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Show REPORTS METING OF STATESMEN Control of Big Game Placed Under the State Refuge Committee Following are excerpts from a report of Jos. J. Milne, president of the Washington County Fish and Game Protective association, who as a delegate as the local sportsmen attended the state sportsmen's meeting in Salt Lake City last Wednesday evening. Present at the meeting were 45 authorized delegates of fish and game bodies of the state, about two hundred sportsmen, eight members of the legislature, Commissioner Com-missioner J. Arthur Mecham, deputy state wardens and several county wardens. The following motions were carried: To place guide license at $50. State to take 15 per cent royalty royal-ty on seining, and requiring a $1000 bond to guarantee payment thereof. To charge 50c, $1 and $2 for permit to ship ducks, quail, fish, pheasants and deer out of the state. To revoke license upon conviction convic-tion of fish and game ltw violation. viola-tion. A special v2 deer license and tag system, one-half to go to a general fund and the other half to go to a special fund for the control of large game. To ask for $100,000 from the United States for research work on fur-bearing animals to aid in poison control. Motion to place elk, deer, moose, sheep, antelope and all big game under the control of the state game refuge commitee. The committee com-mittee to consist of the following: State game commissioner, state forester, one sportsman, one sheep man, one cattle man, one agriculturist agricul-turist and a county commissioner. No discussion on the appointment appoint-ment of a fish and game commissioner com-missioner oame up. A motion for placing fish and game control under civil service rules lost. Only about one-third of the delegates were instructed to act on this measure. |