Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-07-26


furnish many interesting lessons for study
TO the woUdmrn and hunters, whetter sci
ent fic nauralists or not. In our boyhood,
says the Aroostook Pioneer, the principal
sources of information respecting them
were the old dams and traces of dams that
were found on every lalle brook where we
lished or hunted cowslips for greens. These
beaver dams consisted of ridges of earth
from four feet above the common level of
4 the g beaver meadow fiat, running each
/ way from The brook to rising land. We
would fiud great numbers of those dams
when IL would be hard TO understand how
they could ever make ponds of sufficient
depth for the beavers use. But the brooks
in the prlmeval forest, before the inroads of
! civilization, afforded more wa:er than in
/ n,arshy pools which the beavers habits re-
quire. by "a natural process have grown up
and filled 10 sold land. AS ia tile older
1 parts ot7the country no new works were
foun !, IT was generally understood That the
/ beavers left and moved off whenever civil
! lied settlements grew up near them, and
we haya been surprised to find in this re-
gion the evidence of so many living beavers.
| On the different tributaries Of the ST. John
River running out Of the State of Maine,
/ there are some hundreds OF them caught
every year. and they do moi seem to dimn-
I ish. Hnntlng parties, whether of white
men or Indians, consisting usually Of two
or three men, often get from len 10 twenty
beavers in winters hunt. LAUNDERING
operations have q tendency to drive them
I Ia Iha small ltaaLs and l,..fl sc,,,...,, 49,
rivers, for when found Oh driving streams"
their dams have 10 be torn away but they
do not seem particularly Shy Of men or set
Elements unless their dams or houses are
destroyed. -Four or i've years ago, i is
said, company OF them built dams aud
houses in the Town Of Ashland, only two
miles from the village or corner, as il is
called and stayed two Years, when part
were caught, and the rest driven away, by
the hunters. r
There are two kinds of them, differing
only in habits. For some reason now and
then one OF them uSaly wanders alone,
and has only hole in tue bank Of the river
to live in, while they generally live in pairs
or families, building houses aud dams and
providing stores in companes-hence the
,rtn T'-''S .''y "o'Hi5 oc",e
~ - i'o'i.'on ,' e '""' 're o''''N oea,eis
su'" d0 i',' ~, So"ie ie'isol' coile shoit
'is'e' m VI 'oi 'u'1''esS nave oeei' uiiVeh
.V"i '"o Po,'Oe anu "ouses 'ney are .he
s''l'e t'.''',i'is o'o'y way ouiy eA'es' Ahe
"a" VI il,uus'i aliorS 'iie "orA,,,S beavers
y wen S'' a''eS'eu 10 oy hunters lhelr dams
VI HOUSES arc oui' a''e" VI re'nodeieu eN-
e'y i"i,' anu "a way 10 sun Tue he'Sht oi
'pe ""'0' ~, Su' '''o s90Ieeui,'s WINTER OF
spi.'a no o,yee' % 'he uani seems 70
.T pe 70 ,es8ula'e 'iie ne'sht OF .lie water at
,i'e., nouses, - "nete 'ney na.e TWO OF iiiiee
vei'"' ~ 'ieie,'' i'eiS ms ""eie 'hey SieeP
ury Do, VIVA '''is III me water mus Deihg
"aIhcu oi any c''ai'se IN 'he rise or iaii OF
wafer ooiile iouses rs'apu SIX leet al least
"ooNe Jug suI,'ce u 'he nieauow' covered
WIN nnud III tiie ioriii oI rouhe cohi PIT
ou, ni'erSec'eu w'''i s'ieAs o' WOOD SO as
70 ~ oe s''o"e' anu 'he "e'Sit o' 'hIee OF
.'u. me" ii'cNes ho IMPRESSION upon IT,
luli ,aii'i'y' as hunters eau inem'
,'Ie'e ~ " '.e p"'en''' pau ''.u .iie mites
y, w, 'ne neA. se"e' "'io'' "i" 'neir hll'OS' /
!" neii ''' 'Ilee so's '1'sel 'r"n nan ',is they
ooio''l1e e ,oo'ie '.'ns ~ 'lie -ia'l all s'h9ie
onqs a. oo'h seAes .o"s es''e ii0Ih co'sid-
sOie u's','ioes' a. ''io pes' iaAe III 'he
w. IIo ny, "ne'e -. onoo 'ne'i mates
~" ueie'iio'''ouS '''o "uP''",S We cannot
s"s ."en '"ey -, - III "T"e' .ne lc'iiaie ioi,