Salt Lake Herald | 1907-01-20 | Page 19 | Crying Need of Utah Sportsmen

CRYING NEED OF I i I 2 K f UTAH SPORTSMEN j tf It l lI ti I F c Action of Legislature Necessary I 1 sary to Prevent Extinction I Ii of Fish and Game ti 4 4 J What Ie 1 wrong wIth the fish and game 7 t ot or Utah In It a which tura has hast ha 1 t I t don doti moro more to a S and hunting I thAn An uny othet Spot on 1 s h continent vere the clear olear J I 1 1 running streams without number i 9 ri c 4 art a natural pawning ground for Cor trout r J I th m t Ind nU of all Ih fish a Yo has haa more find botter natural I I brin n grounds for tor ducks goose to t 1 t than Any other In the world a state t i Sn valleys furnish ident I 4 r I r f for Cor the 5 of oC quail quaH l J dov doves And nd aU all I I I of fIeld nola gam n a in the moun t f are an a t natural shelter In winter and andI i I j j whiCh furnish the best of feeding t I 1 J j In summer for deer der elk moun mounA I A f 4 J sheep and antelope to 8 soy nothing I I of the wilder gime gam or of bear bellr and lions Ilona I It ti su such h n a state Js Is Utah and today Its game tume J I i 1 i c i Is exterminated r f JC It conditions were different the sports I I 1 Then Inn or of Utah would live Uve Il a life ot of envy I 1 h t 1 to ever every sportsman In the United States Instead ot of hundreds d of oC the residents or of orI I I S I E p 1 this commonwealth milking making trips each I I t I rear Into Idaho Wyoming I I I I Colorado and other W western states In InI I I r quest t or of pleasure and spending thousands I 1 b bor or oi dollars oll rs of tah mon money r these people 1 find pleasure ot at home homp and spend pEnd l t i their time and money In their own state I JI 4 would then be like other western f 1 J f r states tates drawing hun reds of port mEn mEni i j I dl ch year par from the crowded past east to hunt hunti i 1 and fish spend their mon money y and per peris I tj I I is S become with the country settle here Thy They are doing this I f MU ti I very every year In other western rn states Ask I If the tho Hlo Grande railroad and they i iI I I I will tell you that hundreds of thousands I I i of eastern money Is spent yearly In Cob CobI 1 t I Tudo on fishing and hunting Ask the thet t J J I Ii Short Line people and the they will tell you youe 1 e J the some conditions exist In Wyoming I md and Montana Ih they will vill also tell tellI I I t f ou there thero Is more travel out or of UtAh than thans I s I there Is Into the state ot of sportsmen men menI 11 1 e f I V t Reason Is Plain The reason for all Uti thia Is known to tot toI I t every ory sportsman In Utah Ask an ay one or of 1 i i the hundreds In this city O Ogden den Provo Logan Logun or any of oC the tho larger towns and he heI I I will toll you ou at that It Is because the tho state fish Ish and game department Is IsI I I I utterly worthless The states surround surroundS S I i J Ii inS Ing Utah dIscovered years ago that legis I 0 t c was necessary and then the en enI I I q or these laws must follow or orI j I fish Ish and game would become extinct 1 9 rhose status states heeded the tho warning or of lead 0 I Ing sportsmen and today fish And game I I I Is more plentiful than they ever were I t i i I even evon when the mountains valleys allos and andi pir i r I streams were In the virgin state I f J I Why Sportsmen Organized I I I M a To prevent the thO complete completo extinction of oC oCI J t is the of the Utah I I 1 I f I fish and game purpose b i irish and Game Protective association 4 k I t l was formed last summer This as I Is now working on the logis 1 I I f L C In lature ture to secure an appropriation to en enI I I r P J force orco the laws It has como come forward with Li h I a II proposition to ta tax the sportsmen them l i J i selves to help raise the necessary funds f j ii Such a tax It t Is in believed would brIng lit In litI InI I I ft 0 big bli sum ot of money to the fIsh and game department and a 8 liberal 1 lion tion would withIn two years place Utah I I In the front ranks again as a fishing q I and hunting state Montana W Wyoming F Idaho and Colorado have such a ta tax and I the reports to the game commissioners ot of Ii these states show that thousands of oC dol dolI I Jars annually find their way Into the state I treasury from this source Must Enforce Laws I The Tho sportsmen who have havo made a stu study y yot I ot bt condItions In Utah as well as other t have decided not to ask for tor an any i II In the tho laws as they stand bl be i th they y are good enough Ir If enforced I WIth an approprIation and the lIcense se secured seI I i A 1 cured thor thoy will ask for n a live state corn com 4 I missioner who will see that the laws are I i of There Is no the fact 2 that these laws have been beon broken IndIs I J and the attention or of the pros pres prest nt t fIsh and game amo commissioner has bas been I called to the fact Arrests and andi I i ij for tor breaking these laws Jaws are 9 b almost unheard of and while Jt it must be ben n i That the D depart f t I ment has Ims boon beon short ot of funds yet there t should have been some attempt at least i L 9 f to the laws i ii 1 Warden System Is Wrong Ono great trouble is the present system ot of a state warden and county wardens iT under n a separate head As the I 1 i Jaw now stands the count county wardens are L 1 by the county commissioners ho as a rule care nothing about the on en orcemont of the law Jaw In the outlyIng L counties especiallY the wardens are paid I a more mora pittance one case coming to mind I ti ri Where the warden gets the munificent u i cl sum um of 25 n a year 1 In other counties the i run from 5 to 20 a month and andas r i as a 0 result the tho wardens take no int interest I whatever In work The appoint h ment is 19 to fill some polItical debt wIthout regard to the qualifications 1 at f the tho man As n a result some person Is I t i caught breaking the Jaw 0 no arrest Is e made as it mIght lose ose a vote at the next i t election or of a neighbor or of the tho warden wardon F These facts have been brought out in In t k fi by sportsmen who have tried r i f in n their lImited way ay to stop the game I i I bog og from doing business 1 J n 1 Change In System Needed i I t r The entire warden syston should be un 1 Lii j iler the complete completo charge of the Ish I and an game gamo commissioner loner He should be 1 given money enough to hire sn say five p i more would be nt at a sal salary i r ary ot of about 1000 a yo year r These men should hould devote devoto their ir entire time to the I flab and game gamo department It If reports cOme ome In to the state game warden that 4 kr the tho fIsh or game law Jaw Is being broken In 11 1 a certain part or of the tho state the commis I abner could at once dispatch one or two I I f these state wardens to these parts p I f find the guilty man and secure evidence c and nd push n a convIction A few ot of these cases OS given wIdespread publicity would i r soon settle the fish and game hog busl busi rii ness Five men like Bill Bingley who by f the tho way Is hardly paid salary enough b by tt I i the tho county to feed the horse It Is feces i fiB sary rJ for hIm to In a year drIve k c the game hogs out ot of the business Stata al ai Fish Monger i Another that Is being made If ri i I i the tho selling Qt of fish fry b by the state There r 1 aro ro private hat hatcheries In which iI make mako it a busIness to raIse and sell fish fishi i i fry and It l i not b It ever eer was the Intention or of the law for the state or of Utah to become n a fIsh monger Last p there was not a single fIsh fry F In Utah waters Instead the tho were taken out ot of their native t by the tho state fish commissioner and their spawn and thrown ok In the tho This spawn was ta f ken to the tho state hatchery hatched and I 3 i sold lold as ai fry Not only did the fish Ish do de I of the state not plant any fish t 11 the streams hut but robbed the streams of Li t he natural atura Increase I Size of Hatchery ji Th Ih tit hatchery has haa at the present I ISI time lime a capacity of try fry twIce I a year ear sprIng and fall At an expense ot of J about 1500 expended this I gukl tre treW It ItI j I 4 I u i f 1 fF r Q the state practically not a cent more to i hatch the Increased amount than It does docs i the present output of the hatchery If Ie I this amount of oC try fry was placed In the streams of the state and the wardens stopped dynamiting the streams and en enforced enforced forced the screen la law In two years cars time evet every creek In Utah would be fairly alive with trout ThIs fact Is known to ever every fIsherman In the state Clubs Save the Ducks It Is to the duck clubs and not the game wardens that the state owes Its present supply of ducks If IC It were not a fact that leading beading sportsmen or of the state have bought lands erected dams and planted feed to raise ducks and then hired deputies deputies ties to enforce the state laws a duck In Utah could only be found In a mu museum scum seum Some Somo who do not know or of the work ork of the duck clubs raIl at these or organIzations organizations but it If It was not for tor the Utah duel duci cubs clubs there he be no for Cor Quail chicken grouse grous and such birds are arc scarce outsIde ot of Salt Lake county count I and some Borne ot of the tho outlyIng districts where the pothunter never fInds hIs way In Salt Lake county count thanks again to Bill Bingley and County Warden Varden Jacklin the game has been pretty well protected Large game such as deer elk and an antelope Is extinct Although the law has closed the season on this game gamo for t r the tho past two years and it Is still closed for two years rears more the game is decreasing The rea reason on this Is plaInly evident to all sportsmen who have given the matter a thought The game gam h has s been and Is still beIng slaughtered and no attempt hs hns been made or is bo be boIns beIng Ins Ing made to find the guilty parties Up lip to the It is up to the Utah legislature this session to adjust these difficulties They can do It by listening to the thc entreaties ot of the They do tot ask for anything or unjust The country members especially those who represent the farmers and ranchers re remote remote mote from the city could do their con constituency no greater good than to make It possible to enforce the fish and game laws It If this Is done the sportsmen ot of Utah the man living in the city would spend his summer vacation near these small outside communities spend his money there for tor provisIons and convey conveyances ances Instead ot of givIng It to the tho ranchers and farmer or of neighborIng states If one ot of the tho smaller towns In the south southern ern em part of the state slate would talc up the tho matter or of fishing alone see that the streams In Its immediate vIcinity is well stocked with fish Ish and tIle the fact be known the tho railroads would haul hundreds of Salt Lake fishermen to that locality every Sunday and hundreds ot of dollars would be spent by them in that corn com durIng their couple ot of days outing In years ears past the outside memberS or of the legislature have not taken kindly to the tho city sportsmen but Jt if they will carefully Investigate conditions as they are in Utah and then look around them and see what Is being done In other states It Is a foregone conclusion that the members or of orthe the alfalfa club will become the sports sportsmens mens best friend