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Show THE CITIZEN 10 not necessary in such localities because the natural vegetation provides suitable blinds from which to shoot. The time of shooting should be extended from dark to dark. As long as there is a limit on thq ducks killed, it does not make so much difference after all when they are killed, especially in' a locality as ours in which disease takes more ducks every year than the hunters kill. It is much better that the. people kill the ducks and eat them than to allow them to die in the sloughs and rot, We. have been told that there was' little' sickness among ducks the past; fall, but that remains as to what one would call little sickness. For in: stance, Inore ducks died on the western shores of the lake where the Jordan, river empties into the lake than were killed by the hunters this year. Thousands Upon thousands of ducks died there this year, exclusive of the great number that died in the Bear river country. There is a remedy for this duck malady and that is the elimination of .the small stagnant ponds which are left high at the end of the high. water mark in the spring when, all the flowing vrater is taken up The only course open to us is the draining of these small ponds which will prevent the ducks from nesting there. As the summer advances these stagnant ponds become filthy with decayed animal, bird and vegetable matter, and the ducks soon contract a disease which kills them by the thousands. Then again many of our ducks in this, locality, go to the coast' and there in the rice fields of Sacramento valley they are shot down and left on the ground as fertilizer. The farmers shoot them to protect their rice fields. Then why if we have a bag limit on ducks should we pay so much attention to specified time for shooting. At daylight and just before it gets dark the ducks begin, to fly and during such time we are prohibited from shooting by lawr. Again we ask, would it not be better to allow these ducks to be taken than protected to be later ravaged by disease against which we have hot lifted our hands since it began many i . . the fish are taken with salmon worms, spinner or fly. I vrould not trade my fly for all the combined trout bait on the market. It is a real pleasure to see a trout come surging through a ripple of clear water to feed upon the artificial fly which has fooled the fish, and it gives one a thrill to . , . . - . - . years ago. There are some fishermen who object to the use of salmon eggs for bait. Just why they do, the writer does not know, except it be because some of these salmon eggs fishermen "bait holes one day and fish the next. It is said that under such conditions all the fish in a hole can be taken but in a short time. The writer has never used salmon eggs and probably never will. I have seen many fish with the egg3 but never met a successful fisherman. I have talked with many that use the eggs and they claim that they use them in preference to other, bait because they are easier to get. One cannot always get angle worms at a1 convenient time and it is much.easi.er to go into a store and get the eggs! Ftom what I have heard about the salmon eggs if they are used legitimately and fairly as. any other bait there appears to be no sensible reason why the fisherman who wishes to use them should be barred by law. The law provides a limit for a trout catch and after all what difference does It make whether i : catch such a fish. To outwit a trout is great satisfaction to the fisherman. To sink your bait to the bottom of a hole and wait for a bite may be a thrill to some, and if they find pleasure in that kind of fishing, I am not the one to say that they should be barred from the streams. I will get my fish with a fly no matter how many salmon egg fishermen there are on the streaim, of course providing the water is clear or fairly so. There is always a certain time of day the fish feed on the surface and during such times the fly fisherman can get some fish if his fly in any way resembles the present insect life. A strong fight will be made to stop seining in Utah lake. When the lake was opened to seining, the market men promised to protect the game fish in t tah lake. There is something wrong down there. The people do not care how many suckers and carp are taken out of the lake, the more the better. However, the game fish have been steadily decreasing until today it is a joke to go down there and fish. Last spring, when catfishing is at its best, the Salt Lake Sportsman's organization of Salt Lake county held a fishing tournament at Geneva and a silver cup was awarded to the one who caught the most catfish. Several hundred fishermen were out on the lake and if I remember correctly there wrere only three fish caught in this contest. The result of this poor fishing came through the new law passed the previous year which allowed the market fishermen to take catfish by seine, traps and setlines, the latter having from one to two thousand hooks. The law was also changed to allow shipment of catfish out of the state, and in less than one year the market fishermen so depleted the fish that it was impossible to make any catch last summer. As a result of this market legislation and the resultant poor fishing, 10,000 fishermen have signed a petition to stop seining in Utah lake, and this matter will be threshed out at the coming legislature. The people paid to put the catfish in Utah lake and when the supply became so that one could catch fish, the market men got together and had the law so changed that they would be b'.nefitted. This was a big factor in the recent election and switched many votes out of the regular channel. The people have voluntarily placed an extra tax upon themselves to fish and hunt in' this state and to raise money to propagate fish and gam, and the people refuse to do it for market purposes. If market fishermen want to. stay in the business they should make their own fish ponds and raise their own fish, but the day is past for the people to stock streams and lakes for market purposes. Let us change our fish and game laws for the benefit of the people and not for the benefit of a few market men. Whilst there are several American firms involved in the import business in Peru, the controlling factors are the British corporations. The Peruvians like to do business with the English, and on the other hand the latter caters to the Latin in a manner unknown to the Americans. It is pathetic to watch a good Amer . ican salesman trying to put over a business deal with the president of a big Peruvian concern (granted the president is a native). A contract for the of severel public buildings, and the installation of lavatories and up to date, water system, was . dangling in mid-a- ir shortly after my arrival in Lima. On the journey south I had traveled with the former , mayor of the city (a charming man with a charming family, and an . re-roofi- ng . rrry-- r vxvTynrynrvrsL sa ! : .; , BUSINESS CONDITIONS AS THEY EXIST IN PERU. e eggs,-angl- . i Y)'i( HATS what it has cost to! IT A carry out a great- - tele-1- , phone construction progrant in Utah since 1920. IvL 1J921 JANUARY New switchboard has been installed, pole lines have been built, new cable has been run overhead and underground to keep pace with telephone demands. Prosperous years and lean years alike call for money and yet more money to expand the telephone plant and keep service up to Bell System standards. : These have been costly years because materials were higher than ever before in history. But service demands wont wait. We must buy and build now because service is demanded now. There are no estimates for the future of Utah which indicate any diminution in this vast expenditure for tele- phone equipment. Bell System On NHcf Ob Ijilm Valvcraal Service Ail All Dlndd Tiwirl letter Service The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company vrxiVtTV.iv.rvi.vvivivtvLvrcar . |