Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-06
WHERE GAME RUNS WILD.


Austin Co-bin's Great Preserve where
Cleveland" lately Met Hls Death.
Since .Austin CorOin completed,
nearly three years ago, the fencing 10
of his vast game prese We on the
mountains near the village Of
Newton, N. H.. and turned loose into
the depths OF the forest all the ami.
mails which he had brought from
North, + asst, South, and West, there
has boen nothing to disturb the even
tenor Of life among the gamekeepers
there, Until last week, In q fierce
battle for mastery In the buifalo
herd, q big bull met his death.
The animal was u shaggy giant, Of
prOdipiOus size and unparalleled ugli-
uess. He was brought from Colo.
RADIO with twenty.three other cattle,
when the preserve was first opened
or closed. But last year "Buffalo"
Jones, % buffalo farmer near Omaha,
brought second installment to New.
port, and then began the rivalry
which ended in the big fellows de.
mise.
But the preserve still remains,
probably the finest domain Of its sort
In America. Mr.. COrbin said some
time ago to reporter. II think
that by and by there's going to be
some shooting up there"
And we'll he might think so. The
Enclosure, which he has girdcd com.
pletely With a lofty fence of heavy
wire ten to twelve feet high, includes
%, OOU acres, much Of which Is virgin
forest Of the densest sort Its out.
skirts are clcarings where the hardy
New Hampshire farm rs, Mr.. Cor.
bins forcfathers among them, have
Tor generations tOiled for livelihood.
But In the interior are places where
no man has Scr trod. Even before
Mr. Iorbin undertook the work OF
filling 1t with big game 1t was Q
frs ..class game country.
The property cost u pretty penny,
too, for as soon rs the farmers VINO
had holdings there, great or small,
learned OF tho Co. bin p oject they
developed into real estate spectators,
and tackled on fancy prices to their
mountain farms. and II was only
after years Of effort that he succeeded
In getting possession Of all that he
wanted for his deer md elk and
moOse and bear AM wild bears fr, m
Germany to play and multiply III.
Even yet there fingers one old fa mer
who Is holding OIL for Mr.. Corbin to
come to h . te ms The old man has
about 800 acres in the middle of the
tract and his own private driveway
for approach.
At intervals all along the line Of
the high wire fence there are game.
keepers houses, where great gates
open into this p;ivate wilderness.
The whole business IL under control
OF q smooth. faced, sharp.eved little
Yankee named StOckwell, whose
yOuth--he ID only about % years old
dies not prevent him from being
Mr. Corbin's right hand man and all
round representative Ia the preserve.
A few miles from the hunting
grounds IL the old farm where
Austin COrbin used TO pillow and hoe
corn when he was boy. There
no has built come palstial cottages
and there the family spend their sum.
mers, but In the winter II IL land
OF snOw. The stables are built right
on TO the kitchens, and after Decem.
her gets we'll under way roads and
fences are only TatJers OF memory
until the spring thaws have brought
them into view again.
How many thousands upon thou.
sands " has cost Mr.. Corbin TO pre-.
pare this big playground for his heirs
and their friends To shoot over some
day No man knows, or probably ever
will. except. mayhap, tho little yam.
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