22S * BLOOMING GROVE PAEK. 



carrying pro rata ownership in the property and all its 

 improvements. The capital may be increased to $500,000, 

 by increasing the land held in fee, and the Association is 

 empowered to acquire, by gift or otherwise, and hold lands 

 in Pike and Monroe counties in Pennsylvania, not to exceed 

 thirty thousand acres, and may lease, hire and use neighbor- 

 ing lands to the extent of twenty thousand acres, making 

 the right to control fifty thousand. And the Association 

 may issue bonds, sell, convey, mortgage or lease any or all 

 its property, real or personal, from time to time. The cor- 

 poration makes its own game laws. The penalties for poach- 

 ing are defined in the charter, and are very severe. For 

 instance, for taking fish^ the fines are $2 for every fish, and 

 $5 per pound in addition; elk or moose, $300; deer, $40 

 each, etc. ; so, also, for setting fire or damaging any property 

 of the Association. The gamekeepers or wardens are made 

 deputy-sheriffs and constables, with power to arrest poachers 

 or any person infringing the laws of the corporation. 



A great amount of work has been done by the Association 

 during the two years of its existence. In addition to the 

 erection of a most attractive club-house, eighty feet long and 

 three and a half stories high, with an extension, it has put 

 up a large boat-house ; built a dam to raise a lake five feet ; 

 enclosed 700 acres 'of forest with a deer-proof wire fence eight 

 feet high, and stocked it with deer ; built a commodious 

 game-keeper's and refreshment house therein ; stocked three 

 of the large lakes with black bass from Lake Erie; com- 

 menced trout works ; introduced a few land-locked salmon ; 

 erected rustic gateways and summer-houses; built roads, 

 laid out avenues, paths, and a croquet lawn ; created a fleet 

 of boats and canoes; and imported a kennel of dogs of best 

 stock and approved varieties. Altogether, it is a vast enter- 

 prise for this continent, and its present condition reflects 

 great credit upon the sagacity of Fayette S. Giles, Esq., its 

 President, in perceiving that the people of America were pre- 

 pared to foster such a scheme, as well as upon his energy and 



