Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — BIG PRESERVE. [ARTICLE]

BIG PRESERVE.

Chicagoians Have Game Lands Cornered in Lake County. Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, and a party of fifty representative men of that city, including Charles S. Dennis, Hemstead Washburne, Rollo Organ and William Haskell, have closed a deal with Brown Bros., of Crown Point, in which they come into control of 10,000 acres of marshjjland in the Kankakee river, south of that city, which will be the largest in the United States. They have leased the morass for twenty-five years and will at once commence the erection of a costly club house and stock the marsh with all kinds of game, besides the ducks and geese habitate the place each spring and fall. This deal practically places the duck hunting in this well known game marsh in a trust and is absolutely controlled by Chicagoians, the residents of Indiana having been frozen out entirely, as the land along the Kankakee river has all been leased. The Mascawba club ground com mences south of South Bend, the English Lake Gun club then follows for miles and tfie Diana club and the new one just formed takes up the balance of the land, and in each case no poachers are allowed in the Calumet marsh.