The sun., 1902-03-09
WHERE DEER ABOUND.
Evidence OF the Great Quantity OF Game
In the Northwestern Woods.


T. L. Lloyd, a railway contractor Of Nh
waukee, tells of the wonderful numbers and
increase Of deer in the Northwestern woods.
Last fall he had a contract to clear the right
of way for a road in upper Michigan.
He and his axemen were In the heart OF
the woods, the nearest town being Chan
ming. That country is unsettled and pos
sibly will be unsettled fifty years from
now.
1t Ia land Of small clear lakes. great
trees. tamarack swamps and bogs. The
Indians know it fairly we'll, but few white
men have more than a speaking acquaint-
ance with IL.
Lloyd was in these woods for two months
and deer became as familiar sight to him
az sparrows on the Milwaukee streets.
His tent was placed hundred yards from
the central shack Of the axemen and he
set himself to attract the deer. since he is
a lover of Nature and animals and a fair
amateur taxidermist.
On a stump some thirty feet from the
front Of his tent he placed a mixture Of
salt and sugar, a double handful Of It, and
scattered some Of it in the woods nearby.
The deer found II in two nights, licked 1t up
and departed. The next night he renewed
the supply.
Thereafter the animals became regulhf
visitors 70 the stump. At almost any
hour of any moonlight night after things
became quiet he could lie on his cot In tho
tent shadow and see them gathered about
the stump to the number Of dozen. In
dustriously plying their tongues.
In little while the wood became salty
and then it was not necessary for him to
renew the supply oftener than once a week
Often arising just at break OF day he would
see the dun forms stealing softly into the
darkness of the woods.
They never showed any fear OF the tent
or Of the fire of the axemen near the shack.
IL was a daily occurrence that the men
in going to and from their work saw deer,
either half revealed on the side Of the road
way, or crossing IL a slow walk.
Mr.. Lloyd says that the deer in the Michi-
gan north woods are ten times more numer-
Gus than they were twenty years ago and
that neither the white man or the Indian
will ever succeed In shooting them out.
extinction of the woods which shelter
them.
That which is true OF northern Michigan
is true also of northern Wisconsin and
northern Minnesota. In fact all Of the vast
belt Of timber running along south OF Su-
perior teens with them.
Any angler on north Wisconsin or
Minnesota lake, casting or still fishing for
bass, will see from two to ten deer in an
afternoon. Near sunset they are espe-
cially within sight.
They are fond then OF coming down to
the water TO splash in it, rornp along the
bank and feed on the lily pads,
Sometimes the bucks swim out for fifty
yards or So then turn and when they can
touch bottom trot ashore, COO and dripping.
Their branching antlers when they are
swimming make curious sight.
Any man in boat with a long range
rine-a rife accurate at thousand yards
could kill as many of them as he pleased.
but this is seldom, IL ever, done. The
loggers and timber cutters kin them some
times for fresh meat and farmers in north
ceatral Wisconsin kill them without COM
junction in the summer because they de-
stroy crops. but sportsmen are held in
by rigid game laws.