Show RICHFIELD KICK ONI ON I FISH DI DISTRIBUTION TRI UTION Southern Utah Believes It Is Not Getting Square Deal STREAMS STREAMS' ARE DEVASTATED Corr Correspondent Millions of or Pry Fry Are and amut No Is JR Made h by State I Asserting Assorting that southern Utah IB la not a square re deal In tho the distribution lIon tion of ot fish fish and that the State FJ Fish h and atud Game commissioner Is taking the sup sup- supply ply from rein FI Fish h lake for other othor parts lartS of or orthe the he state a a. correspondent sends scathe tho thu following letter Richfield Utah Fe Feb Feh Editor Republican In your paper of or orl Feb cb l 11 11 under un er the headlines Trout In Streams Are Replenished Replenished Many Many Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands of Finn Finny Tribe Are living Being Raised for fOl Distribution appeared a n story of or how game bame fish arc are cultivated In tIle the stale of ur Colorado b by th tho- tho state and national national na na- na- na governments go and then through the this generosity of or time the railroads are t planted plantel In th lh streams and lakes of f Utah to lo tIme the everlasting joy oy of ot tho Utah fishermen An And time the story con con- concludes concludes duties with a 3 statement of where rc the l lieu fish allotted to this tills state in l were planted The streams and lakes of ot Garfield Wayne n ne and md S Sevier viel counties do donot not hot appear to 10 have ha received a single liMit helm n h from rom this source But this is not the particular kick we have han Th Tho story red r. r referred to read in Imi the light of or a a. bill that has lias Jm been introduced inthe Inthe in inthe the house of oC representatives N. N time the purpose pur put pose of or which is Js to place the time entire Ush anti and game mo Interests o of the tho state iu In the hands of the state commissioner has hias called forth from the tho hO fishermen ant an and sportsmen of this section a strenuous objection of or time the particular bill above e abovementioned abovementioned mentioned as well ivell as to the way the state commissioner has treated this part of tho tho- state for several years ears pastIn past In tho lie first place the people hurt here are ar arn ir n ry opposed to an any measure that will give to lo the state slate corn commissioner more mote tower I than he now no exercises over o the thc streams m and amid lakes or of Kovler o an and amid Wayne ano counties W We VIt believe that is as a n general proposition proportion no 1 io state officer should bo quito quite omnipotent In his particular par par- sphere and our observation ober is that the tile present commissioner under underlie he the law Ju of or 1 05 now has haM almost unlimited m powers power which hu have ve been used d to tile the great Injury ot or our fishing shing interests It II Is li a fact which can cun be substantiated tinted b by the iho local Joeal fish tishi and anti game commissioners com com- missioners lol cr that the time state commissioner lon r during during- the year car 1906 1900 took awa away from real Fish Fish- luko alone alon moro more than a million trout rl as Not one olle fish fishi h from those these eggs Im hats has been returned to th lw waters o ot oC n i f county or of oC any other county In In this section o ot of time the state What bo- bo Clime canal ot them perhaps only the tile st state le commissioner knows knows- ATI An we Ve know Is that the thu eggs were were- taken away nd i nn no fish bull were returned Not only has none of oC these h cn returned but hut there thero has hot been no effort eort whatever made matl to torf rf replace them with other varieties NoI Nor No I 1 A isec 1 the time only on year In which this thin op op- op- op ratIon i-ratIon bus been heen carried on but this part arl of the tho state hUM has suffered from th the system tm oC of for tor or several se years year It l I In Lh the opinion here her entertained u b uthe by the u authorities upon tho the subject Hal tha this till e oC C out our na lloa Uny mY belli n mn mode e. e hn tin haa dope sour 10 to Li lie ihn onIt than all H the thu violations of or the law lass that tha have Ilave occur red 11 hi In a n. ca 14 decade coll tiC I In a I I ion to tho the Ions Jos of ot th tile tho eg eggs JOan money many of time tha grown Krown Jinn It is is' said Raid tile lie as tie a ll o of time ilio stripping prot pOl t S sS N Xo Xu Iti for lor or Sj n n. n I h have ald thin that L no return has imas bren IJen made for time the spawn that has mt been licia curried away uway aw from toni this timis part of or the state The rue statement Is Iii h not n. n milto ti ac ac- curate A rio few years a ago o several thousand thou sand fry were planted In J lake iok and ant also In Fish lake But DUl those returned did not by any means either ill in number or in lIl equal I those taken awn away It I Is asserted ell tl by sportsmen sportsmen sports sports- men will who Isil visited d that region last sea sea- son soil as aM well as is by fishermen rm n residing there that the tho JI h Introduced limb lulo Panguitch lake are ale In quality and like Utah lak lukei s suckers suck ers Those planted In iii Fish lake lak are arf said to be rainbow rah trout but HtmL are ant in III o or every r wn way ivay inferior to 0 the tIme native salmon 1 trout trout- to tu t. t People hero here like lIko to be shown the wisdom and amid fairness of a policy that thal operates s so gri greatly atly to lO the time d detri detriment hr trl- trl I- I ment of one une part of ur the time state slate They do O not nol believe c that the tIme state ought to lu In tho tile hl business to the lit extent Indicated The They believe t they timey had hiatt n as well veli dedicate tho tile waters of or the Kouth to lo rod red and amid gun clubs club of or time the north as to lo give o the state stutt commissioner com com- missioner any I ore more control O over ovea them ell As AN the blue matter now stands stanus so tar fur us as time the south Is concerned an officer Is paid out of or tho thai state stalo tl treasury whose business It Is to come comae down lucre here and calr carry awa away our good fish and amid leave lea us nothing In lii return Sevier Garfield anti and Yn Wayne ne counties have ha many lakes and antI streams that are naturally perfectly adapted cH to the cultivation cul cul- ti atlon of or trout and amid other game ganie Ush At one time the they were Izaak Waltons Walton's paradise lint Hut now the fishing Industry Is lof dead and It is certain that if It the tho ll it will be lit present policy IB It continued but a very ery short horl lime until our game g-ame gamen n fish h will have o vanished like tho tile proverbial proverbial pro pro- I snowball In Jut fairness to lo the southern part of the state stal the lIle legis- legis laturo ought to put an cud end to the tho practice practice tice complained complain tJ of oC and also to repair If It possible the damage that has been blen done one Several S remedies might bo lie suggested sug SUK- It is not perhaps beyond b the range of or possibility that iliaC a a. state commissioner com corn missioner could be lie found who would extend fair treatment to all nil parts of tho tile state slate If It hatcheries wore were established lI at Panguitch and anti Fish lakes and amid the tho fry Cry or UI a part thereof planted In the thc streams of or the three counties mentioned I a few ow years en would suffice to make of or them time the fishing grounds for Cor or which the they lucy were b by nature In Iii tended Intended Trusting you can cnn find lint room In your our valuable paper for or this tiuis little kick 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