The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-03
HUNTING BEARS IN ALASKA.
Some of Biggest of Bruin Family
Found in Far North.
lCnlCagO POst.


There is. good bear hunting on the
Alaskan peninsula / got seven griz-
lilies one afternoon, all of them within
quarter of a mile and not over
half an hours time. The smallest OF
they was a 3-year-old, and l should
say they averaged 1000 pounds. II
took thirteen cartridges to bring the
seven down.
Grant G. Chase, hunter and pros
pector, who for eleven years has
spent most of his time in the Alaskan
Wilds, crossed his knees in reminis-
cent fashion at the Sherman house
this morning and told few bear
stories or the eve of returning to his
favorite naunts.
Then for confederation there is the
testimony of Mrs. Chase, VINO for
several years has shared her hus-
bands life and who has kept diary
wherein is faithfully recorded The
number of bear, caribou. sea otter
and other fur bearers brought down
daily and careful measurements OF
the bigger skins.
I suppose l have killed 500 or SOC
bears altogether" continued Mr.
chase. of course. a good deal of my
time has been given to some cOpp. ]
properties l am interested in or the
larger At one time and another
have hunted bear pretty much eli
through the Rockies, but there isn't
another place 10 equal the Alaskan
peninsula
Big? Well, I'll tell YOU. Those
bears up there are the largest i'm the
world. A fullgrown male weighs from
1000 to $500 pounds. The skin of the
largest fellow [ ever killed measured
thirteen feet four inches long and thir.
teen Ieet three inches spread from toe
nail to toenail. / can lift as much as
the average man, but I'm telling /;
straight when / say that with Mrs
Chaise TO help me l couldn't turn that
fellow over on his back to skin hir,
Twenty feet is the nearest a bear
bent on mischief, ever got to me. An
OLD female, whose cub / had broueh.
down, came for me one day and she
was mad. She was sixty or seventy
yards distant and in a bunch of alder
when l took my first shot at her. She
got uD and came out in the clearing
and then she saw me and came for
me in earnest. l worked my gun
pretty rapidly and the shots took ef
feet She was about six PAGES awav
when she dropped.
Mrs. Chase and I got a scare
NAANNf NAADA1lf III 1dLlltI Il lu0lCTOI1g
way. ] had three camps in a lonely
region, where for three years Mrs.
Chase never saw white woman. 7
had put up 'bayraias,' or houses Of
drift wood, the only kind available.
we were going from one camn ia
another when 1 brought down a bear.
We were in no hurry, So we
stopped, built fire and had some
lunch. After lunch-about an hour
after the shooting-we went down
into a gulch where the bear was
lying. Mrs. Chase was CARRYING an
aluminium teapot. I got her to helm
me turn the bear over, and was
about to remove his hide when the
big fellow suddenly came to life
You should have seen Mrs. Chase
go up that hillside. The best of if
was. in spite of her haste, she took
time to rescue her teapot 1 believe
l Jumped about twenty feet myself
If that bear had been in shane TO do
damage there might have been some
trouble-but he wasn't. As a gen
erai thing there isn't much adventure
its too easy"