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Show J" , ish and Game Club I Gives Report for Co. at Rotary Meeting V . S 7 Jos. Milne, who was the first J'Aesident o the Washington mnty Flah and Game associa-m associa-m when it was reorganized om the Dixie Game and Rod lib in 1922 and has been very :tive in every way to help ini-ove ini-ove and better the association, troduced as the guest speaker the Rotary club at their regu-"V regu-"V weekly meeting, Bryan Judd, e present president of the as-iation. as-iation. Mr. Judd gave a short resume' ; the history of this work in this h; istrict. He told how the fish id sed to be brought here in great l ambers but so small that they joked like hairs. When planted ha this way only about five per tiat would live, while under the present plan of planting them ie;:om three to ' eight inches long, ,-ver ninety-five per cent live. At is'aat time the records show there ifere approximately 500 licenses -.old in the county while last year here were 1700. In 1929 there rere three tanks containing bout 7,000 fish and eighty cans, .f -fish, (milk cans,) released in nhe county. 1930 records show hat there were 116 cans and one ank re'eased, with four tanks aid forty, cans in 1931. Last s-ear, 1933, saw eight tanks containing con-taining approximately a total of 0,000 fish three to five inches tong, from the state hatchery and :me tank of 18,000 one to three T-nch fish from the federal hatcher, hatch-er, planted -tai ilie---MMiiity,. The !1rst fish to be planted in Enterprise' Enter-prise' reservoir for four years, ;lue to the lack of water, were planted there last year. The planting totaled 18,000 fish. Mitch can be done along this (line to improve our reservoirs and streams. It is hoped that the C.C.C. boys will be able to . make dams in the Pine Valley ;area thsi year. This will not only help from a flood control standpoint but will also make ' cellent pools -to plant with fish. Under present plans it will be possible to triple the fishing water wat-er in this district. There is also a fine possibility of creating a rearing pond in Pine Valley. last year there were 342 non-resident fishing licenses sold in the state, of th i3 number 108 were in "Washington County. At the time the Dixie Rod and Gun club was organized the qail hunting was very good. Because of the long hunting season, from September 15 to January 1, allowed al-lowed at that time the quail were gradually decreased. The bag at that time was fifteen quail. This has been reduced to eight per day and the season has been cut to thirty days, however how-ever quail hunting is still very poor and considerable effort will have to be made to increase the number of quail in this district. In 1926 the first pheasants were p'anted, with from seventy- five to 2 50 being planted each year since that time. Only the last two years have been open, but poachers have taken a heavy toll of the birds. "Our people, said Mr. Judd, "do not seem to realize that they are making it practically impossible to increase (Continued on last page) ! BRYAN J.LUND j GIVES REPORT I (Continued from first page) I the supply of birds. Plans are now being' formulated whereby .t b6 possible to give the game better protection." " In speaking of deer hunting iA the county, Mr. Judd gave figures figur-es that show the wonderful possibilities pos-sibilities along this line, particularly particu-larly iri regard to the amount of money that is spent here during the deer season. According to the records the deer are mcreas-each mcreas-each year and it wou.d be possible to have 1,000 non-re-dent hunters each year. In 19i( the preserve was closed to hunters hunt-ers in '28 only part was opened. With the increase of deer the state opened the whole of the ... i hn,m nnnt.in- preserve m mm ued to have it all open since that .'ear. The Washington County Fish ind Game association met with he Cedar City Game association n St. George in 1929, at which ime the present plans and regu-ations regu-ations were formulated. T.i;s insists of 10 checking stations, iv under the Cedar City assoc-ation assoc-ation and five for Washington nunty. At that time it was de-idert de-idert tc charge a fee of fifty cents or a tag show ins: that the hunt-,r hunt-,r had registe-cd, and oaci hunt-r hunt-r v. us required to check out. "j.is way it was possible to keep br.'ttr check on the hunters nd also enable the associations i arcertain the number of dee:, hat were ki'U;-d each sea ion. The oco'-qs show tnat 922 hunter 3 lieei'.ed in at 'he stations in '2i ri.-i-. jrq prp.tt'ne a deer. Of thii amber 137 were nonresident. a "0 721 tritd their luck and i9 secured 1 deer for a. perce.it-uc perce.it-uc of 69. Tl showed SPf, untors and 634 che.-ked out 'it!i deer making 70 per cent stting deer. In '32, 117S with ?r, deer an(i '?3, 1235 hunt-is ?cuud 897 deer. Of this num-rr num-rr T?2 were non-resident whi":e 1 '29 only 137 were sold. It is slieved that the numDer .of unters can be doubled and still :aintair. enough deer on the pre-:rve. pre-:rve. At the preser.l- time the ;er are doing considerable, dam-;e dam-;e to the farmers and by in-tpasing in-tpasing the number of hunters J is hoped that the deer will be controlled. The Association realizes real-izes that the farmers have suffered suffer-ed a loss through the increased number of deer and they are de-sireous de-sireous of cooperating in every way possible. With the increasing increas-ing of the number of hunters there is also an increase to the farmers in the amount of revenue re-venue released throughout the county. j In speaking of the amount that the hunters spena mi. -uu- ed the following figures: Revenue received from licenses sold in '28 from July to December Decem-ber 1st, $1,880.50. In '29, from January 1 to December 31, 100.25. From January 1 to Ju.y making the two year period, $1.-847.10. $1.-847.10. This made a total of $7,827!85. For the year of '33 the total was almost equal to the two year period, coming to $7,-591. $7,-591. The counties in the state lined up as follows with Salt Lake selling approximately $40,-000. $40,-000. Utah second with $12.-519. $12.-519. Weber third with $12,187, and Washington fourth with $7,-591. $7,-591. Weber at third has twelve times the population of Washington. Washing-ton. The costs for selling these licenses were Utah $582., Weber $557, while Washington spent only $175. It is only the last few years come to the front. In consequence conse-quence we are not securing their share of the fish and game that are being planted in the state. It is to this end that the Association is bending every effort. ef-fort. For this reason everything possible is being done to increase our number of hunters. Out of a total of 378 non-resident licenses licens-es sold in the state 302 were from this county. To bring it home to the people of the county Just what the hunters hunt-ers mean Mr. Judd gave, the following fol-lowing estimates. Taking 100 pounds as the average weight, with approximately 100,000 pounds of meat at eight cents per pound there would be a total to-tal of $8,000 worth of meat secured se-cured by the hunters. It has been proved in the past that .1 i. 1 10 , i-1 1 . . A 1 auuui nan ul une iiuuieia gu uui for pleasure. These spend a considerable con-siderable amount of money. ThP non-resident hunters spend an average of $3 5 each making a total of $10,570. Of this amount $4,530 is for licenses and the balance $60 40 is distributed throughout the county. Thero were 933 local hunters at an estimated es-timated spenditure of $10 pe' head making a total of $9,330. Cedar City association checked in 1,000 hunters into the Washington Wash-ington County section with ar estimated expenditure of $3 each or $3,000.. This makes a gTand total of $18,370 put into circulation. circu-lation. It is the hope of the association as-sociation that they can increase I their membership to a thousand. This would make it possible for them to spend $250 for advertising. advertis-ing. "We have had wonderful results from the small amount that we have spent in the past." said Mr. Judd." and if we could Increase this to where literature couM be sent out and a representative repre-sentative could go into California I and present our story 5t would j ue to $50,000 without damaging j our deer herd." I In closing Mr. Judd paid tribute tri-bute to Jos. Milne, Mr. Gurr. and many other citizens of the county who have helped with their timr and money. The association will hold their annual meeting some time during dur-ing March. |
