Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-02

lar traffic, but during August and Sep
TENDER they are sorelv taxed to supply
adequate accommodations. The ex-
pense of entertainment of bevy Of
ladies and gentlemen for two months al
one of these splendid hunting lodges Is
very great. To illustrate: Lord Tweed
mouth is proprietor of Guisachan deer
forest, which stretches away from this
village of Tomich to the south OF weird
Glen Affaric. He is proprietor and not
tenent, and man OF moderate, quiet
tastes. as the British aristocracy are
averaged. His regime OF entertainment
would represent less outlay than that or
most shooting tenants. At his lodge,
little less than palace, and but mile
distant from Tomich, are annually en-
tertained such people as Lord and Lady
Aberdeen and family, the dowager
duchess of Marlborough, Lady Sarah
Churchill, Lord Lady Curzow, Lord and
Lady Ramsay, Lady Winbourne, the
Marquis and Lady Dufferin, Lord Bar
ring, the Artist Gourley Steele and Pro-
lessor Drummond, Lord Randolph
Churchill, Lord and Lady Saltoun, and
Sir Thomas Munro, with their retinues
of servants, and l am informed that his
annual outlay exclusively in entertain
ueuL e8cetus SfU ,VVO.
Aside from all these taxes upon the
wealthy sportsman, there is large aud
Increasing outlay in the matter of litIga-
ton. Sportsmeu tenants become Gland
crazy. - All manner of devices and
reckless stratagems are resorted to in or
der to reak a neighboring sportsman g
lease and increase holders territory.
This leads to the courts, and q certain
f.ia Of ha oh yrnp la in
Britain are gaining large fortunes FOSTER
ing this character of barratry. One ten
ant occupying shoOtings in the shires of
Inverness and Ross is known to expend
annually $50, 00l in litigation alone. On
the authority OF those possessing uudeni-
able knowledge of the entire subject, aud
after a most earnest investigation into
the details OF expenditure, l believe that
an exceedingly conservative estimate
would place the annual rentals of Scot
fish shootiugs and tishings at $40, 900, 600
and the expense OF enjoying their prIvi-
leges at an equal or greater sum. So
that for hunting and fishing in Scotland
alone British sportsmen annually sxpend
the enormous sum of $40 900 900!
These Scottish shootings aud fishings
comprise almost inconceivably vast tracts
as well as ridiculously insignificant
bounds. Among the shootings, areas of
from five to $50 900 acres are found;
while the heart of the London clerk
thrills with eXultation eleven months in
the yerr as he glowing boasts of his
I" fishing in Scotlaed,'' which may
comprise no more than six rods of the
shore of some gentle rivulet in which he
could not drown unless held therein face
downward. Many eff the duke of Suth-
erland's "tishings'' are let in stream
spaces or lengths of no more than six
rods each. Some of the larger deer for
ests of Scotland may be mentioned.
Carrichibah, in Argyleshire, extends
over So 900 acres. In Aberdeen, the
Forest of Mar is fifteen miles long and
eight wide. Glensary Forest in Inver-
ness-shire Is about seven miles long:
Gaik comprises nearly IL 900 acres, and
Glenavon contains % 900 acres.
In Sutherlandshire the Dirre-Chatt
forest is fifty miles long and
twenty wide, while Dirrie- Moss forest
is more than half as large. The great
Glenartney forest, IN Perthshire, made
famous by the genius of Scott, is said to
contain about 1900 red deer. The glory
of Scotland to the sportsman, however,
is the magnificent forest of Athol, Blair
AtDOl, Which HOW nearly SUUU
deer at large. As il Is solely occupied by
its proprietor, the Duke of Athol, who is
a strict presarver of the breed, it is the
acme of social and hunting ambition TO
be once admitted to the chase in these
noble grounds. The English sportsman
rho has killed one Athol deer is almost
as great as a nobleman in Great Britain.
But the largest deer forest in Scotland,
if not
THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD
outside of Russia, is teuauted by a gen.
tleman claiming American citizenship;
one who secured countless millions in
profit out of railway building and other
transactions in Russia. This gentleman
is Mr.. William L. Winans, formerly, or
at present, of Baltimore; and it is vio-
lating no confidence in Scotland to state
that his lordly absorption of shootings
and deer forests, as well as his tendencies
to litigation in connection with the same
on tremendous scale, have awakened
feelings 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 en-
ergy, money and lawyers have already
given him red deer park nearly one
half as large as the total area of Rhode
Island. He is now tenant of more than
twenty great sporting estates, most of
which are among the vast properties
of the Chisholms of Erchless castle,
Affaric forest, covering almost the whole
of Glen Affario, contains nearly Is 900
acres, aud the rental is $500. Corre-
challie, with Glengowrie in Ross shire,
has 5000 acres. Carrynachouland, au-
other Chisholm shooting. costs ESQ.
Craskie forest, in Inverness shire, COM
prises 5000 acres, and MIR. Winans pays
fl350 fer this. Over in Ross-shire, ad-
adjoining his Inverness forests, is the
small forest of Durusduan, rented from
Sir X. J Matheson, Bart, for but goo.
1t covers nearly 10. 900 acres, and he
pays $3.50 for Glomach, with 5000 acres
from this same proprietor. The Fasna-
kyle forests, in which twenty or thirty
stays and $50 brace of grouse
may be annually shot, which also
covers some of the most mag |
nficent scenery of grand Strath-
glass, is secured for f970. Its area is !
10 200 acres. The southside of Glasslet- |
ter. also Chisholm property, is 'sshot |
over' by Mr.. Winans for $3.50.
Splendid scenery has been secured |
with these immense shooting |
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