The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-04
ROCKEFELLER IS
MINUS HIS deer
Adirondack Natives Say Huge
Preserve Is GameIeSs.
ARMED GUARDS ONLY TENANTS

Expenditure of 100000 on 100000
Acre Estate All For Nausht Be-
cause of War Between Army of the
Oil Kings Brother and Poaching and
Firing Mountaineers.
They're poking fun at William G.
Rockefeller up In the Adirondacks.
That 100000 acre preserve that he has
defended by armed men, surrounded
by trocha and keep Out" placards,
is just an elegant ruin. Two millions
of dollars have been poured out for
nothing, it is asserted
'"Fhe brutal peasantry of thin parts"
said guide who knows his Kipling,
has got good and even with Bill.
They've fire slashed his woods until
you couldn't hide woodtick in 'em.
You couldn't find deer in that pre-
serve of his by chemical analysis"
1t isn't practicable for the searcher
after truth to discover how much of
this statement will stand the acid test
A fifteen foot wide path surrounds the
Rockefeller forest. At frequent inter-
walls posters promise arrest and pros
ecution Of all trespassers.
Armed Men on Guard.
Day and night gamekeepers, Win
chesters on shoulders, patrol that path
in pairs Others keep on the hoof
throughout the forest in the hope that
they may land a poacher with the
goods.
Inquiry is frankly discouraged at
Brandon, on the New York and Otta-
wa railroad, which is the only stop on
the Rockefeller preserve. Mr.. Rookie
feller's employees are about all there
is of the town of Brandon now. Grass
grows in its streets, the Presbyterian
church has been removed. the three
has been torn down, and there are few
of the original residents left.
Mr.. Rockefeller bought up all the
property in the town that was for sale
at a reasonable price and destroyed
the house. His purpose was frankly
to improve the tract of forest land be
had purchased as a game preserve
Naturally enough the fewer persons
who roamed through that forest the
more 1t would be to the liking of four
footed creatures.
Further, Mr.. Rockefeller bought up
the land on either side of the st. Regis
river, one of the best trout streams
in the mountains, and thereby gained
control of that stream for piscatorial
sport.
War Is Open.
Antagonism arose, between the
Rockefeller employees and the natives
Some OF the landowners at Brandon
refused to sell their homes. although
a fair price was offered. The natives
firmly believed they had a right to
hunt deer over the Rockefeller hills
and fish In the st. Regis river, as their
fathers bad done before them. They
held that the deer were not owned by
Mr.. Rockefeller, nor had he attained a
property right IN the mountain trout.
When Mr.. Rockefeller pays one of
his infrequent visits to his property
he is accompanied In bis private car
by bodyguards, and when be walks
about the premises he is accompanied
by other guards. Before be goes hunt
Ing the woods are searched by scouts
lest some aggrieved native send a
steel jacketed bullet winging Mr.
Rockefeller's way The natives are
never found. 1t is said.
1t is also said that no deer are ever
found. Deer. as rule, are shy and
solitary creatures. who dislike tumui.
and society. They will not Craze
where the woods have been fire slash
ed.