Show ARE WE KILT KILLING ING THE GOOSE with reports of below average deer hunting coming to us from all sections et na of the state and with first h hand im d knowledge that hunting blunting has take taken a big dr drop P or in this section we rem are beginning to wonder it if we h hav nt let been killing hilling the goose game that laid the golden egg during the past few years durrin during g th these se years we have been a staging raging doe hunts and special hunts hunt for one am or both sexes and invited people from all the surrounding states to come came and join in these hunts hunt we have charged them big fees for far ill this privilege and they ir have ave liberally but now earn come I 1 and spent t a some of if ill them orm are e beginning to complain camplain coma cama that we caret cant furnish the deer for tha th hunt it seems the case this year dur during ng these there years it chasm t been in much uch trouble tor for a large par party to ilia establish b inh a camp in our local mountains t in and fill up in the first two or three ince das daja of the se season asian in fact if huntera I 1 dido t get their ill deer early in the season n they were im an exception and not the rule this thin year it begins to cooki look like ike the arven reverse I 1 ot of that of course a un I 1 the wide open tall 1111 has s zen probably it kept ept the deer le at big higher her altitudes 1 t iatrides in dense tor timber riber where they are am hard to find but we have proof that groups of hunters going into the higher elevations in past years were able to fill up their party in the first three days newspaper New sparer reports report and star stones from hunters from all parts of the state arre are to the effect that hunting is off any anywhere hem from 25 to 50 per cent and I 1 we I 1 think that goes for this area also in L last ast year this writer who does not hunt but tries to observe the results of if the sport seen one deer brought into town at sunup sun up on the opening day with upwards upward of twenty five a seen em or reported by that evening I 1 this year we seen none and heard of only about a third of that number by sunday night in questioning members of if part parties who camped in various parts of the moun tam bains we heard of one am that filled up in the first three or four days day those stones we heard during the ummer bummer about certain persons counting herds of limit head and upwards were taken as fairy tales by us from the start and we still think they we are and unless doe hunting and special act deer hunts are done away wa Y with after this year Is especially in m this locality we me will be right back where we were twenty years ago when these colu columns rions reported ill that sam whitney had brought in th the I 1 only deer during the first three days of the fie season |