The news & observer., 1905-11-19
HUNTERS HAPPY
IN THE EAST
One Dozen Bears Shot in
POCosins in Carteret
and Craven.
PLENTY OF SPORT
Rich Men are Attracted to Eastern
North Carolina by Increase Of Birds
and All Game Due to Protec-
tiOn Afforded by the Aud
ubon Law.
ubon Law.
Especial to News and Observer


New Bern, n. c., Nov 1S.-Hunters
are happy, SO are the gun-shops men.
All the way from Goldsboro to Beau
fort game abounds this year in great
quantity and sportsmen have been
quick to find it out.
Bears were never so plentiful. At
least dozen have been shot in the
pocosinS around Havelock and River
dale. Even as far west as Cove and
Tuscarora three weighing over 200
pounds each have been killed by
hunting parties. This is unusual.
Heretofore bears have been found
only east of New Bern, and old hunt
ers say the presence of so many of
them in new territory this year shows
that they have increased in number
to such an extent as to be compelled
to seek other feeding grounds.
Deer, also. are reported in unusual
numbers, especially in the Newport
section-thanks to their protection
during the summer by our excellen,
game law. So famous has Newport
become as a deer-hunting preserve
that large numbers of Northern peo-
pie visit it every year to get shot
at the noblest of game apifnals. But
all the deer hereabouts are not killed
| ton of the State many hunters who
go to Newport at least once every
! fall or winter for deer hunt. Hunt
ers from New York and elsewhere
came to Carteret Lodge. near New
port. some time ago, and had fine
success.
For a month now ducks and geese
and wild fowl of all sorts have been
coming from the North and settling
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creeks of Eastern Carolina. To be
sure, the unusually warm weather of
the fall has kept the birds North
longer than is usual, but now they are
coming in great numbers! Though
duck shooting has hardly yet COM
menced, enough are being killed in the
waters around Beaufort, and even as
far inland as New Bern, to satisfy the
sportsmen and supply local markets.
With the coming of freezing weather
duck shooting begins in earnest. Mr.
Cleveland is hunting them now in the
waters north of North Carolina and
Virginia.
Wild turkeys are found in the New
Bern section. Hunters have been very
successful this wear in tho Ut OF
this much priced game.
coming into New Bern w .e
specimens said he could l.G
many more had it not t 3g a~
burden of those he alrea' 1at
increase in the number of "ese len
did birds this season owe um-
Der of previous seasons "s ked,
l-another result of the pl af-
forded by the Audubon law. Parties
from Baltimore and other points north
have been here for this game and
have had splendid luck.
In almost every field are coveys of
partridges and quail feeding on the
peas and grain. They afford the fin
est sort of shooting and this year the
bags brought in by the hunters are
considered uncommonly good-such
as no hunter can complain OF and
many would envy.
Woodcock, of course, are not so
plentiful, and marsh-hens are found
only in the marshes and lowlands
along the sounds and rivers, but there
are a goodly number of both and
they furnish excellent sport for hunt
ers at this season.
Squirrels abound in abundance
throughout the woods, while the
fields are full of doves and larks In
short game of all sorts may be found
throughout this section in greater
abundance than has been known III
many years
Many distinguished men come to
this section every year on hunting
trips The vice-president and several
other of the officials of the American
Tobacco Company with friends. spent
a week at a lodge between here and
Beaufort recently, hunting with great
success. A party of Baltimore peo-
pie stopped here for several days and
killed many wild turkeys and birds.
Hunting parties from Raleigh. Green's
boro and other points have also been
i'm this section. Mr.. Frank Gould, of
ft1fr f<. T1nl font
his private yacht Rita for a duck
hunt, and Mr.. Cleveland is already
hunting in the waters of North Caro-
lima near Norfolk.