Wolves were very plentiful and one could hear them howling to each other at night. The men in Camp One on Archibald Lake told me that one winter they got a great many wolves by putting out poisoned meat at night, and the next morning they would find one or more dead wolves, on which they collected a bounty.

During the winter season the deer used to get quite tame and if there was crust on the snow they used to come quite close up to the camps for protection from the wolves, because the wolves could generally run on the top of the snow while the deer broke through and the wolves had no difficulty in catching them. I remember one winter, at Camp One on the Wapee, there were fifteen deer that hung around the camp and the hay shed. I could walk up to within a foot or two of a deer but then they would move away, I never got close enough to touch one, but they were not afraid and the cook often used to feed them out of his hand. Mr. Cole heard some of the men say that when the camp broke up they were going to take some of these deer home with them, and he told them that if anybody touched one of the deer, or took him away, he would report him and have him prosecuted-- and soon as the weather moderated the deer left the camp of their own accord. The same winter the cook had a wildcat at this camp, which was larger than any tame cat that I ever saw and was very vicious. He was chained and kept to house, like a dog, and if a stranger came along he would leap out as far his chain would let him, and snarl viciously. He was afraid of the cook, who always carried a club when he approached the cat, and if the wildcat snarled at him he pounded him with the club. 

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Another way of shooting deer was with setguns. A gun would be placed along a logging road, with strings stretched across the road, about a foot above ground, so that if anything struck the string it would pull the trigger of the gun and probably kill the object that tripped the trigger. I know of two men  were killed by setguns; when they went out in the morning before light to remove the guns from the road they accidentally tripped against string and were shot. Mr. Cole used to object vigorously to this practice because he said that he very often had to go to a camp after dark, along the logging road, and if a gun were set he probably would have gotten killed. There were many hunters shot accidentally by other hunters who saw something moving and thought it was a deer and fired without investigation.
 
 

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The reason for the little City of Oconto being where it is, is that there was a large amount of fine Pine and other timber tributary to a river that was large enough to float the logs to mills on Green Bay, where the logs could be sawed and the product shipped to market.

The river then was an important factor in the development of the city and surrounding country. The river was too small in its natural state to float the logs and dams had to be built where the water could be stopped till the pond was full, and then the gates raised and the logs sluiced through the dam with the head. 
 

There were at one time, on the main Oconto River, two dams; on the North Branch six; on the South Branch two; on the Waupee three, and on McCauslin Brook five. At an earlier date there were also several dams on little River. 

In the spring of 1887 we made an agreement with the Oconto Company to improve the North Branch for driv ing purposes, from Snow Falls to the outlet of Lake John. Mr. Brooks, President of the Oconto Company, thought we should go up there and look it over and he said he would take his logging superintendent, Mose Thompson; and I should take our superintendent, Gus Cole, and he had Thompson make arrangements for us to camp out at Snow Falls, providing tents and a cook. 

We went up there one day in May, Mr.Cole going as far as the McCauslin Brook Farm and waiting there until we came back, as he was lame and could not travel through the woods on foot. That night Mr. Brooks and some friends from Chicago sat up all night playing poker 

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