Show 1 fiAME INCREASES IN MONTANA WILDS Stopping Slopping of Illegal Hunting and Watchfulness of Wardens Wardens Wardens Ward Ward- ens the Cause CARIBOU ELK AND MOOSE Deer So Plentiful that Number Have Been Struck by Locomotives Helena Mont Aug 3 AccordIng According to 10 the reports of the thc deputy game gamo wardens war war- dens who ilio have O been in Helena 1 In Iii 1 conference conference con con- ference with wilh Genie Game Warden Scott in every portion of or the state the finest hunting that has been heen enjoyed In years ears Is promised during time the open season next September Big Dig game is plentiful and with time the stopping stopping- of illegal hunting due to lo lotho the tho watchfulness of oe the wardens bl big game Is 15 even en on the tho Increase The rime prospects are arc not nol quite so auspicious aus aus- for a good crop of chickens grouse e and sage a e hens The lie late lalo spring and the time wet weather In many places created cl havoc among the tue chicks and It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is feared that if the tho wet continues continues con con- it will ivill destroy the time young which are just being hatched The outlook for or good duck ducle shooting is splendid and amid according to lo tho reports of the deputies ties tics Is mm nowhere he re better than at Lal Lake e Hau cI and Lake Sewell on the Missouri Mis MIs- lIs- lIs river a few miles north of Helena He He- lena This Is time the first year car the thc ducks dueks have nested on the lakes lales in any ammy great number of or the tile ducklings have been I hatched and arc are doln doing well Around Aroun Havre e. Townsend and amid t also good duck shooting is Good Shooting on un cr c c rIme Tho best big biJ game shooting to lu be found In iii the country countr today is declared to be on the Flathead and Lewis Leiis s and Clark forest reserves The reserves are alC a true wilderness and afford a no fine haven havon to the bl big game Not enough hunting has been heen done lone on Oil the reserves to spoil it H. Among Amon the llie big game gam animals mini ani mals which are arc plentiful are arc 0 chic oik black tailed deer und amid all vai varieties Idles of th the bear family from fromn the tho little brown and black blackbear blackbear bear to 10 time thu grizzly grizzl and silver sliver tip lip The deputIes say n ay that elk shooting this year should be particularly good rho Tho streams are tre full of or trout and amid all ull va varieties vii vo- of ur small game are arc to tu be found round It is not nol generally I known that moose are to be bo found lound in Montana but time the their fair Call In deputies reported presence H l on the tho H 11 hell 11 Gato Cato river In Montana on the north northfork fork Corl of or r tho the in Imi northwestern Montana l and amid In lii the Yale Yak basin In iii the same samo district There arc are ul also o caribou in the Yak basin Some Sonic idea o of thc tho of or elk chic in northwestern Montana ma may bo be gained from the fact tact that the orchard orchard- are IC complaining complaining- that the tite animals are de destroying tro the tho fruit trees Former Former For For- mer Governor Robert B. B Smith who I Is here from Sunset where ho has a n fine fruit ranch said that only last week he lie saw three big bucks In Iii the tho orchard 80 yards from his house They played and leaped and r romped with one ono another another another an an- other and did not pay any attention to the tho governor standing only a few yards off ort No o dama damage o was done to the trees however other fruit truit growels growel's growers growers grow grow- ers els have haYo not been so 10 fortunate the animals coming into t the orchards orchard and rubbing the tho velvet off their horns and und rubbing the bark barIc off ocr the trees at al atthe atthe the sumo same time timime A Whitefish h correspondent writes Hiles that thai In lii a few feis' weeks more the thc huntIng hunt- hunt Ing seaton sealon will open and tho the woods will be full of or sportsmen endeavorIng endeavor endeavor- Ing to get a t shot not at al some seine of the numerous nu nu- kinds of oC game to be found here Deer seem to b be b p particularly plentiful nil plc-nil- ful this year ear and il Jl i is to the o animals animals ani ani- mals that m most t of the tho hunters will give their attention On several occasions occa ocea- this summer tho those c who have gone one Into the Hie timber are ale constantly bringing In reports that the woods are full of them Quite a number o of these animals have been killed on un the railroad tracks around here b by traIns sulking them an and almost every cry day passengers re report report re- re port having seen en numbers of them between be be- tween this place and stryker Duck shooting on the smaller lakes In this neighborhood also promises to tobe tobo tobo bo be good this year an and passage of the law lai prohibiting spring shooting having hall had the effect of or Increasing the number num nuni- her ber of oC local ducks that Is Is ducks that nest host and anti raise their young here that formerly would have ha been either cither killed or driven n further north Coveys Coves of pheasants are seen every eo da day in the woods south of town and amid those that enjoy enjo hunting these birds will ivill undoubtedly find them as plentiful ful ul Ui as the they could wish Disciples of Walton alton ar are arc now enjoy enjoy- inS big the first fly fishing and splendid catches are arc reported Tho The delayed season sonson son sea son ton was as due to the rains r and melting snow Two pound 10 trout were caught in the BI Big Boulder and several five rIve elsewhere Grayling are plentiful and bass are obtainable plenty a in Flathead count county lake Jake |