Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-05-03

for the morrow. Ben, Bert and Heiny were 10
go over to Bens cabin on Big Salmon lake anu
spend two days looking for elk. Charles declared
his intentions of trying again for the big bull on
the west side of the river, while had picked a
likelyooking mountain the gulch from
where Heiny had shot his goat the first day s
hunt.
We were out of camp early. Marsh and both
taking saddle horses. We cut out trail through
and around windfalls across Marshall Creek. and
by ten o'clock that forenoon well above the
snow line.
While were yet some distance below the
summit. we tied our horses in sheltered spot
and proceeded on foot Deer tracks were numer
GUS in the fresh wet snow. and on top OF small
ridge found the tracks of band of elk There
were eight in the bunch, track showing
plainly to be that of bull. and Marsh allowed"
we had better try for him. The tracks were cas-
lily followed but as they had fed all over the
ridge II took some time to find in which direction
they were going. Shortly Marsh, who walk
ing back of me, touched me and pointed out
yearling which was feeding toward us We sat
down and watched this one which was soon
Joined by another and another, until six were in
sight. The two yearlngs came within sixty feet
before they winded and turned back We
could hear the bull scraping his horns on the
brush. He was in the background. out of sight
We watched them possibly five minutes when
saw what look TO De the Dull, brushing his head
up and down among the branches of a small pine
! fired at point just back of his shoulders Then
came the disappointment of the trip for the
animal proved to be big COW. The remainder
Of the band stood motionless for quarter OF a
minute, then broke into a run down the mountain
side
We dressed the elk and continued our hunt for
goats. We were crossing deer tracks every few
feet On coming out into little park found
one track that looked good enough to follow and
had hardly gone ten rods when heard him iump
out Of bed He came into an open spot on the
highest point of the ridge, and stood looking at
me over the top OF some dwarf cedars ! drew
bead his neck and fred scoring a clean
miss The second shot hit the mark and ten.
point black-tail buck was added to the list and
went long way toward repairing my feelings
over the elk
The reunited party had supper together that
evening. Ben put up goat elk and venison steaks
to order. After the big feed was over and pines
filed we sat around the fire in the teepee tent
and planned further invasion of the game zone
across Marshall creek. The result was Berts
bagging OF the largest goat OF the trim and
Charles getting blacS-tail buck
The shooting OF Berts goat was quite re-
markabe feat He and Ben had just about given
up looking for goats and were standing on the
edge OF cliff. looking down at trail along the
side of the ledge, when goat appeared walking
leisurely The animal was about fifty feet bori
zontally and three hundred feet vertically from
him when he shot, hitting the goat square be-
tween the shoulders killing II Instantly Any
struggle the part Of the animal would have
resulted In his rolling over the cliff where II
would have been impossible to reach him The
two men crawled down over the slide rock out
to where the goat lay and after much careful