FOREST AND STREAM. 







i New York Deer Season. 
Jtica, N. Y., Sept. 15.—Editor Forest and 
yeam: Sportsmen who are fond of shooting 
ive long been looking forward with pleasurable 
j2cipation to the days when the game laws of 
|W York State would permit them to take to 
woods and fields with their rifles and shot- 
is and indulge in their favorite pastime. Those 
ys are now at hand as the cpen season for 
PT, partridges. woodcock, ducks, snipe, squir- 
js and other small game began with the 16th 
September. According to reports from re- 
ile sources there are many deer in the Adiron- 
Is at present and they are in fine condition. 
st winter was a very favorable one for them, 
| there was not a great deal of snow on the 
‘sund and they were able to roam around at 
Jasure and obtain plenty of nutritious food. 
far as can be learned there has been no sick- 
Hs among the deer this year and they have 
lived and grown fat. It is reasonable to sup- 
‘se, however, that there are deer enough in 
Adirondacks to make fairly good hunting, 
“1 hundreds of sportsmen made it a point to 
"in the woods for the opening of the season 
order to obtain an early chance at the game. 
‘ doubt many other hunters will postpone their 
‘9s until the latter part of October in the hope 
't there may be a fall of snow by that time 
Nich will enable them to follow the tracks of 
1 deer with greater ease and certainty. 
iC here is considerable speculation as to how 
i amended law in relation to deer shooting 
jl operate and as to what its probable effects 
jl be. For a number of years prior to 1906 
hunting season began Sept. I and closed Novy. 
( and to careful observers it seemed apparent 
4t if the law were properly enforced the pro- 
jtion afforded the deer during the nine and 
}:-half months of the closed period would have 
|iiced to insure a reasonable rate of increase. 
other words the natural. increase annually 
uld more than counterbalance the drain dur- 
‘the hunting season. As a matter of fact ex- 
sienced hunters express the opinion that there 
been more deer in the Adirondacks during 
last two or three years. than there were a 
firter of a century ago, and if this is true it 
uld seem to be a strong argument in support 
the theory that the former closed season was 
“ly adequate to meet all requirements. The 
zislature of 1906, however, eliminated the 
Jire month of September and this action met 
h the approval of the majority of sportsmen, 
it not only afforded the deer additional pro- 
Htion, but it did this without materially inter 
ing with the pleasure of the hunters ee ae 
perience, who prefer to do their shooting when 
leaves are off and when there is also a “chance 
there being snow on the ground. With the 
sent hunting season, limited to the last half 
{September and the month of October, practi- 
y all of the shooting will necessarily have to 
{done while the leaves are still on the trees and 
lergrowth, as they usually are not off until 
v. I or thereabout. In view of this fact it 
feared by some who have given thought to 
1 subject that there may be an increase in the 
'nber of hunting casualties this year. Of 
#trse after the leaves have fallen it is possible 
“ a person to see further and more distinctly 
he woods than when the foliage remains prac- 
lly intact, and therefore there is less likeli- 
lid that the careless hunter will mistake a man 
i) a deer. If hunters -will exercise a reasonable 
ree of caution, however, and not shoot at 
itobject unless they know positively that it is 
a himan being, the number of hunting acci- 
its will be comparatively small. 
n addition to changing the dates 
® close season the Legislature of 1907 further 
jended the law by inserting a provision that 
>» wild deer shall be taken while in water.” 
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This is a point that all hunters should have 
firmly impressed on their minds when they go 
into the woods in quest of deer. There is an- 
other point, also, which hunters should ,not for- 
get, and that is the clause which was placed in 
the law a year or two ago making it illegal to 
kill deer between sunset and sunrise. 
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North Carolina Quail. 
GREENSBORO, N. C., Sept. 21.—Editor Forest 
and Stream: The supply of quail in North 
Carolina this fall is undoubtedly greater than 
for many years past. These are the reports from 
all parts of the State. The unusual abundance 
of birds must be due in a large part to the very 
favorable summer season just past. The in- 
creasing number of game preserves of the State 

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Map of-Nisutlin River, Quiet Lake and Surrounding 
Country, which is one of the greatest Moose and 
Caribou Districts to be Found. 
also has the effect of keeping the surrounding 
country. well stocked. .The work of the State 
Audubon Society in suppressing the heretofore 
enormous traffic in quail to Northern markets 
and preventing much of the illegal shooting be- 
fore the season opens is also bearing fruit. 
What it is possible to accomplish in the line 
of stocking a territory by preserving the birds 
is well illustrated on the shooting territory leased 
by Mr. George Gould near High Point. The 
superintendent of this preserve, Mr. John Arm- 
strong, tells me that he recently went afield for 
the purpose. of ascertaining the relative abund- 
ance of the quail, and that in one day he found 
forty-two different coveys. “The man who likes 
to shoot the Bob White can certainly find an 
abundance’ of excellent» sport in North Caro- 
lina the coming season. 
The State Audubon Society has recently issued 
an edition of 10,000 copies of: the State game 
laws in pamphlet form. These are for free dis- 
tribution and may be had upon application to 
the office of the State Audubon Society, Greens- 
boro, N. C. T. Gripert PEARSON, Sec’y. 

Yukon Hunting Grounds. 
OTTAWA, Ont., Sept. 7.—Editor Forest and 
Strcam: We had just arrived at Teslin Lake 
when I received an invitation to go up the Nisut- 
lin River, which flows into the lake from the 
east or Rocky Mountain side, and almost at the 
boundary line between British Columbia and 
Yukon Territory. 
The main body of Teslin Lake is sixty miles 
long, mountain encircled, and almost  siraight, 
being from two to five miles wide It is one 
of the most beautiful of all northern lakes. Its 
cold deep waters teem with big dark colored 
Its shores 
game, and larger varieties 
such as moose, caribou and bear. Myriads of 
waterfowl congregate here for. the southern flight 
in autumn. 
While in Nisutlin Bay, a five-mile stretch of 
water at the mouth of the river, we met the 
craziest craft that ever navigated a swift stream; 
arctic trout, red fleshed and delicious. 
abound with feathered 
a square rough scow built of whipsawn boards 
and slabs, containing five men and plenty of 
moose meat. These men had gone over the 
Cassiar trail the previous winter, had swung 
northward to what they thought was the head 
waters of the Big Salmon River, and on the 
breaking up of the ice had sawn lumber and 
built this craft, with which they floated down 
the Nisutlin. With cheerful confidence they had 
taken little supplies with them, and for the last 
two months had lived wholly on moose meat. 
At the mouth of the river there is a wide 
marshy delta in which moose abound during the 
hot season. On the banks of the stream we 
passed innumerable paths and tracks of large 
game, but we made so much noise in rowing, 
tracking and poling up ‘the current that a sight 
of wild animals was not expected. 
Until that spring this region had not likely 
been visited by white men for decades, and as 
few Indians came this way, game was abundant. 
Several parties looking for the Big Salmon strike 
had preceded us, and they had no difficulty in 
bagging moose and caribou. There was a party 
of Dutch sailors who could not speak English, 
and a party direct from Lancashire,’ England, 
who never had been in the wilds before. When 
a cOw moose strayed into their camp they took 
her for somebody’s mule, although no one lived 
within a hundred miles. As they had only a 
small revolver, her life was safe. It was not 
surprising that we met them rafting along Quiet 
Lake two days later with nothing to eat except 
the abundant raspberries. But a kind Providence 
protects her innocents. 
We passed the Dagget party, which 
ped a bull moose on a gravel bar, and whose 
camp was red with his blood and meat. It was 
a pleasurable state of excitement toiling up the 
river, anticipating the sight of big game at every 
bend or vista 
On the third day we camped early to allow 
Mr. Carry, the chief, to ascend a hill and map 
out the river and valley. While engaged in that 
work he happened to glance to his rear. Near 
the river was one of numerous little ponds, and 
in the pond, eating his fill of the lily roots, was 
a_monster bull moose. The distance was about 
500 yards. Mr. Carry was a dead shot with a 
.45 caliber revolver, which he held with’ both 
had stop- 
hands. Completing his map he déscended the 
hill and stalked to the last cover, sixty-seven 
paces from his. quarry, which stood- broadside 
to him. When his revolver spoke out the animal 
sprang around facing the firing point, stood a 
moment.and then’ toppled over, as a second bullet 
flew through the air where he had stood. ' The 
first one cut the main artery within two’ itches 
of his heart. Mr. Carry’s whoops brought us 
to the spot, and it reanired the united strength 
of four men to drag the moose to the edge of 
the pond. We spent the afternoon in cutting 

