The Creating of Game Refuges 



forty-one red deer, and on the day following, 

 eighty-seven large wild boar, one hundred and 

 twenty-six small ones, eighty-six fallow deer, and 

 two hundred and one red deer. Any man, private 

 citizen as well as emperor or prince, has it within 

 his power, if he be possessed of the blood craze, 

 to kill scores and hundreds of every kind of game. 

 By the facilities of rapid travel the hunter, with 

 the least possible sacrifice of time, is transported 

 with whatever of luxury a Pullman car can confer 

 (luxury to him who likes it) to the haunts and 

 almost within the very sanctuaries of game. 

 Where formerly an expedition of months was re- 

 quired, now in a few days' time he is carried to the 

 most out-of-the-way places, to the barrens, the 

 forests, the peaks, the mountain glades — almost 

 to the muskeg and the tundra. 



How far the rage for hunting has captured 

 the community in this country of the western 

 seaboard it is surprising to learn. In the year 

 1902 there were issued for the seven forest 

 reserves south of the Pass of Tehachapi, a 

 tract three-quarters the size of Massachusetts, 

 four thousand permits to hunt. Inasmuch as 

 one permit may admit more than a single 

 person to the privileges of hunting, it was esti- 

 mated that at least five thousand people bearing 



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