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We will be mure than pleased to extend every ceurtesy within our 

 power, and trust that it may be possible to arrange as one of the fea- 

 tures of your entertainment a visit to our new club house on the South 

 Platte. We feel confident that the holding of your meeting in our city 

 will not alone add materially to your membership, but greatly to our 

 knowledge of fish culture as well. 



The Hon. Robert W. Speer, Mayor of Denver, extends 

 the following invitation : 



It gives me pleasure to join in the invitation to your Association to 

 hold your next session in Denver. The city administration will be 

 pleased to co-operate in every manner possible with the local com- 

 mercial bodies in extending your members a genuine western welcome. 

 and every effort will be put forth to make your visit to our city agree- 

 able and instructive. 



From Governor Shafroth we have the following: 



In behalf of the people of the State of Colorado I wish to extend to 

 you an invitation to hold your next annual meeting, for 1912, in the 

 city 'of Denver, in this state. 



On account of Colorado being a western state, and its mountains 

 being covered with original forests, and on account of the enforcement 

 of the game laws of this state, we have still left considerable game in 

 our mountains. We have here associations composed of sportsmen, 

 many of whom are residents of the city of Denver. The Game and 

 Fish Department of the state of Colorado has in every way attempted 

 to preserve the game and fish and has stocked the streams with fish 

 and placed in the forests much gam< . 



Denver is an excellent city in which to hold a convention. The 

 climate in summer is ideal. Within two or three hours' run. in the 

 hottest weather, you can reach the region where perpetual snow exists 

 and in going you pass most super!) wonders in scenery. 



From Air. James A. Shinn, State Game and Fish Com- 

 missioner, cofnes the following: 



1 want to join Governor Shafroth in giving your Society an invi- 

 tation to hold its 1912 Convention in Denver. If you conclude to do 

 so, I will say, in behalf of the people of the state of Colorado, that wc 

 will see that you get your fill of speckled trout from our sparkling 

 streams, as well as bear, deer and grouse. You can visit some of the 

 eight fish hatcheries that are now being operated by the state, from 

 which we will be aide to distribute some 29,000,000 of fry by the close 

 of 1912. The Denver fish hatchery is located near the city and can be 

 reached by automobile. 



We get two hatches of spawn per year, and take the native and 

 rainbow spawn in the late spring and early summer, while our brook 

 trout begin spawning the first ten days in October. 



