The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-07
PLANNING A BIG HUNT.
Large Game to be Driven into Cora
and Captured for Sale or Slaught'

Large Game to be Driven into CORA
and Captured for Sale or Slaught'
cred.
Some Of the greatest Wild game runts
in the history of Colorado, or of the en-
tire west, are being planned by ranch
men in Rio BIanco and Routt counties
on the other side of the Great Divide
A novel feature of these hunts will be
the fact that most of the big game will
be taken alive and sold to keepers of
menagelies. The hunts are planned to
get rid of the bears and mountain lions
that are driving stocFmen to distract
ton. incidentally, other game will not
be overlooked.
In Rio Banco county, wirk is now
progressing on a big corral on the ranch
Of Jacob Wilmington. The corral is
built with a wide funnel-shaped en-
! trance. When it is all in readiness the
| huntsmen will meet at Wilmington s
ranch and then scatter out, with their
| hounds, and surround one of the fiat
! top peaks The bears have been MAX
ding these peaks their rendezvous. The
animals will be driven to the big corral
and the most agile of them will not be
able to climb over the rough timbers
and boulders. Only the bears that have
attempted to escape on the march to
the corral will be shot. The gates will
be closed on the captives, and then, if
there are no purchasers, the animals
will be slaughtered.
Circus men and keepers of geological
gardens, however, claim that there will
be ample demand for all the good speci-
mems of bear that can be captured
They say that all kinds of American
wild game Is growing scarce and it will
only be a question of a few years when
it will be impossible to keep the me-
nageries well supplied The ranchmen
of Colorado say that they will be able
to supply the menagerie men with all
the mountain lions and bears that the
amusement business demands. The
bears in particular have been numerous
and desperate this season. They are
mostly big, black fellows, though o,e-
casionaly a cinnamon comes shifting
his way up from New Mexico, or a griz
Fly slouches down from Wyoming's sui
phur spring baths to try his claws on
the Colorado cottonwoods and gather
in a few specimens of Colorado live
stock
As q genral rule the black bear Is the
most harmless of the animals to every-
thing but a fat sheep or calf He has
no desire to look for trouble in which
men are concerned though when he is
cornered he puts up a pretty fight This
season, however, a lad was killed and
partly eaten by a black bear in Utah,
near the Colorado line, and settlers
have decided that their children must
be protected against similar occur
FENCES. Accordingly, the war of exter-
mination has been planned in the coun~
ties where the bears are thiekest
The ranchmen who live under the
shadow of the Flat Tops have no set
rules about killing bears. AS general
rule they will not waste shell on b
black bear, preferring to save the
charge for deer. But, when it Is de-
cided to kill bear the usual was is
for two ranchmen to chase the animal
into a clearing and then rope it with
lariates. BY this means the bear is
quickly choked to death and there is q
great saving of powder and bullets The /
roping game is never tried, however, I
when the bear happens to be mother /
with several cubs trotting along in her
wake. On such occasions the ranchman
is happy to have a pack of hounds (
along with him and a good rifle in his
men, who occasionally rope cata-
mount Just for excitement" will waste +
precious shells on a mother bear, rather
than run the risk of coming to close
quarters. For the natural instinct
makes the black bear a fighter second
only to the grizzly. The "yaller streak"
which the ranchmen always counts on
coming to his aid in the case of an ordi-
nary black bear, is totally absent in 4
he case of the mother bear, and there
S nothing but fight from the drop Of 1
he hat and no craven yielding at the
ouch of the moose or sting of the bull
et
Up in Routt county. where no rail
Dad has yet disturbed a region that is
bigger than many eastern states. the
tage drivers occasionally have to put
n the brakes, while the horses dance
n terror and shoot a curious bear that
locks the road and delays Uncle Sans
nails. The drivers make nothing Of
uch experiences, which to them is no
lore thrilling than the commonplace
yeryday experience of plunging at
reakneck pace down a steep canon,
here the least slip or sWerve would
onvert the heavily loaded stage coach
, matchWood on the boulder below 1t
! only the terrifying vision of an cleo
tic street car that will send the blood
} the hearts of these men.-Chicago
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