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most of you know, if not personally, at least by reputation. 

 He is one of the greatest fishermen in the west, a man who 

 has fished longer than any one that I know of. 



Judge Beaman then addressed the Society, pointing out 

 particularly the fact that the automobile has become a very 

 important factor in the depletion of fish and game. 



The automobile is the friend of the hunter and the 

 fisherman, but the worst enemy that ever came into the 

 country of the game and the fish, and I have had con- 

 siderable experience and observation as to that this year. 

 I returned a few days ago from a 400-mile automobile 

 trip. I fished in the Big Laramie, the North Platte and 

 several of their tributaries in Colorado and Wyoming. It 

 was a trip I never would have made without an automobile ; 

 I could not have made it by team, as it would have taken 

 a month. I found on these big streams, wherever we 

 stopped to fish, two or three automobiles with fishermen 

 and hunters near us. With an auto a man can leave Denver 

 in the morning and go 20 or 30 miles into the country, and 

 have two or three hours' fishing and return the same day. 

 If he goes up to one of our summer resorts, instead of 

 having to fish within a mile or two of where he stops, he will 

 with his automobile run up 20 miles in the morning to a 

 tributary and come back at night. A man who made an 

 automobile trip last week told me he had killed 60 sage 

 chickens without leaving his automobile. That is, he shot 

 from the road ; he did not hunt at all ; he had no dog. 



While we were in Wyoming we met some Cheyenne men 

 in an auto. They had strung across the front of their 

 machine a big lot of fish. We passed on a couple of miles 

 and found a sack of sage chickens which they had lost. 

 We had them for supper. 



I tell you that the auto is going to deplete our game and 

 fish faster than anything we have ever had. I believe it 

 is going to cause a depletion of fifty per cent or more in 

 the next two years. But I do not know how you are going 

 to avoid it. 



