The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-09
A YEAR FOR GREAT MOOSE.
Notable Trophies Obtained iii the New
Brunswick Forests.

NOtaDle trophies VDtdlucu III AIS ->C"
Brunswick Forests.
Special correspondence of the New
York Sun from Fredericton, N. B.. says:
The big game season in New Brunswick
came to a close to-day. During all the
month of December, barring occasional
frosts, the conditions for tracking We're
good, and the sportsmen who braved
the biting frost and binding Snow in
pursuit of horns and health have
brought in some notable trophies.
The bull moose shot by f. H. Cook
of Leominster, Mass, with cross sec
ton of five feet seven inches, is still
high line" in respect to width. 1t over
laps not only any moose shot in New
Brunswick this year, but also any
moose, so far as the records show. ever
killed in eastern America. When it is
considered that moose-hunting has been
a fairly prosperous industry in Maine,
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia for
the last so years, the size of Mr.. Cooks
luck has atendency to loom. In the
olden days moose horns were almost
valueless, the sportsman was not an
eXpansionist but a duffer who feared
to face his destiny: the animals were
slaughtered chiefly by Indians and log
gers in the deep SHOWS of March after
their horns had been shed, and 1t may
well be that many an antlered monarch
has roamed the forest wilds that would
have outclassed the noble prize secured
by Mr.. Cook. In the early SOS the moose
in New Brunswick were almost exter-
minated to supply the demand for belts
and cartridge cases created by the war
between the North and the South. Old
Indians say that heads were then occa-
sionally found on the Tobique and Res
tigouche with a spread of six feet.
While Mr.. Cooks impressive trophy
now bears the palm for sheer breadth
of beam it must take second place as
an all-around head to that of a moose
recently shot near Nictau lake on the
Upper Tobique by Captain Chauncey P.
Williams of Albany, N. Y. Though the
spread, five feet three inches, is four
inches less than Mr.. Cooks candidate,
the blades have the remarkable width
of 10 inches and there are 81 perfect
points as compared with "a on Mr..
Cooks moose. This head is being
mounted by S. l.. Crosby of Bangor,
Me-, who, by the way, has received
this season los moose heads, besides
AGO caribou and deer. The leading pro-
vincial taxidermist, w. H. Carnall of
ST. John, has received "a moose heads,
of which the best specimen, shot by f.
II. Hale on the Tobique, spreads just
five feet from its tip to tip. Harry FOL
som of New York city has secured a
head in the Nictau region measuring
five feet three inches, with 20 perfect
points. Mr.. Folsom's guide was the
stalwart Adam Moore of Scotch lake, on
whose grounds five moose, II caribou,
four bears and a deer have been Killed
by Americans this season.
1t is a rather peculiar fact that, while
heads of five feet or more have quite
frequently been found on the headwat-
ers of the Tobque and the Restigouche
during the past two years, and one fine
specimen on the Nepisiguit, until very
recently no record existed of a moose
of equal spread having been killed on
any of the branches of the Miramichi.
This was the more remarkable because
the latter country seems to be fully
able to hold its own in point of game
supply with either the Tobique or Res
tigouche region, and is separated from
its rivals by only a few miles of scarce
ly definable watershed. 1t has remain
ed for DR.. Heber Bishop of Boston to
demonstrate that five-foot heads could
be found on the eastern side of this di-
vide. The Doctors moose, which had a