Seward daily gateway., 1925-12-05
SPORTSMEN FROM ALLOVER WORLD
 HUNTPENINSULA
RENAL PENINSULA STEADILY GAINING RECOGNITION AS BlG- GAME HUNTERS PARADISE.

From the British Isles, India, Ger
 many, Austria-Hungary, France, Bel
 gium, Russian and Australia, and
 from practically every state in the
 Union sportsmen have come to AL
 aska and procured big game trophies
 on Kenai Peninsula, which has been
 termed as the big-game incubator ol
 Alaska. Seward is the port of en-
 tree of the Kenai Peninsula.
 In the pioneer days of big-game
 hunting in this region, party rep resenting the School of Natural His tory of New York City, secured some choice varieties of specimens. As guide to this party, John Gilpatrick since retired, and who makes his per- manent home in Seward, was given all the credit for the large bag of trophies secured. These included thirteen sheep, two brown bear and seven moose. The horns on one of these moose measured 73 inches.
 Then there was the expedition from the Fields Art Museum of Chicago. They came out of the region with a collection of many moose and sheep. The largest moose head had a spread of 76 inches.
 In later years Andrew Berg, resi- dent of this district, claims to have procured the record moose trophy, when he found a dead moose with a spread of horns measuring S4 inches.
 In more recent years Douglas Bur- den of New York took moose with a spread of 72 inches.
 Moose and sheep have been hunted on Kenai Peninsula for over twenty years and instead of diminishing in numbers are said, according to H- censed guides who make Seward their headquarters, to be on the in crease. There are still many cari- bou on the table-lands and rolling hills of the peninsula, better known as Caribou Hills between Tustamena Lake and Kachemak Bay. It is re- ported these hills would make excel lent feeding grounds for herds of rein deer, as moss on which these animals thrive is found in abundance. Deer from Southeastern Alaska have been placed on the peninsula anad accord ing to reports received from game warden Al Hardy, they are doing we'll Some mention has been made of importing elk from the State of Washington.
 Last season there were nine big game hunting parties in the field, while other parties also hunted on Kodiak Island and other Westward points. Without any exception every hunt was most successful and those comprising the parties, mostly east ern people, stated upon departing for the States, they were already plan ming on future hunts on the peninsu- Ia. Among these parties was P. o. Beaulieu, carpet and rug manufac- turer of New York. Upon his return to Seward from a months hunt he reported seeing a white moose. It is quite possible nature played such prank on one or more moose, hunt CTS and guides agree.
 In 1904 Andrew Berg, and an h. dian boy, discovered near Kenai lake the skulls of two bull-moose with the antlers interlocked. The heads are now a part of the combat collection" in the Head and Horns house of Bronx Geological Park, New York city. The late Charles H. Senff, a hunter and sportsman of New York, provided the means whereby the park acquired them.
 Seward is the logical headquarters for big game hunters. Here outfits can be purchased just as reasonable as anywhere in the States and from this point, transportation facilities radiate to all the hunting grounds. Seward is also the home of the great CT majority of the licensed guides in the Territory.