The Coconino sun., 1924-12-19

bedding for half q man. One Of then
got buck fever and shot a score Of
times without hitting anything.
The yarn that it is "as easy te
shoot deer there as a tame cow" Is
bosh, Mr.. Miller said. 1t is about as
hard to get close as it is down here
There are more deer to be seen, Of
course, but they are wild. Illustrating
this, Mr.. Miller told how he and Mr.
Adams spent half day vainly trying
to get close enough to deer to photo
graph them. And that was on the
east side of the mountain, where
there has been no hunting. They goi
within gun range of good many
deer. but not within camera range.
Of the theory advanced by SOM
that have never been up there that,
there is plenty of feed and no excuse
for thinning out the deer, Mr.. Millel
said that the deer on the west side
are concentrated on about 75.00o
acres. Even as early as this they
are grazing on juniper and pinon
trees as high as they can reach by
standing on their hind legs. More
over. they grazed the browse SO
heavily last winter that Is to 20 pei
cent of it is dead With the extreme
drought this last summer and the
greater lack Of forage, he says much
more browse will be killed and the
deer will have hard time of it. Mr.
Miller rode horseback across the deer
country west of the mountain and got
cross-Section view of conditions.
The, deer on the east side are in
better condition than those on the
west side of the mountain. Those on
the east side are concentrated in and
near the souths canyon country. 1t is
from there Mccormick proposes to
start his drive Of three to eight thou
sand head across Grand Canyon and
the Colorado river to this part of the
county.
Mr. Berteling told Mr. Miller the
drive would be delayed day or two,
because Mccormick and the men and
horses he took from Flagstaff had
been delayed in their progress across
the river at Tanner crossing and up
the canyon on the other side Also
the arrival of some of the Indians
would increase the delay. The NOV
ing picture folks had arrived near
the scene of the proposed drive when
MI. Miller started home.
Mr.. Miller says the hunt is giving
the government men in charge of the
preserve lot of valuable experience
that viii guide them in future hunts.
it is hoped after McCormick's drive
E1s over to open the east side to hunt
ing to give Flagstaff people and 9TH
ers from the east an easier oppor-
tunity, because the east side is much
more accessible from here than the
west side.
1t is an awfully hard trip up there
from here, Mr.. Miller says, but is well
worth taking, very interesting, with
wonderful scenery. But, he says,
Flagstaff should get busy at once and
sign the roads. After one leaves the
edge of Coconino forest on the way to
Lees Ferry there is no way to tell
where the road is, and one must in
quife. There are very few signs be-
yond the river. There should be signs
all the way from the north country
to Flagstaff. There are a great
daany people coming down into that
country now and none but residents
Up there have any idea that it is
/ possible to. drive through from there
70 Flagstaff and see this wonderful
:ountry and connect here with an i'm
proved transcontinental highway
With the building of the propose
aew bridge across the Colorado near
Lees Ferry, Mr. Miller said, the road
from here to Utah will be next
4 Importance to Flagstaff to the
National Old Trails and the road to
Grand Canyon.