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Show 13 THE CITIZEN such person, firm or corporation shall the season. The duck which passes be fined not less than $25 for such through a shooting season becomes educated and the bird is hard to get. violation, and each and every day It shies upon approaching any moving such violation continues after due no" tice has been given shall constitute object or unusual obstruction and in Trout Interested Not Protection; a separate offense. Provided further appears to be on a constant watch for Fish and Game Department Screen. on Turns Cold Shoulder that it is hereby made the duty of the the unmerciful gunner who aims to fish and game commissioner to see pot it for a feast. PROBABLY there is no greater in Utah streams is a joke. Numerous all irrigating canals are propOf late years the ducks have left joke in the state government than our hatcheries .which eat up the license that which some device, the gun club grounds after a few erly protected by fish and game department. The wail money are worthless because stockshall not be the means of materially shots have been fired and have flown of the fishermen and hunters is heard ing streams means nothing. Mecham on all sides and scores of them will appears to be out of his place and the obstructing the flow of water into to the Great Salt lake upon which watsooner the sportsmen get a live wire such canals, so that no fish may enter er they tauntingly sit and defy the not take out any more licenses, cershooter. The ducks will sit on the in that position the sooner will they said ditch between April 1 and Octotainly a deplorable condition. ber 15th of each year. Said device to lake all day and come in to feed only A few days ago, Harvey H. Cluff, get back their fishing. This screen has been in the Ogden be provided and maintained out of after shooting hours, a procedure attorney general, who likes to fish which is very annoying and disgustand hunt, wanted to see the new fish ditch for nearly two years and not the fish and game fund. This law has been on the statute ing to the hunters. Occasionally a one cent has been paid out for rescreen which the Ogden sportsmen daredevil pair will venture to some installed at their own cost near Ogpairs or upkeep and its installation books from the beginning. Licenses the special slough to feed and as a rule they den, and he in company with Arthur was only about $200. If only three or have been increased for During the Mecham went to Ogden to inspect the four screens were put in every year, purpose of installing screens, yet we never get back home. first week, the young ducks which screen. The attorney general was so the good they would do could not be have no screens and the law is absohave never heard a shot or been shot lutely ignored. impressed with the screen that he counted in dollars and cents. There is now a good fish screen on at do not know what it all means wrote the following letter to the inHarvey Cluff showed himself a real market. It is fool proof and all and they become easy prey for the ventor of the screen: sportsman to inspect the screen and the that goes with it, and it is cheap. hunters, and by the end of the second he was greatly pleased with it. week nearly the entire young crop has Now, whats the alibi? Mr. Tuckfield: Mr. Tuckfield is a local man lived been shot down and brought to the A few days ago I visited the screen here all his life. He is anxious to cities for big feeds and duck dinners. that you have installed in the South screen the streams of his home state OBEY THE LAW AND DO NOT KILL JUST FOR SPORT The boys who belong to gun clubs Fork of Ogden river. Mr. Ford of first and establish another Utah inare all enthusiastic and ready for the dustry, but like many other men who Ogden and the Fish and Game Comhave tried to establish reputable inDUCK HUNTING opens Monday opening, but there is gloom among missioner, Mr. Mecham, were with mo members. They have no We saw the screen in operation and dustries here, he is not wanted. Other morning at 5 :55. Until then the ducks the non-clu- b states want him. and then they say, have protection, but after that time place to go. gave it some tests by throwing rubThe public shooting grounds on the There is no Place Like Home. the aquatic birds will be compelled to bish, brush and stuff in the creek In regard to installing fish screens fly through a gauntlet of shooters Bear river are much drier than for above and seeing it operate. It seemed Mecham to work quite satisfactorily. Mr the Utah state law is very plainly from sunrise to sunset to the close of years. In fact Commissioner written. It is as follows: Ford informed me that it was apparSection 13. Screens. It shall be ently a success because of the fact that there are a great many fish in unlawful for any person or persons, the stream above the screen, while company dr corporation, to take any there does not seem to be any at all water from streams, lakes or reserbelow the screen. voirs for power purposes, or for watYours truly, erworks, without first furnishing or HARVEY H. CLUFF, maintaining suitable screens or other devices to prevent fish from entering Attorney General. said power plants. Mill races, or waterworks system, said screen or The Ogden sportsmen wish to install two more screens because of the other devices to be built and mainsuccess of the first one, but they feel tained under the direction of the state .that the state should install them. In commissioner at the expense of said 'accordance therewith. Mr. Tuckfielrt owners or operators. The failure of called upon the game commissioner any person or persons, company or but he would not even read Cluffs letcorporation to install a screen or deter because he was not interested in vice within thirty days after notice in writing has been given by the the matter. Irrigation ditches have taken a state commissioner shall constitute a heavy toll of trout and today fishing misdemeanor. And upon conviction, IRRIGATING DITCHES DEPLETE TROUT SUPPLY . , I , . meet me at T1HUE 26 East 2nd South RAGS-RUBBERS-ME- & SCRAP IRON TAL LARGEST DEALERS IN SCRAP IRON IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN COUNTRY JTixnlk Co., Inc. Utah Our Carload Lots at all Times: Pipe, Angles, Channels, I Beams, We carry in Stock , 840 Specialty Babbitt, Rails, Pulleys, etc. South 4th West Phone Wasatch 2069 Sportsmens Headquarters Phone Was. 1946 |