

Dec. 21, 1907°] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

Blackburg—Southern R. 
F. D. No. 1. 
Price Martin. 
Shooting free. 
fine. 
R. Post-office, Grover, R. 
Accommodations, Price Martin. Guide, 
Quail plentiful. Dogs and teams. 
Non-resident license, $10. Prospects 
Reevesville—Southern R. R. Accommodations, J. 
H. Bryant, D. M. Baxter. Partridges and _ fishing. 
Dogs and teams. Shooting partly free. Non-resi- 
dent license, $10. Prospects good. 
Johnston—Southern R.. R. 
duck, squirrel. Dogs and_ teams. 
Non-resident license, $10. Prospects good. 
Fort Motte—Southern R. R. Accommodations good 
in private family, Guides, J. K. Hane, Jr., ee 
Faber, Jr. Quail, ducks, turkey. Dogs and teams. 
Shooting free. Non-resident liecnse, $10. Prospects 
best ever known here. 
Johnston Inn. Quail, 
Fee reasonable. 

Shelton—Southern R. R. Accommodations, C.. W. 
Faucett, J. G. Wolling, Jr., J. R. Feaster. Guides, 
J. G. Wolling, Jr., J. R. Feaster, Quail, duck, 
squirrel Dogs and teams. Shooting free. Non- 
resident license, $10. Prospects good. 
Charleston—A. C. L. & Southern R. R. _ Hotels, 
Charleston; St. John’s; Argyle. Guide, Geo. A. 
Douglass. Partridge, woodcock and snipe. Dogs 
and teams. Non-resident license, $10. 
fine; none better, 
Prospects very 
Leeds—Seaboard Air Line. Accommodations, J. G. 
Walling. Quail abundant. Dogs and _ teams. Non- 
resident license, $10. Prospects very fine: 
Branchville—Southern R. R. Hotels, Merchants’; 
3yrd’s; several private houses. Guide, D. L. 
Rhead. Partridges, doves, trout and several kinds 
of fresh-water fish. Dogs and teams. Shooting free 
in some places. Non-resident license, $10. Prospects 
good. 
Sumter—Southern Atlantic Coast Line. Accommoda- 
tions, private family. Guides. Quail, ducks, turkeys, 
deer. Dogs and teams. Non-resident license, $10. 
Prospects very good. 
GEORGIA: 
Roswell—Southern R. R. 
House. Guides. Quail, 
Accommodations, Thomas 
( hare, squirrel. Dogs and 
teams. Shooting free. Non-resident license, $10. 
Prospects reasonably good. The Chattahoochee River 
is good for fishing and duck shooting. 
Rockmart—Southern and Seaboard Air Line 
ways. Hotel Charles. Guide, C. Spratling. Quail, 
turkey and squirrel. Dogs and teams. Shooting 
free. Non-resident license, $10, Prospects good. 
Fort WValley—Accommodations, J. F. 
Ducks, geese, salt-water fishing, 
kingfish, channel bass, trout, Spanish mackerel, 
sheepshead,. cavallas, grouper, red snapper. Also 
fresh-water fishing. Non-resident license, $10. 
ALABAMA: 
Pell City—Southern and Seaboard Air Line railways. 
rail- 
_ Troutman. 
including tarpon, 
Cornel House. Guides. Quail, ducks. Dogs and 
teams. Shooting by permit. Non-resident license, 
$15. Prospects good. 
FLORIDA: 
Ocala—Seabeard Air. Line and A. C. L. railways. 
Hotel Montezuma. Guides. Quail, snipe and squir- 
rel. Dogs and_ teams. Non-resident license, $10. 
Prospects never better. 
Tawares—S, A. L. Ry, A. C. L. Ry., and T. & G. 
Ry. Hotel Osceola. Fitch House. Guides, Miles 
Cooper, Sam Davis. Quail, doves, deer and bear. 
Dogs and teams. Non-resident license, $10. Pros- 
pects very good. 
Greenville—Seaboard Air Line Ry. Hotel Hurby. 
Guides, J. P. Taylor, R. L. Grum. Quail, Turkey, 
deer. Teams. Shooting free. Non-resident license 
$10. Prospects good. 
Oviedo—Seaboard Air Line and A. C. L. Ry. Argo 
House, Cushing House. Guides. Quail, duck, tur- 
key and deer. Dogs and teams. Shooting free. 
Non-resident license, $10. Prospects fine 
Panacea—Georgia, Florida and 
Panacea. Guides, J. C. Chason. Quail, ducks, tur- 
key, snipe, deer and bear. Dogs and teams. Non- 
resident license, $10. Prospects exceptionally good. 
Pasadena—Seadoard Air Line. Post office, Dade 
City. Accommodations in private families. Guides. 
Quail, doves, curley, turkey, squirrel, rabbit and 
deer, Dogs and teams. Shooting free. Non-resident 
license, $10. Prospects good. Plenty of fishing in 
fresh water lake four miles long. 
Alabama. Hotel 

Leesburg—Atlantic Coast Line, and Seaboard Air 
Line railways. Hotel Lake View; Glyndon; Com- 
mercial; boarding houses. Guide, J. W. Northrup. 
Quail, doves; bass fishing unsurpassed. Teams. Non- 
resident license, $10. Prospects never better. 
New Mexico Wild Turkeys. 
Denver, Colo., Dec. 10—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Here is a clipping from a Santa Fe 
paper about wild turkey hunting in Mexico: 
“Marcelino Garcia, a prosperous ranchman, 
who lives near Cow Springs in the southern part 
of Santa Fe county, went hunting day -before 
yesterday 2 few miles from his residence. He 
found a flock of forty large wild turkeys roost- 
ing in the pifion timber and killed ten of them. 
They were very fine large birds, weighing all the 
way from 15 to 25 pounds. 
“Garcia brought six to this city and presented 
three to Hon. T. B. Catron and three to Pro- 
bate Clerk George W. Armijo. As clerk Armijo 
is now keeping bachelor’s hall he could not dis- 
pose of three large turkeys personally, and there- 
fore presented one weighing over twenty pounds 
to Governor Curry and another one of about the 
same weight to Colonel Frost, and the third 
one he kept for his own Thanksgiving. 
“The birds were magnificent specimens. They 
1ave evidently fed on pifion nuts, as_ their flesh 
is very white and firm. Mr, Garcia is not only 
a good marksman, but a fine trailer, and lucky.” 
This is the first flock of birds of which I have 
heard in many years. 
A quarter of a century ago we used to have 
fine sport hunting them there on the wooded 
mesas by going on horseback. We could get 
right up to them in this way before they would 
rise, and then we would get them on the wing, 
but it was very difficult to round up the same 
flock again for several days, as they had a 
peculiar way of hiding out when once attacked. 
We could, however, readily find other flocks in 
the pifion timber, and I never enjoyed better 
sport in my life, but we always went mounted 
on cow ponies. L, WItcox. 
The New York League. 
Ermira, N. Y., Dec. 14.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: In your issue of Dec. 14 I see that 
you have an editorial in which you say: “After 
a stormy session at Syracuse last Thursday the 
New York State Fish, Game and Forest League 
adjourned without electing officers. The fac- 
tional fight that led to this action was peculiarly 
unfortunate, coming at a time when the number 
of affiliated clubs has been doubled, and the 
power of the league for good correspondingly in- 
creased.” 
In answer to the above I wish to say that the 
league has more than doubled through the ef- 
forts of no one person alone, but through the 
organized efforts of the officers and members of 
the league, and while there is no one who re- 
grets the occurrence of what happened in Syracuse 
the last half hour of our session more than my- 
self, allow me to say that it will in no way affect 
the work of carrying on the objects of the league. 
The officers and members are united for that 
one purpose; namely, the protection of forest, 
fish and game. It seems to me that we should 
as sportsmen not waste our energies in fighting 
each other, but redouble our efforts for carrying 
out the objects of the league. 
In inclose herewith a copy of a newspaper 
clipping which gives the facts in_a_true and 
unbiased way from the pen of C. H. Mowry, of 
Syracuse, N. Y. J. H. ConsIpDINE, 
President Forest, Fish and Game League. 

Lack of space forbids us to reprint all of Mr. 
Mowry’s letter. In part it follows: 
A delegate from Onondaga county (not an 
delegate) made the usual motion, which was 
eastern 
seconded 
by several, that the report fof the nominating com- 
mittee] be adopted and the secretary be empowered to 
cast a single ballot for the ticket. It was at this point 
that Mr. Forey made his protest and_ insisted upon sub- 
stituting Dr. Honsinger in place of Mr. Considine. 
The situation became very unpleasant and, to stop a 
more serious complication, a delegate from Cayuga 
county (not an eastern delegate) moved to adjourn, The 
question was put and carried by a decisive vote 
Now, I wish to state positively that there was nothing 
irregular in appointing a nominating committee. At 
the original mecting held in the Y. MG, A. Hall, to 
organize the State League, the duty of welcoming the 
delegates devolved upon the writer owing to the un- 
avoidable absence of Senator White, who was then 
president. I have attended every meeting since and at 
none of them have the officers been nominated, except- 
ing through a nominating committee appointed by_ the 
chairman of the meeting. The statement that Com- 
missioner Whipple was a silent spectator is unqualifiedly 
false. Mr. Whipple left the hall after the recommenda- 
tion of the law and legislative committee had been 
voted upon and knew nothing of the unfortunate occur- 
rence until later. Had he been present there is no doubt 
that a roll call of delegates would have been prepared 
in some manner, 
The State protectors were present in a body by invi- 
tation extended to them at their annual meeting in 
Albany last spring, hence, they held their meeting here 
on Dec. 4 and attended the league meeting on the 5th, 
many of them as delegates from some of the clubs. 
There was no resolution passed at all in relation to the 
number of pheasants that should be taken in a year or 
day. It was decided that we would not oppose those 
counties where there are pheasants, if the residents 
wished to shoot them for a limited period, 
It was decided to limit the season for grouse, 
cock and squirrels to the month of October, and limit 
to be taken in the season twenty to each and limit of 
four of each to a person for any one day. The place 
for holding the convention is fixed at Syracuse by the 
wood- 
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officers the 
well known 
did 
year, 
not elect 
which is 
constitution. As the league 
old ones hold over another 
corporate law. 
The fact that the New York Association for 
the Protection of Fish and Game was represented 
at the league meeting was omitted in our cor- 
respondent’s report last week. Vice-President J. 
C. O’Connor and Secretary R. B. Lawrence were 
both present. 

The California Hunting Season. 
San Francisco, Cal, Dec. 7.—Editor Forest 
and Stream: The hunting license law has not 
only stimulated public interest in fish and game 
matters throughout this State, but has put enough 
money in the treasury of the fish and game com- 
mission to support the commission and allow the 
taking of necessary steps in preserving game of 
all kinds. There have been many more arrests 
for violations of the game laws this year than 
ever before and fines have also increased. The 
zeal displayed by the commission in prosecuting 
offenders deters many from breaking the laws, 
and the California game conditions will un- 
doubtedly improve with the strict enforcement of 
hunting regulations. Up to date the sum of 
¢110,000 has been received by the commission 
from the sale of hunters’ licenses, putting a sum 
of $200,000 at the disposal of the game commis- 
sioners. 
Duck shooting is improving. Storms in the 
north have driven the birds down to the San 
Francisco Bay districts, and the next few weeks 
will see some good sport. Some fine specimens 
of teal, sprig and widgeon have been killed on 
the Suisun marshes close to the river, where, 
during the high tides, the marsh is flooded and 
a fresh growth of grass attracts the feathered 
visitors. The shooting clubs in this neighbor- 
hood do not molest the birds by night shooting 
and, as a result. large bags reward the gunner 
when he tries his Juck. Canvasbacks have also 
put in an appearance on San Francisco Bay and 
the rains and high winds, which are now visit- 
ing the State, will undoubtedly drive the birds 
off the water to take refuge in the swamps to 
the satisfaction of the hunters. 
Inland reports show that ducks and geese are 
to be found in incredible numbers throughout 
the San Joaquin Valley, while in the south con- 
ditions are equally favorable. Ducks are plenti- 
ful on the Salton Sea for the first time since the 
season opened. The cold weather in the moun- 
tains has practically stopped the shooting in Bear 
Valley, though there are quantities of ducks on 
the big lake. Flights in the south are strong 
and well sustained, and predictions that the poor 
hunting, which for a time was a source of dis- 
couragement to the gun men, would be suc- 
ceeded by several weeks of fine sport, have been 
more than fulfilled. 
The quail shooting, though good, will undoubt- 
edly improve with the rain, and good bags may 
be looked for throughout the State when the 
hunters go out again. 
Sportsmen about the coast valleys are looking 
forward to first class wild pigeon shooting this 
month. The crop of redberries and acorns 1s 
a record breaker, and pigeons will undoubtedly 
be here in abundance. 
The game commissioners have received the 
scalps and pelts of six mountain lions killed in dif- 
ferent parts of the State in the last four weeks, 
or since they made the offer to pay a bounty of 
$20 for each scalp sent in to the office, accom- 
panied by an affidavit showing where it was killed 
and by whom. These animals are quite numer- 
ous this year and have done enormous damage 
to the sheep raisers. Aes 
Bre’r Bunny’s Misfortune. 
De tric’ man en de dream book say 
Dat if in swamp or hollow, 
A rabbit runs across yo’ way, 
3ad luck am sho’ to follow. 

Ah call mah dawg en take mah gun, 
Out ’cross dem snowdriffs sunny, 
En down deh by de meddeh run, 
Ah watch foh Misteh Bunny. 
Den when one runs in front ob me 
Ah shoot it en Ah grab it 
De only bad luck Ah kin see 
Am bad luck foh de rabbit. 
—New York 
Times. 

