The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-21

In the winter these same highways
are used. the travellers going on snow
shoes and sledges. The smaller streams
and bays are frozen by Oct. Is, while all
the waterways are encased In ice by
Nov. Is.
Caribou Escapes Death.
We were greatly excited one day
while at lunch. We were still travelling
and had put into the shore for lunch
A party of surveyors were lunching
near US. Suddenly we saw them put
out in their canoes with all haste pos
sible, and with the greatest excitement
got out my field glasses. which, by the
way, were seemingly indispensable on
the entire trip, and saw that a caribou
was trying to swim an arm of the bay
The surveyors got on either side Of
the great animal, and many shots We're
fired, but they were unable to kill him.
To their credit it may be said that there
was but one ball cartridge in the party,
and that one was missed. The other
shots were buckshot.
Great Private Post System.
The surveyors sent a message north
ward by us. This is a great private post
system, every traveller being expected
to do his share in the matter Of for
warding messages from one part of the
country TO Ine Otner.
The day we made camp, another
fierce windstorm arose. IT was a hard
blow, and one small canoe was in dan
ger of being Swamped. When the
waves ran high it shipped water, and
We saw that the boatmen were IN dan
ger. The other guides went 70 the res
cue and unloaded a part of the cargo in
the storm in the middle of the lake, and
not an ounce of goods was lost Ihe
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marvellous in the management of their
canoes. There are many Scotch and
Irish people in the country. Nearly all
OF the half-breeds are French and In
dian.
Camp Was Comfortable.
Our main camp was a model of COM
fort. We had tents and stoves, while
tables and benches were made by the
guides from the native saplings with
their hatchets. Our beds were made on
great heaps of balsam, and the entire
camp was protected from the wind by
the trees. There was a beach for the
landing of the canoes. speak of the
comfort of the camp because we were
there so little time.
The next day the hunt began. Mr..
Miller and Mr.. Mead tossed UP a coin
to see who would get the choice of
hunting ground. Mr.. Mead won on the
IOSS-up, ana he ana MRS. mead look one
guide and their canoe 10 the lake They
were so fortunate as to lind lnoos e
feeding in the daylight. This was the
only one seen in the daylight. Mr.
Mead shot that, and the animal fell in
the marshy edge of the lake IT took
the three guides all the next day to get
the head to camp.
See Their First Moose
For the two days. Mr.. Miller and I
loafed in camp. We saw our first
moose the second day. The guide pad
died US up little creek near the camp,
and as we crept silently along, great
big brown thing that seemed to fill the
whole horizon, walked across the
stream not fifty yards away It's bulk
was enormous, and it was followed by
smaller one. 1t was an enormous
cow moose with a yearling calf. We
did not know she was there until we
saw her. / cannot imagine how they
can move those great bulks through
the forest and stream so silently The
bulls cannot DO it on account of their
horns
Hunt Is Begun.
The next day Mr. Miller and / made
our start. We took three guides. one
of whom carried the canoe keel upward
on his shoulders, and each of the others
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