HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS 



ALONG THE 



Kansas City, Springfield & JVIemphis Line 



IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS. 



The statistics have been carefully gathered by repre- 

 sentative sportsmen who reside in that region, and much 

 valuable information about the prospects for game, the 

 kind of game that most abounds, the topography of the 

 country, and the accommodations and facilities oilered to 

 sportsmen. The reports generally show an abundance of 

 game, including bear, deer, turkeys, ducks and quail, and 

 also plenty of excellent lisliing. 



The best turkey and quail shooting is reported from 

 Rogersville to Gilmore, a distance of 140 miles, turkey 

 being so plentiful that the trainmen have no difS.culty in 

 bagging all they need for their own use from the track, 

 where they come in flocks during the dry weather to 

 scratch in the gravel along the line of the road. Deer are 

 to be found in large quantities between Norwood and 

 Hatchiecoon, but west of that range are scarcer. 



Thayer, Oregon County, Missouri, is one of the first 

 points on the line where game is reported to be plentiful. 

 The hunting grounds in that vicinity extend over an area 

 of about forty-miles square, and are known to sportsmen 

 as the celebrated Irish Wilderness and Indian Camp. 

 Deer, turke3% qnail and duck are thick, and the season will 

 not close until the latter part of February. Dogs and 

 guides can be secured at reasonable rates by visiting 

 sportsmen, and the hotel accommodations are good and 

 charges low. There being no objection on the part of 

 property owners to hunting on their grounds, this point 

 is one of the best on the line for sport. 



At Mammoth Springs in Arkansas, the game is plen- 

 tiful over a large territory; deer, turkey, quail and squirrel 



