The Wrangell sentinel., 1918-09-26
BIG GAME HUNTERS
PRAISE THE CASSIAR
L. J. Petit and DIR. A. T. Hol-
brook of Milwaukee, Re-
turn With Full Bags

stefan OF note, also OF milwaukee,,
arrived on the Hazel B III Friday
evening. They were en- route home
from a five weeks big game hunt
IN the Cassiar. Both gentlemen
are lovers of the outdoor life.
Hunting has been hobby with
Mr.. Petit for years. He has hunted
in Africa, South America, Mexico,
Russia and other countries. In
America Mr.. Petit and DR.. Hol-
brook are experienced in hunting
in Quebec province, Missasagua
region, northern Wisconsin and
Michigan, the Dakotas, Florida
and other states. This year they
decided to try the Cassiar big game
field, which, although not generally
advertised, is loudly praised by the
few who visit it each year.
Mr.. Petit and DIR. Holbrook left
Milwaukee early in August, making
the trip west through Banf.
Lake Louise, Glacier, Sicamoose
and the Canadian Rockies.
Arriving in Wrangell on August
10 they left at once for Telegraph
Creek in order to get an early start
from there ard be in the big game
country when the season opened on
September I.
AT Telegraph Creek they outfitted
for the trip and left with the
McCluskey brothers, Mack and Pat,
as their guides. They had a pack
train of eleven horses with the Car
lex brothers, Harry and John, as
cook and wrangler respectively.
They went over the government
telegraph trail for the first five days;
then, inasmuch as they were early
and anxious to be in the best fields
at the opening of the season Nc
Cluskey guided them through lot
Of new territory, cutting trails tor
the next sixteen days.
Starting with bear hunt Mr.. Petit
shot large brown-a long shot
across canyon which the guide
advised against as almost impos-
sible. Five days later he killed the
largest black bear taken out of the
Telegraph region in a long time.
DR.. Holbrook shot a double of two
black bear.
The next hunt was for goats of
which four fine heads were shot,
ranging from 10 and Ia to II and
Is inches. Then sheep, with four
fine heads, all between SO and Ia
and 40 inches. Two mooseand four
caribou were also added to the bag.
One wounded moose which charged
Mr.. Petit but which he downed
when about ten yards from him,
furnished the most exciting incl
dent of the trip. The four caribou
heads were pronounced by the
hunters and guides and all who saw
them as unusually large and having
we'll pointed horns. The largest
had As and IS points and We're very
heavy, of wide spread and fine
symmetry, with large plows, some
double.
The gentlemen had planned to
cross the Klappan and hunt until
the end Of September, but their
success in filling their bags to the
legal limit came within the first few
weeks of the season and carried
them to the slopes from Iskut Lake
region to this side of the klappan
in the region of klappan crossing.
They went to the klappan river,
and after a rest hit the trail tor
Telegraph Creek which they
reached just five weeks after leav-
ing for the mountains.
The gentlemen shot much small
game, grouse, ptarmagin, ducks,
coyotes, etc. They were most en-
thusiastic about the country and
their treatment while in the north.
Just before sailing south DR.. Hol-
brook said to the reporter: From
start to finish we have had most
courteous treatment by the people
with whom we have come in con-
tact. At Telegraph Creek we were
cared for in most hospitable
manner at the Hudson's Bay hotel.
We were wonderfully well QUILTED
at Telegraph Creek by Mr.J Frank
Callbreath, while the guides we're
unusually satisfactory. Our trips
on the Hazel b Ill to and from
Telegraph Creek were surely de-
lightful and lett no doubt in our
minds as to why Capt. Sid Bar
rington's name is famous in the
north. At Wrangell Mr.. ]. G.
Grant has left nothing undone to
make our stay here pleasant one.
We are also indebted to Rev. H. p.
Corser who spent some time &C.
quainting US with totem lore when
we were here the first time.