Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1902-02-20

Hungry Experiences of Two of Our Local
Sportsman.


take great pleasure in describing
TO you. in simple way, for publica-
tion, hunting trip to Yucca, Alabama,
that made with my friend W. $, Min
ter, our popular operator for the n. &
c. Railroad
We took the sos south bound train
which made connection with a southern
train to Packers, Ala. At this place
we failed to got satisfactory conveyance
to Coffey's Ferry and being on a hunt.
ing trip anyway and also being near
the rural district or the happy hunt
ing ground" we took to the swamps,
travelling to Coffeys Ferry under the
direction of every one we met. Moth
ing from woodpecker up was too
small or large for us TO fire at. We left
sap-suckes, jays, wood -peckers, rabbits,
larks etc, scattered over the ground as
we passed.
We went about mile and half out
of the way discovering grist mill on
Mud River we met up with hail fell
low? who seemed to know us and every
body we know. He took an interest in
showing US back to the road we desir-
ed to travel. 1t was very cold, the
ground was frozen, but the cloudless
sunshine was quickly moderating the
weather. The top of the ground be-
came muddy and travelling through the
swamps the ice would break and our
feet would penetrate the mud which
was as tough as putty. 1t pulled our
ruhbers off several times.
Finally we came to the long hunted
for Coffey's Ferry, The ferryman was
on the opposite side of the river, which
was about half mile wide. We almost
yolled our eye-balls out trying to get
him to come for US, but be thought it
was some boys fooling him, so he told
US to get in the yawl and came across
which we proudly did. Striking our
weary feet on the fertile banks of the
Coffey farm, long heard of but a place
we had never seen, under direction OF
the ferryman,we happily made tracks
to w. Ii Hills, the only family We
knew in, as we thought, that God-for.
saken country We found as his guests
two beautiful young girls, Miss Annie
Hill of Spring Hill, Tenn, sister ol
Mr.. Hill, and Miss Phoebe Ables, o
- I A,1t 81
Kansas City, Mo-, brother-in-law o.
Mr.. Hill. Itwas o'clock, p. m. anG
we had walked all day in the cold anG
mnd, loaded with overcoats, guns, shells
etc. We never before knew just how q
hungry wolf felt.
The girls and Mrs. Hill soon hal
warm dinners ready, second to mono we
had ever eaten. The girls did all the
talking as our outlets were filled to th,
brim. After dinner we let the swee
pntllas brush from our clothes the nut
that had splattered on them in phono
graphic characters We took our seat
by huge log fire and talked of happ.
days gone by that we had spent togeth
err
When supper was ready we were agaiI
glad to slide our feet under the bounI
fully laden table of the farmer Afte
supper we played dominoes until afte
IL o'clock. Retiring deep in geese hal
we did not awake until the sweet wor
"breakfast' was announced by MI
Hill in the morning, The sun was ris
ing from the eastern horizon, castin
it's soft rays upon the beautiful rose
hue cliffs of Sand Mountain. Almos
as far as we could see north and sout
was level bottoms of fine land. Thi
farm is owned by A. Maoklin Coffel
who is at present in Texas looking afte
bis interest there, His farm contain
5000 acres. 1t is bounded on the mort
by McCay's prairie, on the east by San
Mountain, on the south by Coon Rive
and on the west by Tennessee rive
1t is under the management of Sal
and Chas. Simpson. The population {
this farm is about 1850 white and 90 co
ored-thirty-fye families. Ithas sa
mill, grist mill, one store and co
ton gin, two mails a week and is for
miles from a railroad This farm b;
vast amounts of timber such as popla
oak, pine and gum. 1t is very valu
BILE farm and a healthy location. "
hunted most of tho time during the d'
but not all the time all the days, "
killed ducks, quail, rabbits, squirrel
etc have been asked why we did n
90 on Sand Mountain and not hunt
near Mr.. Hills home. Ny answer
we are not misogynistic and we did n
have in our possession mitrailleus
There are men and women no th
farm that have never ridden on a ira
or seen railroad, neither have th
received any n all. They are kind pc
pie of good common sense. The 7
gFoes are polite and obedient, hone
and industrious, unlike the young ci
negro unfit for anything but fertili'
and poor quality of that.
/, being compelled to come home, Il
Mr.. Minter happily engaged. There
little history connected with this Il
that will not be revealed at present