The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-09
NAMES NEW GAME LAWS.
Fewer city Hmters In the Woods. and tho
Slaughter Of Guides WIN he Lees.

slaughter OF 0ue0oo Will Nc Lees.
From the Lsvistos Evening Jovrmol
EusTIs, Me-. Oct THE new game law
appears to be working badly. There are
despair and disbursement for the owners
OF sporting establishments and for the regis
tered guides who have been expecting a
living through q portion Of q hard winter.
To-day the season opened on deer. but there
are not many sportsmen here to begin
general slaughter. Dead River Valley has
not for years been 80 free from sporting
men as now. II IL all charged UP to the new
law requiring sportsmen from out Of the
State to buy licenses to shoot deer and other
big game. There are probably in the neigh
borhood Of 200 sporting camps In the Dead
River Valley. These should have been filed
to overlooking by last night.
The camps will accommodate nearly 500
sportsmen and guides. There are less than hall
a hundred from out Of the State In the valley
to-day. State spOrtsmen are but little ac-
count to the proprietor Of sporting camps.
and but little II any more account to the
guides. The sportsmen Of the state are not
compelled to have guides while the out OF
the State sportsmen are. The local sports
man generally hunts up cheap boarding
place, hustles after a deer or moose. spends
a. little as possible and HES himself home
Woiu WIN rush, ~ 10 VIC bpOk AVh
abroad nat brings good luck to the owners
OF sporting camps and TO the guides.
Usually about month before the shooting
opens the proprietors Of camps begin to
receive engagements for accommodations
and guides. and when the season Is but week
away the camps have been very generally
filed to the limit Such has not been the
case this fall. No person connected with the
camps wants to say anything out loud Tor
fear of some prejudice that might spring up
In the hearts Of the game commissioners
which might be detrimental to the best inter-
ests Of the camp owners and the guides.
They all say they have got to grin and
bear 1t.
Last night, when the camps should have
been filed 10 overlooking. there were less
than half a hundred sporting men IN DEAD
River alley. One man up King and Bartlett
way who has accommodations for fifty people
was asked last mig ht how many sportsmen
he had at his camp: and he replied that outside
of three guides there was not a man VINO
had ever AIRED a shot at any sort of game
up his way. He had not received a single
ENLARGEMENT. had heard from but two OF
his old customers. and they thought ~ aouDt W,
account Of the hunters' license law. One OF
the sportsmen wrote: .,..,o -
THE trouble with your game commission ~
they wan a TN soSd proect
next thing they will be asking us to, do VIII
be to buy tho land we hunt on and pay d
MIR. Cartoons scheme to increase the
State 3 revenue and to protect the game II
just now engaging the s. snt hseDes Of SPORTS.
men from these parts at this time 10 not due
to the scarcity. Of game. for every one mere mere
sbouts knows that deer never we're 80 plenn-
it has been reported that the State game
commissioners have sold 500 hunters licenses.
for which they have received $500 mere
ZOO Of them are not working to-day. s2.A00
viii have been lost to them when the sun goes
down tonight snortssm me sb pay TO to
gay sy dor s9s 500 more viii been 70
camp owner when night comes on-u,1oo iot
both suides and owners Of camps on the hrse
day Of 5ss sa u u ns not
beens pent among thu, pines most q spordte-
men engage accommodations month aheao-
only 500 have UP 20 daseawhen inc spEa's-
The game is thicker'n fiies In June. LIN
Jim. Chase, and Round Mountain ponas.
the Kibby. King and Bartlett. ING s Spen nt
deer. The local men say they don y neeo Tug
hunters license law half 80 much as they oo
All summer long there has been dearth
come here for two weeks fishing before the
opening Of the game season hayS 0een rrs =,
have been in the habit OF taking a lazy spell
with the rod at the ponds and preparing lor
week or two with the nimble creatures %
the woods. The men from out OF the stat.
are great spenders. and the expense OF p4are
and guide cuts q small figure in the wholt
sum left behind them when they have brought
down their deer or moose
TIE FORKS. Me-, Oct. 1.-Sportsmen have
been coming here az mos ~ the
sportsmen They had been here = week
before the season opened on big game. Las,
night there was plenty o. seSHmmo TSs Ioc a.
1uides report very few ensagements. and
wonder what is In store for them this winter
Several guides say. they have received ist;
tiers from their old ,a1 n I'm G1o non s
AFFORD to pay the hunters license IN addition
to the regular expense Of trip down this
way. There are more than one hundred
sporting camps in the section 1or which this
R mps were r. nearly ali filled to oyeraow!n
the ri ght before the season opened. To-day
the most Of them are occupied by their owners
and guides, who are waiting for somethin
Carratunk and Bin Cham don't appear to
don't want to say anything ior publication
"A they don't want to give the gnme com.
liz ws.n syEed e they g., nt think Re
new license law is responsible for the new con
no mouse use for the local state hunter. The latter
has no money to invest IN guides, az ne Is not
required to employ guide.
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