Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-21
NEW HUNTING GROUNDS
Old Mexico Offers a Tempting Field
to American Sportsmen.

Il wish To bring TO the attention OF
sportsmen a large, new and pracl ical-
ly unNisited region wheIe game in
4 great variety is sull plentiful AZ IN
Z the old pioneer days" writes Dillon
Wallace IN Outing. 1t is region
too as quickly and easily reached as
the ovcrhuntcd districts of our own
Rocky Mountains or the Canadian will
derncss In tins country. As former
~ IN the West. there are no game
laws and no restrictions upon the
chase save aim aud conscience.
The region referred 10 is IN old
Mexico. Il may be- sand that every
species of game animal ionnd On tho
North American continent south OF
the nslioth patallel of north latitude
except moose, caribou and Ella Is found
IN western Mexico The siNrrttp
bear ranges all through the hlgh Scr
Ia Madrrs wherever there are good
feeding grounds. and wherever there
are srizzhrs } oG may expect also he
huge cinnamon bear. the grlllb :
close nelghbor,
The common brown bear is not so
numerous, but the black hear is quite
plentiful The white faced bear is
more rare. though II is sometimes
found in the coast mountains could
not learn that this species had ever
been seen IN The Sierra Madres
The higher mountains at all eleya-
tons aud even the lower foothills
abound with Whitehall deer. On the
Pacific side they are numerous almost
TO he coast. and | can souch from
experience for the quality OF
their Nen,sOu,
The mule burro or hlacktail in
labrs portions Of the States Of Chi.
Iuahua, Cuahulia and Sonora and IN
his section are also found mountain
,heep Perhaps the best section for /
Jighorn in Mexico. however. is in low
pr California, but to hunt there YOU /
must have leisure The game is too :.
emote 70 be reached on an ordinary (
XpedIton
The mountain lion turks in all the /
Iigh country. and along with him is
found but seldom killed
he American panther. All the Amer
can great cats in fact inhabt both
he Pacific and Gulf coasts and the
oothills. The small American leo
ard is very numerous all along the
OF country coasts. and the Mexican
isuar. known locally by foreigners
4 the tiger, preys upon cattle and
anch animals 10 such a degree as to
2 very much of nuisance
Ascending the valley of the San
ago Rio huge allsators were seen
asking in The sun on every sandy
each along the river bank Covers
quail rose before us Deer scamp
red away as We approached their
sedng trysts by the brooksides.
heasants and wild turkeys fed in the
'othills and in mountain and jungle
rked big game animals. as was evil
anced by numerous signs.
Il was also impressed by the fact
lat our sportsmen are rarely If ever |
'en In this part OF Mexico. Why this
3
so | cannot say. One reason pos
bly, is lack Of information as to ex-
ting conditions, and many doubtless
,sitate on the erroneous assumption
1t all Mexico is an unhealthful !
untry. sweltering under the tropi- T
! sun and infested with venomous I
sects and reptiles In the month /
November my guide and | were !
st in the snow in Mexico for two I
VS.. and during this period, and in J
CT during my stay in the noun =
ms, the heat was not so assertive as |;
be noticeable. OF snakes and in .
cts there was none-not even a mos
ito"