Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-26
II the gri..ly he'd the cat tribe's likins

 nature his great strength and absolute fearlessness would make him . worao | scourEe than the man-eatin0 tiger of | India; but he will not sat human hesh | and ho generally minds his own busi- | ness when not tntsrferod with. His | method of fighting makes him tho | toughest customer man ever tackled l in a rough and tumble. When the l grizzly attacks he rushes upon . man ss full speed and overthrows him with the | impetus of the assault, at the same time l striking swinging blow with his pom derous paw. Imagine an animal weigh ing half ton hurling himself head first against . man, and then believe what you please about the hunters who stop the onslaught with . bowie knife. The grizzly stands four feet high At the shoulders, and he can strike . man in \ the .faoe without rising on his hind legs Usually he does strike at the head 50 swiftly that no man can dodge the blow, and the man who survives such . stroke Is very lucky. I have seen full grown steers killed by one blow of a grizxly's paw, the neck being broken in every in- stance.
 During the last fifteen years but few men have been killed by grizzlies in California, partly because the bears are not easily found and partly because hunters have learned better than to at tack them with inefficient weapons. In carly days a man was likely to meet 8 grizzly anywhere in the mountains, but the railroads and the increase of popula- tion have driven the bears back from the foothills, the farmers have poison | ed thousands, and oRe must go to the widest parts of the Sierra Nevada and | the Southern Coast Range to find them. It is believed that Tuolumne Canyon shelters . great many grizzlies, but no- body thinks of going in there to hunt | them because of the difficulties of get ting into and out of the gorge. A man l could not pack hide out of the canyon l if he should kill . bear. Some grizzlies can be found in the Coast Range in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, | but they are not 50 plentiful there es they were a few years ago When the stockmen first took up land in the valley of the Lockwood and around old | Fort Tejon the bears were numerous enough to cause serious losses among their herds, and could be seen almost every evening coming down from the mountains to the open valley land.
 MT. John E. Cuddy, one of the old set tiers, told me that 1t was not uncommon to see four or five bears within rife
 range of his house During one sum- mer they killed thirty cattle bearing
 his brand, besides as many more belong
 ing to the Tejon ranch. On the open
 flats the vaqueros never hssttated to
 attack @ grizzly with their rta*as, and
 four or five export men could easily
 rope and tie a boar if they had horses
 trained to such work. In one year the
 vaque1os roped and killed twenty-two
 bears between Seymour valley and Fort
 Tejon, . stretch of open country about
 thirty miles in length. But of late
 years the grizzlies have kept to the
 rousher country. and seldom appear in
 the nei0hborhood of the ranch houses
 all their audacity, however, and ooca-
 sionally they make raids on the oorrals
 or 20 down to the Mupaw ranch and kill
 hogs.
 Jeff Howard, 8 cattle man who lived
 in valley back of the Topa-topa range
 in Ventura was frequently annoyed by
 the maraudinR bears from the Sespe.
 He tried Q .44-Winehester on them until
 he was thoroughly satished thaa forty
 grains of powder was too small [
 oharge to drive bullet very far into 6
 grizzly, and concluded thasA man was 6
 fool to go out of doors at night to taokls
 beer with such . weapon.
 The satest way to hunt the grizzly fl
 to build platform in Q tree near {
 sheep camp and wait for the boar tt
 raid the camp When he kills . sheer
 and sits down to eat the mutton blasl
 away at him and you may get him
 Another good way is to set . spring guI
 on the path frequented by . boar ant
 let him shoot himself Tho hunter wh,
 seeks the g1i.nly in the chsparral ough to have two or three yslpdng CUTS tha
 arc game enough to snap at the bear' heels and clever enough to keep out o
 his reach, but he ought to be cArefu about following the dogs too closely i, tho thick brush. as they are very likel, to run back between his legs for protec l tion and get him into preoipitate troubl . with an indignant beae.
 If none of these methods suit. tn
 grizzly huntsr may take . heavy rife il : one hand and his life In the other ant follow the trail of bear atoot am l alone through the mountains c a Southern California. He can have al 8 the sport of that sort that any bod ? craves if he will start from Santa Paula Ventura County. and 20 to the 6esp r Canyon by way of Stone Corral and th l Alder Creek trail, or strike into tn k mountains from Ventura by the Guy am ]. or Matilija trail I could tell how sn, t where to strike the trail of certain bi @ grizzly within an hour after gettin l. into camp, about fifty miles from tn Q line of the Southern Pacific 1ailroad ,. but some reader might go there an shoot him. and I've 0ot a hraf nnorknpao @ on his hide which may want to fore 1t close some day.
 IT Any body who wants a sure thins on d grizzly can go to Calgary, on the Can, Q dian Pacific, and for three hundee # dollars take Q shot at one of the beas e kept chained to tree on the mountai