Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-03-19
eEAa MEAT FOR MARKET.
How san Francisco Il Supplied from ths
Bear Haunts OF the Coast Range

How san FRANCISCO - s"PP"oe
Bear Haunts of the Coast Range
The fact that bears bring freza w
IN $40 each in the San Francisco meat
market, and that there is livery ae-
mand for all that are sent there mas
moved many men who live in the loot
hills of the mountain ranges TO scour
the hills for them and ship them hence.
Cubs are taken alive, kept in pits ana
fed until they attain several hundred
nounds in weight, when they are mar
ketable. The carcasses usually ais
pIayed by butchers during the holiday
season are of domesticated bears, as
the wild bears at that season OF the year
are alternating. A stall-fed bear de-
signed for the market is treated IN
about the same way as hog. lie VIII
eat the same food hog will eat, ana
about the same quantity; and his fiesh
tastes very much like pork, except Tor
gamy flavor which it possesses. ASIDE
from this, the bears blubber makes the
finest lard, his headquarters furnish SUI
nerior hams and his ribs yield the best
OF bacon. -;
The best bear grounds in California
ere in Tulare county, in the region OF
Mineral King, Homer's Nose and HOS
rital Rock.
Bear meat is sold in San Francisco
at from forty cents to one dollar pei
Mound 1t is, of course, delicacy re
served for the rich. Some leading res
taurants have bear steaks on the bill'
of fare when the meat is on sale II
town, and they serve steak for iron
AZ to so cents.
The region on the coast most infeste'
nv bears is believed to be southern
Oregon. near the California border, an
from 20 to so miles from the oceai
In this district run the Illinois ail
Rogue rivers, and there, too, are man
fresh-water lakes, notably The thre
treat Klamath lakes, Fish lake, Gam
lake, Crater lake, besides many sma
creeks and rivulets, all of which teei
with fish and about which are the bree'
inc grounds for ducks and geese. U
the banks of these fresh-water bodi'
and stretching away over the nat coul
. trv are thousands of acres OF bush'
hearing buckle and salmon berries al
+. The low mountains are thick with u
e scrub oak, which in the fall of the ye'
Yields abundance of mast, all comprl
inc the most toothsome provender I
8 bears, as they will not eat flesh wh'
5. they can get vegetable food or fish.
I In this country, bears grizzly, bla
or brown-abound. They are nj
h suncc to the farmers, on whose pigs a
g sheep they often raid, but to the hunte
thew are source of profit and deligl
:. There are two seasons in the year ]
bear killing-one long, the other
short one. The first is in the faii
the wear, after the mast is well dropE
and Bruin is fat from feeding on acoi
. md nuts; the second is in the sprn
- inst as he is coming out OF his winte
= sleep. When the ground in the fall
=, comes covered with snow Bruin "
lows in fat and cannot find more TO
Then he proceeds to hibernate. In u
state his lair is sometimes betrayed
Il the steam which rises through
snow from his body. In that condlt
he can be easily killed, for he will mi
no resistance. When his hibernatio
over, in the early spring, he is still q
fat and game for the huntsman.
he does not long remain in that col
ton. There being no berries or N
5 when he comes out, he finds nothing
eat. and in about week he is run dt
and as poor as the proverbial turke
Job. In this low state OF flesh u
ton waste to kill him, and he is
hunted. Then the breeding season
lows. which gives his bearship
munity from molestation.
v Bears slaughtered on the ore
Y ranrcs are packed out on mules to
y Oregon G. California railroad statio
4 either Ashland or Medford, where
I are shipped to butchers in TINS
II sometimes happens that the loca
~ where the bear is killed is such
the hunters cannot get the carcass
ioi of the country in good condition.
70 the pelt is taken off and the me
you cut into strips and dried on
netting suspended over fire bul
hole in the ground, piece OF ca
ion' being thrown over all during the
ess. The grease is also tried out, a
l.eN weighing 400 pounds yielding abo
snea pounds of lard. This is eagerly bo
'.h- by hotels and boarding houses in 81
,lns ern Oregon for cooking purposes
. this city bear-fat is used by perfu
he'" Dried bear meat finds market II
y !. eon. Occasionally shipment
90 - is made to this city. OF all the
- :" which come annually to this mark
black bear is the most common.
grizzly and the cinnamon come II
rarely, but the great bald-faced D.
III a. Alaska is seen frequently strung
lum- front of Market street butcher
an the dressed carcass always attr'
'r,ee. much public attention.-San Fra
ioi Chronicle.
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