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Show ill WANTS FISH HATCHERY Gem State Sportsmen Back Up Proposal of Congressman Congress-man Addison I Fourteen fish and game associations associa-tions of southern Idaho are fosteiinjr a movement to federate the assocla-l llon.s under one organization, according accord-ing to advices received today from that section of s. B. Locke In charge of fish and game Investigations in i;.--trict four of the forest service. Considerable Interest h.'s been aroused among the sportsmen, Mr. Locke said, relative to the bill introduced intro-duced by Congressman Addison T. Smith of Idaho, to provide a federal llsb hatchcrj In Idaho. It Is polnt.-d out that the two nearest near-est federal fish hatcheries at present are those located at Bozeman, Mont..; und at SpiingrvllhSi LTtali', which be-! cause of the distance and the high cost Of transportation Idaho receives but a vpry small amount of federal fish. j Otto M. Jones, state amc Warden I of Idaho, has arranged with the federal fed-eral bureau of fisheries so that hero- : after applications to the bAeau will j be filled w ith eyed-eggs wTilch will be batched and dlstrlouted from the State hatch' ri-s. "This will also allow of a much larr-er larr-er number to be supplied than If tlie bureau had to furnish fti1 or finger-Imp: finger-Imp: the supplying of whii:h has be n prohibitive due to the expense of, 1 . .1 asportation. Mr. Jones has also arranged for 1 1 ucks to run from the Hayspur hatch-ory hatch-ory below Hailey. Idaho, to the Wood river. Sawtooth and the Stanley sec- tlons InsurlnB those sections of a supply sup-ply of fish for planting purposes. |