Valdez daily prospector., 1911-10-06
are unfOundrd and mcndaciuus in

nearly every particular.
 "Aflcr a personal experience of more than 35 years in the Amer ican wilderness, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Hudson bay Wa Lrrs and to Alaska and rSprcial- ly throughout the range of those particular animals, think it would be safe to say that more persons ar" injured or killed through the attacks of domestic animals or wild animals in con- l finrmrnt in d single season than by all the wild animals of the for est in the last 50 years.
 ''Trur i, iH that grizzly bear. badly wounded or defending it's young, may occasionally show 1 fight, but the old day when the ipnWrrrul animal voluntarily stood IlS ground Is gone forever. al least m every district where the re- ! l"aliny rifle has taught the les srii or mans u\rrpuWrr9@ mus- lrry
 "lhr pest iIrrru, n,"SurliIu or black fly may force he hrn\rSi hunter int" a rapid retreat. but no man need eyer hrSilaIr to go Nul- unIarily and unarnlrd into any su- called Wilderness resorts of this country through fear of mrnac- ing braStS.
 Ihc more dangerous the sup posed traits of any particular ami malS, the more the certainty of IL being the one now most f.arful of mans presence, whatever may be it's attitude toward the other animals of the forest. To this one fact alone does this Drrda- ccous quadrupcd now owe it's cX- istcncc, for were it tO meet in- stead of retreat from the man with tn" gun, the end would long ago have been reached"
 Mr.. ShiraS has shown by his work that better information may be obtained and more accurate conclusions can be rrachrG with "H" season of camera hunting and with opportunity tO study at close range than Will ever be reached where the crack of the rifle all ihost n\ariably follows the ap- pcarance of wild game.
 so conscientious is Mr.. Shiras in his big game pictures that he would never include in his col lection the bear in Yellowstone park, which daily feed on the scraps from the hotels. Several years ago a magazine carried an interesting story of nashiighling bear. The pictures were taken of the Yellowstone park bear un- der rondilin which showed the primal forest in the barksrnund.
 Mr. ShiraS says that this was nature Taking of the most drrrp- tive kind. for the reason that the Yellowstone park bear are SrlIi- domestic icatrd and are %n accllS- lnmrd in the presence of man that one may approach within Il few feet without soaring them uir.
 "l desired tn show the park bear as the nature fakrrS did I@I show them. surrounded by garbage cans and scraps from the hulrl." said Mr.. ShiraS. "I set up a moving picture machin" near d group of the animals which were feeding near one of the hotels. Several of tn" bear, acting on Ihr belief that the moving picture machine contained a jam or some sweet not found among tn" scraps. came forward to investigate.
 "Il is necessary to have the Ob- Jrct at least i5 fret away when taking moving pictures, Sn l was forced Io back up and reset the machine lo keep out of the way of tn" harmless but iuuuiSiIivr bears. Instead of the camera man pursuing the bear. the bear pur- sued the camera. IL was an anus ing experience, but quite apart from my work as Il plInlngrapllrr of wild animals"
 The nIrlhuds and implement > 1 for phOIographinE wild animals invcpicd by Mir. Shiras have been adopted throughout il,c world. lIr has shared his knnwlcdyr of the forest propl" with Illuusands. inc world over. II" never sells his pictures and looks upon his work isS rrCrcaliun.
 Mr.. Shiras is the sun of n form "r justice of the United States supr"rrr court. llr served as q u"nII"r of Cuugr"Ss from Penn l syIyauia.