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are four, each one of which takes a 115-grain 
bullet of either lead or jacketed lead; one .38 
caliber cartridge takes a 115-grain bullet; three 
.25 caliber cartridges and two .30-caliber car¬ 
tridges take 117-grain bullets; and a large num¬ 
ber of adjustable moulds are made, with each 
one of which bullets weighing around 115 grains 
are frequently cast and shot. No expert can 
say that a bullet that has been fired and re¬ 
covered, and is found to weigh 115 grains, 
weighed that much when new. 
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The movement to conserve our natural re¬ 
sources is topheavy with promoters, each one of 
whom claims to be the pioneer, the original dis¬ 
coverer of the idea. For political purposes this 
may serve, but in the interest of truth it would 
be only fair for some of the leaders to admit 
that they got their cue from Forest and Stream, 
which has been hammering at this necessity ever 
since the year of its existence. There being an 
abundance of conservation leaders in this coun¬ 
try, I would suggest a new field for a few of 
them. It is New Zealand. 
A British firm of rodmakers advertises in 
large type in one of its home papers a letter it 
alleges that it received from an Auckland cus¬ 
tomer. This man claims that in one season he 
caught 1,591 rainbow and brown trout on one 
rod; that their total weight was 9,487 pounds; 
his best single day’s catch being thirty rainbow 
trout weighing 273 pounds, his best trout an 18- 
pounder. He proudly sent a photograph of this 
catch, himself and his rod. The rod, of course, 
was made by the advertisers, but the man him¬ 
self was so modest that he did not wish to have 
his full name printed. I wonder if he was 
equally modest in disposing of thirty nine-pound 
trout. Grizzly King. 
Animal Treasures from the Arctic. 
Among the spoils of the chase brought back 
from the North by Paul Rainey and Harry Whit¬ 
ney on the Beothic is probably the most valuable 
and interesting collection of living animals that 
have ever come from the Arctic to the United 
States. The list includes six muskox calves of 
this year, two young walruses, one of which has 
since died, two polar bears and one blue fox. 
The muskox calves, the bears, the fox and one 
walrus are all in good health. 
All these animals have been presented to the 
New York Zoological Society, and all of them 
are now in the Zoological Park in the Bronx. 
The larger of the two polar bears has been 
hard to handle since he reached New York, and 
his battle with the Zoological Society keepers, 
who were trying to transfer him, has furnished 
many columns of exciting incident for the news¬ 
papers. He is extremely large—1,200 pounds the 
papers say—possibly he may weigh 800. His 
capture represents a very daring feat. 
The bear was first seen on the ice, accord¬ 
ing to accounts, but left the ice and was swim¬ 
ming in the water when the boat, containing the 
sportsmen, approached him. They had planned 
to shoot him, but when they got near to him, one 
of them threw a rope over his head, and he came 
very near climbing into the boat. His claw 
marks appear on it from stem to rudder. By 
great exertion they managed to keep in the 
water and towed him through the broken ice to 
the ship, though he pulled back and fought hard. 
When the ship was reached, after a mile of tow¬ 
ing, the bear was hoisted up by the steam winch, 
dropped into a compartment between decks and 
the hatch clapped on. Here they left him for 
three days without food, and then lowered into 
the compartment a cage containing a bait, and 
when the bear rushed in for food and water, 
they lowered the door of the cage and had him 
fast. He has spent most of his time trying to 
gnaw out, and in two places he chewed through 
the side of the cage. Plenty of lumber and 
spikes were needed to stop these holes. 
The cage of lumber had been weakened in 
many other places, and last Friday, when prepa¬ 
rations were made to transfer the animals from 
the Beothic to the Zoological Park, the big bear 
made renewed efforts to get out. So furious and 
so tireless was he, that, according to the news¬ 
papers, he made in the cage several holes through 
which he could get his head or his paws. Finally, 
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A tree-climbing woodchuck. 
the bear was chloroformed, and after it had be¬ 
come unconscious, was transferred to its new 
home. Both these polar bears are very savage 
and can neither be put in with any of the other 
bears nor put together. For the big male a 
special temporary cage is being built near the 
polar bear den, a cage small enough to be cleaned 
from without, for it will be a long time before 
any keepers will gain enough confidence in this 
big bear to be willing to enter his cage. The 
female bear will be temporarily housed in one 
of the outside cages at the lion house. 
For some time plans have been ready for the 
building of ten new bear dens, which it was 
hoped might have been constructed last year. 
This was not done, but the contract for them 
will be let now before very long. 
The rearing of the little walrus presents a 
more or less difficult problem. This is not the 
first one the Zoological Society has had, but 
seems to be in much better health than the one 
owned before which lived only a short time. 
Carl Hagenbeck, the famous animal man of 
Hamburg, who has raised some walruses, is 
understood to have given Director Plornaday 
some suggestions about the upbringing of these 
animals which will now be useful. 
Director Hornaday regards this gift to the 
park as the most important ever received from 
private sources. Polar bears of large size are 
scarce and costly. The value, of the six young 
muskoxen cannot be estimated. The society now 
has seven muskoxen in captivity, a record-break¬ 
ing herd, with all the possibilities of increase' to 
come from the possession of a number. Wal¬ 
ruses in captivity of course are very few, and 
it may be conjectured are easily worth two or 
three times the cost of a polar bear. The New 
York Zoological Society's collection of bears was 
already perhaps the finest in the world, and to 
have had it added to by these great polar bears 
must be gratifying to everyone connected with 
the society. 
A Woodchuck in a Tree. 
Annapolis Royal, N. S., Sept. 5.— Editor 
Forest and Stream: My friend, Rev. E. A. 
Chase, of Wollaston, Mass., made the inclosed 
snap of an “unknown animal” in a tree, about 
ten, feet from the ground, in swampy land near 
the lake of Frozen Ocean, this county. The 
guides all had a look at it and shook their 
heads mysteriously. Many were the speculations. 
“Porcupine that’s lost his quills,” said one. 
“More like a cub,” ventured another. “Might be 
a ringless ’coon,” put in the camp wag. Of 
course Mr. Chase, as a New England boy, spot¬ 
ted the what-is-it for a woodchuck, but its tree- 
