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Show Game Head Urges Sale of Licenses Urging that all license agents, representing rep-resenting the Utah Fish and Game association, as-sociation, make extra effort to sell more fish and hunting licenses, Newell B. Cook, head of the department, has addressed letters to all representatives of the game department outlining the many needs for larger membership and more financial aid to sustain the elaborate program to make fishing and hunting better in the state. In his communications to the several sever-al license selling agents, Commissioner Commission-er Cook calls attention to a few of the things the Fish and Game department depart-ment is accomplishing. In 1931 $25,-000 $25,-000 was spent for fish feed alone. Some 8,500 pheasants during 1931 were liberated at an approximate cost of $8,000. More than 7,500,000 fish were planted in the streams of Utah, and just as far as the finances would permit, these fish were reared to the legal size for the 1932 planting. Fifty-two thousand dollars were put into permanent improvements last year, all with the desire of furnishing-better furnishing-better outdoor recreation for the sporting sport-ing public. The drought of last year, the letter states, was very damaging to the limited lim-ited amount of fishing waters, and the heavy snow throughout the northern part of the state during the past winter win-ter necessitated a heavier feeding program pro-gram than has ever been carried on before. Money was budgeted so that it j was necessary for the department to j borrow money for this year, which is the first time in many years. Due to the low number of licenses this year, which, no doubt, is the cause of economic conditions, it keeps the department struggling to maintain what it now owns and supports, and retards the extensive program which has been outlined to better conditions in the state. It is also announced in the letter that the biggest part of the money the department receives is spent in propagation and construction. Commissioner Cook announces that the sports will have a chicken shoot, a good pheasant shoot, a deer and elk hunt, and a sixty-day shoot for ducks this year. |