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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1908)
tCopyrlKht, W8S, by O. I'. Putnam' Hop.. l'ubllatietj under nrranKement with i. J l"uuiam'i Bonn, New Vork and London. J T.I. kinds of huntlnir on I horseback u II il most I hunting oti horseback Is I .1 t'ltlt hi 1u .n.l to bring out the best nud manliest qualities lu the men ho follow the in. and they should be encouraged In every way. Ing after t lie reflemao. as well on the game be bunts, ahull have vanished from the plains, tbe cattle country will afford fine sport In coursing liareir, and both wolvcii and deer could lie followed and killed with parks of properly-trained bounds, ajid such aport would be even more excit ing than stlll-buntlng with tbe rifle. It Is on tbe great plains lying west of tbe Missouri that riding to bounds will !n the end receive Its fullest develop ment as a national pastime. But at present It Is almost unknown In the cattle country; and the ranch nan who loves sport must try stlll 'luntlng and by stlll-buntlng Is meant pretty much every kind of chase where :t single man, unaided by a dog, and almost always on foot, outgenerals a leer and kills It with the rifle. To do 'his successfully, unless deer are very plenty and tame. Implies a certain knowledge of tbe country, and a good knowledge of tbe habits of tbe game. Tbe hunter must keep a sharp look-out for deer sign; for, though a man soon ,rets to have a general knowledge of SCHOO and supplies at CLEM E N S TIIEE8 ! TREES ! BUY YOUR "Old Reliable Albany Nurseries" and you are sure of getting just what you order. We grow our trees for quality not cheap prices. GEO. H. PARKER, - Agent Office with J. E. PETERSON V good school none butter. WYU established reputation. Successful graduates Siillful painstaking teachers. Living eipeusee low. Many other advantages. et as tell you about thmu. Write for ooUlogoe. SALEM, OREGON Oregon,, Builders Are you doing what you can to pop ulate your State? OUKCiOX M:1IS l'l'.ori.i:- S.ttl.'is, lioncst farnifn.rs, eohaiihw, incrthaiiui, clciks people v Itli bruins, Mimg bauds una willing heart - capital or no capital. .Southern Pacific Co. (LINKS IN ORfcGON) is Fending tons of Oregon literature to the Fast fur distribution through everv available agency. Will you not help the good work of building Oregon by vending us the naines and addresses of vour friends vtlioate likely to be interested in this state? We will be glad to bear the expense ol sending them complete iniforuiution Unit OKltiON and its opportunities. Colonial Tickets will be on sale during SKITKMRVK slid IKTOHHl lioni the l ast to all jvints in Oregon. The fun s from a few principal cities are From Denver. ...$."0.00 " Omaha. ... :0.00 " KansnsCity30.00 " St. Louis.. SS.r.O " Chicago ... 38.00 Tickets can Be Prepaid. If you want to bring a fiiciul or il lative to tiirgoii, deposit the proper nnioiinl with snv ol our splits. Tin', .ikit will tl.rn lo furnished by telegraph. " III. K. MOMCIIMHIY, l.o.al Agent MM. Meal I' It It A V, Central Ts-ni.r iMn. n'.tx.d. it HUNTING DEER ON HORSEBACK BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT the kind of places In which deer are likely to be, yet be will also find tbat they are either very capricious, or else tbat no man has more than a partial understanding of their tastes and lik ings; for many spots apparently just suited to them will be almost uninhab ited, while In others they will be found where It would hardly occur to any one to suspect their presence. Any cause may temporarily drive deer out of a given locality. Stlll-buntlng. es pecially, Is sure to send many away, while rendering the others extremely wild and shy, and where deer have be come used to being pursued In only one way, It Is often an excellent plan to try some entirely different method. A certain knowledge of how to track deer Is very useful. To become a really skillful tracker Is most difficult: and there are some kinds of ground, where, for Instance. It Is very hard and dry. or frozen solid, oo which almost any man will be at fault. But any one with a little prnctlce can learn to do a cer tain amount of tracking. On snow, of course. It Is very easy; but on the other hand It Is also peculiarly difficult to avoid lielng seen by the deer when the ground Is white. After deer have been frightened once or twice, or have even merely been disturbed by man. they get tbe halilt of keeping a watch back on their trail: and when biiow has fall en, a man Is such a conspicuous object deer sco him a long way off, and even the tamest become wild. A deer will often. Iiefore lying down, take a half TREES FROM W. I. STALEY, Principal From I.ouisvillo $11.70 Cincinnati -12.20 Cleveland Now York 41.75 55.00 BOOMS ROGUE RIVER COURIER. GRANTS PASS, OREGON, SEPTEMBER circle back to one aide and make Its bed a few yards from Its trail, where It can. Itself unseen, waten any person tracing; It up. A man tracking In snow need to pay very little beed to the footprints, which can be followed wltn out effort, but requires to keep up the closest scrutiny over the ground ahead of htm. and on either side of the trail. In the early morning when there Is a heavy dew the footprints will be as The bullet had broken the backs of both. plain as possible In the gruss. and can then be followed readily: and In any place where the ground Is at all damp they will usually be plain enough to be mude out without difficulty. Y hen the ground Is hard or dry the work Is very much less easy, and soon becomes bo difficult as not to be worth while following up. Indeed, at all times, even In the snow, tracks are chiefly of uso to show the probable locality la which a deer may be found; and the still- hunter Instead of laboriously walking along a trail will do far better to mere ly follow It until, from Its freshness and direction, he feela confident that the deer Is In some particular apace of ground, and then hunt through It, guld Ing himself by bis knowledge of the deer's habits and by tbe character of the land. Tracks are of most use In showing whether deer are plenty or scarce, whether they have been In tbe place recently or not. Generally, signs of deer are Infinitely more plentiful than the animals themselves although In regions where tracking Is especially difficult deer are often jumped with oat any sign having been seen at all. Although still hunting on Toot Is on tbe whole the best way to get deer, yet there are uiauy places where from the nature of the land the sport can be followed quite as well on horseback, than which there Is no more pleasant kind of bunting. The best shot I ever made In my life a shot Into which however, I am afraid the element of chance entered much more largely than the element of skill was made while hunting black-tall on horseback. Wc were at that time making quite a long trip with the wagon, and were going up tbe fork of a plains river In Western Montana. As we were out of food, those two of our number who usually undertook to keep the camp supplied with game determined to make a hunt off back of the river after black tall; for though there were some white-tall In the more densely timbered river bottoms, we had been unable to get any. It was arranged that the wagon should go on n few mils, and then halt for the night, as It was al ready the middle of the afternoon wheu we started out The country resembled lu character other parts of the cattle plains, but It was absolutely bare of trees except along the tied of the river. The rolling blls sloped steeply off Into long valleys and deep ravines. They were sparsely covered with course grass, and also with an irregular growth of tall sage-brush, which in some places gathered lute dense thickets. A beginner would have thought the country entirely too barren of cover to hold deer, but a very little experience teaches one that deer will le found In thickets of such short nud sparse growth that It seems as If they could hide nothing; and, what Is more, that tliey will often skulk round In such thickets without liolng discovered. And a black tall Is a bold, five animal, HUng to go out In comparatively oieii country', where he must ti list to his own powers, and tint to Hiiy concealment, to protect hltn from danger. Where the hilly country Joined the alluvial river IxUtom, It broke off short Into steep bluffs, up which none but a Western pony could have cllmlied. It Is really wonderful to see what places a pony cau get over, and the lndift'cr euoe with which It n s tumbles, lu getting up from the Uttom we went Into a washout, and then led our po nies along a clay ledge, from which we turned ott and went straight up a very steep sandy ku'.T. My eouipanlou was ahead. Just as he turned off the ledge, I ami as 1 was right underneath him. his horse. I;i plur.g.ug to try to get up the sand bluff, ocrlalaiuvd Itself, and, aft-M- sianduu- erect on Its hind legs for a siv.miiI. came over backward. The mv.'!is pause while it s:,m,1 bo;t np. right, gave tno time to make a frantic leap .vit of the way with my pony. w!ii, h seramhled ailcr me. nud we Is-'.u v'.w g witU bands and hoofs to :.. side of tbe bank, while the other horse took two as complete somersaults as I ever saw, and landed with a crash at the bottom of the wash-out. feet upper most I thought It was done for, but not a bit After a moment or two It struggled to Its legs, shook itself, and looked round In rather a sbame-faced wuv. apparently not In the least the worse for the fall. We now got my pony up to the top by vigorous pulling, and then went down for the other, which at first strougly objected to making another trial, but. after much coaxing and a good deal of abuse, took a start and went up without trouble. For some time after reaching the top of the bluffs we rode along without seeing anything. When It was possi ble, we kept one on each side of a creek, avoiding the tops of the ridges, because while on them a horseman can be seen at a very long distance, and going with particular caution when ever we went round a spur or came up over a crest. The country stretched away like an endless, billowy sea of dull-brown soil and barren sage-brush, the valleys making long parallel fur rows, and every thing having a look of dreary sameness. At length, as we came out on a rounded ridge, three black-tall bucks started up from a lot of sage-brush some two hundred yards away and be low us. and made off down hill. It was a very long shot especially to try running, bus, as game seemed scarce and cartridges were plenty, I leaped off the horse, and. kneeling, fired. Tbe bullet went low, striking In line at the feet of the hindmost I was very high next time, making a wild shot above and ahead of them, which bad the ef fect of turning them, and they went off round a shoulder of a bluff, bebig by this time down In too valley. Hav ing plenty of time I elevated the sights (a thing I hardly ever do) to four hun dred yards and waited for their re ippearance. Meanwhile they had si lently gotten over their fright, for pretty soon one walked out from the other side of the bluff, and came to a standstill, broadside toward me. He was too far off for me to see bis boms. As I was raising tbe rifle another step ped out and began to walk towards tbe first. I thought I might as well have as much of a target as possible to shoot at and waited for the second buck to come out farther, which be did Im mediately and stood still just along side of the first I aimed above his shoulders and pulled the trigger. Over went the two bucks! And when I rushed down to where tbey lay I found I had pulled a little to one side, and the bullet bad broken the back of both. While my companion was dress ing them I went back and paced off tbe distance. It was just four hundred and thirty-one long paces; over four hundred yards. Both were large bucks and very fat, with the velvet hanging In shreds from tbelr antlers, for It was late In August. Tbe day was waning and we had a long ride back to the wagon, each with a buck behind bis saddle. When we came back to the river valley It was pitch dark, and It was rather ticklish work for our heav ily laden horses to pick their way down tbe steep bluffs and over the rapid stream; nor were we sorry when we saw ahead under a bluff the gleam of the camp fire, as It was reflected back from the canvas-topped prairie srSoon Hi U-gt luirtily no much oi tu-itched. er. that fur the time being represented heme to us. This was much the best shot I ever made; and it Is lust such a ah.it ny one will occasionally make If he takes a go.nl many chances and fires often at ninees where the odds are greatly against his hitting. I suppose had fired a dozen times at animals four or five hundred yards off, and now. by the doctrine of chances, I hap pened to hit; but 1 would hove been very foolish if i naJ thought for a moment that I had learned how to hit at over four hundred yards. I have yet to see the hunter who can hit with nny regularity nt tbat distance, when be tias to Judge it for himself; though 1 have seen plenty who could make such a long range hit now and then. And I have noticed that such a hunter. In t.ilkiug over his experi cn,v, was certaiu soon to forgot tbe numerous tuUscs Le nude, and to say, 25, 1908. and even to actually think, that his oc oaslonal bits represented bis average shooting. One of the finest black-tall bucks I ever shot was killed by lying out In a rather unusual place. I was bunting mountain-sheep. In a stretch of very high nud broken country, and about mid-day. crept cautiously up to tbe edge of a great gorge, whose sheer walls went straight down several hun dred feet. Peeping over the brink of the chasm I saw a buck, lying out on a ledge so narrow as to barely hold him. right on the face of the cliff wall opposite, some distance below, and about seventy yards diagonally across from me. He lay with his legs half stretched out, and his head turned so as to give me an exact center-shot at his forehead; the bullet going In be tween his eyes, so that bis legs hardly so much as twitched when he received It. It was toilsome and almost dan gerous work climbing out to where be lay; I have never known any other Individual, even of this bold and ad venturous species of deer, to take Its noonday siesta In a place so barren of all cover and so difficult of access even to the most sure-footed climber. 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The Alameda Mining Company jg boildng a wagon bridge across Rom Kiver and are resiling tha work as rapidly as possible in order to be able to haul their smelter material which will arrive in the near future The "Seve-Thirty" mine at Galice has begun work on a 200-foot shaft The Gitmao Bed Rock Miniug Co put their bed rock machine ia tne river for the first time ob Thursday, the 17th a8 p. ni. and from all indj'. cations it is a successful enterprise F. L. Gilmsn was in Grants lm early in tho week after the necessary machinery to enable actual oferatiom to begio. 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