Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-16
FISHINGAND HUNTING

Deer plentiful?
Just listen to the stories which have
simmered from the mountain top and
judge this momentous question for
yourself. In the west fork of the San
Gabriel they are thicker than fieas on
mongrel cur. This fact is substanti-
ated by reports There are dozens of
parties at the hotel at the west fork
ranger camp, consisting of e. r. Ar
thur Weatley, James Weatley, Will
liam Krowl, Robert Atkins and An
derson.
why, we saw lots of deer the last
week." said Art Weatley yesterday.
while on a business trip to Los Ange-
les I'VE could have killed five or six
bucks had 1t been lawful. There was
scramble yesterday at the stroke of
u, with dozens of parties waiting for
the signal and in a week or so the deer
will be driven to the back woods by
fearful cannonading. Several parties
are at Barley fats and one or two on
Pine flats, the rangers tell us, and are
waiting for the season to open.
Fishing is still good, too. One OF
our party landed a dozen fine trout
yesterday"
From Sturtevants comes the story
that hundreds of campers and hunters
are making for the timber. At the
Mount Wilson hotel the other day
deer got mixed up in the burro corral,
anu Tic hlll4AiS AOOtll Of iIG lAONtl nHS
vacant in a minute. Last week Mrs.
A. B. Thompson saw a doe and two
fawns near the hotel. A few nights
ago the Mount Wilson observatory en-
ployes had to fence in their sleeping
quarters to guard against the nightly
encroachments of the deer herd which
went there to feed on the barley crop
near the feed bin.
A party consisting of Louis White,
+. D. Foot, Nick Bowling, Charles
Dreifus, Billie Thomas, Gene Greuet
and Eddie Kippel of San Pedro left last
night for Acton, Newhan tunnel.
where they will go into the hunting
grounds for two weeks.
Pasadena sportsmen are needing the
"call OF the wild" Among those who
will go into the mountains are George
Pierson, George Lisk and Ben Hayes.
tains for a two weeks trip. 1t Is said
that deer are plentiful also in the An
telope valley.
A party went to the west fork of the,
San Gabriel river yesterday, among
them being DR.. Savage, William Gro
well and Robbins Little. They will be
gone for two weeks.
Harry Myers, manager of the Pasa-
dena baseball club, with Vagar North,
will go into the San Bernardino noun
tains for a couple Of weeks and try to
bring home deer or two.
M. S. Grifton left yesterday for the
northern part of the state, where he
will be Joined by other hunters and go
into the wilds for few weeks.
Several parties are going out this
week among the hills of Gardena, Glen
dale, San Fernando and Puente hills in
quest of doves.
r. C. Camp of the Hoegee sporting
goods firm will leave Monday with a
party of friends, by auto, for San Ber-
nardino mountains in search of deer, TO
be gone two or three-weeks.
Joe Singer and A. Mas will spend
the opending days of the season hunt
ing deer and doves in Calabasas.
f. w. Common and e. F. Ponder will
go to Cucamonga for two days,
hunting, deer and doves being their
selection.
Chris Krempel and Henry Pfirrmann
win take an early auto trip to the San
Gabriel hills on the outlook for doves.
Louis LaMer will take a party of
Ave to LaMer's ranch at Burbank,
where they expect to gather the limit
in the dove line.
A. w. Thresher and party Of friends
expect to spend a few days at the
ranch of e. w. Scripps near San Diego
during the next few days, where doves
are reported to be plentiful.
Edward Browson, George Cline and
Edward Salisbury will leave tomorrow
night for Humboldt county by auto,
to be gone three weeks on a fishing and