Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1887 — A Straight Tip to Our Nimrods. [ARTICLE]

A Straight Tip to Our Nimrods.

C. P. Mayhew of Red Bluffs* Cal., a well known former resident, sends us a slip from a local paper of his place, giving an account of a remarkably successful wild goose hunt. He says the hunt took place a few miles below wherehe lives. He also adds, and thefact is well known to all persons; who have visited the Sacremento Valley, that wild geese are so numerous there at certain times of the year that the big wheat raisers keep men employed for no other purpose than to kill and scare away the geese from their wheatfields, where they do great damage. The slip referred to is here copied.

Sam Hurd of the Glen ranch, made a haul of geese Sunday that will supply the Chico markets forsome time to come. The Sacramento river is covered for miles with wild geese, numbering millions, so thick are they that when they swim in large flocks, the water is entirely concealed. Mr. Hurd, on Sunday, took two men with him from the ranche, each armed with a double barreled shot gun. They completely covered their boat with boughs and evergreens, pushed it out into the river and floated down. The first flock they ran into, as a result of their combined fire, they bagged nintyfive of the wild birds. The boat was allowed to float down the river for three miles, and after the day’s hunting, Mr. Hurd gathered from the river banks where he had piled the geese, 1,460. A header wagon was secured and they were hauled to the ranch.V The majority of the ranch boys now sleep on feather beds and the Chico restaurants have been supplied with geese ever since.

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