The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11

but a pack of thirty to fifty miles into
the mountains. on either side of Lakes
SLOGAN and Kootenay will lead you to
country where you will need to walk
circumspectly, for any turn will bring
you on the mountain goat, sheep or
the grizzly and cinnamon bear. The
caribou and the moose are scarce In
this district, having retreated to the
north, but sheep and goat and bear can
almost be guaranteed to any hunter
who is willing to take the tramp and
exercise the skill necessary in dealing
with big game. The white-furred
mountain goat are very numerous: [
found them in the Valley of the Ten
Peaks in the Yoho Valley, on the
Asulkan glacier, all along the Arrow
head lake mountains. To follow them
from the lower resorts to their favorite
haunts on the peaks might require q
days steady climb, but they were GER
tainly to be found at the place where
the guide indicated, and the scenery
and sense of life compensated for the
fatigue. With the grizzly, it is differ
ent; he is always liable to turn up
when least expected: he wanders over
vast spaces and seems to have no es-
pecial home in summer and the fall.
il i'm we encountered III several places,
at Assinibonin. Arrowhead; but proba-
bly, nowhere on the continent does he
exist in such numbers as at SLOGAN.
This summer many were seen by pros
pectors and miners, and many were
killed; but two prospectors paid for
their temerity with their lives. while
another miner. more fortunate, shot
three on the same day.
/ still hold to my belief that one IS
perfectly safe in the widest woods
among the haunts of the bear and the
cougar, if one will withhold the pro-
pensity to take a snap shot at every
bear and mountain lion that appears
on the scene. Having tried conclusions
with them many years ago, l was UNI
der no temptation to trouble them fur
Their, and so, in every case, they passed
by on the other side, undisturbed, at
least by this aged Nimrod. So the
grizzly claw in my pocket was not
killed by mel / could enlarge my
hunting narrative with the experience
of others; but only one suggestion for
anyone contemplating a trip to the
Canadian rockies. The coast for TOO
miles above Vancouver is Canadian
territory (before reaching Uncle Sans
Alaskan and is one of the great virgin
hunting grounds of the world. Be-
yond $50 miles a man may travel for
weeks without seeing a face. The game
inhabiting the seward TANKS of the
coast range ana the Islands that lie off
1t, is the white goat, the true blacktail
deer. and the bear. In many of the
lonely inlets of that almost uninhab-
tied coast black bears are very mumer-
GUS: moreover, their pelts reach
greater degree of excellence than in
any other part of North America. Dur
ing September the weather is usually
most delightful and a hunting trip in
that month can hardly fail to be salts
factory One or two small coasting
steamers sail every week from Van
couver and afford ready access to any
desired point. Lovers of fine scenery
cannot fail to enjoy a coasting voyage
along the supremely beautiful shore
line of British Columbia: any written
description falls short of conveying an
impression of the glories of those
matchless fiords."
1 append the game laws Of British