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no means of getting the funds to do this. He declares that his present 
efforts to establish a hunting club in the region was his second choice 
and that he has been doing this in order that the wild fowl which came 
there so abundantly in winter might have a measure of protection which 
private game preserves usually afford. 
-“This being the case,” continued Mr. Pearson, “there appears to 
be no logical reason why he and his associates should not be willing to 
sell the territory for reservation purposes. I know of one gentleman 
who tentatively approached Mr. Mcllhenny on the subject some months 
ago and offered personally to be responsible for a sum of not less than 
$50,000 toward the purchase price. This party has recently indicated 
to me his willingness to ‘take off his coat and work for raising a fund to 
buy the land if it can be purchased at a reasonable price,’ and there are 
others interested.” 
Mr. Pearson, who has personally examined much of the territory in 
this part of Louisiana, states, “I have reason to believe that a consider- 
able portion of this proposed club property is at present unsuitable for 
ducks, but could doubtless be made a great haven for them by certain 
dredging and diking operations. On other parts of the territory wild 
fowl occur in myriads. 
“Here and there in the marsh are ridges where cattle are run and 
where the soil is cultivated. If the land should be purchased and pre- 
sented to the State of Louisiana as a wild life reservation I think the 
state would be glad to accept it. Furthermore, it is possible that an in- 
come might be derived by grazing and farming privileges on the ridges 
that would be quite sufficient to pay the running expenses of guarding 
the territory. 
“If the people in this country can be made sufficiently interested to 
purchase this, and one other smaller tract of land, we will have a con- 
tinuous wild fowl sanctuary of far greater extent than exists anywhere on 
this continent. It is the natural winter home of vast numbers of those 
waterfowl that annually swarm down the Mississippi Valley from Can- 
ada upon the approach of cold weather, and a reservation of this extent 
would be one of the most valuable moves that could be made toward 
preserving in numbers many species of our persecuted wild waterfowl.” 

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