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certain regulations. The clubs usually have fine club- 

 houses and often cottages and camps besides. In Cali- 

 fornia there are a number of immense game-preserves 

 owned and controlled by clubs, where there are no 

 buildings, the members preferring to camp out when 

 they go to shoot on their preserve. One of these clubs, 

 the Tamalpais Sporting Club, controls the shooting 

 over 18,000 acres, and another, the Point Regis Sports- 

 man's Club, composed of San Francisco sportsmen, 

 has 22,000 acres of hill and lowland, which is patrolled 

 by game-keepers. 



The Country Club is said to have the largest shoot- 

 ing territory in California — 76,000 acres of mountain, 

 marsh, lake, and coast-line. 



This club is an auxiliary of the Pacific-Union, the 

 pioneer club of San Francisco. At the Country Club 

 the members shoot deer, bears, "lions," and wild-cats. 

 Here, as elsewhere, the club has good fishing and bird- 

 shooting in addition to the big game — salmon and 

 trout, wild-fowl, snipe, etc. 



In Missouri there is a large country club which 

 has little shooting near its fine club-house, but at an 

 annex some miles away, the members have good 

 shooting. 



I have referred to these few clubs to give my readers 

 some idea of their size and of how they are planned 

 and conducted. I have been surprised at the number 

 of these organizations which are concerned with the 

 preservation of big game. 



The number of private game-parks is also increasing 

 rapidly, and at one of these parks the deer increased so 

 rapidly that it was found necessary to release many of 



