Arizona republican., 1899-03-31

i he went for those two deer. I hardly expected him to drop one, and he did
 not, although he emptied my 30 Just
 2 plain case of buck fever.
 Well. in three hours we were back
 in camp with our deer, having seen
 four altogether. The following morn
 ing, within a few hundred yards of
 where we were the day before, my
 friend succeeded in scoring on a me
 dium sized buck by crawling up behind
 a log and taking deliberate aim. We
 were again back in camp by noon, hay
 ing seen five deer that morning. My
 friend immediately started back home,
 as we had as much meat as we could
 take care of and he having accom-
 plished what he came for. His trip consumed two days and his hoodoo was removed.
 Almost every day we could see deer
 during our stay at this place. Ante
 lCpe were plentiful. Before our game law was passed deer and antelope were indiscriminately slaughtered by parties simply for the hides; one party alone killed something like two hundred deer in one season just for this purpose.
 This is now, however, an occurrence of the past, much to the delight of the legitimate spcrtsmen of the territory.
 Of all the four-footed game our mountain sheep are the most difficult to obtain. One does not appreciate how difficult it is until he tries it once. h the first p,ace they are found in most inaccessible localities, such as the Grand canyon country, and one must remember that this game usually sights you long before you have any idea that there are sheep in the local ity, consequently if you see them at all they are way out of range and prob ably going up or down the face of cliff that will make you think twice before attempting the ascent or de- scent yourself. In spite of the diffi- culties and danger of hunting them they have become much more scarce and our law now prohibits the killing o1 them at any time.
 Of feathered game we have swan. l geese, brant, ducks of all kinds, snipe, i quail, wild pigeons, Sonora pigeons, ! dcves, turkey, sandhin cranes and i blower. Swan, geese, brant, ducks, ! and Snipe are found all the year round iE different sections of the territory, ! according to the season; winter finds them along the rivers and in the sloughs of the southern part, while in they congregate in the north ern sections, particularly in the noun J91n I3k6S, SucQ as MOFmO0 Idk0- HIS IS an ideal matching place for them, the lake is seven miles long by three wide, is shallow; in fact during the summer season it can be waded. A dense growth of rushes covers the en- tire expanse in which may be found ducks and geese of all kinds and sizes. On shooting a rife through the top If the rushes clouds of ducks will raise, circle around and light again. I have known Of two men killing as high as -hree hundred in days hunt, shoot ng from a blind. Snipe follow the customs of the ducks and while not as plentiful, owing to the scarcity of marsh ground, as might be wished, yet good days shooting at jacks may ire luently be obtained
 Quail, Sonora pigeons and mountain pigeons are the most plentiful of the eathered game QHail are simply int in the southern part of the erritcry; in fact may be found almost except on the higher mountain ranges. where they are killed If during the winter by the cold. In ome counties they are absolutely de itructive to crops and I believe that he legislator from Gila county is try ng to have the game law on quail re- }ealed on this account. This bird is