American Big Game in its Haunts 



his prisoner for this distance, and to provide him 

 with transportation, food and lodging during the 

 journey and during the time that he may be obliged 

 to wait before bringing the prisoner arrested before 

 a proper court. This may often amount to more than 

 the penalty, even if the officer making the arrest 

 secures a conviction ; but, on the other hand, the 

 individual arrested may not be able to pay his fine, 

 and may have to go to jail. In this case the officer 

 making the arrest is out of pocket just so much. 

 Under such circumstances, it is evident that few 

 officers can afford to take the risk of losing this time 

 and money. 



In most States of the Union there exist consider- 

 able tracts of land, mountainous, or at least barren 

 and unfit for cultivation. Legislation should be had 

 in each State establishing public parks which might 

 well enough be stocked with game, which should 

 there be absolutely protected. Some efforts in this 

 direction have been made, notably Massachusetts, 

 New York, Pennsylvania and Minnesota. In many 

 of the New England States there are tracts absolutely 

 barren, unoccupied and often bordered by abandoned 

 farms, which could be purchased by the State for a 

 very modest compensation ; and it is well worth the 

 while of the Boone and Crockett Club to endeavor by 

 all means in its power to secure the establishment in 

 the various States of parks which might be breeding 

 centers for game, great and small, on the same plan 

 as the proposed refuges hoped for within the forest 



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