The sun., 1900-12-30
A GREAT GAME PRESFHJE.
Steps to Interest Sportsmcn In Its Establish
ment In the Sou thwest.

PHHNIN, Ariz. Dec. 27 Steadily the
hunting grounds of the American sports
man are growing moro Circumscrihed and
the game scarcer While this Is especially
true of the Eastern gunner, even the Western
sportsman is finding It more and more DIM
cult to satisfy his desire Ffteen wears ago
the last of the immense herds of buffalo which
roamed the Western plains disappeared
practically To-day deer are becoming
scarcer. mountain sheep have nearly dis
appeared and only in remote localities can
bears be found in numbers
Such Is the condition that has led to an
effort TO organize great association Of Ameri-
can sportsmen Its purposes, as PROPOSED
by It's projectors in the West. are to secure
the enactment and enforcement Of laws to
protect the game animals from useless
slaughter in season and out. and TO provide
i3t me cstaplShneht of a great preserve
where can be gathered and protected ALWAYS
from the pothunter enough game to furnish
amusement for all true lovers Of sport TO
that end "A meeting will be called NJ Denver
or Chicago early In the year II j, proposed
10 have national organization, with SUBJ
leagues in each State and Territory The
chief difficulty will he in the establishment.
ticking ana protection OF g Preserve II
the financial aid OF Congress may be secured
The selection OF the site Of the preserve will
Mountains offer certain advantages for such
purpose, but probably no tract large enough
could be found there For several months
an investigation has been in progress, and
only one suitable tract Of land has been found
Along the lower end Of the Colorado River
and the upper part of the Gulf Of California
lies long and wide strip of land. partly in
Arizona and California. but largely in Mexico.
which is admirably suited for the purpose
Despite It's proximity to well settled region
the land has only recently been carefully
explored party ssnt Hu, by the rro,
week from n trip through that country They
say that for 200 miles down the coast. be:
tween The Lover COLORADO on the north and
n" settlements of Quitovac Nasura and
easily be converted into the finest game
well wstered and by comparatively mex
pensive irrigation could be made productive
Of all the vegetation necessary TO the sus-
rough nature Of parts Of the country would
harbor mountain sheep and goats as we'll
found large numbers OF wild pigs. a large tyre
Of the neccary. many deer IN the hills, AMI on
TIE smaller streams and ronds enormous tocas
are very plentiful Only the Indians, mem
berI Of the Sers tribe and a few, McY can
mountains across the Arizona line an occa-
sional rRrtA OF hunter. see! the m0untain
numbers Much of the larger game has been
settlers, while the great Hooks of migratory
birds resort there on their return from their
northern haunts in the winter
According to statements of members Of the
parry there y no other place 80 well adapted
to the propagation Of the game animals
and birds. and their assertio ions are corrobo-
rated by Prof W J McGee of the Smthso-
nian Institution. who has Just returned from
a "trip along the coast in an investigation
Of the Seris Indians Tho result of the in
vcstigation of the game preserve will be
brought before the convention and STEPS
taken to obtain concessions from the MeNi-
can Government for the use Of tho strip
for term OF years at nominal rent A.
present Mexico il enGeavoring in every way
10 l,ut "a, use her uillions of acres Of unoc'u-
p'"d land She i, Offering every inducemcnt
for COlonZatIOn and settlement, and II j.
believed that the desired strip for the game
preserve can be obtained Mt reasonable terms