Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1920 — Big Bruin Falls in the Catsktills. [ARTICLE]

Big Bruin Falls in the Catsktills.

Eugene Kerr, the aged guide who was with the Olney Redmond* party on their bear-hunt Ing expedition in the interior of the Catskills, told Mr. Redmond that the bear he took in the Peekamoose region, town of Deming, was the largest one of the “Racer” species that he had ever seen, and Mr. Kerr has been living In that sectton of the Catskills nearly all of the sixtyeight years of his life and is said to have taken more than forty bears in that time. The animal is said to be‘an unusually flue specimen. It measures 7 feet 8 inches from tip ot its hind feet to the point of its nose. Its weight to estimated at between 250 and 300 pounds.—Catskin Mountain News.