Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-09

INQ.$SR making bSOiL -kAG SOIleHCeully III
- the Geld of sport with rod AMI
gun-the very last province in which one
could expect 1t. That the "commercialism"
Of the nation should work to improve and
increase the hunters and anglers pleasure
seems paradoxical at first. But the rea-
sons for 1t are as simple as any other sim
pie business reason.
What the effort of sportsmen, continued
through many years, had been able to ac-
complish only step by step in the way Of
game protection and game propagation the
suddenly alert power of business promises
to fulfill almost at once.
The United States as a whole and most
of the states individually have become firm
converts to the principle that wild game is
one of the great sources of individual and
communal wealth. The passenger-carrying
railroads have plunged into the work Of i'm
proving sport and of protecting and propa-
eating game in the country reached by
them. Many OF the men who have been
made immensely wealthy by the opportu-
mites of the past few years have helped
by either leasing or buying outright thou
sands of acres OF woodland and other I'M
improved country. Other men, who nave
owned great tracts of poor, wild land Tor
years without deriving any benefit from II,
have Joined in because they have learned
hat this hitherto useless property can be
made a source of excellent income by be-
ing held as a sanctuary for the animals and
birds that are sought by the s~portsmen.
Moose and elk have been re-introduceC
into New York state. New Hampshire bS
protecting deer, moose and caribou the
whole year round, has so fostered the In
crease of the deer that 1t is tC
-. AH..,,-h tho xynnHa I'm Qnm(
parts without seeing at least one. Maine
is gathering more income each year from
the big game hunters. New Jersey, under
the influence OF especially clear and es'
pecially we'll enforced game laws, is fas'
becoming one great hunting preserve.
And the "New South" the south OF in
dustrIal regeneration, is becoming a sports
mans heaven.
Tens Of thousands of acres have beef
placed under right protection; some by thu
owners themselves, who lease out shooting
privileges, others by rich sportsmen, VIII,
form themselves into clubs and either blu,
the property or obtain hunting rights TO
financial considerations, such as paying tn
taxes.
All this posting and preserving NATURAL
reacts favorably on the unposted and un
preserved lands where hunting and hshin
are free to all, for the game cannot alb
solutely be penned in the preserves.
Exceptionally quick to see the advantag
of tempting sportsmen, the southerners ar
beginning to treat the wild things as
they were gold. Many hotel owners hav
acquired hunting rights over the countr
surrounding their property, and they per
init their guests to shoot and fish there
One hotel man thus controls $4,000 acre
in ideal game country.
AS a result the New South is fast becon
ing a magnificent game country. Frol
Tennessee east and from the Chesapeak
south, 1t furnishes today every variety {
wing shooting, from turkeys to snipe, an
in big game 1t offers deer and black bear,
Quail are so plentiful this year that tn
reports from all parts of the south are tn
same-"the finest of quail shooting is prom
ised for this year"
Old Man Bear still grumbles his sur
way through the woods Of some of tn
southern Appalachian mountains and II
forests and canebrakes Of Alabama, Nil
sissippi, Georgia and Arkansas. He
hunted in many ways. Some men like
follow him day after day, sleeping on h
trail at night, until the endurance OF II
wild beast Is conquered by the enduran'
Of the man; others hunt him with dol
that drive him to stand at bay. Some
these sportsmen carry their regard for Il
ethics of the chase so far that they bel
No rifles or shotguns, but follow Old Ms
Rear simply with a revolver, 80 that Wh'