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Show Sportsman Sells Property to Fish and Game Dept. Frank M. Browning, public-spirited sportsman and businessman of Odgen, has deeded valuable mountain moun-tain property to the sportsmen of Utah with the Game Department as custodian. The property, located about eleven miles northeast of Hunts-ville, Hunts-ville, is a valuable summer and winter range for game animals. It also has some good fishing streams running through it. Mr. Browning sold the land to the Fish and Game Department for a much smaller sum than he could have realized from other interests. in-terests. He stipulated that the property was always to be open to the public for recerational use. The purchase was made with Pittman-Robertson funds. According Accord-ing to J. Perry Egan, this is one of the few instances where the sportsmen have been endowed by an individual. As early as 1897 James Burres-ton Burres-ton of Mona, Utah in Juab county, gave the State Fish and Game Department De-partment -the springs near Mona which today carry his name. With the springs, certain acreage of nearby lands was deeded to the department, with the agreement that it be used as a public recreation recrea-tion area . The late Charles Skougaard, prominent sportsman from Richfield, Rich-field, stipulated in his will that $1,000.00 of his estate be spent in furthering the cause of better fishing at Fish lake. |