The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-15
4 HUNESMAN S PARADISE.


many thousands of Americans al
over the United States who are
true lovers of sport had any idea
of what a huntsman's paradise ac-
tually exists in this favored region,
they would be hocking to Browns
vile by every train. and spend the
winter season here, INDUCING to
their hearts content in the rare
sport offered by the wild game
which abounds so plentifully here.
If It is big game that they would
hunt, there are no end of the fin
est deer to be found by the hunter
IN the woods higher up along the
river, although the new Texas
game law, which limits the num-
Der of deer which one hunter may
Kill in one season to three, will
necessarily make this a somewhat
Short-lived pleasure. But there
are also an abundance of wild tur-
keys in the same woods, which Of
fer a tempting mark for the hunts
rnan's gun. But It is lower down,
near the coast of Laguna Madre,
chat the finest sport may be found.
Here is the chosen winter home OF
millions of ducks and geese, which
51aFe come from the far north to
spend the cold weather in this
5aimy region. 1t is a fact in the
history of this section that Joseph
Letter of Chicago, who was cruis
ing In his private yacht on the
Texas coast some years ago, made
q record of no less than three hun
dred ducks per day in Laguna
Madre near Point Isabel, for sever
al days. While the laws of Texas
40 longer permit even Chicago's
grain kings to commit such whole
sale slaughter of game on this
coast, yet the law allows one to
kill enough to satisfy the aver
age man. The quantity of ducks
here rem aims apparently unaffected
5y the inroads of Mr.. Letter and
che many other local sportsman
who have killed their fill of them
year in and year out time of mind,
and the shores of agnna Madre to-
day undoubtedly offer the finest
sport of the kind to be found in Anne
rica. The varieties of ducks found
here are of the choicest, including
she famous mallard. teal, canvass
hack, red-heads. sprinters, etc. I'll
would doubtless turn the average
northern house wifegreenwith envy
60 learn how cheaply these fine table
birds have sold in the markets of
Brownsville for many years, the
very choicest of them selling at
from twelve to eighteen cents each.
The smaller game birds, such as
Dlover, snipe, doves and quail are
also found plentifully on the main
land closer in.
Tie fishing in Laguna Madre is
another of the sporting attractions
of this coast which is destined to
5e one of the drawing cards of the
great resorts that are being built
up mere. Not only do the finest
cable fish abound here, offering
such varieties as red fish, pOmpano,
Founders, Writings, croakers, rock !
and June fish, but that king of
game fish, tarpon. or-as lovers of
the sport are won't to call it the
silver king. abounds in these same
waters, and provides no end OF en-
ssxtaiumeht for the sportsman who
delights in tarpon fishing.
There is 40 doubt that huntsmen
viii 6ud here the finest sport of
che kinds enumerated that may be
fsund anywhere, and it only re-
4uires advertisement to bring
hither an annual tide of pleasure
seekers, who will spend their
winters in this land of delight, and