The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-28
PEQUANNOCK PRESERVE.
A Large Tract to Be Fenced
in Next Milford
Township.
TO BREED FINE GAME
The Interested Sportsmen Are Chiefly
Residents Of Passaic
County.
Special to the Jersev City News.

Npeciut 70 TIE JefSeu Ctty NeDs.
PATERSON. March IS. 1s92.-The new
game preserve in West Milford Township
has attracted wide attention. The men
who are interested in it are chiefly from
Passaic. They include Mayor Walston
r. Brown, General Bird w. Spencer,
Judge Morrell and w. /. Barry. An
organization has been effected under the
name of The Orean Park Association.
and the following officers nav been
elected:-W. r. Brown. President; w. l..
Barry, Vice President; Richard Morrell.
Treasurer; Frederick Lowe, Secretary.
An Executive Committee, consisting of
W. r. Brown. B. W. Spencer and John
j. Bowes; and a Board of Directors made
up rs follows:-W. DR.. G. Van Ripper,
John ]. Bowes. Joseph H.. Wright. W. ].
Barry, b. w. Spencer, Andrew Mclean,
Richard Morrell, Colonel r.. Wise and
james L. Ball.
THE LAND.
They have purchased Z, 800 acres of land
in the P~equannock Valley. West Milford
township. Passaic County, which they
propose 10 turn into u park aid game pre-
serve. The object of the corporation is TO
establish an agreeable resort Tor the menu
OSiot III a. EcucIdl ClQU bOuoO anu
numerous cottages. stables. etc. The
importation and preservation of game is
one of its chief designs, and it also pro-
poses to stock the ponds aud streams To-
Gated on the property with game fish
adapted to such waters, SO That the MEM
btrs of the association may have a cou-
v~euient resort, within two hours ride
from New York, where ample facilities
Tor hunting, fishing, and various forms OF
recreation will be insured to them. The
membership IS limited to sixty, and the
number of shares In the corporation is the
same. the par value being 81. 900. This
number may be increased. Each mem
Der is entitled to a plot of u not ex
ceed1ng one acre, upon winch he may
build and maintain Il house.
A
The tract of lAud purchased is situated
four miles north of Newfoundland, alittle
village on the line of the New York, Sus-
q%uehanna and Western Railroad, which Is
we'll known as a mountain summer resort.
The drive from Newfoundland 10 Orean
Park is u charmingly picturesque one,
skirting as it does The great storage reser-
volr at Clinton Falls, built by the East
Jersey Water Company for supplying
Newark. The reservoir is two and Il half
miles long by one and a half miles wide,
aud is very deep. One of the principal
feeders of this Storage reservoir is Cedar
Pond, a beautiful sheet OF water which
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Inc property takes i'll what is known as
the Bear Fort Mountains, or "Bear Foot"
Mountains, as they are sometimes called,
the name originating from an old fort,
the ruins of which may still be seen on
the top of one of the highest points, Ac-
cJrding to the local tradition. it was built
by the early settlers, or IRON miners, to
protect them from the bears That were
once unpieasantly numerous in that sec.
ton of the coantry. There are several
small ponds and trout brooks scattered
through the hills, aud the water is very
pare and clear. The elevation averages
something over l, 100 feet, and at certain
points reaches 800 feet.
WILD LAND NEAR BY. -.
In immediate proximity of this prop
erty are over 1000 acres of wild land, now
owned by the Thomas Iron Company and
Cooper 81 Hewitt, who purchased it Tor
tue iron ore foun there. The mines have
been worked out and abandoned, and the
trees nave been left to themselves
until the forest presents a very
wild and primitive appearance. All
this and other vast tracts or land We're
formerly owned by the Rutherford estate.
The original Rutherford was one of the
old EAST Jersey Proprietors" who con-
trolied aud had charge of the State lands
and dictated terms to the settlers. He is
said to have been u very thrifty man, and
As his position enabled him to secure the
best farming and mineral lands, he pre-
empted them himself and ultimately be-
came the largest landholder in the State
of New Jersey.
The men who have promoted this en-
terprise will take steps, as soon as the
weather will permit, TO repair the roads
and begin active operations in the way of
putting up Il clubhouse, etc. The park
Is to be immediately stocked with grouse
aud quail and probably later OH with Eng
lish pheasants. 1t is thought that a large
part of the adjoining lands will ultimate
ly be incorporated with those owned by
extensive game preserve, easy of access
and capable of being made as attractive
as Tuxedo.