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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Sept.' 18, 1909. 
In the Boston Mountains. 
Russellville, Ark., Sept. 6.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: The season for shooting deer and 
turkeys opened Sept. 1. On Aug. 31, accom¬ 
panied by a friend, we started on a deer hunt 
thirty miles north in the Ozark National Forest 
Reserve, known as the Boston Mountains. A 
party of hunters were to meet us at the place 
selected for the camp with the deerhounds. 
We arrived at the point designated late in the 
afternoon and found our friends in camp. 
There were twenty-three men in the company 
and perhaps more hounds. A part of the hun¬ 
ters after a late supper went on a fox hunt, but 
on account of the dry weather failed to find a 
fox. 
The next morning at daylight everyone was 
on the move, the hunters were placed on stands 
and the drivers went with the hounds to the 
head of a hollow to run out the deer. Only one 
that was found was seen, and it slipped by one 
of the stands safe. The afternoon was spent 
in shooting squirrels and turkeys, a number of 
which were killed, there being plenty of both 
in this section. 
Thursday, Sept. 2, we were more successful; 
a nice buck was bagged, also more turkeys and 
a number of squirrels. Had not the weather 
been so dry and a long drouth unbroken we 
would have killed a number of deer. 
The game in this section is more plentiful 
than for several years, I believe, on account of 
the protection afforded by the prevention of 
forest fires by the Government. The under¬ 
growth is a great protection to the game.' Quail 
are more plentiful this season than for a num¬ 
ber of years, and from all indications we will 
have some good shooting this fall. 
J. A. Clifton. 
To Breed Native Game. 
New Orleans, La., Sept. 11.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: The hunting season opens here 
next month, although it is probable hardly any 
game will be killed to amount to very much foi 
some time yet unless the weather turns cool. 
It still continues exceedingly warm with little 
prospects of any abatement until Oct. 15 or 20. 
Reports from game wardens and citizens are 
to the effect that there are more quail, blue wing 
1 eal ducks and wild geese in Louisiana than 
ever before known, and every indication points 
to an unprecedented season this fall and winter. 
All kinds of game are plentiful, including doves, 
1 abbits, squirrels, brant, turkeys, deer and fur 
animals. 
The commission has decided not to import 
deer, quail, pheasants, turkey and other birds 
and animals to this State. It is considered very 
hazardous and liable to spread disease. The 
commission will do its own breeding from 
native stock on its three big game preserves. 
It will also endeavor to obtain Queen Bess 
Island in Barataria Bay for the purpose of rais¬ 
ing diamond back terrapin. It is said a million 
eggs a year can be procured in this way. These 
terrapin are worth $75 a dozen and they are 
almost extinct in Louisiana. M. B. Hillyard 
has made an extended report on the subject 
to the commission. 
Attorney Amos L. Ponder, of the State Game 
Commission, has just returned from a speak¬ 
ing tour of many parishes in the State and he 
declares that the policies of the commission are 
being indorsed everywhere, and that the people 
understand the objects of the commission better 
now than formerly. In several parishes, where 
the opposition has been particularly bitter and 
strong, the various hunting clubs have invited 
him and President Frank M. Miller to make 
speeches. Mr. Ponder attributes this change in 
the sentiment of the people to the proposed 
legislative amendments suggested by the com¬ 
mission. The chief amendment relates to th<f 
dollar license tax to hunt. It is proposed now 
not to make the freeholder or farmer liable for 
this tax, but to confine the license to the pleas¬ 
ure hunter, the non-resident, the foreigner and 
the professional hunter; the revenue derived 
from the license fund to be placed to the credit 
of the good roads and public school funds. 
This policy is meeting -with enthusiastic ap¬ 
proval everywhere over Louisiana. 
F. G. G. 
Game in North Carolina. 
Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 11 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Two or three months ago I referred 
to the split between George Vanderbilt and Dr. 
Schenck, the head of his school of forestry, for 
a number of years conducted in Pisgah. The 
affairs of the school are now being wound up 
and the students, or most of them, go to Ger¬ 
many where the Emperor has put the Black 
Forest at the disposal of Dr. Schenck for pur¬ 
poses of study. This forest of course does not 
compare with that of Pisgah, the trees being far 
smaller and less varied in species. Dr. Schenck 
has secured through a congressman from one 
of the Tennessee Mountain districts the use of 
a very noble forest in that State at Lonsdale, 
but even this does not compare with Pisgah. 
He has also secured the use of a forest in Wis¬ 
consin. 
Dr. Schenck, acting on what he thought were 
positive instructions from Mr. Vanderbilt, made 
a ten-year lease of the fishing and shooting 
privileges in Pisgah Forest, every part of this 
having been stocked. When Mr. Vanderbilt ar¬ 
rived in New York he was notified of the lease 
to the club, composed mainly of Chicago men, 
and it is said released directly to the same or¬ 
ganization. Of course there are many restric¬ 
tions and the property will be very carefully 
preserved. 
Violations of the game law are being reported 
in the extreme west, and this week, in Clay 
county, Elijah Auberry was shot and instantly 
killed by his hunting companion, Robert Cook, 
who mistook him for a turkey. The hunting 
of turkeys is strictly forbidden in this State be¬ 
fore Nov. 1. Secretary Gilbert Pearson, of the 
State Audubon Society, has been in that western 
country some weeks looking after wardens and 
arranging for better protection. 
Though the past summer was very rainy, yet 
it was not marked by floods as in August, 1908, 
which destroyed so much game, and so there 
seems to be a very good crop of quail. I have 
seen many birds and heard that the supply is 
very good. A number of counties, but not the 
most important one, have been taken from the 
jurisdiction of the Audubon Society, but it is 
likely that the next Legislature will restore the 
status quo ante. Fred A. Olds. 
Hunting in California. 
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 4 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: Deer hunting in the vicinity of 
San Francisco is not very attractive at the ; 
present time, and even the members of the 
shooting clubs with large preserves are find- 1 
ing but little to encourage them. However, a 
few members are out trying their luck all the 
time, and an occasional deer is brought in. In 
the northern part of the State deer are very 
plentiful, and hunters returning from there state 
that there is absolutely no trouble in securing 
the limit within a short time. The visitors at 
the summer resorts in that section of the State 
have been having some very fine sport, and it 
is declared that the deer are making their ap¬ 
pearance into the open more than usual. 
D. F. L. Pratt and his wife have just let 
for an outing in Mendocino county, and expect 1 
to bring back some trophies of the chase. Mr. 
Pratt has quite a reputation as a rifle shot, and 
has killed several wild goats on Catalina Island. 
The McCloud River country, away from the 
sawmills, is proving to be a particularly fine 
hunting ground, and a number of San Francisco 
sportsmen are now there, this country being , 
now so easily reached. 
There is but little interest being taken by 
San Francisco sportsmen this season in dove 
shooting, for the reason that in the bay coun¬ 
ties there are but few of the birds to be found, 
and the low bag limit that has been named does - 
not pay them to venture far into the interior. 
I11 the San Joaquin Valley there is good sport 
to be had, and the same is the rule in the 
vicinity of Salinas and along the coast to the 
south. In Southern California there are plenty 
of birds, and sportsmen are getting better re¬ 
sults there than are the sportsmen in the north¬ 
ern section of the State. The next game birds 
to make their appearance will be ducks, and the 
coming of this fowl is being anxiously awaited 
by the sportsmen in the northern districts. I 
Some ducks have been seen already on San 
Francisco bay, and the indications are that when 
the season opens there will be plenty of them 1 
found here. A. P. B. 
The Pend d’Oreille River. 
North Yakima, Wash., Sept. 4. —Editor 
Forest and Stream: Box Canon, on the Pend 
d'Oreille River, Stevens county, Washington, is 
one of the best places for fishing and hunting 
to be found, while the scenery is grand. The 
canon is about one-half mile in length and 
abounds with trout, both mountain and salmon 
varieties, and the hills are full of deer, caribou 
and bear, both the brown and the silver-tip or 
bald-face, as they are called in this locality 
The river, being the western boundary of the 
Kanishu Forest Reserve, gives th? camper and 
tourist an opportunity to see nature in one of 
her grandest poses. 
Just a word as to the peculiar traits of the 
currents to be found in the canon. There art 
under-currents that will take an oar out of '<■ 
man’s hand without a warning and whirlpool: 
that will take trees and logs eighteen to twent; 
feet in length out of sight and keep them unde 
water for half an hour and then send them u; 
in a large boil that will shoot them many fee 
out of the water. V. H. DeRemo. 
