Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1911 — TO SELL SPORTING ESTATE [ARTICLE]

TO SELL SPORTING ESTATE

City of Glasgow Plans to Dispose of Ideal Hunting and Fishing Re-sort-Game la Varied. Glasgow.—This city Is going to sell its Highland sporting eatate. It Is an Island off the Lorn coast of Argyll. Game la varied. The sportsman can collect a mixed bag of grouse, blackcock, wild duck, rock pigeon, woodcock and hares. The salmon fishings are also an attraction. There is an acreage of 1,118 acres, and the yearly let la 9750. Most of the land la not adapted for the plow. Last year the surplus revenue waa |478. The city fathers have fixed the upset price at 990,000, and some capitalist of a misanthropical frame of mind would find the Island of Shuna an Ideal abode, aa it la two miles from the mainland and off the track of steamers.