Show EED D MANY SCREENS CR IK TO SAVE SM LIVES IBS OF FISh Commissioner Laments the Legislatures Legislature's Failure to Provide Funds How to screen streams ms with t no money appropriated for the work Js is the tho problem which today confronts Fred W. W Chambers state fish Ash and game commissioner It will take between and to s screen reen tho the streams of ot the state stale as provided provided pro pro- vided b by the state law says Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Commis Commis- Ch Chambers but unless I divert ort the money from the the- maintenance fund of the department I can do nothing I was Instrumental in ha having Introduced introduced introduced Intro intro- Into the tho state state legislature a measure which If II It had become law wo would ld have furnished m my department with with which to commence this work of ot screening s the streams That would have been only a bo beginning however But as asIt asIt asit It Is is we wo can do ho nothing Th The law Is void old for lack Jack of nn an appropriation appreciation clause Another thing which hampers us Is that the enactment calling calling- for tor five Ove da days days' s notice to be given Iven the wardens and deputies deputies ties tics of our department b by the water companies companies com corn before they turn tura the water from i-em i the streams Into the Irrigating ditches Is being disregarded Consequently the sh aro are c. c carried fried from Crom the main streams ams Into the shallower Irrigating ditches and anddie dlo die there whereas If It we had the tho legal o fi days days' warning warnIng- we could save hundreds of ot them However the other matter is Js up to the law makers My Iy department can do clo nothing nothing- without the needed appropriation If It screens were placed in the streams the tho fish could not riot be carried into tho Ir Irrigation ir- ir ditches when the time water was being boIn boIng bo- bo In Ing diverted to them thom but without t the thc screens and with tho the directions to notify m my deputies disregarded h by the water companies the fish appear to be he doomed |