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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. ii, 1911. 
Sporting Powders 
At the Tenth Annual Sunny South Handicap 
Houston, Texas, January 23-28, 1911 
WOJV THESE HOJVO'RS 
THE SUNNY SOUTH HANDICAP 
tOon by 
James McLean of Augusta, Texas, with 94 ex 100 
THE HOUSTON POST TEAM TROPHY 
XOon by 
E. C. Crothers and Chas. H. Ditto—two Illinois Amateurs 
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A Classic for Sportsmen 
AMERICAN BIG GAME IN ITS HAUNTS 
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Edited by GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL 
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An invaluable work not alone for the sportsman, but for the student and lover 
of wild life. Treats of big game preservation and protection in the broader sense; 
tells of the habits, habitat and life history of the larger wild animals; touches upon 
the problem of the public forest domain, and is rounded out by interesting hunting 
reminiscences by such leaders in the fraternity of big-game hunters as Madison 
Grant, Paul J. Dashiell, George Bird Grinnell, Jas. H. Kidder and W. Lord Smith. 
Bound in cloth, library edition, heavy paper, richly illustrated, 497 pages. 
Postpaid, $2.50 
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house in Nairobi, where there is good society 
and plenty of diversion. The home estate is 
twelve miles away. We shall not tie up huge 
acreage for pleasure alone, but we shall carry 
on ostrich farming on an extensive scale. The 
big birds are to be found by the thousands in 
a wild state. The feathers compare favorably 
with those of South Africa, which has been 
farming for two generations.”—The Sun. 
BEAVERS IN COLORADO. 
Enos Mills, of Estes Park, Colorado’s self- 
taught naturalist, is an ardent champion of the 
beaver, and has written convincingly in proof 
of that’ animal’s benefit to the country as a con¬ 
servationist. From many years’ study of the 
beaver and his works Mr. Mills is convinced 
that a vast amount of good has been done by 
this industrious animal, whose dams have re¬ 
tarded the floods that otherwise would have 
swept down the mountain sides and denuded 
the slopes of soil and trees. 
The survival of the beaver is one of the in¬ 
teresting stories of the West. It was the 
beaver that lured the first trappers to the far 
West, and that resulted in the first real ex¬ 
ploitation and trail blazing in the land that was 
known vaguely as the “great American desert.” 
The beaver was hunted by roving bands of 
company men and free trappers for many years. 
Many great fortunes were built on a founda¬ 
tion of beaver pelts. The romance of the West 
centers about the beaver. Only for the cease¬ 
less search for that valuable animal the world 
would have known little of Carson, Bridger, 
Fitzpatrick, the Sublettes, Ashley and other 
heroes of the wilderness whose names will fig¬ 
ure long in Western history. 
In spite of the price that was put upon his 
head, the crafty beaver has managed to survive 
in encouraging numbers. In Colorado, where 
there is no open season, beaver colonies 
are increasing. Occasionally the beaver makes 
himself a local nuisance by flooding some 
ranchman’s hay meadows, but in general he is 
conducting himself as an upbuilder and not a 
destroyer.—Denver Republican. 
FINDING A ROCKY BOTTOM. 
On the coast of Peru there is a race of In¬ 
dians, most expert fishermen, who go to a con¬ 
siderable distance from the land on little fish¬ 
ing vessels composed simply of bundles of 
grass or bent tied together in cigar shape and 
about 10 feet long. The men sit astride on the 
bundles, paddle in hand and with their fishing- 
gear and provisions disposed about them. The 
fish are plentiful wherever there is a rocky 
bottom with abundance of seaweed, and the In¬ 
dians have a most remarkable way of dis¬ 
tinguishing such bottom, even at a depth of 50 
fathoms, from the sandy ground. The wooden 
paddle is placed upright in the water (when a 
supposed likely place is come to) with the butt 
end uppermost, and the ear is applied to this, 
or if the water is very deep, the teeth are placed 
in contact with the stock. A vibrating or rip¬ 
pling sound is clearly noted over rock, while 
a sandy or muddy bottom emits no noise. 
When the noise is heard these simple people 
say “llora la pena” (the rock is crying), cast 
their stone anchor and begin to fish. Alex¬ 
ander Mann, the author of Yachting on the 
Pacific, who spent the greater part of a life¬ 
time in Peru and Ecuador, and is himself, like 
most Scots, a keen fisherman, says that he often 
tested this by using a sounding-lead, and in¬ 
variably found rock at from 10 to 40 fathoms 
where the Indians said “the rock cried.”— 
British Sea Anglers’ Society’s Quarterly. 
LITTLE TO DO. 
How little the fish, says the Washington Post, 
have to do with the settling of fisheries dis¬ 
putes ! 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from any 
newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to supply you 
regularly. 
