ROGUE RIVER COURIER, GRANTS PAS3, OREGON, OCTOBER 23, 1908.
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II C lilack tull's great curl
OBliy Is ouo of tlio (IIhuiI
vn ii ta inn under which It
In ltr. in tltt tierce Htrtitf
nee, coin-
hlte-tuil.
The hitter, when atitr-
tled, iloeH not often toi to look round:
but the former will KiMiernlly do so.
The 11 rut bliick-tull I ever killed
wax obtained owlii Holcly to this h
cullarlty. I hud been rlillns up ulong
the side of a branny coiillo, when a flue
buck started out some thirty yards
abend. Although so close, my first
shut, a running one, was a ruins: when
a couple of hundred yards off, on the
very crest of the spur up which be bad
run, he stopped und turned partially
round. Firing agnlu from a rest, the
bullet broke bis bind leg far up and
went Into bis body. Off be went on
three lefts, and I after bliu as fust as
the horoe could Kullop. He went over
the spur and down Into the valley of
the creek from which tho coulle
branched up. In very bud ground.
lly pony was neither Cant nor sure
footed, but of course In half a mile
lit (topped and turned,
overhauled the three legged deer,
which turned short off and over the
side of tho bill flanking the valley.
Instead of running right up on It 1
foolishly dismounted and began tiring;
after the first shot a miss It got be
hind a boulder hitherto unseen, and
thence over the crest The pony
meanwhile had slipped Its bind leg
Into the rein; when, after some time.
I got It out and gnlloped up to the
ridge, the most careful scrutiny of
which tuy practised eyes were capa
ble failed to discover a track on the
dry ground, hard as granite. A day
or two afterward the place where the
carcass lay wus made known by the
vultures, gnthered together from all
parts to feed upon It.
When fired at from a place of bid
ing, deer which have not been accus
tomed to the report of a gun will often
appear confused and uncertain what to
do. Ou one occasion, while hunting
In the mountains, 1 saw an old buck
with remarkably large horns, of curi
ous and beautiful shape, more sym
metrical than in most Instances where
the normal form la departed from.
The deer was feedlug In a wide, gently
sloping valley, containing no cover
from behind which to approach blm.
We were In no need of tuout, but the
antlers were so flue that I felt they
jUMtllled the death of their bearer.
After a little patient waiting, tho buck
walked out of the valley, aud over
the ridge ou the other side, moving up
wind; I raced after ulm, aud crept up
behind a thick growth of stunted ce
dars, which had started up from
mnng some boulders. The deer wss
bout a hundred yards off. down In
the volley. Out of breath, and over
confident, flrrd hastily, overshooting
him, The wind blew the smoke back
way from the ridge, so that bo saw
nothing, while the echo prevented hU
placing the sound. He took couple
of Jumps nearer, when he stood still
and was again overshot. Again he
took few Jumps, and the third shot
weut below him; and the fourth Just
behlud htm. This was too much, and
away he went. In despair 1 knelt
down tl had been flrlug offuaudl.
took a steady aim well forward on his
body, and tired, bringing him down, j
but with small credit to the shot, for !
the bullt hud gone Into his hip, para
lysing bis hlud-iiuarters. The autlera ,
re the finest pair I ever gut, aud form
magnificent ornament for the hall:
but tlie shooting is IninllT to be re
called with plciimuv. Still, though
certainly very bad, It was not quite as
uiaU'euitnuie u ise mere target' suot
would think. I bare seen many a
crack marksman tt the target do quite
as bad missing when out In the field,
and that not once, but again and again.
I have never made big bags myself,
for I rarely hunt except for a fine beud
or when we need meat, and if It can be
voided do not shoot at fawns or does:
so the greatest number I have ever
killed In a day was three. This was
late one November, on an occasion
when our larder was running low. My
foreman and I, upon discovering this
fact, determined to make a trip next
day back In the broken country, away
from the river.
We breakfasted hours before sunrise,
and then mounted our horses and rode
up the river bottom. The bright prairie
moon was at the full, and was sunk In
the west till It bung like a globe of
white fire over the long row of Jagged
bluffs that rose from across the river,
while Its beams brought into fantustlc
relief the peaks and crests of the buttes
upon our left The valley of the river
Itself was In partial darkness, and the
stiff, twisted branches of the sage
brush seemed to take on uncanny
shaie as they stood In the hollows.
The cold was stinging, and we let our
willing horses gallop with loose reins,
their hoofs ringing on the frozen
ground. After going up a mile or two
long tho course of the river we turned
off to follow the bed Of a large dry
creek. At Its mouth was a great space
of ground much cut up by the hoofs of
the cattle, which was In summer over
flowed and almost a morass; but now
the frost-bound earth was like wrin
kled Iron beneath the horses' feet. Bo
bind us the westerning moon sank
down out of sight; and with no light
but that of the stars, we let our horses
thread their own way up the creek bot
tom. When we had gone couple of
miles from the river the sky In front
of our faces took on a faint grayish
tinge, the forerunner of dawn. All In
the valley was yet dark when we
reached the place where the creek be
gan to split up and branch out Into the
various arms and ravines from which
It headed. We galloped smartly over
the divide Into a set of coulles and
valleys which ran Into a different
creek, and selected grassy place
where there was good feed to leave the
horses. My compaulon picketed his:
Manltou needed no picketing.
The tops of the hills were growing
rosy, but the sun was not yet above
the horizon when we started off, with
our rifles on our shoulders, walking
It) cautious silence, for we were lu
good ground and might at any mo
ment see a deer. Above us was a
plateau of some size, breaking off
sharply at the rim iuto a surrouudlng
stretch of very rough and rugged coun
try. It sent off low spun with notch
ed crests Into the valleys round about
and Its edges were Indented with steep
ravines and half circular basins, tbelr
sides covered with clusters of gnarled
and wind-beaten cedars, often gathered
Into groves of some size. The ground
was so broken as to give excellent
cover under which a man could ap
proach game unseen.
At last. Just as the sun had risen,
we came out by the mouth of a deep
ravine or hollow cut lu the flank of
the plntean, with steep, cediir-clud
sides; and on the crest of a Jutting
spur net more than thirty yards from
where I stood, was a black-tall doe,
half facing me. I waa in the shadow.
and for a moment she could not make
me out, aud stood motionless with her
head turned toward me and her great
ears thrown forward. Dropping ou
my knee, I held the rltle a little back
of her shoulder too far back, as It
proved, ss she stood quartering and
not broadside to me. No fairer chance
could ever fall to the lot of a hunter;
but to my Intense chagrin, she bound
ed off at the report as If unhurt
disappearing Instantly. My compan
ion had now come up, and we ran up
a rise of ground, and crouched down
beside a great block of sandstone. In a
position from which we overlooked the
whole ravine or hollow. After some
minutes of quiet watchfulness, we
heard a twig snap the air was so still
we could hear anything some rods
up the ravine, Imt below us; and Im
mediately afterward a buck stole out
of the cedars. Both of us flred at
once, aud with a convulsive spring he
rolled over backwnrd, one bullet hav
lin: gone through his nock, and the
other-probably mine-having broken
a bind leg. Immediately afterward,
another buck broke from the upper
chIko of the cover, near the top of the
plateau, and, though I took hurried
hot at him, bouuded over the crest,
and was lost to sight
We now determined to go down Into
the ravine and look for the doe, and as
there was a pxxl deal of snow In the
bottom and under the trees, we knew
we could soon tell If she were wound
ed. Afler a little search we found her
track, and walking along It a few
yards, ciiuie upon some drops aud then
a splash of bio.! There tMng no
n. ill to hurry, we first dressed the
dead buck a fine, fat fellow, but with
small misshapen horus-aud then took
up the rrniTor tne wounnel ooe rrcre.
however, I again committed an error,
and paid too much heed to the trull
and too little to the country round
about: and while following It with my
eyes down on the groind In a placs
there It was faint the doe got op
lome distance ahead and to one side
it me, and bounded off round a corner
f the ravine. The bed where she bad
lain was not very bloody, but from
the fact of her having stopped so soon.
I was sure she was badly wounded.
However, after she got out of the snow
the ground was as hard as flint, and
If was impossible to track her; the val
ley soon took a turn, and branched
Into a tangle of coulles and ravines. I
deemed it probable that she would not
go up bill, but would run down the
course of the main valley; but as It
was so uncertain, we thought It would
pay us best to look for a new deer.
Our luck, however, seemed very de-sorvedly-to
have ended. We tramped
on. as swiftly as was compatible with
quiet for hour after hour; beating
through the valleys against the wind,
and crossing! the brushy heads of the
ravines, sometimes close together, and
sometimes keeping about a hundred
yards apart, according to the nature of
the ground. When we had searched
all through the country round the head
of the creek. Into which we had come
down, we walked over to the next, and
went over It with equal care and pa
tience. The morning was now well
advanced, and we had to change our
method of hunting. It was no longer
likely that we should find the deer
feeding or In the open, and Instead we
looked for places where they might be
expected to bed. following any trails
that led Into thick patches of brush or
young trees, one of us then hunting
through the patch while the other kept
watch without. Doubtless we must
have passed close to more than one
deer, and doubtless others heard us
nnd skulked off through the thick
cover; but. although we saw plenty of
signs, we saw neither hoof nor hair
of living thing.
We lunched at the foot of a great
clay butte, where there was a bed of
snow.
After lunch we hunted until the
shadows began to lengthen out, when
we went back to our horses. The buck
was packed behind good old Manltou,
who can carry any amount of weight
at a smart pace, and does not care at
II If a strap breaks and be finds his
losd dangling about his feet an event
that reduces most horses to a state of
frantic terror. As soon aa loaded we
rode down the valley into which the
doe had disappeared in the morning,
one taking each side and looking Into
every possible lurking place. The
odds were all against our finding any
trace of her; but a hunter soon learns
that he must take advantage of every
chance, however slight This time we
were rewarded for our care; for after
riding about a mile our attention was
attracted by a white patch In a clump
of low briars. On getting off and look
ing lu it proved to be the .white rump
of the doe. which lay stretched out
Inside, stark and stiff. The ball had
gone In too far aft and had come ont
on the opposite side near her hip, mak
ing a mortal wound, but one which al
lowed her to run over a mile before
dying. It was little more than an ac
cident that we In the end got ber; and
my so nearly missing at such short
bounds, and I knew be would not go
far; nor did he. but stopped short
swaved unsteadily about, and went
over on his side. dead, the bullet clean
through bis body.
FALL WORK OF PLOWING
AND PLANTING BEGUN
Fall plowing baa commenced in
earnest and the farmers of this seo
tion are therefore bosily engaged and
have teeu ever since the welcome
rains of last wetk which put the
ground In good shape to work. For
the next month plowing and sowing
the eed lor next year's grain crop
will be the order of things on most of
nnr farms. On anite a few places a
great deal of garden truck will
be pot in this fall though probawy raosi
farmers will await the coming of
spring for this sort of work.
On many of the newer places the ax,
the saw aud the stump puller are busy
and as IVt as the wood is ramoved
the ground made ready to receive
fruit trees and urapes. Between now
and spring hundreds acres of land
which have heretofore been covered
with timber and brosh will be planted
to annles. Dears, peaches, cherries,
and other fruits to aay nothing of
grapes and berries of all kinds for
which this ; portion or ne nogue
River Vallev is famous. The prog-
re's which will be made in trans-
forming waste lands to orchards and
lnvrds onrlns the next six months
will undoubtedly equal or exceed all
the work heretofore done In tuts line
in the valley.
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range was due purely to carelessuesa
aud bad Judgment.
Neither of my shots had so far doue
me much credit; but at any rate I had
learned where the error lay, and this
Is going a long way toward correcting
tt 1 kept wishing that I could get au
other chance to see If I had not prof
ited by my lessons; aud U-fore we
reached home my wish was gratified.
We were loping down a grassy valley,
dotted with chimps of brush, the wind
blowing strong lu our faces, and dead
ening the noise made by the hoofs on
the grass. As we passed by a piece of
brokeu ground a yearling black till
buck Jumped Into view aud cautered
away. I was off Manltou's back In au
Instant The buck was moving slowly,
and was evidently soon going to stop
nnd took round, so I dropped on one
knee, with my rifle half raised, snd
waited. When about sixty yards off
he halted and turned sideways to ine,
offering a beautiful broadside shot. I
alme,l at the spot Just behind the shoul
der nnd felt 1 had him. At the report
he weut off, but with short weak
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