Evening star., 1886-09-04


nsu dly warm summer for The Aairoua ascEs.
Two things that strongly imprsss an nSvcon.
sss m 70 tn these - @ woods @ are the sc.rcity Of smsil
ton Of the land. Ths iscs that ihs soii is very
trees that high winds easily blow them down,
doubtless has also much 10 do with it. Never.
theless, II seems very strange, Indeed. 70 nna %
.forests primeval" The scarcity of small ssme
Is not 80 puzzling. The causes Of IL are easily
discoverable. In the seeson, however, many
are plentiful in autumn. During the winter
mink, beaver, otter fisher aud other valuable
ss sHSs s.o g ss zoe sS
Last winter
PACK OF FIVE WOLVES
came ont on the Ice On Fourth lake, Just sbevs
here. Thirty years ago wolves were very plen.
dful hereahouts. Then torsome cause they dis
much 70 the SURPRISE Of the guides. 4 panther
ago they we're quite eah%on 5 sS4 Ts bear Is sti
pselins camp, six miles from s s the Old Forge
ooupie OF days before we came In. Hedge-hogs
are very plentiful. aud the dogs frequently
come tpto camp with their noses Iull Of quilts.
since the panthers have beeu killed Oh. The
aus e sae and e, them
game which once abounded In these woods Is
the moose, which long ago disappeared under
themselves sPortsmen % ana 's slaash,ersd these these
noble animals by the score, merely tor the
gratiaSation Of their vanity. There was doc.
in similar fashion during the dogying season.
ae killed dozens Of the beautiful animals aud
isit their carcasses 10 rot ON the mountatn
siues, merely that he might say he had shot so
many IN so many days. His oond9c. aroused
SO pnch Indignation that dosging deer was en-:
that wfntes. This law S was, ss however. repealed
last winter, and this year dogxing Is permitted
between the lst and 10th 0f September. Tu
man is allowed TO Kill more than three deer
during the season, and no venison can be
sp4i ped out OF the woods unless accompanied
oy The owner, aud even then but one carcase
can be taken out Thus it will be seen that the
laws throw all sorts of protection around the
game.
HUNTING DKBR WITH DOGS,
or stunning deer" as the people In the woods
call it, is very different here from what II Is in
more open countries. In these farests u il, o
course, impossible to follow the dogs, or keep
track 0f them; SO the hunters station them
winch the noble game is known 10 frequent in
and from their feeding aud drinking places iu
dogs the deer almost invariably make tor the
water. As they come by the hunters they are
popped over without difficulty. Should they
ever, the bayids OF the dogs gives ample notice
~ their whereabouts, aud the punters take t0
their boats ami pursue them. Tue deer tu this
region nave y peculiar londness for the First
lake, aud more OF tnem are killed in aud
around that small sheet OF water thap in any
other lake In the Chain. IT is this sport which
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS PATTY
have gore into the wilderness on upper
Saranac lake to enjoy. The place where the
President is located il nearly = hundred miles
from here, ION the other side of the woods" a.
they say on the chain. That region Is not now
regarded ~ good deerhuuting grounds a. this
on Lle Fulton chain, AS the game laws have
been more rigidly enforced hereaoouts, aud
deer are consequently more plentiful. 1t il
about y four days journey from nere to Saranac
lake, where the President has been. This
journey is made by row boat, carrying, "
steamer and stage. From here to RAquette
lake, where the steamer may be got there ID
about 1S miles of rowing aud miles of 'car
rylnG," Lne latter term meaning tna. you have
to tramp through the woods, Carrying your
boat on your shoulders in getting from one body
Of water tO another. Going from mere the first
carry" three-quarters OF u mile long, ID found
bet wsen the 5tn and 9th lake. There Il another
"carry" Of the sameI uSth Detweeu the 7th aud
Sth lake, and a third, u mile and u half long
between the last named lake and Browns tract
through WHICH you gel into RaQuette lake, one
OF tue most beautiful bodies OF water in tns
wilderness Thence you 60 by steamer, stage
and row boat to Prospect House, ON Saranac
LAKE, which tue President and MS party have
Just left 10 60 deeper into tue wi derness.