The Winslow mail., 1926-11-12
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Editor of The Mail.

Editor of The Mail.
Upon my return to the Meteor
City after having spent a month il
the wild and rugged, yet almost
incomparably beautiful Kaibab
Forest on the north side of the
Grand Canyon, / have been ques-
toned by quite number of peo-
pie as to the condition of the sup
posedly tame" deer and the hunt
ing regulations in that newly op-
ened field for sportsmen. In fact
am beginning to feel like a "Kai-
bab Bureau of Information"
We'll, to start out with, just take
itsfrom yours truly that these fleet
footed animals of the forest are
anything but tame, despite the
front page assertion printed in the
Winslows Mail "a couple of weeks
ago. / am at a loss to even ina
CINE where the Nails informant
got this information except that
perhaps he or she enjoyed a most
pleasant "tamified'. night. mare. At
= ny rate l hardly believe the tale
fas the result Of from two to ten
hays earnest hunting and hard
mountainous horse back riding
such as experienced by practically
every hunter who got buck" in
the Kafbab. For instance just ask
Mr. George Wrench, Mr. Neal
lFug) Wilson and let's see, yes.
the local painter too, Mr.. Stetson.
The only difference in hunting
deer in that section of the country
and any other is that the deer are
more plentiful and you run across
Or, as they term it i'll camp, Jump
OUT az bltck more often. But when
you see one you better commence
to blastin' away with the old
shootin' irons real pronto or your
chances are very, very slim and
get simmer every time the deer's
hoofs hit the ground. The story
about "hold lump of sugar in
your hand and then smack him
down with a baseball bat" is all
the bunk. Seriously though, folks,
it only takes a small amount Of
common sense to realize that a
adeer is a deer for a. that" Dur
ing the first two or three days of
the season it is admitted that the
deer were not SO easily excited or
suspicious, but it didn't take EN-
all month to get "wised up" How
over, that can not be confined to
only the Kaibab hunting grounds.
The Kaibab, which is a Piute
Indian name meaning Flat Top"
Is what one might justly call a
t'flipuntain oasis" That is to say
that it is cut off from all other
feraged land, the official govern
Ilient estimate of around 10000
deer are. imprisoned there. This
can readily be seen when l tell you
that ION the south and southwest
the mountain suddenly drops off
5000 feet to form the north wall
Of the Grand Canyon. (Mr Nc
CcTmick, of Flagstaff, and Zane
Grey proved that the deer abso-
lhtely refuse to go down the trail
iutO the canyon). On the east
1t. Slopes down from. an elevation
OF 9,100 feet to $500 feet in the
space of seven miles and then
Sl'rons the~edge of the forage there
1is a bare prairie, of from two, to
twelve hiues whi3h a1 -iuahs sisg ah4
rIlbtly halted by the deep. yet
seemingly yonarrow cash in the
earth known as Marble Canyon, at
the bottom of which flows the
mighty, Colorado River. Of you
think deer can leave the country
this route it's time for you to
think AGAIN.. The north east part
of sthe Kaibab dwindles off into a
barren eight to twenty-mile wide
land known as Houserock Valley,
Which is then met by the high per-
pendicular walls Of Vermillion
Cliffs. again the deer are abso-
fiitely blocked from migrating)
and lastly we find that on the
north and northwest still nothing
but hot desert wastelands stretch
{hg for IS miles to the Utah line
and then stretching some more on
UP into that state.
The deer are there in the Kaibat
to stay They will continue to
multiply too, just as long as the
doe is not molested. My memory
serving me correctly, l recall tha!
only three Nor four of the female
of the species" were aCcida4atly
shot this last season.
Among the sportsmen to enter
the Kaibab with whom 1 got rea
we'll acquainted was Mr.. Franz
Burford, of Oklahoma. This gen
tleman is affiliated with the gaiat
association of his state and Is
well yersed in that line. He tolt
me that the plight OF the deer il
the Kaibab was serious inasmucj
az they are now feeding OH brou3i
they should use not until possibly
in January.
There were three hunting camp:
located in. the Kaibab. Hadt
Church's place at South Canyon
on the east side, and two camp!
on the'west side at Big Saddle ant
Pine Flats. Up until the 2Sth o
October there had been 1877 hunt
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