HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
from nearly all parts of the Union re- 
sorted there to drink of and bathe in the 
health-giving waters of the springs. 
Across, the St. Mark’s River, opposite, . 
are hunting grounds not excelled in the 
South in all probability. Bear, deer, 
turkeys, &c., are in the greatest abund- 
ance. It is represented as a magnificent 
game country. 
THE BEAVERKILL REGION. 
The Beaverkill region of Sullivan coun- 
ty, N. Y., is famous not only for the rare 
trout fishing that its numerous streams 
afford the angler, even in these later 
days when trout fishing within respect- 
able distance of the metropolis has come 
to be not much more than a memory, but 
for its broad forests, and secure ridges 
where the deer and bear still roam at 
will. There is a section, however, lying 
between the great Beaverkill and civi- 
lization, which is not so well known, but 
which is fully as prolific in all that the 
sportsman craves. The township of 
Bethel, in Sullivan county, surprises 
everybody with the excellent hunting it 
provides. Deer are plenty ; so many 
bear have not been seen since the days 
of the prairie hunters; and as to grouse 
and the smaller game, the woods are full 
of them, Smith Schoonmaker keeps a 
“sportsman’s rest ” in Bethel, about ten 
miles from Monticello, In 1877 no less 
than twenty deer were killed early in the 
| season by parties from Newburg and 
| Paterson, and the same year three deer 
| were killed by local hunters in one week 
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in December six miles from the village. 
Near Monticello the grouse shooting is un- 
surpassed. Dave Avery, of the Mansion 
House, who is equally at home behind 
setter or deerhound, or in hand-to-hand 
contest with bear, says that the lover of 
grouse shooting could never find better 
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sport than can be had within three miles 
of Monticello. This village is the cen- 
tre of the White Lake, Black Lake, 
Sockett Pond, and other wild hunting re- 
gions, and no more convenient locality 
or one that gives better promise to the 
sportsman than this same section of Sul- 
livan county can be found. From Mon- 
ticello one is in easy reach of the Beaver- 
kill region also. Monticello has five 
trains from New York via Erie Railway 
to Port Jervis, then by Port Jervis and 
Monticello Railroad. Sportsmen visit- 
ing this region, by going to the genial 
Sheriff Morris’s mansion house, will find 
everything pleasant, and be furnished 
full information as to hunting grounds, 
trout streams, Kc. 
WHERE TO ROUGH IT. 
Bh aon d.s)) Ee Bean T DANG 
As there are many of your subscribers 
who wish to ‘‘ rough it,” and do so in a 
country where there is no danger from 
hostile Indians, I give the following notes 
for those who may “ pull out ” from some 
frontier town for a few months’ camp 
hunt. Denver, St. Paut, Cheyenne, 
Fairplay, or any mining town in Colo- 
rado or Montana, will be a good point 
to start from. Do notspoil what might 
be a pleasant trip by following a wagon 
train, over dusty plains and rough roads, 
through endless sage bushes and prickly 
pears. Start out with confidence well 
fixed for any emergency, and if traveling 
on the plains, keep near the river bot- 
toms, where cotton-wood timber abounds, 
and an undergrowth of willows, aspens, 
box-cedar, and ‘bull” berry bushes. 
The game naturally collects in the scat- 
tering belts of timber in the bottoms, 
and the hunter has but to watch some 
