The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-03-12
PROTECTION OF GAME
,,subSsrlbsT" Takes Issue With Bis
Rosk-Ths best Plan Wanted.

I,gubserlbsrW Takes Issue With Blue
RoCk-Tho Best Plan Wanted.
To tho Editor of tho IntelllgcnceF.
sIR:-l see In recent Issue that Blue
Rock wants a closed market for game
as remedy for It's determination. Now
ls that would do would willingly accept
1t, yet have some doubts about It. l
know that In western states sportsmen
had gone there in such numbers that
the gamo was in danger Of being cxter-
minated. The authorities took 1t In
hand and had a law passed for a closed
season. In Minnesota the season OPEN
cd this fall. with good prospect, as game
had become plentiful, and tho citizens
thought II they could keep the game
from being killed would become more SO
In short time.
Now, Blue Rock says Subscriber at
tempts TO faSten the crime OF eXtermln-
0ting the birds on the spoFtSmen. !
think he has failed to grasp my idea.
had not tho remOtest idea OF blaming
the business man who wants 10 enjoy q
few days outing In hunting. i should
welcome him any time. and there are
many farmers who are busy on their
farms and have but little time for field
sport. They are not the kind Of sports
men we wish TO hedge OBntnSt. The
ofTcnders are those who are hunting at
all times of the year. week In and week
out, killing game In bToOdinR and hatch
Ing seasons, as well rs at other times.
and with ferrets are running rabbits out
OF their denS. catching them IN hand
and killing them. That Is the kind OF
sportsmen had In mind, and let me say
right hero that Blue Rock has Just ms
many city cousins among that class of
spOrtsmen as there are In the country.
Now. speaking Of the gun clubs. Blue
Rock says they are not organized for tho
determination OF the game. Is II not
fact they are organized to school the
members In breaking the clay bird. so
they may be expert in bringing down
their game on the wing? a good trap
shot will kill 1--WE birds to one killed BY
man not accustomed 10 H. He also says
they oppose n closed season, for II de-
prives them OF legitimate sport Now.
when the SEASON opens they have legal
right to hunt But where? He seems
to intimate they have no territory In
which to let loose their game and do
their hunting. II they have not. where
then, do they have legal right tohunt?
Have right to go on AS farm or
BIS farm without permission? think
not.
1 don't know whether the Wheeling
clubs have any territory or not. think
most Of them have, / saw In one OF our
eastern papers about two years ago an
account that q company OF sportsmen
had secured quite a large tract OF land
In West Virginia, extending partly into
two counties, as hunting ground, and In"
tended to stock It with quail and pleas
ants from Kansas and Missouri. and II
my memory serves me right there were
few Wheeling parties interested in the
enterprise. would have no objections
to that. They have that right; yet Blue
Rock says he don't know Of any lease.
That may be- There Is none In the coun-
ties mentioned that know OF. Blue
Rock says there were more birds In 1895
than for years previous. Where he saw
them l don't know. 1t may have been
at the door OF q restaurant, for II IL
fact they are not in the country
He says Subscriber must be denscly
ignorant Of sport Rfcld. don't know
as much as some yet was born with
little natural sense, and know that in
all organizations there are few who
have no conscientious scruples, and
would violate any law or rule when they
had a chance. II sure they would not be
found out. Finally, ! leave the subject.
II Blue Rocks plan will do let us have
II. II not let US have something else;
but let us have q law that will protect
our game against the inroads OF the
mCrcileSs sportsman. so that the busl.
ness farmer may enjoy few days afield
as well as the business man Of the city.
ST7RSCRIPER