn in dispute, the 
only deer killed in 1911 by this Club, while in 1914 
six mature bucks were hung on the clubhouse 
porch. 
The case was tried on December nth, 1912 be¬ 
fore J. C. Barclay, Justice of the Peace of Clear¬ 
field, who had offered to him in evidence the 
head of the fawn, and he found: 
“No man could see horns on this baby deer and 
any man who would kill it is not only exterminat¬ 
ing our deer but is endangering human life in 
the woods.” 
From the Justice’s fine of $100 and costs the 
defendant appealed, and on August-26th, 1913 the 
Grand Jury found a true bill against him. On 
The following article, written by John G. 
Worth, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, gives but 
a faint idea of the wonders of the great Ameri¬ 
can Southwest Desert. The photographs on page 
149 show perhaps better than words the marvels 
of this region. 
The great American plateau region of northern 
Arizona, western New Mexico, southern Utah 
and southeastern Colorado undoubtedly contains 
more natural wonders, scenic variety, and real pre¬ 
historic and present life of primitive man than 
any other section on the North American contin¬ 
ent. The land sculpture resulting from 
thousands of years of erosion in the great 
sandstone plateau has left many curious 
and interesting monuments of the harder 
material standing and lying in great fantastic 
shapes, equalled nowhere else. The best entry 
for this immense region is Gallup, N. M., on the 
south, and Dolores, Colo., on the north. 
From Gallup the Navajo Reservation is first 
entered. This reservation is inhabitated by a 
tribe of nomads who range their sheep over an 
immense stretch 400 to 500 miles from east to 
west and 300 to 400 miles north to south. 
The Navajos are perhaps the most interesting 
Indians to-day. They make beautiful blankets 
and are splendid in barbaric silver work ranging 
from small rings and ornaments to great belts 
and bridles of solid beaten silver. 
From Fort Defiance the land sculpture com¬ 
mences immediately. Zilt-Eusayan Butte, then 
ivionument Canyon, and the splendid Canyon de 
chelly and Canyon del Muerto with their wonder¬ 
ful coloring and impressive silence, one might say, 
of lights and shadows. To the east, the great 
Tunitcha, and Lukachuki Mountains to a height 
of 10,000 feet, rising 4,000 to S,ooo feet direct 
from the Plateau are seen, while to the northeast 
rise the beautiful Carriso Mountains to about 
12,000 feet, from the top of which the writer 
obtained one of the most beautiful sights some 
fifteen years ago. For hundreds of miles in 
every direction the country is an open panorama 
—the great San Juan Mountains of Colorado to 
the north and east, the great isolated peaks of 
the Utah plateau region, Elk Ridge, Abajo Moun¬ 
tains, Henry Mountains standing like sentinels 
guarding the silence, while far to the west stands 
Navajo Mountain on the edge of the Grand 
Canyon near the mouth of the San Juan River 
and the great mesas, deep canyons, and table 
lands stretch for miles to the southwest 
After leaving Canyon del Muerto one enters 
the Chin-lee Valley passing many ruins and cliff 
houses of primitive man. The life, color, and 
September 23d, 1913, the defendant succeeded in 
having the indictment quashed on a technicality 
and the Commonwealth took an appeal to the Su¬ 
perior Court of Pennsylvania, which reversed the 
lower 'Court, and the case was brought to trial 
in Clearfield on November 7th, 1914, when the 
accused was acquitted by a jury of his peers. 
In the trial, it was shown by disinterested 
witnesses as follows: Taxidermist G. A. Link of 
the Carnegie Museum positively identified the 
head as the one delivered to him personally by 
land sculpture are most wonderful all the way; it 
is real magnified fairy land. Next one enters 
Monumental Valley, a great Gardens of the 
Gods, stretching for more than thirty miles to 
the San Juan river. Great monuments rise 
straight into the heavens, 300 to 800 feet, assum¬ 
ing all shapes and colors. Big fingers, big 
frogs, faces, squaws with babes on back, great 
battleships with bristling turrets, locomotives, 
great palaces have been hewn by Nature in a 
way that cannot be painted, photgraphed, or 
properly described. 
It all must be seen to be appreciated. At the 
crossing of the San Juan river we enter Utah, 
and see the wonderful Goose Necks carved by 
the river into islands whose banks are a thou¬ 
sand feet above the river bed. We then cross 
Grand Gulch and at night camp in a great cave 
that will hold hundreds of horses at a time. A 
little water comes from the rocks and is accu¬ 
mulated in troughs built by an enterprising 
ranchman. The next day with the Great Bears 
Ears Mountain constantly in sight we cross the 
table land to the head of White Canyon and 
camp at the first or Edwin Bridge for the night. 
This is a beautiful bridge with wonderful color¬ 
ing and perfect in outline. We climb on top, ex¬ 
amine its wonderful structure and wonder how 
old the world must be, to take time to carve the 
beautiful arch so little at a time, a little rain or 
wind, the cold night and. hot days gradually 
chiselling out the hard sandstone. 
Next day we ride leisurely through the canyon 
and camp for a midday meal at the Caroline 
Bridge, huge in proportions, so large that it can¬ 
not very well be photographed, and after a pleas¬ 
ant hour in exploration we pack up and ride to 
the magnificent Agusta Bridge to camp for the 
night. This is probably the most interesting 
bridge of all, being 2,300 feet over all, and about 
350 ft. span in the arch. 
Numerous pools have been carved near it mak¬ 
ing fine bathing, and a small stream cuts beneath 
it. The ruins here are also interesting and after 
supper as we watch the moon rising under 
the arch and gradually over it, the sensation of 
being part of these wonders is simply beyond de¬ 
scription. 
The return is made the same way, noon at 
Caroline, and another night at the Edwin Bridge. 
The next morning we start for the south to the 
San Juan into Arizona again for the Snake 
Dance of the Mokis, one hundred and fifty or 
more miles to the south, every mile opening new 
and interesting wonders. 
the accused, and stated that it was a fawn and 
that it had no horns, and he so told accused, m 
fact, only accepted the head when assured that 
it had been passed by the State authorities, and 
further that it was the only fawn head he had 
ever received for mounting as a trophy. Chief 
Taxidermist Santens of the Carnegie Museum 
who was present when the accused delivered the 
head, corroborated Mr. Link’s testimony. Albert 
Smith, the expressman who received it, and 
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