The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-03

| eminent believes that 1t is almost too
much to ask, even of the best sports
men, to desist from shooting moose
IN september or January, if out with a
rifle hunting for caribou. 1t is therefore
proposed to make the seasons for large
game uniform, shortening that for Carl
bou by month and lengthening that
| for moose and deer The close season
for large game will therefore run in the
future from Jan. 1 to Sept. l.
The increase in the supply of large
game in Quebec within the few last
years has been enormous. Moose were
so scarce here some years ago that
close season of several years was or
dained for them, an example now being
followed by Ontario. The result here
was more than satisfactory. season
or two ago it was discovered that at
Riviere a Pierre on the line of the Lake
st. John railway. party of Indians
had slaughtered more than so moose at
one time for the sake of their skins.
West of Ottawa along the line of the
Canadian Pacific railway, and in the
hathaway, Temiscamingue and Teman-
gamingue districts both deer and moose
are exceedingly plentiful, and here and
also at the head of Grand Lake Victoria
the moose killed this season have nearly
all been monsters. The animals are APP
parently swarming back to their old
haunts of 20 years ago. In the neigh
borhood of Caughnawaga lake one party
of sportsmen, who were only 10 days in
the woods, killed four moose recently,
of whom three were splendid bulls, in
addition to good numbers of deer. The
Kippewa is described by enthusiastic
hunters just returned from it as u
country of moose, caribou and bears.
Records recently reported, according to
law, by parties who obtained hunting
permits from the Quebec government
show that one party of two was out in
the Dumoine and Maganacipt country
for five days and killed four moose and
Is deer; another killed II deer; another
individual, in seven days, killed five
deer; a fourth, in 10 days, on Thirty
Chenille lake, killed nine deer white
two others, each of whom was five days
out, killed, one II and the other II deer.
In five days two men killed two moose
near Lake Temiscamingue, and six
others, in the course of a few days
hunting in the townships of Musgrave
and Lathbury, in the Au Lievre dis
trict, killed II deer, Of which 10 were
bucks
In the Temiscouata country a buck
was recently killed weighing $40 pounds
Moose are sometimes. found there
weighing more than 1900 pounds. 1t
was here, in the Squattecks, that Sena-
tor Proctor got his large moose heads.
In the Metapedia valley a train on the
Intercolonial railway ran into a yard
of moose a day or two ago and killed
a large bull which charged the locomo-
tive.
Caribou exist by thousands in the
Metapedia valley, as well as in what
are called the Gardens Of Charlevoix.
both Canadian and Americans,
have killed hundreds of them this Win
ter. A Sunday or two ago the congre-
cation of the Roman Catholic church at
Causapscali. on leaving the building,
saw two caribou quite close to them.
Joseph Charest drove to a neighbours
for rifle and shot both.
Red deer are increasing at such a rate
that in many parts of the province the
farmers complain shat they destroy
Eheh' toats and other grain in the au-
tumn season.