The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-11-03

OunO1Ak anu OG0eI TRANSACTIONS IN RUSSIA
This gentleman is Mr.. William Il. Winans
formerly. or at present. of Baltimore; and
1t is violating no confidence in Scotland te
state that his lordly absorption of shootinQf
and deer forests, as we'll as his tendencies
to litigation in connection with the same
on tremendous scale. have awakened feel
inRs other than those OF admiration among
the titled sportsmen of Britain. He has
not been enjoying the sport of this sort of
acquisition ten years, but his energy, money
and lawyers have given him a red deer park
nearly one-half as large rs the total area
of Rhode Island. He is now tenant of
more than twenty great sporting estates,
ties of the Chisholms Of Erchless castle.
Affaric forest, covering almost the whole
OF Glen Affaric, contains nearly 5000
acres. and the rental is e50O. Corrie-
challie. with Glengowrie IN Ross-shire,
has 5000 acres. Carrynachouland, another
kia, forest in Inverness-shire, comprise
5000 acres, and Mr.. Winans pays 81, 35O
for this. Over in Ross-shire. adjoining
his Inverness forests is the small forest OF
Durusduan, rented from Sir K. j. Mathe-
son. Bart, for but 600. It covers nearly
arch. with 5000 acres, from the same pro-
prietor. The Fasnakyle forest, in which
twenty Or thirty stays and $50 brace of
grouse may be annually shot, which also
covers some of the most magnificent scenery
Of grand Strathglass, is secured for 1870:
Glassletter, also Chisholm property, is
''shot over by Mr. Winans for $3.50.
Splendid scenery has been secured
throughout with these immense shooting
estates. Glencannich. opening to the
northwest from Strathglass is covered by q
ain activities rise in unbroken and beau
tiful slopes. The Chisholms receive from
MIR. Wlnans for Glencannich I'll $50. Be-
yond this to the west and south are the
vast forests Of Glentrathfarar and Gull
gan Deer Forest, in Inverness-shire, the
area of 81, 900 acres, and the rent is G5, 700.
Glenstrathfarer opens north from Strath-
glass at the little hamlet of Struy, and
running for ten miles along the base Of
the mountain Benevachart forms one of
the most exquisitely beautiful valleys of
the Highlands. Affarlc Forest, in Glen
Attaric, previously mentioned, is mass of
primeval pine, Swallowed by the beetling
crags of the giant mountain. Nam Suil,
from whose peak the German Ocean and
the Atlantic are visible. Further still to
west are Sir X. J. Matheson's deer forests
of Killilan and Corryreach, in Ross-shire,
which comprise 10000 acres and for which
Mr.. Winans pays about $1,000. Near these
is Sir ). L. Mackenzie's celebrated forest of
kintail, with 1900 acres, for which he pays
an equal or larger rental. For the i'm
mense Chrisholm forest of knocktin, he
pays 1920. Beside these, Mr.. Winans has
secured the Chrisholm forest of Luibna-
damph, which covers 5000; the forests of
Riocham, Patti, and Corryreach, in Ross
shire. with an era of 1900. at rental of
4l.OOO; Sliograph, another Chrisholn, for
est, costing E140; and quite number of
smaller forests and divisions of forests at
an added outlay Of about $4,000. These
form enc unbroken forest from near the
city of Beauty on the east coast, across the
entire width of Scotland through the vast
wildernesses of Iverness and Ross shires.
Tqey cover four rivers, many ma jestic
mountains, several exquisite lochs, and
four of the grandest glens and strains in
Scotland. Their rentals are at least
900. Certainly 10000 is moderate
estimate of the annual legitimate expenses
IN the care of shooting on quarter
million acres in area. And it is matter
OF common report in the Highlands that
the amateur American millionaire sports
man" expends yearly 100000 more in liti-
cation. 1t is calculated that his annual
expenditure for the pleasure of being the
enant-proprletor of the largest deer forest
IN Scotland is fully e40,0OO or nearly $780,
OO0. His aocoutrement, entertainment and
retlnues are such as to awaken most un-
pleasant emotions in the breasts of titled
sportsmen; and when he rides to the
hounds he is attended by more than 100
huntsmen and eillies. But "the great
American deer stalker" has whimsical mo-
tions Of sporting. He seams to enjoy pos
session rather than use. For Ave years
there has not been heard the crack of q RI
de within the forest. His red deer are
tame a. sheep, and his hounds voiceless,
save in their kennel howlines, and when as
inRs'' along the mountain roads, their yelps
OF restless longing and disquiet awaken
strange echoes among the strains and craQs