The Creating of Game Refuges 



similar violation of the law. More recently still, 

 during this last winter, the game warden of Wash- 

 ington reports the finding of the carcasses of nine- 

 teen elk, killed for their tusks. 



This country, with its splendid glaciers and 

 mountains covered with snow, presents quite 

 the most beautiful scenery to be found within the 

 limits of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, 

 and, before many years, is destined to become a 

 place of general resort for travelers. For this 

 to be accomplished, all that is needed is greater 

 facility of travel. It would be a thousand pities 

 if we should tolerate the extermination of the elk, 

 which would afford delight to every one who 

 visited the Olympics, if only the herd might be 

 preserved. One can hardly blame the hunters for 

 taking advantage of the laxity of public sentiment. 

 The State has it within its power easily to protect 

 these animals by the employment of two or three 

 game detectives of the right sort — keen, energetic 

 men. These would soon break up the illicit traffic 

 and bring the offenders to justice. The people of 

 the whole Pacific seaboard, v/ho are justly proud 

 of their region, and of every trait peculiarly its 

 own, would bitterly lament the final disappearance 

 of elk from this whole countryside, yet the fact 

 remains that hardly a voice there, outside of the 



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