Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-23
AFTER BIG GAME.
The Season Will Soon Start in
Earnest.

GreenviIlc. Me. Sept. 22.-(SpeciaD
Now that the cool autumn .lays have
struck the lake and the cottaycrs ana
guests at the camps and hotels in the
northern Maine woods have wen,led
their way hOmewards with the excen.
ton Of a very few who are Intending
to stay later than usual the attention,
of all of the residents of these inl,un
Villages, towns and hamlets turns to
the opening of the great game season
which greatly heirs out the inhabitants
of MANY of these smaller towns, as IL
furnishes employment to many guides
AT good pay. The recent opening or
the partridge season recalls the fac,
that the fall season for stalking big
away, bringing with it the great influx
of doWn-tlie-State. SpOrtsmen wh,,
come to regard the annual fall visit
to the woods around Moosehead LAKE.
and the other lakes and ponds as q,
Very necessary part Of their existence
With reference to the partridge sea-
son, hunters vino have early taken al
vantage of the open season on these
game birds. report that they are Very
humorous throughout the State, this
1all, and are comparatively easy tC
shoot. In their early trips through the
woods of PiScatauuis county sports
men have seen abundant evidence thar
deer are very plentiful, this fail. and
that the hunting season ought to h..
rich in its rewards.
Owners Of sporting camps through.
out this and neighborirg counties hI,..
ceen engaged through the long sum
:ner in making additions to their camps
and in various other ways in preparing
for big season, this fail. Piscatacuis
county and the northen part of Fe-
EobsCot county now offers excellent
accommodations for down-the- State
and nonresident Sportsmen. and prom
inent guides and camp owners say that
thelr correspondence indicates large
number of visitors. this fall.
In relation 10 the partridge season
in this part Of the State but very little
is made of it, the greater part of the
spOrtsmen preferfing to put in their
time. little later. III the pursuit of the
large game and il many instances only
consequence of Il is the partridge sea-
son is not much, in itself. and only
serves to remind the hunters that the
law will be off the big game il the near
future and to prepare them for the
coming loads of foreign hunters
A report has been circulated that the
immense forest fires OF two years ago
were the means of driving away the
game into the lower portions of the
State and into Canada. but this report
can only gain cred2nce among nom
resident spurtsmen rs people in this
section can readily see that there has
been no dropping off in the game
The possibility of sportsman GO
ing back from this part Of the State
empty handed for lack of game is too
remote to be considered, for when the
farmers in the vicinity of the smaller
towns try to collect damages from the
State on account Of the damage done
to their crops. caused by the deer and
other game running over it. there is no
fear that the supply of game will run
short within year or two.
The rrany acres of land burnt over by
these forest fires will prove a hunters
paradise, this fail. for deer and moose,
and an experienced guide will convey
a novice into the fresh burns. if there
are such places in the vicinity of his
camp. These burns are the most fire.
qucntei places for deer owing to the
extra good feeding there. and they are
tine delight Of the hunter as the absence
Of foliage enables him to see and shoot
without the Interference of small trees.
There are many Of these burns in this
county, many OF them being up hero
back Of the lake while down the county
near Milo and Brownville, Katahdn
Iron Works and vicinity. there are
many caused by the fires Of two years
ago. Reports from all over this county
during the past month show that thu
game is very plentiful, especially the
moose. who appear to have struck this
vicinity in large numbers.
Down near Sebec lake. the other day,
a guest at the Seherco House started
to walk the carry from Williamanti,
to Ona'ya and while or the way in ana
out. distance of scarcely five miles |
he claims to have seen q deer and I |
moose. four bulls and the other thru
cows. Similar reports are coming to |
the cars of the people here every day |
and everything seems to point to one
Of the greatest hunting seasons known
To the old Pine Tree State.