Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-08-04 | Page 20 | Cromar Will Put in Proper Fish Screens

CROHAR WILL PUT II PROPER FBH SCREENS Dollar License Is Making Pish and Game Department Sclf-Sustaining. Sclf-Sustaining. The State Fish and Oaiuo department depart-ment has been placed upon a self-sustaining bnsis,'tho $1 license for resident citizens to fish and hunt doing the work. The dollar license was pushed by the Utah Stato Fish and Game Protective Pro-tective association, which association took the stand that if n dollar liconso was a success in all Iho surrounding States there was no reason why it would not. bo here. Ever since the opening of tho fishing and hunting sea- , son, from ono hundred to live hundred applications have come in daily for permits per-mits to fish and limit aud from preucnt. appearances tho dollar license will place $-0,000 into the cotters of the fish and game fund of the State. With this amount of money, Utah can soon bo placed among tho leading Western States for fishing and hunting. Game wardens will be paid what, they aro worth and good men can be secured, whereas heretofore, tho wages have been so low that it did not pay any one to go out. and enforce the laws even if a violator of the law .was within easy reach of the gamo warden. Put in Fish Screens. Commissioner Cromar stated Saturday Satur-day that ho intended to take up tho fish screen immediately and have screens placed in all irrigating ditches which wero found detrimental to the main channel and down which tho fish would go. It is estimated (hat over one million mil-lion fry. ono inch long, wero killed in the neighborhood of Big Cottonwood tliis spring. Theso small trout went down an irrigating ditch nnd then into a large grassy field, whom they perished. per-ished. Game' Wardens Jncklin and Bingley took out over five hundred trout, but were unable to get the smaller small-er fish. Cromar will endeavor to stop this great waste of lish tho coming season sea-son by puttiug in suitable screens. With the fish saven that the irrigating ditches ditch-es kill, in two years' time there will bo so many trout in Salt, Lake county that the entire Stato could come hero and fish nnd thero would be no visible decrease.