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FOREST AND STREAM, 
[July 31, 1897 
and Angora soats. Tlie gentlemen ioteresteil are mostly 
officers of the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., of St. Louis. 
"St. Loms, June 15. — Editor Forest and Stream: We do 
not know that we can say more now than was said in our 
letter to you of June 29, 1896, except that all reports we have 
from our preserve keeper are encouraging. For some time 
past our stock of elk and deer has been increasing right along 
by births, and we nresume this will continue for probably a 
month to come. We have made more heai wqy this spring 
in the raising of Mongolian pheasants than foiraerly, and 
now we have quite a number of these bird*. We are not 
hunting or killing any game on our preserve, rxcept enough 
for table use when some of our members visit the clubhouse, 
preferring to let them multiply ; and will only kill them wben 
they become too numerous. iSTone of the members of the 
club have been able to v'sit the grounds this year, but all 
reports we have from there are to the effect that all the game 
is thriving, while the fishing U good in White River, which 
runs through our preserve. J. P. Litton, Sec'y-Treas." 
Tbe Page Game Park, 
The Page Woven Wire Fence Co. has a preserve at Adrian, 
Mich., where the different varieties of American game are 
bred and reared with almost uniform success. There are at 
the present time in the park two moose, nine buffalo, thirty- 
nine deer and seventeen elk, besides a small band of coyotes 
and eight black bears (including four new animals in the 
shape of cubs) These latter are'kept in separate inclosures. 
Among the deer are a number of black tails. The common 
deer are from stock captured in the Adirondacks, Michigan 
and other widely sejjarated localities. Eighteen fawns were 
born last year, including a number of sets of twins, but owing 
to the fact that the tract is not very well provided with suit- 
able browse or shade a number of them died. The larger 
game animals usurped the most desirable shade, and the 
fawns thus driven out could not stand the exposure to tl e 
sun and elements. 
The elk were purchased four years ago and have bred regu- 
larly since the first year. The buffalo came from three 
separate herds, which should prove a desirable factor in 
breeding. Two calves were born tiiis year. 
Furlough Lodge. 
At his summer place in the Catskills, Mr. George J. Gould 
has a game preserve of 600 acres. This is inclosed with 
wire fencing, and is well stocked with ring neck and Moe- 
golian pheasants and various kinds of hares as well as large 
game. The greater part of tbe park is woodland, and the 
property includes a fine trout lake of tweniy acres extent, 
Mr. Gould's superintendent writes ihat there are now 
sixty-five elk in the preserve, and fifteen or twenty detr, in- 
cluding black- tail and common Virginia deer. 
The AlliDg Game Preserve. 
Col. Frank Ailing, of Tacoma. Wash., has for some tine 
given attention to stocking Fox Island, whica lies five a ilts 
off shore to the southwest ot Tacomi, distant from tbv e-ity 
an hour and a half's steamboat ride. The island is about six 
miles long by two wide, and has an area of some 5,000 ctcres 
It is well watered and tioobered, and wild b nd except for a 
few fruit ranches. Here Mr. Allmg has li^eraitd iarge nun- 
bers of ring neck, golden, silver and Reeves pbea aulf-, 
mountain and valley quail, and quail brought from the noith 
of India. Deer are rapidly multiplying under Ids pio^i ciioi , 
and all the birds he has liberated are doiug nicely, uui aje 
now leadiDg about large coveys of young. 
The Glen Beulah Park Asscciatioa. 
The Glen Beulah Park Association wis recently LocorDor- 
ated under the laws of Colorado in couf -rm inc with S- cii^m 
I'O of the act relating to forest game and ti h tor \\m purpose 
of establishing a "park for breeding, domeHticating and rai*- 
ing elk, an-elope, deer or mountun sheep," 
The Association controls 15,000 acres near the head of 
Roan Creek, Garfield county, seventeen miles from De Beque. 
This land is so located in the cafion of Clear Creek that it 
has been found necessary to erect fences in but few plaees, 
the walls of the canon for the most part forming natural 
boundaries. 
The intention of the Association is to protect the native 
game already within the enclosure. The officers are: Presi- 
dent, John A. Hinebaugh; vice president, E. Bennett; 
secretary, 0. E. Noble; all of Colorado Springs. 
Caton Park. 
The late Judge John Dean Caton, author of the standard 
work, "Antelope and Deer of America," was probably the 
first man in this country to bring together in one park the 
different species of American game. Since his death most 
of his game has been disposed of, but as there are at present 
in the park seventeen common aelult deer, eight fawns and 
one doe mule deer. We are indebted for this information to 
Mr. R. F. Prettyman. agent for the Rock Island Railroad at 
Ottawa, III., where the park is situated. Mr. Prettyman 
adds: "Three does escaped a short lime ago and are still at 
large, Ihey are supposed to each have a fawn. The increase 
since last year's report is the eight fawns above mentioned. 
There are no fish in the park and no shooting is allowed." 
The Caton preserve was of small area as compared with 
scbae of the modern game parks, and probably never con- 
tained at any one time more than one hundred animals. It 
is enclosed with a picket fence 8't. high. 
Hon. W. R. Grace. 
Hon. William R. Grace has a small herd of deef iand a 
number of English pheasants on his country place at Great 
Neck, L. I. He writes: "The increase has been fair. There 
is no fishing on the place to speak of and no shooting is al- 
lowed." 
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt. 
The Hon. Abram S. Hewitt writes of his place in New 
Jersey: "I regard the attempt to preserve game upon my 
property at Ringwood as an entire failure. I do not care to 
enter into particulars, but it has seemed to be impossible to 
prevent the destruction of the birds and of the fish in the 
streams by any reasonable amount of supervision and pro- 
tection. Beyond posting the property, therefore I have con- 
cluded to abandon all attempt lor its preservation, except 
such fishing as may be found in the stream passing directly 
in front of my own residence." 
Belle Meade Deer Park. 
In connection with his famous stock farm near Nashville, 
Tenn., Gen. W, H. Jackson has a large deer park, of the 
type that was once common in Virginia and the South, 
Writing of his park, General Jackson saj^s: "There are 500 
acres in the deer park at Belle Meade. There are some 400 
deer confined therein. The deer are well cared for, well 
protected, and seem to be quite satisfied with their lot. 
They are prolific breeders, and I cannot say that their con- 
finement interferes in the least with their breeding." 
Stave Island. 
Mr. F. H, Wells, of Burlington, Vt., has established a 
preserve on Stave Island, in Lake Champlain, eleven miles 
north of Burlington. The island has an area of eighty six 
acres, and is inclosed with Page fencing, a necessary pie- 
caution in view of the fact that the lake freezes from shore 
to shore each winter. The pre.^erve is well stocked with 
pheasants, quail and rabbits, Mr. Wells writes under date 
of July 3: "About Dec. 1, 1896. I turned loose three deer, 
one buck and two does. In June we found two fawn. 
There may be more fawn, but we have been unable to find 
them as yet, The quail and pheasants wintered fairly well." 
Tfe-ha-sa-ne Park. 
Neha-sa-ne, Lake Lila, N. Y., June 12. — EJditor Forest 
and IStream: Replying to your letter asking for information 
regarding Dr. Wm. Seward Webb's Ne-ha sa-ne Park, I am 
pleased to give you the following: The park consists of 
about 40,000 acres in the very heart of the Adirondack for- 
es' s, but only a small portion — about 8,000 acres — is fenced 
for big game. This was fenced for us four years ago by 
House & Co., of Chicago, with perfect success, and is, in 
my judgment, the best and safest foiest fencft built for this 
game. The fence is 9ft. high and made of No. 9 galvanized 
telegraph wire, sixteen wires being used in graduated widths 
with pkniy of "guards" to keep wires in position. The deer 
in tbe park are native, and, not having been heunded in the 
last four years, have increased probably three fourths. A 
close estimate of the number of native deer on so extensive 
the headwaters of Davidson's River with rainbow trout. 
Pisgab Forest has been made accessible by about 350 miles 
of footpaths built recently. 0, A. Schenck, 
North Oaks. 
President James J. Hill, of the Great Northern Railroad, 
has a game preserve at his country place, "North Oaks," a 
short distance north of St. Paul, Minn. Our Chicago corre- 
spondent, Mr. Hough, visited this preserve last winter, and 
the report of what he saw was printed in Forest and Stkeam, 
April 3. 1897. 
The North Oaks property embraces a tract of about 8,000 
acres of rolling land, covered for the most part with a native 
growth of short oaks and other hardwood trees, and embel- 
lished by no less than seven lakes, some of them nearly a mile, 
in their greatest measurement. 
These lakes swarm with fish, and afford fine sport at the 
present time, as a result of protection There is also very 
good duck shooting to be had each fall, the ducks coming 
in for the wild rica, which grows luxuriantly about the 
lakes. 
The most noteworthy feature of Mr. Hill's collection, how- 
ever, is his buffalo herd. List year there were twenty-two 
full-blood buffalo, besides tlx crosses, includiog four half- 
breeds and two three-quarter-breeds. These latter were 
all the offspring of one mother, an old Galloway ca'^, which 
raises a calf almost every year to a tull-bli/oded buffalo sire. 
There were fourteen full-blood buffalo cows. 
Mr. Hill has had trouble with his buffalo, and since the 
original purchase of stock, which was probably from the 
Aliard herd, six animals have died and five others (tuUs) 
were killed. The range given tbe buffalo is something over 
400 acres in extent, comprising meadows, open gbides and 
forest. 
j\mong the other animals in the preserve, the most im- 
ELK IN THE VELVET PAGE PARK. MICHIGAN. 
From the Game Laws in Brief. 
an area could hardly be given. We have put in at different 
times, sixty elk and twenty moose. The elk were turned in 
during the fall, but T think, for choice of season, I would 
prefer the springtime. The elk did not seem to breed much 
the first year or two. But during the last two years every cow 
has had a calf. The moose have been in only two years, 
but many young are expected this spring I think the Adi- 
rondack forest better suited to moose and caribou than to 
elk, as the former derive their sustenance by browsing in the 
forest, while the elk are grazers. Yet elk bred here ought to 
do well. The number of fish have increased at least three- 
fourths in the last five years. While the State laws are, of 
course, stricfy observed, we also have our park laws govern- 
ina: guests. No does are killed at any time, and not more 
ihan twenty-five trout a day are allowed to be taken by one 
p.'f'rson. ISIo permits are granted. The park is used only by 
the owner. Dr. Wm. Seward Webb, his family and their 
guests. B. P. Ames, Supt. 
Biltmore Estate. 
In Camp, Ecusta, N. C. — Editor Foi'est and Stream: On 
the Bdtmore Estate, owned by Mr. G. W. Vanderbilt, a deer 
park has been planned for some time. However, it will be a 
comparatively small affair, and is meant to meet landscape 
purposes more than sport. It will contain about 250 acres 
only, and will be stocked with fallow deer. 
On the Biltmore Estate (about 6,000 acres under fence) and 
in Pisgah Forest (about 80,000 acres), the native game and 
the trout streams have been protected for a few years by an 
organized system of rangers and assistant rangers. The 
rangers are in charge of "ranges" containing 2,000 acres 
each on the Biltmore Estate, and about 25,000 acres in Pis- 
gah Forest. Apart from their functions as game-keepers, 
the rangers are acting as foremen with any day laborers, and 
as supervisors with any contractors employed by the Forest 
Department, wiihin their respective ranges. 
A few Mongolian pheasants and a dozen wild goats were 
turned out. However, my imnression is very strong that 
protection of the native game (Virginia deer, wild turkeys, 
ruffed gTOuse, woodcock, quail, and even rabbits) will afford 
better sport than the introduction of species that are not in- 
digenous to this country. 
Game protection, of course, must be combined with feed- 
ing during a few weeks in winter, and with checking wolves, 
bears, wildcats, fox, mink, coon and hounds, by means of 
steel traps, poison and rifle. 
For the deer, some salting-troughs have been put up. 
A small lake has been stocked with bass; six fishponds tBd 
portant, numerically considered, are the elk, of which there 
are eighteen. Three years ago five moose were released, but 
all died, probably owing to the ecarcity of browse at the 
place where they were confined ' 
There are six whitptail deer— five does and a buck— and 
these, together with the elk, have been kept upon a wooded 
island eighty-seven acres in extent. The food on this island 
is insufficient for the game, necessitating feeiling with catp, 
hav and cornstalk fodder, and at the time of our corespond- 
ent's vif-it it was the intention to enlarge their limits by the 
addition of an adjacent meadow and e!ontiguoua strips of 
low lying woodland and shrubbery Tbe elk have done 
fairly well, and five calves were born in 1896 There are ten 
cows at present included in the herd Quail prairie chick- 
ens and pheasants are also found on the preserve. 
Tranquility Park, 
Mr. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant's game preserve at Allamucby, 
N. J-. includes an area of about 4,000 acres, enclosed with a 
close board fence 9ft high and one barb wire llin. above 
the boards. Mr. C W. Puffer, supsrintendeut in charge, 
furnishes the following particulars: 
"The deer are increasing fast. I think there are over 200 
They wintered well— did not lose a deer last winter— and 
are having a good lot of fawns thi? summer. The fawns do 
not follow the does much yet, but wiQ next month, when [ 
can tell better about the increase, it is Mr, Stuyvesant's 
wish to have them as wild as possible, and I think they will 
suit him in this respect, as they seem to be getting wilder ■ 
every year. 
"The elk have done well, even better thia last year than 
previous winters, for we have no losses whatever. 1 cannot 
tell how many calves the elk have, for they stay in the woods, 
in the daytime and feed mostly nights in the hot weather, 
but I saw fifteen calves together at one time. 
"We wintered f or t,y- eight elk. We expect to bill some, 
of the old bulls next "fall. 
"The beaver are i'"creasing. I saw seven all swimming in 
the lake at once in May. Some of ihem have gone into tbe 
streams in the park and built dams, and as a result we have 
three lakes or pon.ds in the park now. 
Last winter was a good winter for birds, and we have the 
pleasure of hearing the Bob White, which we haven't heard 
in the park before in three years. 
"We have a few broods of ruft'ed grouse and any quantity 
of gray squirrels." 
The New York Zoological Park. 
Though the Zoological Park to be established in Bronx 
