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Show STATE riSH AND GAME DEPARTMENT, J. ARTHUR MEHAM, COMMISSIONER, STATE CAPITOL, UTAH Perpetual inventory ofl all fish and game properties of the State of Utah will be kept by all deputies depu-ties in chartre of territories of the state fish and game department, it is announced by J. Arthur Me-cham Me-cham commissioner. ; Installation of the system, created cre-ated for the purpose of giving a more accurate and rigid check on the properties of the state, has been accomplished by A. G. Cran ney, bookeeper who declares that the system, though inexpensive and free from red tape, will obtain ob-tain results valuable in efficient department operation. The acocunting system is simi-la simi-la in many respects to the one used by the United States bureau of fisheries in their hatcheries, and has been installed in eight hatcheries of the state located at Springville, Whiterocks, Logan, Glenwood, Panguitch, Midway, Murray and Beaver. Control ae counts have also been placed at all rearing ponds located at Liber ty, Huntsville, Morgan, Kamas and Mantua. The records now; entail complete com-plete reports from the time the eggs are taken from the egg stations sta-tions at Murray, Springville and Glenwood, where they are classified classi-fied as to brood stock, state wild stock and imported eggs. From the egg stations they are transferred trans-ferred to the variouB hatcheries where after hatching they are placed in the rearing ponds, and finally planted in the streams and lakes of the state. The new Bystem entails daily re ports to the office on the movement move-ment of eggs to the hatcheries, of all fish transfers between hatcheries hatch-eries and rearing ponds not located lo-cated on hatchery sites and of the plantings of all fish. The game farm at Springville has a system which will also show the cost of pheasant production an denable the department to determine de-termine the most effective and economical means of raising the game birds. |