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PENNSYLVANIA GAME CONDITIONS—SOME 
SUGGESTIONS. 
Clearfield, Pa., January 29, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have been a hunter since I was ten years 
old. I killed my first deer over fifty years ago 
and I killed my last one after I had passed my 
seventieth milestone. When I killed my first 
deer (on Porter’s Run), the greater portion of 
the foothills of the Alleghenies furnished good 
hunting for deer and small game of all kinds. 
Since then our forests have been cut off; our 
deer have taken refuge on the high Alleghenies, 
while the small game has become mighty scarce 
We certainly failed to get our share of the four 
millions of rabbits reported by the Game Com¬ 
mission as being killed last fall. The law pro¬ 
tecting our small game has been entirely too 
liberal, and unless better protection is afforded 
small game we will be compelled to restock our 
covers or cease hunting. For over fifteen years 
our law-makers have given our deer much bet¬ 
ter protection, and as a result we have splendid 
deer hunting on our mountains and will have 
for many years to come. 
Many thousands of acres that now furnish our 
best deer hunting are now owned by the state 
and are under the control of the Forestry Com¬ 
mission. During the last few years hundreds of 
hunting clubs have taken advantage of the very 
liberal policy of the Forestry Commission, and 
a hunter’s camp has been erected at almost 
every spring on the mountains. Many of these 
camps have been built right in the heart of some 
of the best game covers and breeding places. 
For the sake of a very few dollars from a hunt¬ 
ing club the Forestry Commission has leased to 
these clubs grounds for a club house in the very 
center of our best brewing and hiding places 
for game, and much of ouN^best deer hunting 
has been spoiled because theAdeer have been 
driven elsewhere. This has beenMprought about 
by a spirit of selfishness on the part\>f the hunt¬ 
ers and a spirit of greed for a few dollars on 
the part of the Forestry Commission. j*t is like 
the Indian’s gun that cost more than it caVie to. 
One of our oldest and most successful iS^it- 
ing clubs, the famous Gum Swamp Club, locatd\ 
on the lands of the Witmer Steel Company, on ' 
Stone Run, were compelled to surrender their 
lease and sell their camp to the company because 
the owners were about to cut the timber. Any 
hunter who was fortunate enough to belong to 
the Gum Swamp Club, or any of their numerous 
guests, will remember, long after his hunting 
days are over, the days spent on the grounds of 
that famous club. My back aches yet when I 
remember some of the deer I helped to carry 
down Stone Run or across the Big Ridge. And 
some of the nights were not less famous, “wild 
and wooly.” When time dragged heavily on our 
hands the mythical Watson Girls would pay us a 
mid-night visit and help us to paint the old 
camp red. 
But all good things have an end and the fall 
of 1910 saw the end of the Gum Swamp Club 
and its last hunt as a club. Some of the leading 
members of the old club secured an option on 
420 acres of forest land on the headwaters of 
Lick Run. This land surrounded on three sides 
by the state forestry lands and on the south by 
Kennedy Park, the State Game Preserve, was 
also under option to the Forestry Commission; 
but they very generously gave up their claim to 
the Crystal Spring Rod & Gun Club, a new or¬ 
ganization who took the title to the lands. Dur¬ 
ing the fall and summer of 1911 this new club 
built a new club house, furnished with hot and 
cold water; built extensive trout ponds and 
stocked them with thousands of brook trout; 
cleared land and planted an orchard, and in 
short have made out of it the most attractive 
hunting club and resort on the Alleghenies. The 
springs of the Crystal Spring Rod and Gun 
Club are among the finest on the mountains. 
This club has a membership of fifty men from 
different parts of the state, many of whom are 
experienced big game hunters; while some of 
our members are bankers, doctors and lawyers 
who add dignity and grace to the club; but 
very few deer. But these members are appre¬ 
ciated all the same, and for the last four years 
they have received a generous portion of the 
finest venison killed by other members of the 
club. It took the club some time after moving 
into our new home to locate the best game cov¬ 
ers and to clear out paths and roads to our new 
hunting grounds. But during each year for the 
last four years the Crystal Springs Club has 
killed and hung upon our front porch many of 
the finest deer ever killed upon the Alleghenies. 
The methods of hunting deer now on the Al- 
eghenies differ very materially from those em¬ 
ployed by the hunters of forty or fifty years 
agV Then we waited for a tracking snow and 
still hunted our game. As deer were plenty and 
