The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-28
HUNTERS PARADISE IN
TEXTS TO LURE ROOSEVELT.
Land Commissioner Terrell Invites
President to visit 'Grcatcst Bear
Range in America"
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Austin. Tex. Dec. 2I.-Honorabie J: j;
Terrell. Commissioner Of the Genera Lant
Office of Texas. has forwarded to PTesident
Roosevelt an urgent invitation TO Visit
Texas next fall and join him IN q genuine
bear hunt in the Davis Mountains IN the eH-
IRENE western part Of the state. .
THIS personal invitation on the part OF
visit to the President by Goyernor-eieC'
L.anham and members of the, Texas con-
gresS.ona! delegation, al OF wholh WI -
forth in the most allurlnS language tiS
splendid hunting that exists IN the region
Wnere it is proposed the President and MS
pI II l. relieved that the President win ac-
cept the invitation when the matter IS
laid before him. The hunting ground l. WITH
In forty miles of TOyah, Tex. the nearest
railroad point. and a more desirable piacS
for an enjoyable outing IS not TO be iotho
in the whole country. Mr.. Terrell mas just
returned from a hunting trip IN these noun
tains. Although he spent but a rev Gays
there. he killed six bears. -Four OF these
were black bears. and the other two were
of the silver tip species lie says thtit
had he arrived there two weeks earlier ana
before the cold weather set in in the noun
tains. he could have killed a score or more
1T is the most wonderful bear range
there is in this country to-day: at least, l
know of no other locality that equals 1t.
An old guide at Toyah told me that there
are fully 500 bears in the Davis Noun,
tains. and | am prepared to be.ieye IT,,
continued MY Terrell. LIlc AilcLAA AZ go
easily accessible and the trip is not at all
fatiguing. one evening while standing at
my camp CHANGED to look across a deep
gorge and there saw seven bears, an III
n row. climbing up a mountain trail. They
were big black fellows and had evidently
been down in the valley feeding. II was a
sight tn. would arouse the enthusiasm or
any sportsman. They were some distance
off and did not chance . shot at them,
preferring to follow them w next day. This
/ did and l had no difficulty in killing two
bears.
.'The mountain sides are covered with a
small bush, upon which a most delicious
black berry grows in a profuslon of CluS-
tiers. / do not know the name of these Der
ries, but they have a good taste, and the
bears are fond of feeding on them. They
ripen the latter part OF October. and from
then on until the middle of November the
bears come into the mountains by the hum
dreGs and feed upon the ripe berries. The
undergrOwth and bushes where the berries
grow are so tranped down by the bears
that the feeding grounds had the appear
ance of a herd Of cattle having stampeded
there.
IF President Roosevelt will go to the
Davis Mountains next fail I will guarantee
that he will see and have an opportunity of
killing more bears than there axe to be
found i'm the whole State of Mississippi.
There is not a residence within forty miles
of the hunting ground. and no guard will
have to be posted around his camp to keep
a curious crowd from intrUding. In addi-
ton to the bears. there are plenty of deer
and antelope. and. all in all. it is a verit-
able spOrtSman's paradise