Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
FOR HUNTING IN THE WEST.
Sixty Thousand Acres to $50 Purchase,
for That Purpose.

Sixty Thousand Acres to $50 Purchased
for That Purpose.
A gigantic hunting scheme which sets;
all historical preccdcnts in the shade is
on foot.
Interested in it are .hc great landed
proprictors and varici men II Europe
and the United State. 1t IL no less, Il
project than 20 purchase sixty thousand
acres of land in this country and fence
it in as huge hunting ground.
Some time ago IL party of English no.
bcmcn and military lucn. in which
were Lord Lonsdalc and other we'll
known noble sports" started ont west
on what was thought to lie /. pleasure
trip. 1t had n wider intention, how
ever, for this is the scouting party
which has carefully surveyed land in
Texas, Arizona, Utah and other states
for IL proper site for their happy hunt
ing grounds"
They have at last decided on buyin:,
up from the settlers and propvirtor: il
that district SIXTY thousand acres ut the
junction of Utah. Arizona and Nevada
taking in portions of each state and Il
part of the Snake range of mountains.
This is well known TO be the best hunt
ing region iii the country. y company
will be organized with IL capital stock
of twenty-five million dollars: to obtain
and to hold the land membership in this
company or club will cost the small
figure of $4,000. The whole district
will be fenced. and the noble scions OF
Europe. with the Vandcrbilts, Astors
and varied aristocracy of our free land
l.; :
old did on the coriiscated lands OF the
poorer people.
IIIE number of cXiics i'll Siberia this
year amounts - 5000 souls.
~ RUSSIAN guard on the Prussian
frontier near Slupca recently shot dead
four persons VINO wcro about to emf
CRATE to Brazil.
TiIE house iii Nizhniy Novgorod has
been preserved III which Peter the Great
lived before he went on his famous Asov
campaign in lG95 In the courtyard OF
that nousc is ~ present !. school for
river navigators Tho building will be
converted shortly into a museum.
~ SYNDICATE: Of French merchants has
bought 10000 pools of wool in Usoon-
Ada. Tho company proposes 10 cstal,-
iish large ranches of Russian, .in;nislr
and French sheep in the parties of
karakool and in the oasis OF pandrnsls.
with the view Of raising the finest wool
in Central Asia.
~ COMPANY has boon formed under
She supervision and control of the Gov
crnmcnt for the irrigation OF the
stcppcs in South Russia. 1t proposes. 70
dig canals and lead water to lands be-
longing 20 The Government, to various
rural constituencies aud to private per-
sons.
a ToLsToI colony has been cstablishol
in Nishnivolotsi;i, Tver, Russia The
members are mostly aristocratic or
wealthy, their chief being u rich land-
owner. They call themselves the
Tolstowji. They work ut agriculture
all day long. The ladies' among them
dress like peasant girls and go abou;
barofootcd. The police arc watching
them closely.
TnE authorities of the government OF
Taurida, Russia, have issued an order
that women bathing in free waters
shall wear bathing suits. The women
of laltecn prepared petition to tho
general government urging tho repeal
OF tho order ana declaring thas tho
curative po%crs of the water have nc
effect upon those who batho IN ciu,ncs