. The American angler. Fishing. American Ans:lcr Advertiser. fluniino 1116 Wild Goal The White (ioat or Rocky Mountain Goat, as it is indiscriminately called, is a species of big game rarely hunted by sportsmen. This is not so much because of the difficulty of killing the animal, nor because of its actual rarity. It is a stupid animal, easily shot when once found. It is not, however, found in the usual hunting grounds, as are bear, deer, elk, etc. It is remote from the common localities, but where found is in goodly numbers. It ranges very high up in the mountains, above timber line usually, a
. The American angler. Fishing. American Ans:lcr Advertiser. fluniino 1116 Wild Goal The White (ioat or Rocky Mountain Goat, as it is indiscriminately called, is a species of big game rarely hunted by sportsmen. This is not so much because of the difficulty of killing the animal, nor because of its actual rarity. It is a stupid animal, easily shot when once found. It is not, however, found in the usual hunting grounds, as are bear, deer, elk, etc. It is remote from the common localities, but where found is in goodly numbers. It ranges very high up in the mountains, above timber line usually, among rocks and cliffs. This requires great labor to get to it, but once there the hunter will get h^s game nine times out of ten. If you care to read of a goat hunt made in the Bitter Root Range in Montana, in the fall of 1895, send six cents to Chas. S. Fee, General Passenger Agent, Northern Pacific Railway, St. Paul, Minn!, for Won- derland '96, which recounts such a hunting expedition. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the lands and water hereinafter mentioned and described, will be used by the undersigned, the owners thereof, as a private park for the propagation and protection of fish, birds and game, to wit: All that strip of land on each side of the Beaverkill river in the county of Sullivan and state of New York, one rod in width on each side of said river measured from the edge of said river at the ordinary flow thereof, both freshets and droughts from a point on each side of said river where the land of the undersigned, the Fly Fishers' Club, of Brooklyn, (lately belonging to Clara E. Hardenbergh) adjoins the land of A. E. Davis to a point on each side of said river where the land of said club (lately belonging to said Clara E. Hardenbergh) adjoins the land of John Barrett together with said river between said points and opposite said land of the undersigned as above mentioned and described. THE FLY FISHERS' CLUB, of Brooklyn, By Charles A. Bryan, President. Jame
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