182 TRUE BEAR STORIES.

through the open pine forest on the top
of the mountain.

Superintendent McCullough, who has
charge of Haggin & Carr’s sheep camps on
Pinos Mountain, stopped at the Examiner
camp when he made his inspecting tours,
and consultations were held with him
about the bears. From the reports given
him by the herders he judged that only
the bears that lived on the mountain were
prowling about, and that the invading
army had not arrived from the Alamo and
the Sespe region. A large cinnamon bear
had walked into one camp about ten miles

distant and killed two sheep in daylight, ©

but the grizzlies had not begun to eat mut-
ton. In July or August there would be
bears enough to keep a man busy shinning
up trees. Last year, he said, there were
at least forty bears on the mountain, and
they visited some of the sheep camps every
night. Sometimes two or three bears would
raid a camp, tree the herder and kill sey-
eral sheep. The herders were not expected