The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-26
THE SALT LAKE HERALD THURSDAY. NovrABEn ~ 1890

stranger. With them they are treach-
erous, and will kick, strike or use their
horns in a second.
The moose up at the post of Tanana
are very numerous. and on the snow
they are much faster than a horse.
Their legs are so long they step over
a leg four feet high and go right along.
Logs that man would have to climb
over do not bother them at all.
have seen as many as Is moose
together there. I have seen them in
winter IN their corral. 4 moose corral
is q peculiar thing. The moose make it
DJ tramping around and around on the
snow, the big ones ahead and the little
ones behind. In this way they get
down to the willows and weeds. and
there they feed. I have seen them beat
Gown the snow in this way till there
was a round wall of snow six or seven
feet high about them.
When the willows and weeds are
eaten out the big moose lunge out,
ana the little ones follow. The big ones
break the willows and gouge out the
snow with their horns. When they get
out of one corral. they make another
The moose work their lips like a horse.
have been on d two weeks hunt
for moose while the thermometer was
from DO to 30 degrees below zero all the
time. ] had three dog teams, with
seven dogs in team, and two natives
TO each Two of the teams were to
maui meat for the dogs and provisions
Tor me. and the other team was to haul
me when I got tired walking
We made from 40 TO 80 miles a day
between camps. 1t was over a fiat
country and through brush. One ma
i've went ahead and marked out the
way for the dogs, and the other fol-
lowed and drove them. They would go
on the run all day. The natives wore
net snowshoes, and did myself when
not riding. These shoes are the only
thing that can be worn over such
ground. The Norwegian shoe won't do.
On the high summit where the
carlboo are we used boots of sealsl<in
and walrus hide. 1t is mainly. how
ever, tunhra country, covered with
low brush and moss in summer and
being wet and swampy. We had to be
careful IN our advances on the moose
because of their extraordinary sense of
SMELL
At the foot of Arctic City, which is
a half degree inside the Arctic circle
and on the Koukuk river, 1 once visited
with 30 miners. There are moose there
in plenty and it is the home of noun
tain sheep and goats. I killed seven
moose within five miles of the post.
and there were 81 moose killed there
that winter
THE sheep were the bighorn sheep
and they were very fine eating. Take
them in September, when they are in
good condition, and L know of nothing
inner. BY the way, 1 brought down two
heads of the sheep with me.
But, abiding again to the moose.
McQuestin, who has the post at Forty
Mile, had two moose which he broke to
harness, and with them he used to haul
freight and pillow his garden. They
weighed over 1000 pounds each. used
some moose 1 had in this way to pillow
a potato patch at Tanana. The feet of
the moose are very big. They spread
out like cows hoof. and there are a
couple of big deerclaws that aid in
Keeping the moose up out of the snow
and giving him a basis.
The deer, too, in that country are
not like the deer here. A deer that will
weigh 15O pounds will make track in
the snow as big as a 4-year-old steer