Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-10-25
Big Game in Maine.

Although Il great deal has been
written that is interesting, to familiar
ize the lovers of the rod and gun with
Names famous fishing and hunting
resorts, there are yet many places.
known to but few, and of which little
has ever been written. The fishing
season of 1885 closed with September,
when the rifle and shot gun take the
place of the fishing tackle. At the
Rangely and Dead River re-
sorts the travel has during the
summer very largely increased and
in some places doubled. Guests
have often had to wait for parties to
leave camp before there was room for
even one more. Close time was off
October 1st, and the crack of rifle is
heard on the bOgs and streams in the
great Pine Tree state. Game was
never more plenty than it is this year,
Already the vacation limit of two
weeks Is up with the early hunters,
and they are returning with their
spoils. On the Maine Central Pull
man train one night last week were
forty-one deer and three moose, and
the next night three deer and two
moose all accompanied on the same
train by their proud own
ers, and as scarcely day
passes but there are from
three to twenty deer shipped a noble
pair of antlers from the Maine woods
will grace many n mantle over the
hall fire place and dining room. The
region about Mount katahdin and the
far northern territory around the Al
lagash, Big Machias, Fish River, and
Masards Waters and along the Cana
dian boundry is unquestionably the
sportsman's paradise, for it is in the
heart of the wilderness where the
lakes and streams are the highways.
The smoking cars of the Maine Gem
tral, and Bangor & Aroostook rail
roads are crowded with sportsmen
going TO or returning from the many
hunting camps and the introduction
of special sportsmens cars with
racks for guns and extra clothing and
storage room for the skins, heads and
hind quarters in the express cars is al
ready contemplated. Camp life in the
wilderness is one of the greatest pleas
ures given to man and pleasant fea-
ture of this years season is the iu-
creased number of ladies who accom-
pany their husbands and bring home
their trophy and share the glory as
we'll as the pleasure of pursuit of blg
game. Comfortable log camps are
found everywhere and the canoe Is al
ready outgrowing the old time preju-
dice of unstableuess and its safety
in the hands of experienced guides is
acknowledged to be greater than by
any other means of water conveyance.
Any one who has ever experienced the
warble and crankiuess Of an Adiron-
dack cedar row boat will gladly well
| come the even glide of the birch or
canvass canoe ON the waters of Maine
Ten miles or less from town, at the
present time venison is killed with
out much difficulty, the hunters ap-
pear to be driving as many deer city
ward as into the more remote depths
/ of the woods. Moose, deer and carl
bou heads are frequent sights and local
! teXidermlsts are up to their eyes in
business. The game has been better
preserved this year and the law more
respected than ever before for two
reasons, first on account of the i'm
prisonment law and second because
the increased appropriations enable
the wardens to look more carefully
after the game interests. 1t is no.
ticeable fact that sportsmen have gone
into the woods later this year to hunt
Formerly they were accustomed to
start IN August and September, but
this year they waited until the time
for shooting game by law began.
Fewer carcasses of animals shot in the
summer time have been seen in the
woods, indicating that little illegal
shooting was done.