Morning journal and courier., 1890-11-01
former times possessed many Of the high.

gage from the English and Scotch capitals,
where now the greatest number of British
gentlemen sportsmen reside, has become
one of such importance that all the north
railways in the two Kingdoms
not only annually employ large numbers
of agents to solicit this particular traffic,
but during August and September they
are sorely taxed to supply adequate accom-
modations. The expense of entertain
ment of bevy of ladies and gentlemen
for two months at one of these splendid
hunting lodges is very great To illus
trate: Lord Tweedmouth is proprietor of
Guisachan deer forest, which stretches
away from this village of Tomich to the
south of weird Glen Affaric. He is pro-
prietor and not tenant, and man of
moderate, quiet tastes, as the British aris-
tocracy are averaged. His regime of en-
tertainment would represent less outlay
than that of most shooting tenants. At
his lodge, little less than a palace, and but
mile distant from Tomich, are annually
entertained such people as Lord and Lady
Aberdeen and family; the Dowager Ouch
ess of Marlborough, Lady Sarah Church
i'll, Lord and Lady Curzow, Lord and Lady
Ramsay, Lady Winbourne, the Marquis
and Lady Dufferin, Lord Barring, the artist
Gourley Steele and Professor Drummond,
1Soko 1<OEu anu IsAuN
Saltoun, and Sir Thomas Munro, with
their retinues of servants; and am in
formed that his annual outlay exclusively
in entertainment exceeds forty thousand
dollars.
Aside from all these tsSas upon the
wealthy sportsman, there is large and in
creasing outlay in the matter of litigation
Sportsmen tenants become Gland crazy.n
All maDnar of davioaS and racl1aSs .3,,s,
gems are resorted to in order to break a
neighboring sportsman's lease and in
crease holders territory. This leads to
the courts, and certain class of the
shrewdest lawyers in Great Britain are
gaining large fortunes fostering this char
acter of barratry. One tenant occupying
shootings in the shires of Inverness and
Ross is known to expend annually fifty
thousand dollars in litigation alone. On
the authority of those possessing undenia
BILE knowledge of the entire subject, and
after most earnest investigation into the
details of expenditure, believe that an
exceedingly conservative estimate would
place the annual rentals of Scottish shoot
ings and fishings at ten million dollars,
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 expend the
enormous sum of twenty million dollars.
These Scottish shootings and fshings
comprise almost inconceiveably vast tracts
as we'll as ridiculously insignificant
bounds. Among the shootings areas OF
from five to two hundred and fifty thou
sand acres are found; while the heart of
the London clerk thrills with exultation
eleven months in the year as he glowingly
boasts of his " "'fishing' in Scotland, u
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 of the
Duke of Sutherland's ''fishings" are let in
stream spaces or lengths of no more than
six rods each. Some of the larger deeI
forests of Scotland may be mentioned.
Carrichibah, in Argyleshire, extends over
thirty five thousand acres. In Aberdeen
the forest of Mar is fifteen miles long and
eight wide. Glengary forest in Inverness
shire is about seven miles long; Gaik com
prises nearly eleven thousand acres; and
Glenavon contains twenty-five thousand
acres In Sutherlandshire the Dire CHAT
forest is fifty miles long and twenty wide
while Dirrie-M Moss forest is more than hall
as large. The great Glenartney forest, il
Perthshire, made famous by the genius o.
Scott, is said to contain about fifteen hun
| dred red deer. The glory of Scotland Il
| the sportsman, however, is the magnifcen
| forest of Athol, Blair-Athol, which nov
contains nearly eight thousand deer q
large. As it is solely occupied by its pro
/ prietor, the Duke of Athol, who is stric
| preserver of the breed, it is the acme o
| social and hunting ambition to be once ad
| mitted to the chase in these noble grounds
| The English sportsman who has killed on
Athol deer is almost as great as a noble
man in Great Britain.
But the largest deer forest in Scotland
if not the largest in the world outside o
Russia, is tenanted by a gentleman claim
ing American citizenship; one who Sc
| cured countless millions in profit out o
railway building and other transactions il
Russia. This gentleman is Mr.. William
l.. Winans, formerly, or at present, @
Baltimore; and it is violating no conf
dence in Scotland to state that his lordl
absorption of shootings and deer forests
as we'll as his tendencies to litigation i
connection with the same on a tremendou
scale, have awakened feelings other tina
those of admiration among the title
sportsmen of Britain. He has not bee
enjoying the sport of this sort of acquis
ton ten years, but his energy, money an
lawyers had already given him a red dee
park nearly one-half as large as the tots
area of Rhode Island. He is now tenaI
of more than twenty great sporting ei
tates, most of which are among the va,
properties of the Chisholms of Erchles
castle. Affaric forest, covering almost Il
whole of Glen Affaric, contains nearl
fifteen thousand acres, and the rental
five hundred pounds. Corriechallie, wit
Glengowrie in Ross-shire, has nine tho
sand acres. Carrynachouland, anoth.
Chisholm shooting, costs two hundred an
fifty pounds. Craskie forest in Inverness
shire, comprises nine thousand acres, an
Mr.. Winans pays thirteen hundred Al
fifty pounds for this. Over in Ross-shir
adjoining his Inverness forests, is Il
small forest of Durusduan, rented fro
Sir K. ]. Matheson, Bart, for but tv
hundred pounds. 1t covers nearly Il
thousand acres; and he pays five hundrs
and fifty pounds for Glomach, with eigl
thousand acres, from the same proprieto
The Fasnakyle forest, in which twenty
thirty stays and two hundred and fif
brace of grouse may be annually she
, which also covers some of the most ma
nifcent scenery of grand Strathglass,
\ secured for nine hundred and seven
pounds. Its area is fifteen thousand acre
The south side of Glassletter, also Chi
holm property, is s'shot over' by Mr.. "
: mans for two hundred and fifty pounds.
Splendid scenery has been secur
: throughout with these immense shOotil
) estates. Glencannich, opening to
5 northwest from Strathglass, is covered
!, succession of weird tarns, and t
mountain activities rise in unbroken al
beautiful slupes. The Chisholms recei
: from Mr.. Winans for Glencannich thiTte
I hundred and fifty pounds. Beyond Il
4 to the west and south are the vast forel
| of t1,fa nd (t,,llidan lsaavr a.
t est, in Inverness-shire, the property
: Lord Lovat. They occupy an area of
: ty-three thousand acres. and the rent
q fifty-seven hundred pounds. Glenstrai
u farer opens north from Strathglass at {
It little hamlet of Struy, and running 4
: ten miles along the base of the mounts
: Benevachart forms one of the most exp
r sitely beautiful valleys of the Highlan,
o Affaric forest, in Glen Affaric, previous
d mentioned, is a mass Of primeval pil
# shadowed by the beetling crags of
I giant mountain, Nam Suil, from VIII,
II peak the German ocean and the Allan
q are visible. Further still to the west
d Sir X. ]. Matheson's deer forests of XII
). Ian and Corryreach, in Ross-shire, VIII
Is comprise thirty thousand acres, and
L which Mr.. Winans pays about one tn,
8. sand pounds. Near these is Sir j. I. III
Is kenzie's celebrated forest of Kintail W
n seventeen thousand acres, for which
B. pays an equal, or a larger, rental. I
re the immense Chisholm forest of KNOCK
E. he pays twenty-five hundred pounds.
al sides these Mr.. Winans has secured
of Chisholm forest of Luibnadamph, VIII
Is covers nine thousand: the forests of +
E. cham, Patt and Corryreach, in Ross-shi
b, with an area of fifteen thousand acres,
r a rental of one thousand pounds; S
lie graph, another Chisholm forest, cost