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and where there are several out together to drive 
the brush, almost any kind of a dog will do. 
I think shepherds are the best, but have had 
setters that were first class. There is hardly 
any dog except a hound that will run a deer 
long enough to do much harm. 
In the open season one should be allowed to 
dispose of his game as he sees fit, provided he 
made good use of the flesh, but under no cir¬ 
cumstances should one be allowed to kill for 
the heads and hides. There should be no re¬ 
striction in the amount one could kill in the 
open season and the transportation companies 
should be allowed to carry it the same as any¬ 
thing else. There is a very small proportion of 
our people who are so situated that they can go 
hunting, and as our laws are now they have to 
go without game. Should the game decrease, 
shorten the open season or close it altogether for 
a while. The law as it now is in most, if not 
all of the States, is a class law and has many 
enemies. In regard to the foreigners and others 
who destroy everything that conies in their reach, 
I do not think we could make any better law 
than we already have that would help us out. 
The law in this State (and I have no doubt all 
the States have similar laws) is that it is a mis¬ 
demeanor to go inside of an inclosure without 
permission. In Mendocino county we have a law 
prohibiting shooting along the county roads, also 
for thirty yards on each side of the road. The 
trespass law and the road law combined, if en¬ 
forced, seems to be about all the law we could 
have to cover the above. 
Several years ago we had quite an agitation, 
and I believe a law in regard to using guns larger 
than a ten bore, also pump guns, as they call 
them, but I think this law was a dead lettei. 
It is useless to make laws wdiich cannot be en¬ 
forced. M. W. Fairbanks. 
New York City, Jan. 12.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I am in favor of the gun license, and 
I believe the figure to be effective should be. for 
residents, $5. Any man who wants a gun for a 
legitimate purpose would be willing to pay that. 
Game in this part of the country is getting 
scarcer year by year and unless something is 
done to check the ravages of the pot-hunter, it 
is only a question of time when there will be no 
game left—and perhaps no song birds. The 
native pot-hunter is merely a man who does not 
want to work—a pale face Indian, so to speak; 
the foreigner (by whom I mean 'the Italian gen¬ 
erally) is one who would lay the country waste 
in order to save the price of a bunch of garlic. 
Frank Moonan. 
A Michigan Panther. 
Saginaw, Mich., Jan. 5 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The inclosed clipping from the Sault 
Ste. Marie News of Jan. 3 explains itself. The 
Osborn boys are sons of the lion. Chase S. 
Osborn, formerly State game warden of Michi¬ 
gan, and I have not the slightest doubt that the 
account is accurate. Deerfoot Lodge is situated 
in the heart of the wildest country that still re¬ 
mains in Michigan, near the Taquamanon River. 
I take considerable interest in it from the fact 
that George B. Morley and I own about 40,000 
acres of hardwood timber lands that surround 
Deerfoot Lodge. Mr. Osborn, Sr., early in the 
season killed three bears at Deerfoot. I believe 
he killed one of them with a charge of bird shot, 
for he<*vas hunting partridges when he came on 
to them. W. B. Mershon. 
[The clipping states that George and Chase 
Osborn, Mark Cady and Ted La Londe caught 
a “catamount” in a No. 4 wolf trap, and thinking 
it held securely, photographed it, then fired sev¬ 
eral shots at it without success and were com¬ 
pelled to return home for more ammunition. 
Coming back, they killed the animal, and then 
found that it had broken the trap and was not 
held by anything, but could not account for the 
fact that it remained near the trap while they 
were absent. It measured 5 14 feet in length. 
The News goes on to say that the region men¬ 
tioned, being adapted to the needs of _ wolves, 
panthers, etc., these are collecting there in num¬ 
bers as the surrounding country is being settled 
up.— Editor.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Adirondack Guides’ Convention. 
Utica, N. Y., Jan. 12 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The annual meeting of the Brown s 1 1 act 
Guides’ Association, held in Boonville, Jan. 10, 
was very lagely attended. The following officers 
were elected: President, Richard Crego; vice- 
president, H. D. Grant; secretary-treasurer, A. 
M. Church; executive committee. Nelson 
Chandler, Benjamin Parsons, Merrill M. White, 
George Barber. A. J. Delmarsh, Charles Martin 
Charles H. Smith. The annual report presented 
by Secretary Church was as follows: Receipts, 
$724.30; expenditures, 464.80; balance on hand, 
$259.41. 
The same methods have been pursued in the 
past year as in former years. Men were kept on 
watch for game violators wherever they could 
be obtained. More of this work could have been 
done had we been able to get more men suitable 
for the purpose. The Association asks and 
insists that the close, season on game and fish 
be respected. Violations of the game law are 
WARDEN HARRY CHASE. 
less frequent than in former times, but there 
are still those who want more than their share 
of fish and game. A few dogs were imported 
this year and four were killed. The' Association 
applied for and distributed 10,000 brook trout 
fingerlings and 10,000 brook trout fry, also 210,- 
000 lake trout fry. E. J. Van Arnam, of the 
Association, also received and planted 1,000 
brook trout fingerlings. The people as well as 
the Association should take more interest in 
stocking the lakes and streams with fish than 
they do. There are over 175 camps and hotels 
on the Fulton Chain of Lakes annually occupied 
during the summer months by men and women 
and children who fish, and it seems strange that 
there should be but one application for fish with 
which to restock and replenish the supply from 
which all draw, more or less. In these cottages 
are men who fish from daylight till dark every 
day in the week (and a few of them, no doubt, 
after dark) whose catch goes up into the hun¬ 
dreds, and yet not one of them has signed his 
name to an application or raised a finger toward 
having the supply renewed. The State gets the 
eggs, hatches them, feeds and raises them to 
fingerlings and would deliver them at their door 
free of charge. 
The New York Legislature at its session in 
1906 amended the game law so as to include 
September in the close season. This action 
was against the advice and protest of this As¬ 
sociation, and also that of many others. The 
only object there can be in shortening the sea¬ 
son for hunting is to lessen the kill. The num¬ 
ber of deer in the aggregate is becoming less. 
The season of last fall must convince any one 
that the taking out of September did not have 
the desired effect, for more deer were killed 
during the months of October and November, 
1906, than ever before. No previous hunting 
season has ever seen so many hunters in the 
Adirondacks. In 1905, during September, 
October and November, there were shipped from 
Beaver River station on the Mohawk and 
Malone railroad, ninety-six deer, while during 
October and November, 1906, in the six weeks’ 
time, the shipments reached to 146 carcasses of 
deer. It has long been the opinion of your sec¬ 
retary that the last two weeks of the open sea¬ 
son, that part of the hunting season which falls in 
November, must be cut out. A movement is on 
foot to cut out the two weeks’ deer hunting in 
November and restore the two weeks in Sep¬ 
tember, thus making the open season Sept. 16 
to Oct. 31. A law has also been put in force 
requiring all nonresidents to obtain a license 
from the fish commission before fishing in the 
State, and requiring in payment a fee equal to 
that imposed by law in the State from which the 
application comes. It is proposed that this law 
be amended requiring a license from residents 
to be issued by the fish commission, county 
clerks, the fee therefor not to exceed one dollar. 
A concurrent resolution amending the State 
constitution and providing for the building of 
dams and the flooding of State lands for the 
storage of water for commercial purposes was 
passed by both branches of the Legislature at 
the close of its last session. The State consti¬ 
tution provides that all lands now owned or 
hereafter acquired by the State, situated within 
the Adirondack Park, shall forever be main¬ 
tained as wild forest lands. They are not to 
be leased, exchanged or sold, and tlie timber 
thereon shall not be cut or destroyed. This 
resolution is looked upon with much suspicion 
by a large number as apparently an entering 
wedge toward the cutting and removing of the 
timber from State land. It will be remembered 
that a bill providing for the lumbering of the 
State’s holdings under certain restrictions was 
once considered in the State Senate and failed 
of passing by a very small margin. While the 
rights of a private party to remove the timber 
from his own holdings cannot be questioned, 
any measure that hints of destroying on re¬ 
moving the soft wood timber from the State s 
forest "lands immediately concerns you, for the 
game, which is your stock in trade, cannot 
survive our Adirondack winters without the 
sheltering cover of the balsam and the spruce. 
The beaver, those we wintered for the State 
two years ago, are prospering finely. They 
have dams and houses built, and as far as any 
one can judge, are increasing in numbers. Since 
a year ago quite a number of elk have been 
liberated "by the State, mostly in the eastern 
part of the Adirondacks. Some of them have 
journeyed as far west os Old Forge, working 
from there south and west. I am informed by 
Commissioner Whipple that seventy-five elk and 
twenty-five beaver are expected from Yellowstone 
Park, to be turned loose in the Adirondacks. 
well. The. last two years have shown more bears 
than those previous. 
Cards were issued to 96 active and 427 asso¬ 
ciate members, 51 of which were new. Two 
members sent in seven applications each, and 
another five. Let us have 100 this year. Keep 
up your interest and work. 
The committee on resolutions submitted the 
following: 
That the State take measures to check the 
denudation of Adirondack lands of all soft 
wood timber and the accumulation of inflam¬ 
mable material thereon; declaring against all 
cutting of timber on State. lands; protesting 
against the storage of water in the Adirondacks 
and calling attention to the fact that these 
waters can be stored outside the forest areas; 
urging its representatives at Albany to defeat 
the suspicious measure; recommending that the 
open season for deer hunting in the Adiron¬ 
dacks close on Oct. 31 each year; condemning 
the sale of deer, partridge, grouse, woodcock, 
quail, brook and lake trout taken in the State 
(except if raised in confinement); favoring the 
right of special game protectors to search with¬ 
out warrant. " W. E. Wolcott. 
