Show vernal gun club to double community service tho the conservation of wild did lite and development of recreational resource as la Is tho the big flold chosen by the vornal vernal gun and rifle club organized in 1903 abd now affiliated with tho national association they the y havo a membership of active members moin bors and expect to double this thid in 1924 their accomplishments during the poet past year bayo hayo been many and in thia this hold field also their endeavor will bo be to double their work and reach roach a greater community efficiency it i seems that anything they promote fi always roaches reaches tho the desired goal loav loay ing a moat most pleasant after effect hociak activities many being an outdoor organization whose whoso is id composed entirely of mon men their social activities cover that field during the year beld many rifle practices an 04 1 nual thanksgiving turkey shoot with nearly in attendance this year they hold their first annual banquet banquot this year at the close of the doer door season o 0 next february they will hold their annual ball the bodal social affair of tho season always planned on one year ahead captain dyron byron thomas has now a rifle match with the county riflemen under the leadership of dr J W stevens Sl ovens although ho he Is a gun club member in a short time they will have tho the most up to dato date trap shooting located close to town they aro are now planning on a campaign among tho the schools of uintah county for the conservation of vald life and may havo have a most interesting contest to enounce in this line soon game burds imported among one of tho big things done I 1 this year that has its real fruition in tho the future was the importing of hungarian partridges and chinese pheasants to uintah county of the shipment of hungarian partridges imported from Hung axia by the state fish and game department 6 pair were brought bere by the club and partridges with young have been seen in the valley chinese pheasants were more plentifully brought in setting of eggs amounting to were placed in various sections of tho valley and about 25 per cent hatched henry secretary of the club as instrumental in getting 3 shipments of young ung pheasants from tho the Sparing ville hatchery of 50 birds in each shipment which means that at least hardy game birds will be in the valley to commence next years crop of young it is the intention to add to these next year by further and also to procure other new game birds suitable to our climate thus within the next few years making a wonderful bunting hunting paradise big start to stock streams Str cams while not as many native and rainbow trout were planted as tho the club desired practically every stream of any importance in uintah county received somo some fish of the 8 truck loads planted at various times in our streams et reame five of these were native and tho the balance rainbow tho the whiterocks hatchery hat chory all bo be running at ful capacity next year and tho the gun club will plant their allotment from thia this hatchery as a fast an thoy they are ready the elate state fame Vaine department turns tums tho ash over to the gun club either at tho the rall railroad road station or at rt tho whiterocks hatchery and the expanse Is 1 then borne bome fully by the club next year it la is hoped that full fully double tho number of fish flab can be planted and at not nearly ao so much expense to tho the members build d mountain road mad to mako make the mountain fastness more accessible to all the club last 11 year collected from interested part lea and appropriated from their own fund aluch in conjunction with tho the ashley national forest road department part ment built a a tino fine auto road to rod red pino setting sot ting ono one of tho the beauty spot of tho and tho the forestry further extended the road to trout crook crock station trout creek crook park was honored with the namo name of qun club park and several summer bames will be built there in 1924 by oun gun club members membership being a requisite of owning a home ih this beautiful places their road program next year will be the completion of this road to qun gun club park and helping make tho the present road bettor better salt lake tribune party in early september 0 J grimes ono one of the special staff reporters for the salt lako lake tribune was the invited guest of L 11 allan president of tho the vernal gun and rifle club and supervisor charles demolay of the ashley national forest and W L woolf engin engineer oe I 1 r tor for tho the dry gulch irrigation company roosevelt they made a trip of over two weeks exploring tho the valleys lakes streams and crags of the with mr demolay DoMol DeMol sy wilson murray B H String liam and ranger harry van tassel 8 days were spent on tho the east slope of tho the forest and with mr woolf and ranger albert blood and other guests on the west slope mr bir allan was called away and was unable to make this trip 1 mr grimes was so greatly impressed ath with tho beauties of thel the that ho he declared that no place in all his travels could such varied beauty of great utility be found mr grimes wrote two articles for the sunday tribune telling of this trip and there are others to follow he also has written articles that will vall appear in 4 different sporting magazines in tho the near future it is such advertising as this that will bring attention to the recreational value of our country the best in the world it if the gun club had done nothing but this ono one thing during the year than make this one trip they could well say 11 see what we have done this part of the work for next year has not been out lined but this and other sections will be visited also and have prominent people as their guests |