Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1889-11-20
HUNTING SEASON
GOOD SPORT TO BE FOUND in
THIS VICINITY.
WHAT SOME OF OUR NIhaODO SAY.
The Southwest Paradise for the
sportsman.-Duck, Deer, Wild
Turkeys, Quail, Bears, Etc.
I'm Large Quantities.

The hunting season is now fully at
hand and men with guns Of the
latest pattern, followed by thorough
bred pointers and settlers can be daily
seen getting ready for the wood
and field in quest Of game.
Roanoke is busy city, but some
OF her most energetic business men
are noted Nimrods and always find
time to go into the country for day
or two for sport and recreation.
Sometimes they are joined by hunts
men from other cities, and boarding
the train with their dogs they go to
the Southwest, where game is larger
and more plentiful, remaining there
week enjoying the celebrating at
mosphere and the hospitality Of a
people by whom they are always wei.
coined with their characteristic cor
diality.
For those who cannot spare the time
or have not the inclination good sport
for day or two can be found in this
vicinity, as the success OF those who
60 forth daily testifies.
A TIMES representative had short
chat Yesterday with Mr.. Frank Coff-
man, one of the best shots and most
successful hunters in this part of
Virginia, and learned many points Of
interest concerning game in Roanoke
County.
ut has been a long time since bear
was killed in this county has it not, !"
asked the reporter.
mot so very long said Mr.. G..
"a man in Catawba killed full grown
one about year and ahalf ago, and
there may be other cases Of a later
date which l cannot recall. !"
mo pheasants in Roanoke, did you
say? Why Of course there are pleas
ants in this county. One was killed
on Mill Mountain not very long ago.
Yes, there are deer too, and l intend
going after them in a day or two.
We have all kinds OF game to be
found in this locality, such as quail,
rabbits, wild turkeys, English grey
snipes and woodcock with lots Of
'possums, coons and foxes. We even
have beavers. Several are caught on
Roanoke River every year. The foxes
are both grey and rec, and rare sport
is seen hunting them sometimes.
Woodcocks are found in marshy
places, and are rather scarce. The
hunting season begins on the 18th
of October in this county and on the
1st of November in Bedford County.
The law on the subject, as rule,
makes the hunting season begin on
the list of November in counties east
of the Blue Ridge and on the 18th OF
October in counties west OF those
mountains. AS the legislature allows
the people of county to decide this
question for themselves there are some
exceptions to this rule. Besides the
game mentioned ducks are killed in
this county in season and sometimes
wild geese are shot. II man kills
twenty-five quail in one days hunt, he
is doing very we'll. | think"
Mr.. B. L. Greider Is also an ardent
sportsman, and it is hard to find a
man better posted in regard to game
than he.
THE hunting season." said he last
night in brief talk with tt MES re-
porter, "begins the 10th ofOctober and
closes the 1st of January. There
are not very many quail this year.
The heavy rains drowned a great
many young birds this fall, and places
where | killed great many birds
last year was not able to find dozen.
The best hunting grounds are in
Southwest Virginia, along the line of
the Clinch Valley Railroad. There
is good deal Of game also in Frank
lin County, squirrels being especially
numerous. There is not much game
in Roanoke County. 1t has been too
well shot over. Montgomery County
is pretty we'll stocked with game.
There are good many pheasants in
that county. In Augusta County l
have seen as many az forty pheasants
in a flock. In fact, altogether, old Viz
GINA is pretty we'll supplied with
game, and with proper protection
there is no danger that the supply
will soon be exhausted.
The reporter talked with several
others on this subject and learned
enough to satisfy him that, besides
her wonderful mineral, timber and
agricultural resources, Virginia, if the
necessary laws for the protection OF
game were enacted, could be made a
hunters paradise. In the west the
absence of timber has made vast
areas entirely destitute of game. but
here in Virginia, where the forests are
filled with dense underground, all
the conditions for the security OF
game exist, and as years go by the
hunter will look to the Old Dominion
for his favorite pastilne instead OF
going to the land of the setting sun,
where the hungry red men and devas
tating prairie fires have driven all the
game away.
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