The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-09

cross section of just five feet was s.,ot
near the Sisters lakes, was brought out
whole and will be mounted for the
Sportsmen's exposition in New York
next March. The expert laws of the Do
minon government prohibit the ship
ping of venison Of any kind from Can
ada. This regulation. though de-
signed to prevent the wholesale slaugh-
ter and export of game, bears rather
heavily upon the successful sportsman,
who is debarred from taking home his
legitimate spoil. The prohibition does
not apply to heads. hides, etc, hut
solely to the meat. II has not been rig
idly enforced by the customs officials
wher the quantity sought to be taken
out was inconsidera BILE. and it is prob
able will soon be repealed altogether in
regard to sportsmen accompanying the
carcasses of animals legally slain by
them. Under the provisions of the law,
DR.. Bishops moose was detained by tie
customs people at st. John. Upon rep
resentation being made to the depart
ment at Ottawa that the moose was to
be mounted for the New York show,
the minister of customs promptly gave
the required permit for the carcass to
be shipped.
Amateur hunters who have visited
this fall the various game regions in the
interior of the province have been
amazed at the number of caribou they
have seen. The barrens on the Little
Sou West, Nor West, Tobique, Resti-
gouche, Nepisigut, Renous, Dungarvon
and Gains river have swarmed with
these animals, whose mysterious hab-
its and wandering ways are such a
matter of debate among guides and
sportsmeR. In Maine it is said the carl
bou are almost extinct, only about
thirty of them being killed by the
thlu nf who have hun f.
ed there this season. This practical
wiping out of, valuable game animals
that once far exceeded the moose in
numbers is attributed by some to the
persistent hunting they have suffered,
especially since the advent CT modern
repeating arms; by others to the death
of the juniper tree whose pendant moss,
in that state supplied their principal!
food.
New Brunswick differs from Maine
in the possession of immense far
reaching chains or systems of barrens,
where the caribou thrives and fattens
on the reindeer moss. The juniper.
though visited by the same insect pest
that, has killed it elsewhere, has not
suffered to the same extent
The game law at present allows only
one caribou to each sportsman, but it
is believed at the coming session of the
legislature the limit will be raised to
Two. A CARIBOU with antlerS or remark
able size and beauty was shot this fall
near Nictau lake by Stillman Arm
strong of Perth Centre. The beams,
which We're adorned with thirty five
points. We're very high and had a spread
of forty-six inches. New Brunswick s
record caribou was recently shot on
the Nor-West Miramichi by Charles T.
Riordan of Boston. The beams at
their extremities We're palmated almost
like those of a moose and the points
We're thirty nine.
The many fire specimens of moose
and caribou secured of late have drawn
public attention to the value of such
trophies. when artistically mounted, as
household decorations. and the demand
for them, especially in New York. has
greatly increased. The value of a
good caribou head in the green varies
from SIS to $25. The cost of mounting
is SIS to $40. The ordinary price paid
for an undressed moose head is 81 an
inch until so inches is reached; then
50 for every additional inch. The
charge of the taxidermist, expressage,
ETC., raises the cost of a typical moose
head to about 500, and of an eXcep-
tional specimen to s125 or $3.50.