Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Hungry Bears Destroy a Railroad. [ARTICLE]

Hungry Bears Destroy a Railroad.

A logger named Johnson, who ha* a logging camp somewhere near Deep Biver, away down the Columbia, was in town looking for engines and wire cables to pull the logs cut out to the tramway. He has been using horses for this work, but says he will have to use engines hereafter, as the bears tear up his skid roads. The grease used in the skids has attracted the bears, which not only lick the skids clean of grease, but dig them out and ruin the road in search of the grease which has been absorbed by the earth. He says the bears pursue their mischievous labors chiefly In the'night, and he cannot stay up nights to shoot them.—Morning Oregonian.