Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, June 29, 1961 THE BATTALION
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
Old Book Discloses Texas
As Hunter’s Paradise
Tyler Collector
Has 62 Pounds
Of Stamps
By The Associated Press
TYLER, Tex.—Howard Pollan
of Tyler, Tex., is probably the most
active philatelist in East Texas.
At least he collects stamps by the
bagful, boxful, barrelful.
The last time he put it on the
scales, a barrel y of stamps he keeps
under his home weighed 62.5
pounds.
Pollan is an air ti’affic control
specialist with the Federal Avia
tion Agency at Pounds Field in
Tyler.
“Anything that’s a stamp, I take
it,” Pollan said as he catalogued
some new adhesives to add to his
collection.
He also has an album devoted to
plate blocks of United States is
sues. This country’s stamps and
those of the United Nations are
his favorites.
“I have the United States solid,
I guess you would say, from 1934
to the present,” he said. “I also
have all the first-day covers of
the recent issues.”
Metered mail tapes and precan
cels round out the collection.
And that’s where the bags and
boxes come in. Pollan keeps his
precancels separated in paper bags
and the metered adhesives in shoe
boxes.
“I’m not in it for money be
cause I just don’t have that kind
of collection,” he said.
By The Associated Press
ROCKPORT, Tex.—A recently
discovered book, published 113
years ago, disclosed that Texas
was a hunter’s paradise in the
last century, even more so than
today.
“Texas abounds in game animals
beyond any country in the world,”
wrote Viktor Bracht, the first
postmaster of this coast town just
noi’th of Corpus Christi.
Bracht, cautious to report only
what he had seen, is an ancestor
of the numerous Brachts who live
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and other places in South Texas.
He first came to Texas in 1845,
and revisited hi§ native Germany
in 1848. There he wrote his guide
book, mainly for Germans who
might migrate to the state.
“The most common game in Tex
as is the small American deer,
which is present in all parts of
the country,” his book says: “In
the West it is sometimes so nu
merous that 1,000 or 2,000 can be
counted in a 20-mile ride.
It is said there are elk and
mountain sheep in the northern
parts of Texas. I have never seen
any. On the other hand, there
are flocks of antelope on the up
per Cibolo and Salado, and slopes
of the Guadalupe Mountains.
Numerous herds of buffalo
range the wide grassy plains of
the northern mountain sections.
Sometimes they stray to the coast,
but their favorite range is the
immense prairies.
Enormous herds of wild cattle
competed with the buffalo on the
Sabinas and upper Guadalupe, on
the Rio Grande and on Beach
Creek, as well as several other
regions.
“There are three kinds of bears
in Texas,” Bracht wrote.. “The
dangerous grizzly is found in the
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northern mountains; the black
bear is found in the hilly sections
and near the coast. There is still
another kind along the Pedernales
—taller and more slender than the
black bear, and much fleeter,
wherefore it is called ‘racer’.”
Wild hogs, descended from do
mestic stock, ranged the river bot
toms, and the hilly regions to the
west were infested with Mexican
hogs, called javelinas.
Jaguars were found in the west
ern part of the state, between the
Medina and the Rio Grande, and
pumas were common. Moreover,
Bracht said, one of the most com
mon cats of all was the beautifully
striped leopard cat (ocelot). These
now rare, were more numerous
than bobcats, which have become
common.
Beavers were still living in the
Hill Country when Bracht was
here. Otter and mink were found
along the Guadalupe.
“There are several kinds of
foxes,” ( he said, “including the
beautiful silver ones in the western
Hill Country.^ Armadillos were
found close to Mexico, east of the
Rio Grande, and every part of
Texas has wolves. . .
“The coast are literally covered
with waterfowl, and wild turkeys
are more or less common every
where in the interior.”
He killed 65 ducks the first win
ter he was in Texas, and there
were 30 different kinds in his bag.
Besides this there were geese,
swans, spoonbills, pelicans and
sanderlings along th^ coast.
Pollan’s most valuable stamp is
one issued in 1868 for Prince Ed
ward Island. This black stamp on
yellowish paper cost him $6 for
his mint (unused) copy and cata
logues for $10. If he had a used
of the stamp that features a pro
file of Queen Victoria, Pollan says
it would be worth $15.
“It’s the ugliest looking thing
you can ever hope to come across,”
he said about his choice adhesive.
He also has around 15 three-cent
postcards issued by the United
States that are going up in value.
Pollan said they were issued in
1958 when postcard rates went up
from two to three cents.
What makes them valuable (cur
rently $3.50 or $4 catalogue value
each) is that the “I” in “In God
We Tnust” either is just a dot on
some of them or is completely
missing on others.
“A friend of mine got them from
an uncle of his,” he said. “Orig
inally, I had 17 of them, but now
I just have the 15.”
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