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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1910. 
VOL. LXXIV.—No. 19. 
No. 127 Franklin St., New York. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright, 1910, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful interest 
in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate a refined 
taste for natural objects, 
—Forest an® Stream, Aug. 14, 1873b 
CANADA'S BUFFALO HERD. 
Reports from Edmonton, Alberta, announce 
that Michel Pablo, of Montana, is now engaged 
in gathering for shipment to the Dominion Gov¬ 
ernment the remainder of his buffalo herd. It 
is said that these buffalo will be shipped during 
the month of May. 
These are the buffalo so often referred to in 
Forest and Stream as being outlaws. They have 
become very wild, have lost their fear of men 
and horses and are exceedingly hard to handle. 
Pablo is reported to have built a great corral 
with wings extending far back into the moun¬ 
tains, and to have secured a large number of 
horses and riders. He will try to make the 
great drive successful. It is said that the ex¬ 
pense of the corral and its wings is $50,000. 
Pablo has more than once declared himself 
very hostile to all Americans, and has declined 
to leave any outlaws of his herd on the range. 
He is said to have written A. Ayotte, saying 
that rather than permit a single hoof of his 
buffalo to remain in the United States he will 
organize a buffalo hunt and will shoot all the 
animals in the mountains. 
Pablo is a very rich Indian. He has been 
quoted as stating that he had money enough to 
give each one of his eight children $100,000, and 
to keep the same amount for himself and for 
his wife. Like most Indians who have had deal¬ 
ing with the whites, he is suspicious and pre¬ 
judiced. Mr. Ayotte, however, understanding 
Indian character, has treated Pablo liberally, 
showed much faith in him and has thoroughly 
won his confidence. On the other hand, people 
in this country who have tried to buy Pablo’s 
buffalo have offered him no more than beef 
steer prices per head of buffalo, and have in¬ 
curred his ill will. 
At one time in the autumn of 1907 it looked 
as if Pablo could not gather his buffalo for ship¬ 
ping, for all his horses were exhausted. After 
long efforts he had gathered only sixty-nine 
head, while the train called for 200 head. Then 
Mr. Ayotte, fearing that Pablo would not make 
his deliveries, got out and found men and horses 
at extra expense. Pablo objected that the people 
who gathered the buffalo would kill them in the 
loading, and Ayotte guaranteed to pay for all 
so killed. This satisfied Pablo. They killed 
seven head in gathering them and Ayotte paid 
for them. 
There is little doubt that Pablo will make 
every possible effort to deliver to the Canadian 
Government all his buffalo, and there is no pros¬ 
pect of his willingly leaving any on this side of 
the line. 
LITTLE JOURNEYS. 
If the large number of inquiries received by 
Forest and Stream daily is a fair indication, 
little journeys to the woods will be made this 
season in increasing numbers. The majority of 
those who are now planning spring and summer 
trips are anglers, but canoeists and campers are 
abundant, too. The anglers are already scatter¬ 
ing to the four winds. 
Among those who have applied to us for in¬ 
formation is a Californian who journeyed to 
Florida for the fishing. Numbers of inquiries 
come from abroad concerning trout fishing here, 
and a few Americans are seeking places in Eng¬ 
land and Scotland where they may fish. It is 
not now so difficult to satisfy those who wish to 
seek trout within one hundred or even fifty miles 
of New York city, and there are scores of such 
inquiries. The Adirondacks attract many who 
can be away a week or more, while Maine is pre¬ 
ferred by some who are equally fortunate. New 
Brunswick and Newfoundland appeal to still 
others. 
The campers’ demands are not always exact¬ 
ing, and most of them are satisfied with pleasant 
surroundings in a quiet spot with water before 
and trees behind their camps, but the canoeists 
are going further afield. Long down-river 
cruises are increasing in popularity, and these 
may be made with greater safety and pleasure, 
now that excellent canoes for such purposes may 
be had in all cities and most towns, and the im¬ 
provements in outfits and supplies have made it 
possible to go light yet in comfort. 
In these outers the conservation movement 
will find its strongest supporters. They do not 
make speeches or advertise their views through 
other channels, but they are missionaries who, 
in their travels, preach the gospel of rational 
living and exercise, the saving from destruction 
of our trees and landmarks and of our water¬ 
ways from pollution. Indeed, they are not fol¬ 
lowers of the movement; they are the pioneers 
whose knowledge, gained from wide experience 
and disseminated, finally attracted the attention 
of men in high places, who took up the cudgel in 
their behalf and have now made conservation a 
national issue. 
A faint idea of the beauty of North Carolina 
mountain streams may be gained in a glance at 
our cover page. Of the fishing now to be had 
in the cold streams of the Southern Appalachians 
Dr. Chase P. Ambler writes entertainingly on 
another page. 
PARK "IMPROVEMENTS.” 
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The selfish motives which actuate the men 
who would despoil the Adirondacks are becom¬ 
ing increasingly difficult to conceal. It is safe 
for the friends of the great preserve to refuse 
to believe that these men want dams and roads 
built merely for the benefit of the public. The 
people who live in the cities and who, on their 
brief vacations, seek the wilderness to find the 
trout or deer, know that automobile roads are 
not suitable avenues of approach to their favorite 
haunts. They know, too, that all the dam build¬ 
ers seeking water power can find it in abundance 
outside the blue line; and that it is not power 
alone that they seek. The slogan of every sports¬ 
man, angler and camper must be “Hands off the 
State Parks,” and they must not weary of shout¬ 
ing this rallying cry. 
The proposed automobile road along the Pali¬ 
sades is an illustration of the destructiveness 
that may be carried on under the name of im¬ 
provement. Not content with the excellent road 
now following the summit of the Palisades, the 
promoters of this new road desire to cut a wide, 
deep gash part way up these great cliffs and 
along their entire length and there to build a 
great boulevard. To construct such a road 
would be to seriously mar much of the natural 
beauty of these splendid cliffs. A few years ago 
there was a great outcry because the stone 
crushers were destroying the Palisades to secure 
material for paving streets, but to build such a 
road as this would injure these splendid cliffs 
more seriously than all the stone crushers that 
might work there for centuries. 
Such a road is to be built for the benefit of 
those who ride and drive, who might, it would 
seem, use the existing road from which the view 
is grand. 
Is it worth while to destroy a great natural 
monument like the Palisades—one of the great 
beauties of a great river—merely to make an¬ 
other automobile road? 
It is a part of the plan of the sportsmen who 
are members of the various casting clubs of the 
country to make friends in distant cities feel that 
they “are one of them,” annually at least. These 
clubs issue guest cards to their members, and 
when the names of the recipient and the member 
are written in, such card states that the holder 
is entitled to all the privileges of the club dur¬ 
ing a certain day or for the season. On the re¬ 
verse side there is a schedule of events and a 
few rules, while explicit directions aid the 
stranger in finding the grounds. One who ac¬ 
cepts the invitation is certain to entertain a very 
friendly interest ever afterward in the men who 
make it their duty, as it is their pleasure, to share 
their sport with fellow anglers. It is a spirit of 
good fellowship which is growing and which is 
altogether commendable. 
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