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Show I Bay May Be Set Aside as Public Hunting Ground and Preserve Marking preliminary steps In a - .impalffn to set aside certain arcad Irs Bear Rlvgr bay, at the north of Great . Salt Lake, as a public hunting grour.ds and other areas ns resting' places for waterfowl, R. H. Slddoway, atnto fish and game commissioner, yesterday sent maps of the Bear River bay country to Washington. Duo to the Lucin cut-off of the Southern Pacific railroad, which virtually vir-tually encloses the Bear River bay on ' tho south, the waters are. gradually losing their saline properties. The maps sont to "Washington are acco'rripanled by letters to tho various members of tho Utah delegation to congress, asking that an area be set aside as a breeding and propagaring ground for waterfowl. It is asked that a. portion of the lands now un-surveyod un-surveyod bo designated for this purpose, pur-pose, and that provision be made for iho formulating of rules and regJia-tlons regJia-tlons to be administered in co-opcrt-tlon with the Utah fish and game department de-partment and the bureau of biological biologi-cal survey of the department of agri- I culture. Tho aim of those rules would be the protection of these bresu'ng grounds. .This will not encroach, Mr. Slddoway Slddo-way points out, on the rights and privileges of existing duck clubs Qr hunting clubs, but will result In the setting aside of a great part of the present unused territory thero for the hunters who may not happen to be members of such organizations. "There are from eight to ten suctions," suc-tions," said Mr. Siddoway, "of lands from which the waters of tho lake ' . haVo receded, and which nro now r.nv- cred With tulle, and will form an ex- 1 cellcnt breeding ground for water- B fowl If they aro propertly protected. ' 1 This proposal comes in conjunction f with the proposition to bo presented to tho next legislature to ask the state I to set aside a portion of Bear River bay as a resting placo for watorfowl. ' Tills becomes desirable on account of the freshening of the waters of the bay. While hunters usually confine their I attention to the various channels of the Bear river and of other streams feeding the lako at this point, Mr. Siddoway points out that attempes , might be made to utilize the waters of the bay for other purposes, ana ho l believes that the proposed action by the leglsaturo will keep tho bay itseif as a precinct sacred to the protection of waterfowl. . I |