The sun., 1891-07-05
67FlGHT FOR THE WOODS.
ORDINARY CITIZENS ExoLuDED yRon
~ THE STATE LAND&

ORDINARY CITIZENS ExOLUDED rR0x
THE STATE LAND& 4.
Are Adirondack Streams rabiie High
wAys 1.-THE Question to he Heard II
Ss- ceart-The Supervisors viii Take q
-. Hand 1n-Some Ono May Get Hart.
\ NohTHwoop. N. y, July k-Troubls Il
bfsWine for the association OF sportsmen who
about . ycar aRo. purchased what is known
Z ~ the Blake tract here In the Adirondacks,
and have been making Rroat game prcsorve
n of II since. The entire region west OF tho
mountains Ia stirred up over the acts OF game
Keepers employed By tho sportsmen. and a
conflict between Keepers and natives. ending
I In bloodshed. is not unlikely to OCCUR.
The land In question was once tho property
3 of Anson Blake. and measured but little less
than 100000 acres Of woods. There Nero
/ mountains. hills. table laids. valleys. lakoa.
7 and strealns innumerable within its borders.
and tho forest that covered 1t all was iof the
most part as unbrostn and In some parts
shout as little known as II wns when Hendrix
Hudson first sailed up North River. There
< were trails about It's edeos Tho State had
built dams across the outlets Of two
OF ,ts lakes In order to make reser-
voirs for feeding tho Eric Canal Squat
tors camps could be found on .
few of Its streams. and on one lake WAS hotel
.
-. but tho great mass OF the trnct lay In tho
heart OF the wilderness. and tho land was 80
rough that. game and fish being found in
Abundance on the edges. no one thought OF
crossing It. 1t adjoined the Stae reservation
In Hamilton county-indeed. 1t inclosed In
and shut or all access to that reser,a-
tion ON the south and west so that no one
can reach the reservation without crossing
ehis tract but because 1t aijoined the
reservation the people owning 1t have free
shooting and fishing over $50 square miles OF
tho best woods east Of the Rocky Mountains.
that Is. the owners have the run OF their own
end OF the State lands. and exclude the public
from both. Threo OF the largest streams OF
this west side Of tho mountains riso in this
tract-Mooso River. Black River. and the West
Canada. which is really the Mohawk. although
that name 10 given to the othor fork west OF
the Hsrkimer.
"a AZ soon as the association had been formed
A92 etssct purchased the entire region was
4t0sted: signs were Tut up warning reopls to
keep on. Then game keepers were employed
and sent to the borders Of the tract to enforce
the notices. There the trouble began. aud.
curiously enough. the 6rst ones to feel tho
pressure Of tho new association were o num-
bsr OF gentlemen associated together as tho
Btsby Club. OF whom Gen. Il. U. Sher-
man aud Gen. Hustled, the Bald Eagle
OF Westchester. are the best known
members Tho Bisby Club owned Bisby Lako
and some hundi eds OF acres OF land. and they
had leased some hundreds in addition Their
club house and tsh-hatching establishment
were ON Bisby Lake. but their chief hunting
eround was on Moose River around the Nat
ural Dam. where tho runways Of deer resemble
COW paths In On Orange county woods pasture.
They hshed Moose River, too. and such larks
make : snostsmsSas ar 5, hs,s ,eurI They bad
Ground without hindrance., and ali that The
Jess drss. The existence Of the Bisby Ciub has.
Sc Ds0Ds an aons Ss SoaSo
A r. the Bsey peops pie found ss9:
over which they had hunted and ished they
Esrs hsmmsd IN BY the great ,raet, act, purchased
p. ~ dsssr season sss Q, 1920 $50 tn the public was
@ taS
@ss fhs
smile" a.. one Of the other association said
In su roaG BE-
Shsy would have all the rights that We have
otill open at $1,000 Dor member admission.
made no fisk they had Stained IN Il Pfey thsy Ga hsd
not exercised. the rights now claimed by the
ionnd then. business restricted. nnd the ma.
tive: wao f0Mna thsmSelkss Yea excluded from
kind elsewhere has had o like exnerience, but |
by the way, has really only Just begun: mors-
over: there i unanimity among the natives
!, TS begin win Thss has ALREADY been done
killing deer On Jones Lake outlet. II the
charge was true he was a trespasser and had
Nssts ae15 bc o w.s o. rsa so1n
Herkimer and triumphanly. 20 to spsak.
e. sSb ssans at ss
- the HerkImer Democrat came out IN All edi. !
forial strongly ,s denpmncing the Adirondack
q the opiniop Of most ptopie in his section |
the .. not because he wanted The deer: he was |
simply stubborn p his desire 70 20 gov whore h,
IHs seauit.sl q Wells may DO taken .s IN ;
u Gas law n
isaeuss ground. tho criminal WI! be ncquit-
ths old gsks tract, The writer has beard
.tfsm . mill 'm!liionairgs s'' cominE up ipe" here re-
and making US pay the expense OF
ss eSany wGs ans r.. taxi
payers obieet. Herkimer county notions
about tho enforcepeLt Of the game laws were
never very strict. but nowa gooI many think
e. . vindication OF their love OF liberty.
1t Should be said. however. that, a grent
the Game inv. are oiunliy opposed to tho spirit
10 which the loague Is foncine in lis posses-
OIons. For one thing 1hey assert that the
club has no right to shut out all access to the
state l9nds-that public highways must bs
opened By which the people can reach State
lands. They assert further. that when a deer
D wounded on sle's lands the wounder has the
Gardless OF private ownei shin Of he land. They
say turther that the Vest Canada and its tribu-
tsfies are BY law pubic highwny- up to high
bordering those streams have no right to cx-
ciuds the public fror, tho land that Is over
OF course M TIE : rnls Il that lat deer may be