The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-11
a eREAI GAME PARK.
rwenty-six thousand Acres for a
Preserve.


Preserve. 9
q. +. Ferris contributes an article
on wild Animals In a New England Q
Game Park" TO the October Century. c
Mr. Ferris says. in describing the late l
Austin Corbln's New Hampshire pre-
serve.
Blue Mountain Forest Park. as the
preserve Is called. includes parts OF
four townships. and lies near the en-
terprising borough OF Newport on the
Concord and Claremont branch of the
Boston and Maine Railroad. 1t is said
TO be the biggest game park in the
world. except one owned by the Duke
OF Sutherland in Scotland. and one or
two royal demesnes on the continent.
I or course, in making comparisons. one
/ must exclude those immense public pre-
serves. as big as provinces. where the
British Government OF India seeks TO
save the elephant from extinction, and |
our own national parks In the West
The name of Blue Mountain attaches |
TO the entire spur of hills which blsects |
the park, while Croydon designates its
highest shoulder rising to the height OF
nearly three thousand feet. The steep
aud densely wooded heights of Croy
don. curylng like hump, break the
skyline IN the shape OF a camel's back;
near by skirting canyon opens a car
rlage route across the mountain. In
characteristics il belongs rather to the
Green Mountain than to the White
Mountain range, though it seems dis
Connected from both. The verdure of
an immense forest OF spruce, FIR, hem
lock. pine. birch. beech and maple In.
! folds it to the very crest. with here and
there a brown patch of clearing. The
greater part of the Corbn Enclosure
= consists of abandoned farms. many OF
them already beginning to hrlstle
with saplngs; for the woods are on the
u march. Dlsmantled houses with win.
. dows and doors gaping like holes in a
skull, ramshackle barns rotten and
Il weather-staned. the wreck OF stone
e fences thlckset with brambles-these
l. meet the eye at every turn.
!! The general outline of the park Is
I" that OF an ellipse with respective diam
" eters OF about four and half and
It eleven miles. and the surface Is cut
le dlagonally by backbone of mountain
AZ running northeast The lower slope'
u aud the meadow levels are diversified
&c with brooks and swamp land. while ex
&c tensive groves of second growth pro
- fusely dot the surface. 1t is in thes'
as that the wild swine, the progenitors o.
w. which clashed their tusks against tn,
vs. boar-spears Of medieval kings anC
y, barons, root and propagate their kin,
(" with fecundity which Is II marvel t,
70 the keepers.
" One can scarcely grasp the blgness 0
: the park by figures. But let the reade
VI fancy Il demense considerably NOR
va its suburbs; thirty times the area O
~ Central Park, New York; almost te
IL. times bigger than Paramount Parl
~ Philadelphia; or fourteen times tn
acreage of the whole park system {
Chicago. Roads, many of them tho
-, oughfares of days gone by, variousl
intersect the Enclosure, and an exec
~, lent carriage track crosses the par
from east to west through the pictu
-, esque notch. On the western side Il
w. decllvity is more sloping and open, b,
has the same agreeable diversity
scene.
A wire fence, partly mesh, part
harbed, nearly eight feet in height al
the twenty-seven miles in circuit, coniin
lis the four-footed tenants within its ste
set barrier. The same posts which suppC
me the fence until the trees which ha
of been set shall have grown to take thu
fish place, string telephone connecting I
rds nine sub-stations at the different gat
ngs with the central station, the home
ira the superintendent, the Corbin vii
of and the town of Newport The keep,
oks and other employees of the park va
nan from twenty five to fifty, according
n of the season of the year, 1t need scar
cent ly be said that the needs of attendaI
lrds compel a vigilance which never res
ack, Merely to watch the fence, lest
ara should have parted somewhere by az
1od, dent or wanton malice, requires an
rds, spection twice a week