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Show FISH AND GAME CLUB In an address before the Beaver County Fish and Game club, in Beaver Bea-ver last week, J. F. Tolton had many kind words to say of the club, its offices of-fices and Its activities. J. F. Tolton told of the activities of the Beaver County Fish and Game club, giving an outline of the work accomplished during 1923, and of the work hoped to be accomplished in 1924. Mr. Tolton said that the receipts of the club in 1923 were, cash $363; labor $243; total receipts $608. Disbursements, included $160 spent, on road to the Beaver hatchery; $250 on the construction of the Lo-Hi reservoir; $207 on the transportation of fish, leaving a balance bal-ance of $16 cash on hand. There were taken from the Beaver hatchery 316000 fish of which number, 67,000 were planted in Iron county and 265,000 in the waters oi Beaver county. One hundred Black Bass, spawners, and 2500 Black Bass fingerlings were planted in the Min-ersville Min-ersville reservoir. The club hatched and turned loose eighty-two pheasants. In 1924, the plans of the club Include In-clude the raising of the dam at the little reservoir ten feet, so as to :n-crease :n-crease its capacity about four times its present capacity. The Lo-Hi reservoir res-ervoir will be drained and restocked and the dam will be raised and strengthened. After the danger of high water is past Cy's cache will be drained and all the fish which were planted in it last year will be allowed to find their way into the Beaver river. Then the cache will be restocked again. The reservoir at the LeBaron meadows mea-dows will be drained and a gate installed in-stalled and the reservoir stocked with trout. More Bass will be planted In the Minersville reservoir. The club will hatch and release about 400 pheasants. Over a million trout will be taken from the Beaver hatchery and planted plant-ed in the waters of Beaver county, and about a quarter of a million will be sent to waters In Iron county. At the present time there are about 700,000 small fish at the hatchery, which will be ready for planting as soon as the roads are so they can be transported to the mountains moun-tains and as soon as the hatchery is empty it will be refilled with eggs. Mr. Tolton praised the club an the department for the good being done, and felt that much benefit would be derived from the activities along this line. |