Life — July 4, 1907 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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of the Big Stick, but simply because there will be no animate nature to fake. One may ride all day through forest and over plain in New Mexico and other remote regions and never flush anything more formidable than a coyote. In the nursery we are rearing a generation of mollycoddles on the Teddybear and the fairy tales of the Rev. Mr. Long. * oe 8 UCKILY, the great Canadian wilder- ness still stretches before us; and the feet of the young men in quest of big game and of fresh material for fiction are turned thereto. It is breeding a school of writers whose fictions are wholesome and_ re- freshing, and, at their best, a stimulant to appetites cloyed by the sweetmeats of the literary larder. In this connection, a com- pilation of curious interest comes to us from Arthur Heming, the author of “Spirit Lake,” who has spent much time among the Indians and fur hunters of Canada. It occurred to Mr. Heming that an accurate record of the various kinds of game killed by one Indian during his hunting career would be interesting and suggestive. To obtain it he consulted with an old fur trader who had known a certain Indian from boyhood, and who for many years had bought his annual catch of furs. This Indian, known in northwestern Can- ada as one of the best fur hunters in the country of the ‘Strong Woo spent several days with the trader last summer; and together they went carefully over the records of the redskin’s hunting during a period of thirty-nine years. Of the rarer varieties of animals, the hunter remem- bered the actual number; an approximate ecord of the commoner kinds was obtained taking the average of his kill of many consecutive years and multiplying by * * * TH Indian been a rover over many regions wide apart, and this ex- plains the great variety of game in the list that follows: Wood buffalo, 49; moose, 390; wapiti, 156; caribou, 195; small deer, 78; bears, 585; mountain sheep, 60; mountain goats, 29; timber wolves, 112; lynx, 392; wol- verines, 25; red foxes, 399; cross foxes, 78; silver foxes, 4; blac 2; otter, 195; beaver, 1,080; fisher, 195; marten, 1,080; mink, 399; muskrats, 3,990; porcupines, 19. Total, 9,402. To these may be added 16,000 hares, 24,000 feathered creatures and 36,000 fish of various kinds—in the killing of which he was helped by his family. During these years his annual income from the sale of his furs to the traders fluctuated from $500 to $2,000 per annum. che tO 'HE record reminds us that according to Schoolcraft’s estimate, iGo acres ii in a wilderness state were necessary to support Over the Rockies | To Puget Sound A delightful trip when made on the Oriental Limited or the Fas Mail via the Great Northern Railway Low round trip summer rates to Seattle, Tacoma, Port- land, Everett, Bellingham, Vancouver, Helena, Butte, Great Falls, Spokane, Wenatchee and many other points in Mon- tana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and British Cclumbia. $ SPOKANE $ SEATTLE THE KOOTENAL TACOMA thd Return and Return From St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Superior daily until September 15, return limit October 31,1907. Liberal Sop-overs. Proportionately low rates from Chicago and points east. Write or call for literature and full information. A.L.CRAIG Passenger Trafic Manager Great Norther Bidg., St. Pau! W. M. LOWRIE General Eastern Passenger Agent 379 Broadway, New York =" GENUINE - GUYOT SUSPENDERS 55 Webbing Inimitable Buttonholes Indestructible JENNER & COMPANY Undivided Estates Exclusively BROADWAY, NEW YORK Telephone + Cable Addeees ook for the name CHGUYOT on comicbooks.com