The sun., 1919-05-04

Lewey lakes. perhaps even into the hid
den nook wherein weird little Dug
Mountain ponds lie.
Following the custom Of the time John
took along a very small guide boat Not
desiring to carry the boat back to the
starting point upon the departure OF the
tourists It passed into the possession OF
Burr Sturges and eventually brought UP
at the West Canadas.
On a day in mid November, while
was in that region still hunting, Jim
Sturges and in this boat were shifting
camp across one Of the smaller lakes
already for the greater part frozen over
when a flock OF half dozen Canada
geese, which had settled on the surface.
took wing and with much honking
clrcled above us.
Numbering the rifles We commenced
shooting. What with the kick of the
firearms and the lift Of a choppy little
sea the tiny craft rolled crafty in the
trough, and holding to the mark being
an impossibility our vision Of roast
gander nesting alongside the haunch
Of venison vanished with the qulckened
flight of the wild geese.
Jim grinned and looking UP at the sky
said in his quiet way, 81 presume likely
Adirondack Murray and the Biscuit
Maker are having a heluva laugh on
u.s."
Brother Aids referred to the military
road constructed in 1919 for the purpose
OF transporting troops-shanks mare to
serve as the rolling stock--from Sack
etts harbor to Saratoga. Jimmy Surge,
versed In the traditions and legendary
and mythology making UP the folklore
of the Adirondack stock--Jimmy says
there is legend in the community to the
effect that oblivious to outside happen
ings the swampers were busy at work in
the depths OF the wilderness for good
portion of year following the end OF
the war before news of the fact was
carried in to them. Some one had fallen
down on the Job and forgotten all about
the existence of the road builders. Those
were the happy days!
What part this ancient forest trail
has played in the lives Of generations of
North Woods campers. The brother has
indicated its omnipresence. l have la
bored under pack over many stretch OF
its trend from the point where II pene-
trates the big woods at Albany Bridge
on the Oswegatchie to the locality In
which II breaks into the open far to the
east in Hamilton county. I have swell
tered up Its ascents and down it's de-
cliv.ti during the heat of summer and
I have traversed its windings when the
SHOWS have made the surface smooth.
May the old military road never grow
closed
No bounty Paid on Painters.
Noting some recent correspondence In
the column ~. L. o." writing from
New Rochelle. showed from reliable
records that no bounty had been
| claimed on Adirondack killed panthers
! since May, 1884. This fact gives rise
TO the natural query: If as has beer
| contended panthers have been secured In
| later years why are not to be found or
| record the names Of the lucky slayers
| presumably guides or trappers or In any
circum stances thrifty woods residents
familiar with the price placed upon sucl
quarry? I never knew a fur handler tt
lose sight of this side perquisite of his
activities. 1t might, moreover be born,
In mind as an offset TO these popular
claims bearing on the alleged recent
killing Of panthers, as in the case OF
fishes. that the nomenclature comprising
! game birds and animals as locally ap
piled is often OF loose structure.
| "EX-Trapper," who writes from larry
town relative to wolves, calls attention
| to the map dealing with the present day
| distribution OF wolves I'm the United
States, issued by the Biological Survey
| for the year 1918.
In this map no wolves are recorded
IN the Adlrondacks. No doubt this
omission is proper, for the last OF oul
old friends that I have heard OF, Franz
Shelton, met up with one on one Of the
upper inlets OF West Canada Creek bacl
some ten or fifteen years. This Ion,
survivor was then in the sere coat ant
! NANCY and generally about all in. H.
surely has turned up his toes long befor,
| this.
In the map quoted by "Ex-Trapper'
! wolves are credited to southwestern
Maine and 10 southwestern Pennsyl
vania. This can hardly be accurate, and
tho belief gains support from the fact
that in the map certain periods arr
qualified by the characterization ZAP
proximate."