Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — Bears of British Colnmbia. [ARTICLE]

Bears of British Colnmbia.

Bears—black, brown, and grizzly—ere distributed throughout the entire country, and, may be mot at any moment; but to the hunter that moment seldom arrives, although, curiously enough, he appears, according to report, to be the only class of man who dares venture out without being attacked or chased by an infuriated grizzly. Certainly, considering how plentiful bears are, they have a surprising knack of keeping out of sight. There exists in Alaska a huge bear, larger far than any grizzly, which also probably inhabits the western boundary of British Columbia, but which has not yet been sufficiently studied for classification; also another, still rarer, and, up to the present, almost unknown, will probably prove a distinct variety; it carries the most beautiful slate and white colored fur, and is about the size of a black bear.