Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-10-02
Four Hundred Miles in the Saddle.
CONTINUED from last weekl

level. From the summit fine view can
be Obtained of the main range of the Bit
ter Root mountains to the east, while to
the southwest are the Craigs or Clear.
water mountains, and to the north Pot
Mountain.
Camp was made on Bald Mountain
about six p, m. The night was clear and
so the tent was not pitched. A number
OF birds had been secured along the way
and were enjoyed for supper The next
day was Sunday and all loitered about
camp some time. A government sur
veylng party who were making an ex-
animation of the timber reserve across
which the trail leads, came into camp.
They had been in the mountains about
six weeks. From them it was learned
that Carlin, of the famous Carlin party,
had established camp at Moose lake,
and built himself u summed house there.
His wife was with him, and Himmei-
wright was coming in by the way of
Missoula in a few days to join them
About nine a. III. the party started on TO
the Grave Yard. This certainly sounded
like solemn enough place to spend n
Sunday. But the name comes from the
fact that there is an Indian child buried
here. The grave is enclosed with a log
structure about three feet high. -Four or
five miles from camp the first cabin of
jack trap line was passed, He calls it
bantam CASTLE The cabin is just six
feet square inside, and has a fireplace
that occupied one entire end. He has
no bunk in it but sleeps on the floor be-
fore the fire. AT noon the Grave Yard
was reached. At this place Jack has
another cabin. The doctor and the ed
iter remained at the Grave Yard with
four horses and the mule, while Jack and
the professor pushed on to the head
quarters OF Jacks trap line. There was
no trail on the way to the headquarters
and so it was ueCes sary to force the
horses through the thick brush up hill
and down, The headquarters were
reached at 4 80 p, NJ
1t may be wellto describe the trapping
business little in order that the ar
rangement OF cabins may be clear. There
are two kinds OF trapping carried on in
these mountains. First for bear. This
is carried on in the fall, September and
October, and in the spring after Febru-
airy. The bear usually seek the low
ground in the iall as the snow falls on
the higher ridges, Taen bear range
along the larger creeks more than Oh the
high ground Teis bear trapping is done
win large dead-fall traps or with very
large ana powerful steel traps. Assocl-
Ated with the early sprn bear trapping
is the beaver trapping along the creeks
For this work a liue OF cabins Is built
along some large stream and its principal
branches Bear trapping is heavy work,
and so there are rarely more than two
cabins on bear line-that IS line OF
bear traps. The skins are taken of at
the trap and carried home to be stretched.
gar or fox in bear trap. One OF our
common savings comes from bear trap
ping with dead-lalls-that is to say that
YOU have the dead wood on him." The
bear are all sleeping through the winter,
and so the trappers put in the latter part
oil the fall and winter months trapping
ON the high ground Tor pine martin and
fisher. occasionally lynx, cougar or
a wolf are taken on the high ground in
the winter. The martin seem TO cross
the ridges from the heads OF one set OF
creeks to the heads OF the creeks on the
other side. For this reason the martin
lines are usually located on or near the
ridges. The martin is not heavy ami
NAL, and so they are all brought to the
central cabin to be skinned. Tho martin
line is usually from forty to sixty miles
long, and has cabin every six or ten
miles, depending on the character OF the
country. The headquarters cabin is the
place where the main portion OF the sup
plies are kept, where the supply OF meat
for bait is kept and where the skins are
brought and stored. Each OF the cabins
on the line contains some food, and the
trapper starts from his headquarters and
makes the round of the trap line, sleep
ing in each of the cabins in succession.
Some times in good weather he skips
cabin and travels double the ordinard
distance in day. He carries all of the
martin to the headquarters and then
spends day skinning them and doing
anv other work he may have to do, then
starts on his long walk again. When
there are two men they have a common
beadouarters, but each tends separate