The morning call., 1890-11-09

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creasing outlay in the matter of litigation
Sportsmen tenants become "land crazy"
All manner of devices and reckless
stratagemS are resorted to in order to
break Il nelghboring sportsman's lease and
increase 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
shooting in the shires of Inverness and Ross
is known to eXpend annually $4,000
in LITIGATION alone. On the authority of
those possessing undeniable knowledge OF
the entire subject, and after most earnest
investigation into the details of expendi-
ture, believe that an exceedingly conserva-
tive estimate would place the annual rentals
OF Scottish shootings and fshlngs. at Sl0.-
100000, and the expense OF enjoying their
privileges at an equal or greater sum-. so
that for hunting and fishing in Scotland
alone British sportsmen annually expend
the enormous sum OF SO. 00O,0O0
These Scottish ShoOtings and flShings COM
prise almost inconceivably vast tracts as
well as riaiculonsly Insignificant bounds.
Among the ShOotings, areas of from five to
$4,000 acres are found while the heart of
the London clerk thrills with exultation
eleven months in the year as he gowngly
boasts of his So fishing in Scotland" which
may comprise no more than six rods of the
shore OF some gentle rivulet in which he
could mol drown unless held therein
face downward. Many of the Duke
of SutherlHnd's "fishings" are let in
stream spaces or lengths of no more
than six rods each. Some of the larger deer
forests of Scotland may be mentioned.
Carrichibah, in ArgyeShire, extends over
$1,000 acres. In Aberdeen, the forest of
Mar is fifteen miles long and eight wide.
Glengary forest in Inverness-shre, is
ahOut miles long. f,aiE
nearly 1900 acres and Genavon contains
-. 900 acres. In Sutherlandshire the Dire
Chatt forest is fifty miles long and twenty
wide, while Dirrie-MosS forest Is more than
half as large. The great Gieuartney forest,
in Perthshre, made famous by the genius
of Scott, is said to contain about 1000 red
deer.
THE GLORY OF SCOTLAND
To the sportsman however, is the magniti-
cent forest of Athol, BIair-AthOl, which now
contains nearly 5000 deer at large. As 1t is
solely occupied by its proprietor, the Duke
of Athol, who is a strict preServer of the
breed, it is the acme of social and hunting
ambition Ia be once admitted 10 the chase in
these noble grounds. The English sports
man who has killed one Attn deer is almost
as great as nobleman in Great Britain.
But the largest deer forest in Scotland, If
not the largest in the world outside of Rus
STA, IS tenantpd by gentleman claiming
American citizenship; one who secured
countless millions in profit out OF railway
building and other transactions in Russia.
This gentleman is MIR. William L. Winans,
formerly, or at present, of Baltimore. and it
is violating no confidence in Scotland to
stat 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 awak-
ened feelings other than those of ad-
miration among the titled sportsmen
of Britain. lie has not been enjoying
the sport of this sort Of acquisition ten
years, but his energy 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. Atfaric for
est, covering almost the whole of Glen
Affaric. contains nearly 1900 acres, and the
rental is $500 COrriechallie, with Glengowrie
in RoSs-shire, has $3.50 acres. Carrynaehou-
land, another Chisholm shooting, costs ESQ.
Craskie forest i'll InyeneSS-shire, comprises
5000. and Mr.. Winans pays 1850 for this.
Over III RoSS-sblre, adjoining his inverness
forests is the small forest of DuruSduan,
rented from Sir X. j. MathesOn, Bart, for
but 600. 1t covers nearly 10000 acres; and
he pays $3.50 for Glomack, with 5000 acres,
from the same proprietor. The Fasnakyle
Forest in which twenty or thirty stags and
go brace of grouse may be annually shot,
which also covers some of the most magnifi-
cent scenery of grand StrathglaSS, is secured
for 800 Its area is 1900 acres. The
south side of Glassletter, also Chisholm
property, IS shot over" by Mr.. Winans for
ESQ.
Splendid scenery has been secured
throughout with these immense shoOting
estates. Glencannich, opening to the north
Yrst from Strathglass, is covered by sue
cessi0n of weird tarns, and the mountain
activities rise in unbroken and beautiful
SlDIpS The (,hiShOlmS rppPiVp Mr.
Winans for GlencanDich 1850. Beyond
this to the west and south are the vast for
ests of Glenstrathfarar and Cuiligan deer
forest. in Inyerness-shire, the property OF
Lord Lovat They occupy an area of 5S, COO
acres, and the rent is $500.
GLENSTRATHFARER
Opens north frSm Strathglass at the little
hamlet of Struy, and running for ten miles
along the base OF the mountain Benevachart
forms one of the most exqu isitely beautiful
valleys of the Highlands. Afarc Forest in
Glen Affaric, previously mentioned, is a
mass of primeyal 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 for
| ests of Killilan and Corryreach, in Ross
shire, which comprise $4,000 acres, and for
which Mr.. WnanS pays about $1,000
Near these is Sir J. T. Mackenze's cele-
brated forest Of kintail with 1900 acres,
for which he pays an equal, or larger,
rental. For the immense Chisholm forest
of KnOekfin he pays e2200. Besides these,
Mr.. Winans has scared the Chisholm forest
Of Luibnadamph, which covers 5000 acres :;
the forests of Rlocham, Patti and Corryreach,
in Ross-shire, with an area of 10 0O0 acres, at a
rental of $1,000; Slingraph, another CHS
holm forest, costing e140, and quite q num-
Der of smaller forests aud divisions of for
eSts at an added outlay OF about 5000. These
form one unbrGken forest from near the city
of Beauty ON the east coast, across the en-
tire width of Scotland, through the vast
wildernesses of Inverness and Ross shires.
They cover four rivers, many majestic
mountains, several exquisite lochs, and
four of the grandest glens and straths in
Scotland Their rentals are at least elS,-
000. Certainly 10000 is moderate esti-
mate Of the annual legitimate expenses in
the care of a shooting" of quarter million
acres in area. And it is matter of common
report in the Highlands that " the amateur
American millionaire sportsman" expends
yearly 10000 more in litigation. 1t is cal
culated that his annual expenditure for the
pleasure of being the tenant proprietor OF
the largest deer forest in Scotland Is 10000,
or nearly S200,000 His ACCOMPLISHMENT, enter
tainment and retinues are such as to awaken
most unpleasant emotions IN the breasts
of titled sportsmen; and when he rides to
the hounds he is attended by more than
100 spOrtsmen and gillies But THE great
American deer stalker has whimsical no.
tons of sporting. He seems to enjoy pos
session rather than use. For five years
there has not been heard tie crack of rifle
within his forests. His red deer are as
tame as sheep ana his hounds voiceless,
save in their kennel howlingS and when,
as their keepers give them galloping pound
ings" along the mountain roads, their yelps
of restless longing and disquiet awaken
strange echoes among the strains ana crags,
%CopyrighL EDGAR L. WAKEMAN.