The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-10-05
BIG GAME ABOUDS
IN UNITED STATES
PREDATORY ANIMALS IN UNIT
ED STATES KILL MORE THAN
$4,000, 900 WORTH ANNUALLY.

Agriculture, S why persons 60 10
Africa to hu t big game.
Another is Why do bureau employ
ees buy book of adventure.
Replying t, first, they cite figures
to show that any one OF their paio
hunters has much better success IN
Western United States than the aver
age finds in Africa.
For the latter they exhibit mall
that literally is overlowing with real
live stories of daring in quest OF
mountain lion, the hoary grizzly or
the predatory wolf.
These animals are fought just as
scientifically as the Bureau OF Ento-
mology wages war on the cotton Doll
weevil, or any other Of the insect
pests, and for similar reason. 1t Is
that the lion, bear, wolf, coyote ana
bobcat menace the stock industry
lust as the insects menace the plant
industry.
Some wears ago the damage
wrought by these animals reached
such proportions that the Department
of Agriculture set out to exterminate
them. Large numbers OF men We're
employed for their ability to shoot
accurately and a thorough knowledge
of woodcraft. There are now oOo OF
them beating up the waste places In
the merciless conflict to kill the KILL
ers among Americas larger mammals
What they have done in this respect
may be CLEANED from the following
figures furnished by the Biological
SURVEY: Total killed, coyotes, 13s,-
346: bobcats and lynxes, 1884;
wolves, 1886; bears, 405; mountain
lions, '60S.
Few realize that so many OIL the
larger. mammals are still extant IN
the United States, but the Biological
Survey claims that it is only por-
tion of the population. There snn
are enough of the big killers left IN
the hills to keep the predatory game
hunters busy for years to come, they
claim.
Excerpts of a days mail Of the
Survey give an insight to the men
who are hunting the big game. These
are few:
"Cleve Miller, hunter in the Eagle
Creek, Double Circle range, Arizona
after frequently losing the trail, ran
one very large male lion to cover and
killed him. This lion had been kill
ing colts OF the Double Circle OUTFIT
In addition he caught female lion
and a big grizzly that had been kill
ing calves.
"Charles Miller, hunter, at Flag
staff, Arizona, was hampered by the
lack of horses and only got one hon'
Bob Berger, hunter, continued his
work after wolves in the south end
of the Santa Rita Mountains. He
killed the last of five wolves that
crossed the Mexican border and 10
Gated on this range last year. Since
that time they had been causing un-
told damage. ]. M. Wilson, hunter,
in the Graham Mountain region, sue
ceeded in killing one small lion. DO
not consider this good work, as there
are numerous lions on this range.
"Dave Crouch. hunter, Texas Creek
district, Colorado, has killed the NC
Intyre Hills ion.' This lion was first
seen in the north ridges about two
years ago and had two kittens with
her. She ranged between Texas
Creek and Copper Gulch up to 1920.
She made a large number of deer
kills. About May, 1921, she disap-
peared and only recently returned to
resume her destructive career Of kill
ing deer and cattle.
al. A. Roberts traps large male
wolf known as Big Foot and also
as The Terror of Lane County as
well as the female mate and seven
pups on the range north of De Buque.
Roberts was ordered here because OF
statements of j. A. Wilcoxon and the
Currier Brothers, who declared that
two-fifths of their calf crop was tax
en- by these wolves.
"At one place in Sphinx Canyon
COL, one of our hunters found wolves
denned as deep as forty feet with
tunnels like those in mine. In
order to get them out the tunnel had
to be braced with timbers so that a
man could go in safely
These are everyday exploits and
on this particular day do not contain
reference to the champion lion hunter
of them all, one Chauncey E. Beebe,
who with his faithful dog Jerry is
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