OCR Text |
Show 5"--: V i i r 0 ;f f Published Every Saturday BY,G0Q D W N'8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Manager I.i CHOFSKI, Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: g pottage In the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, ; months. Subscriptions to. all foreign countries, within the Postal I . . Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah iPhone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- i ; 13 i at. 1 ;, I eve. FISH AND GAME BILL ish and game bill is out and now is the time to thor-cus- s it. It is House Bill No. 54, by Mr. Keyser. There jh improvement over the old bill from which it differs die market fishermen, especially those of Utah lake, tag must correspond to the license number and holder of the license. This will help to increase our deer. If we really intend to protect our fish and game, the fines for violations should be such that would demand respect for the law. t i and catch their fish by the ton for the small sum of DID MR. WHITE MISSTATE FACTS? ear. Dave Madsen, State Fish and Game Commis-ite- d the other day when he took several members of the A few days ago B. J. Finch, federal highway engineer, who 3 to Utah iake on an inspection tour, that the seiners 300 tons of common fish in. 20 days. At the present holds a political position, whose salary is paid by automobile e fish which, are public property bring 3 cents per owners, gave a review upon good roads in Utah, now steps to the seiners. Three hundred tons at 3 cents per pound the front and tells Utahns what they ought to do. If his pronot collect $18,000. The state provides the fish through a special gram of graveled rono. vas carried out we could in this state to pay the upkeep, nor would we people and the seiners are allowed to take them for the enough money Int sum of $25 per year. The tonnage seined in six ever have good roads. In his talk to the Provo chapter of the American Associaust be enouromus and the entire fish catch must be tion of Engineers, Mr. Finch made certain statements which se to .$200,000. road legislator, do you know of any other business in this big conflict with road statistics. When he says that a gravel is economical up to 500 cars a day, he cither did not know what irs so lucrative as this fishing business in Utah lake? cl ihdiave also been taken' out of this lake and tons of he was talking about, or Fred R. White, president of the AmThe stock is now depleted and we will have some pro-- r erican Association of State Highway officials did not. give facts Conthem, for a time at least, and the catch is now limited and figures when he submitted his report and statistics to !sh per angler. gress, and which road table appeared in the April issue of Amaw should provide for at least a $1,000 fine for any erican Highways. The data collected and presented to the Cont takes game fish out of the lake for the market. If the gress of the United States by Mr. White was said to be the result of thorough tests which had been made upon all kinds of 3S not intend to take any of the game fish, then why roads, from the dirt road to the granite road. Millions of dolworry what the fine is ? such data is unreliable fame laws should provide a liberal reward for any one lars have been spent in road tests and if then of course we will take a back scat and admit that Mr. Finch namiting game fish in any of our streams, and by mean anv substance which will kill all the fish in a knows what he is talking about. Regarding the pamphlet issued by the Richfield Commercial animals. Is there club, it was not. expected to be perfect. It does provide, however, bounties predatory upon jtatejgivcs s for a paved highway to lie built through the center of our popucason why there should not be a reward for the lation and THE CITIEN still believes that is the most essential of trout were killed last year by such means, will come later on. The hold, a state fish and game, license should be program of our road building. pamphlet did not mention the Lincoln highway going west from trap fur bearing animals upon their own property, Salt Lake City over the desert wastes of the state, but such a et trappers should pay at the very least $100 for The state protects fur bearing animals at the road ought to be built. The pamphlet did not mention a paved f the people and then allows some trapper to step in highway up City Creek canyon, Red Butte, Emigration, Big Cottonwood or to Alta, all in this country. Some day these roads ;he harvest for a five dollar bill. It is ridiculous, aw should absolutely prohibit shooting our aquatic will be built, but today we are most interested in a main highway l sink boxes. Ducks were driven from this county last which will connect the chain of larger cities from Logan on the ost north to St. George on the south and a cross road running just such methods. owes of the state commissioner should be more defined, through our largest cities as near the center of the state as can lould provide what one can do and what one cannot do. be. tould be given authority to do as lie sees fit. Up to the present time, it appears that outside interests we should build our roads and what has Ijidg&ne license should have a tag for deer and other big have dictated where hunters from killing more game than they are been the result? prevent All ' If our roads are as good as those in Idaho, Wyoming, Colo- flaw big game should be properly tagged and the fish j we dyna-illipn- ers-wh- By-wa- ys o trap-iumflegie- IlflW. I i r I I i: , dy-Z&- HU i s; i |