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Show Game Protection Needed ." a , . a u m Animals Are in Bad Plight v By Frank E. Scheftki. our streama and lakes are being relied re-lied upon to furnish spawn, but aucn business Is a poor system. The day haa come and gone when our atreams muat supply our hatcheries. Inntesd our natcnerlea muat be made to aupply our atreams. It will take a great dell of hard work to slock our atreams up agala. but It can be done with const lent loua work. The department must employ the brat men It can secure se-cure far the service and there can be no loafing on the Job. The game commissioner must not be allowed to sell any more fish for spawn. but every fish hatched In flan must be placed in aome stream, and to get results the planting must be done properly. The state cannot afford to raise fish two or three Inches long and then take and dump them Into aome nig stream or lake and epect results. The small fry muat be planted where the larger fish csnnot g-t at them, snd this necessitates a trip tn the headwaters, of the small trlbutarlea and watercress springs for ths pleating. pleat-ing. HtcMklng of stresms must be done every aeason without a letup and !l mXf J done In such a way that the flsheVlll live. Planting deed fish does not bring results. "There Is no excuse Jpr this atate to have no fish In our feautiful streams. Tha commercial com-mercial clubs of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana' and Idaho make a specialty of advertising the fins rtshlng In their mountain stresms Thla city haa five excellent trout atreams within walking walk-ing distance and we ought to Advertise Adver-tise also and take our vtsltora ot)t and treat them to a fine day's sport on some mountain stream. It can be done and it ought to be dons, and no doubt will be done If the sportsmen hsve anything to ear about the matter. The past hss already proven the fact that you cannot neglect yeur trout atreama and still have good fishing. Utah haa aecured auch a amall per cent of the trout fry distributed the paat few yeara by ths government that an effort ef-fort ought to be made to aecure her big ahare the coming year. Mr. Locke. Surernment flahmsa, sshJ that I'tah sd never asked (or anything In the fish line, so let's get together, toys, sad set our ahare ths coming year. WILD game, la making 111 last atand on the face of the earth. Driven from pillar to post, day In and day out, from year to year, relentlessly hunted by man. not only for Ita food value, but in a great many Instances for the, pleasure there la tn killing, the wild animals are forced to the wall and can go no further. The great-eat great-eat damage haa. been done by the trapper and hla success as a trapper depended upon the number of pelts or furs he could collect In any one season, regardless of the wasted food value of the animals killed. Id thla way the work of extermination haa been going on year after year until at the present time we are face to face with nearly -complete extermination extermina-tion of much of our game. WARNINGS SOUNDED. Warnings have bern sounded by "nthusiaats from time to time, but little or no heed haa been given. Whenever protection haa been suggested sug-gested to the lawmakers of any coun-f coun-f try little headway haa been made, but over the world sttd there seems to be a general movement for better pro tectinn. Probably the agreement between be-tween the tinned Htalea and Canada to protectalj migratory birds during the nesting; seasons haa proved auch a success that thla movement waa really the starting point for better protection. However, whatever the cauae may be. there la a demand all ovas the world for better protection for our wild life. Strong appeals are being made by the people in Aala and Africa for strict hunting regulations, and many or the most enthusiastic supporters are suggesting an International Inter-national agreement In order to save what little game la really loft, PELT CHASING. The recent greateVar haa proved boomerang to our wild game In the statea. I'elta and fura went ao high In price that they were much sought after by huntera and great Inroads have been made upon game and fur bearing animals. It Is only the trapper who will tell you that there la plenty of game left. It la he who la trying to stave off legislation for protection In the hope of gathering a few more pelta, and It is of little concern to him whether he killa the last beaver or mink, deer or mountain sheep, for the future has nothing in store for him: he thinks of today and not of tomorrow, and this la tha kind of buainesa our lawmakers muat take care of and action muat be taken today and not tomorrow, for tomorrow may be too late. Horrible examples' of game extermination exter-mination are laid at our very doors, and thla in a new country where we are Just beginning our infancy aa compared to the "old worltL" The paa-srnger paa-srnger pigeon, the most beautiful of our wild pigeon, la no more. In H70. the sportamen of Michigan began an active campaign for the protection of thss great game bird, but the market hunter had hla way. Fervent plead-Iftxs plead-Iftxs had no weight with legislatures and the cry for protection waa treated aa a calamity howl by a few who wished to perpetuate the species for personal galna. Hundreds of carloads of the pigeons were shipped out of the country to European cities. The pot hunter was In hla glee for did he not gather in the shekels without an outlay t a cnFTor production from property that belonged, to. the nitlxena? COMMERCIAL HONTINO. No, he did not even pay a license to hunt the game which he extermlnsted to better his living conditions. Ths only question In ths minds of ths sportsmen todsy Is, "Why didn't ths pot hunter grab sll ths public lands and sell them for his personal benefit also? Ha had just as much right." About tbs same time that the passenger pigeon was doomed the buffslo w-ss msktng Its last stsnd on the Western plalna. European lords, dukes and many wealthy people came to this country by the huitdrede to hunt the bison, and in company with many of our boasted American sport a. tried to outdo earn other aa to the number of kills In a1 day. Our government stood calmly by and. without flinching in the leaat. witnessed wit-nessed the outrageous slaughter of the most Important game animal on the Amerirn continent. And where Is It today? to-day? Why, of course, you msy gee the animal In a few private parks or in some muneuro. Our wild game birds have been treated ih same way. No protection came until tha birds were exterminated, or nearly so. Finally the government sat up and took notice that something had to be done for protection, nd to the National Rportfttnen'e organisation belongs most of the honor that something was done. We now have a national law protecting most of our shore birds. Fist. PROTECTION. A lack of Intereat In the protection of our fieh has also run Its course. The Atlantic salmon, one of the gameat fish known, ia seldom seen. Its extermination waa brought about by the construction of dame across the rivare. preventing the fish from reaching Ma spawning grounds, and thus one of the moat important food supplies sup-plies was entirely cut off from the people. peo-ple. An effort la now being made by several sev-eral of the Now Kngland slates to correct cor-rect the evil by providing euiiable flsh-ways flsh-ways for ths fish or by having the dame entirely torn out of the streams. The r'acific salmon ie being introduced and. It is said. Is proving a succev Jut recently a large dsm wss con structed in the Racrament river and last vear not a salmon reached the lnlted Htate hatcherv at Bslrd, making the hatchery a complete failure. The matter is now In the courts for de'ermlnat Ion. snd if the fish l ruled against, salmon fieri Ing In the Sacramento river will be- ( come ancient hietory. Khe sportsmen f hope that the government will step in andi provide proper legislation protecting our' food fl"h and their spawning grounds. This matter can be carefully hand ed with, detriment to no one snd with the saying say-ing of millions of dollars of food to oir people. . I The agitation which Ie being crested cre-sted all over the world tor better 'protection will no doubt bring shout I ! good results in the next year or two. The people have been at laet brought to realise they have greatly injured themselves by lack of Intereat In our wild life, both fish and gams animals snd birds. COMMISSIONER. eJOR. Tbs new fish .and game commissioner commis-sioner of this state will have no easy task. The atate streama have been nearly depleted with trout, and not till last year did the sportsman fully realise the scarcity of trout In our streams, which result -waa predicted by government foreat men In the government gov-ernment annual report, Home of our . hatcheries have been allowed to run down and sre not producing up , lo capacity. At one t ime the state had s fair start and owned a large number of big , spawnere, especially at the Murray hatchery, hut the fish are not ' there now. it appears (hat some of 0 , |