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propriated all funds that could be collected for two years to 

 come from hunting licenses, to be used by the Department of 

 Fish and Game under the direction of the University Re- 

 gents and the Governor. We re-wrote and assembled such 

 laws as seemed good for the state, and had all the old laws 

 repealed, some of which had been on the statute books so 

 long that they were almost forgotten except when lawyers, 

 especially county attorneys, would dig them up to beat or 

 win cases that the game wardens were trying. 



It is not easy to frame a law that will apply with equal 

 justice to all parts of such a large and diversified area, but 

 the legislature passed what we think is a good law for a 

 state that has so many varied interests and with a territory 

 200 by 400 miles in extent. 



We presented to the legislature, through its committees, 

 drawings and plans for a hatchery something after the 

 fashion and embracing some of the ideas outlined here in 

 these blue prints. Of course, it was not complete and many 

 changes and most of the details have been worked out since 

 that time. We tried to explain to the legislature that it was 

 necessary to have a new fish hatchery built upon new lines 

 and in accordance with modern ideas; that we did not think 

 it was economy on the part of the state to run a small, in- 

 efficient hatchery, or to keep a force of men and a good cat- 

 to distribute a few fish. We further urged that to be an 

 economic and profitable proposition a fish hatchery should 

 be large and comprehensive enough to supply all the 

 streams of the state with stock fish, and large enough also 

 to supply the ponds that are now in existence and as many 

 more as may be built for several years to come. We im- 

 mediately got out a bulletin of 36 pages on the subject of 

 ponds and how to build them on farms and ranches. Hun- 

 dreds of ponds are now being built to raise fish and also to 

 utilize the water for other purposes; one of the chief ideas 

 is to have and raise fish for food. 



