The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19
THE GRIZZLIES
 HAVE MOVED ON

| From the New York Sun.
 While it isn't likely that the grizzl ! | bear will ever become extinct" said Capt Jerry Kreiter, an old time plainsman and Rocky mountain pros pector. he has all the same come to be something of rarity in may of his | original haunts, and the hunter seekin g
 sport with him must now Journey into
 the fastness of the far Sierras and Coast Range mountains or into the wilderness I of the British provinces in the northwest Tn former days, when the hunter and | the ranchman had only their double barreled guns, the grizzly had little fear of them. But when the repeating g
 guns and the rest of the dynamite des- troyers began to confront him he grad
 ually but reluctantly fell away from the pleasant borderland and sought safety
 in the deepest isolation.
 When there were buffaloes on the plains the grizzly bears were keen and persistent hunters of them. A herd of
 buffaloes on its journey seldom escaped
 attack from grizzlies all along the line When grizzly and a buffalo came to battle there was sure to be a savage
 contest, although 1t never lasted long
 the buffalo usually being the van quished.
 Confronted by a bear buffalo bull would invariably charge furiously upon it's big and ugly foe. This was as the
 bear expected. He awaited erect on his launches the onset of the buffalo As
 the latter rushed forward with lowered
 head and was almost upon the bear the bear would throw himself to one side with astonishing quickness, and at the same instant deliver a blow with one of his powerful forepaws that sell dom failed to break his antagonists 8 neck. It sometimes happened, though. that bull was young and agile enough to evade this blow long enough to give in turn deadly thrust of his horn into the bears side. making the combat a mutual slaughter.
 Some old Rocky mountaineers are of the opinion tAat the retreat of the grizzly bears to the inner fastnesses of the wilderness of the farther Northwest is due to the passing ofa the buffalo There is no doubt but that the passing of the buffalo had much to do with the grizzly bear Leaving it's old haunts, but 1t wasn't so much the mere passing of the buffalo as the cause of that pass ing. Instinct told the grizzly that those same causes would in time bring sbout his own passing if he didn't get away from there. and he got.
 But there are plenty of grizzlies yet If one cares to undergo the toll and trouble of going where they are If I were going after sport with those tough and ugly beasts today I wouldn't stop until I got at least two good days journey into the mountain region of southwest Idaho. The man who will camp in that country when the grizzlies are on the move will have a chance to bag the biggest and most tenacious members of that big and tenacious fam fly to be found outside of the Manitoba Rockies.
 There are plenty of silver tip and cin- namon bears in that wild Idaho country too. and some sportsmen think there are more excitement and danger in chasing or being chased by a silver tip than there Is in chasing or being chased by grizzly. That is all matter of taste or opinion, but you may take 1t from me that If any one who has ever stood up and pumped lead from a> re- beating rifle into Rocky mountain grizzly bear and seen 1t keep right on it's savage charge toward him until 1t. fell to the ground riddled by the cease-r less leaden pellets wants to face c more deadly fury than that he Is welcome to the chance. And 1t is further my opln- ion and belief that he will have to go off of the American continent to find 1t.
 Grizzly bears, like all the rest of the bear family, have the curious habit, never yet satisfactorily explained, of rising on their hind feet against a tree and reaching up as far as they can with their forspaws, making marks In the bark and wood by tearing at 1t with their claws. I have come upon these marks made as high as 1a feet above the ground,
 Imagine coming suddenly upon a oeast capable of such reach as that, with all the corresponding attachments If bulk and power, in some deep ravine IT isolated spot almost impa ssabie ow- Ing to the down timber hsaped and tangled on tho ground and surrounded