The Evening Herald

10,000
ANTELOPE
SAID TO ROAM IN
LAKE AND HARNEY

COUNTRY ALSO IS ALIVE WITH
Sage hens

Game Warden Ramsby Returns From Eastern Oregon Trip for State—Antelope Can Be Seen Everywhere With Field Glasses—Go Into Nevada in Winter, Where They Are Not Protected by Law.

Probably more than 10,000 antelope are to be found this month in Lake, Harney and Malheur counties, according to Deputy Game Warden Carey Ramsby, who returned yesterday with Joe Skelton and E. A. Cress from a trip to the country east and north of Lakeview. Warden Ramsby made the trip to get an estimate of the number of antelope in that section of Oregon.

"In the country in Warner Valley and east just over the range from Warner Valley, we saw antelope almost any time," said Warden Ramsby this morning. We spotted the antelope with long range field glasses.

"Of course we did not make a count of the antelope, but there are two ranchers in that country who say that at the right time of the year they can lead a party to where 10,000 antelope can be counted. I do not doubt their word."

Most of the antelope go south into Nevada in the winter, according to Warden Ramsby. Antelope can be killed in Nevada, but in Oregon they are perpetually protected. Warden Ramsby says the people of Lake and Harney counties are much displeased with the Oregon law, because they feel they should have a right to kill antelope inasmuch as they are plentiful, and spend a large part of the year in this state.

"The country east and northeast of Lakeview for miles and miles is alive with sage hens," says Warden Ramsby.

"We killed all we could eat, and without trouble could have killed many more than we could have hauled home."