| Show FISH AND GAME REPORT county flab fish and game commis stone submitted the following report to the county in pursuance of law I 1 beg leave to submit for your consideration the following report of my labors as fish and game commissioner of salt lake county irom from the day of december 1895 to date myself and deputy have arrested 27 persons persona of that number two were discharged one dismissed and ne appealed to the district court total amount of flues fines and costs amounted to I 1 put in six fish runs in parleys canyon streams one in big cottonwood canyon I 1 cleaned out tour four brush dams in parleys canyon creek seven in big cottonwood creek six in little cottonwood canyon and three in mill creek canyon in order to allow trout to pass up and docu these streams I 1 posted up in every precinct in this county a full copy of the fish aud and game law and a copy ot of the laws of the fish and game protective association with each one and posted up in each canyon in this county five or six copies of each I 1 also alao posted quite a number number in other bordering counties and endeavored to post all ali hunters so that none aone need violate the law I 1 also seized of W S henderson 51 bunds pounds of trout unlawfully shipped into this F 1 I state and from gibson fc king pounds and from pacific express eom com party pounds which I 1 sold to the highest bidder for cash amounting to which I 1 turned over to the treasurer of sail sah lake county I 1 have been present some nine or ten times when anen seines were drawn in the jordan river and lakes nearby and there was caught of carp chubs ind and suckers some pounds about 90 per cent of those caught were carp caught in white lake I 1 alsol also find and there is 75 per cent more trout and bass in jordan river raver than ever before and this great increase is due solely to the protection afforded by legislation I 1 find and that the great decrease in the number of ducks and snipe over one year ago was due to the high water of june last as 90 per cent of the eggs egge were under water for a number of days while in a state of incubation and while our legislators are zealously guarding the interest of our young state there are still improvements to be made for our own protection I 1 would suggest that the law lav protecting doves be repeated repealed as they are a migratory bird and also a grain destroyer they come here in the spring and rear their brood on our grain fields and leave in the fall fat and dainty to grace the tables of the south emata tea injustice in justice to ourselves they ought not to be protected only from the ast 1st day of october to the of july following we would also suggest that the bounty be made more liberal in regard to game destroying animals and birds such as the skunk weasel crane etc the skunk la Is one ot of the greatest enemies to ducks and thousands ot of nests are destroyed every year by thee the e posts pests alone there should be some device or method of protecting teching the trout from going out oui ot of the streams into the irrigating ditches as they are returning from their shawni 9 places as there are thousands of our bel best at fish destroyed and left to rot in the fields fielda or gathered up and killed for consumption by leaving the ditches ed ad and also recommend that the trout season should open the lot of july and that the duck law be changed allowing shooters sho one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise I 1 think the time from the be lot day ot of april to the first day ot of october is the best we can get H A fish and game commissioner |
