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Show I Ogden Sportsman Deeds Property To Utah Game Dept Frank M. Browning, public spirited sportsman and business man of Ogden, has deeded valuable val-uable mountain property to the sportsmen of Utah, with the game department as custodian. The property, located about 11 miles northeast of Huntsville, is a valuable summer and winter win-ter range for game animals. It also has some good fishing streams running through it. Mr. Browning sold the land to the Fish and Game department depart-ment for a much smaller sum than he could have realized from other interests. He stipulated stipu-lated that the property was always al-ways to be open to the public for recreational use. The purchase was made with Pittman - Robertson funds. According Ac-cording to J. Perry Egan, this is one of the few instances where the sportsmen have been endowed by an individual. As early as 1897, James Bur-reston, Bur-reston, of Mona, in Juab county, gave the State Fish and Game department the springs near Mona which today carry his name. With the springs, certain acreage of nearby lands were i deeded to the department, with the agreement that it be used as a public recreation area. The late Charles Skougaard, prominent sportsman from Richfield, Rich-field, stipulated in his will that $1,000 of his estate be spent in furthering the cause of better bet-ter fishing at Fish Lake. |