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Show PARADISE FOR THE GRIZZLY Too Many and Too Hungry for Comfort, Com-fort, Says British Columbia Boundary Surveyor. "Triangula! ion work, hooking up mountain peaks over vast distances and photo-topographical labors were carried on under great difficulties and dangers in the snow peaks and glaciers gla-ciers of southeastern Alaska and northern British Columbia this summer. sum-mer. It was not the danger of falling over precipices or into crevasses the party feared as much as the possibility possibili-ty that they would be devoured by hungry grizzlies. "Why, that country up there has a corner on bears. It Is the greatest grizzly paradise on earth. It was not ;m uncommon experience to see as many as six of these huge animals every day. If our records are not perfect per-fect we will have to ascribe the blame to the grizzlies." This was the way J. M. Bates of Ottawa Ot-tawa summed up the exciting features of his season's work in connection with the delimitation of the Alaska boundary along the Iskoot river, a tributary of the Stikine. He was in charge of a party of eight men. Mr. Bates has had many adventures in the north since he first began the delimitation delim-itation of the frontier. Two years ago he wounded a grizzly and in a dash for safety rolled down a glacier with the animal at his heels. Mr. Bates escaped, es-caped, but the bear was dashed to death. Mr. Bates added: "J. Sullivan Cochrane, a noted Boston Bos-ton naturalist and big game hunter, had a lively experience near our camp this summer. He was seeking to photograph pho-tograph grizzlies in their native wilds. One day he snapped his camera on a huge bear, when the animal charged viciously. One of its paws hurled the kodak Into a ravine, while the other cuffed the intruder. Just then his guide fired, but not ' a moment too soon. Three shots did the guide pump into the grizzly, which staggered about, made a plunge at the guide, whose last cartridge was exhausted. Mr. Cochrane, although armed with only a revolver, then rushed to the rescue and dispatched the bear. He told me that he had completed his course in nature studies." Vancouver Correspondence Seattle Post-Intelligencer. |