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lively narrow area and in a thinly populated 

 region. Is it not within the province of the 

 government to take some steps to relieve the in- 

 habitants of this constant dread? A Pasteur 

 Institute established say in Albuquerque would 

 place treatment quite near enough to be avail- 

 able. 



In this connection let it be said that Arizona 

 pays a bounty of ten dollars each upon bears 

 killed within the territory, and one dollar 

 bounty on skunks. No one will skin a skunk 

 for a dollar and go through the red tape neces- 

 sary to claim the bounty. The Territorial gov- 

 ernment has paid many dollars bounty on black 

 and brown bears, one of our noble game ani- 

 mals that does absolutely no harm in this moun- 

 tain region which it inhabits. Pennsylvania 

 and Michigan both protect their black bears. 

 Even the silver tip, at one time destructive to 

 stock, has been so reduced in numbers and is 

 so timid now-a-days and so rarely attacks ani- 

 mals, that bounty on it should be discontinued. 

 It would seem that the time has come when 

 we should extend protection to every spe- 

 cies of bear inhabiting the United States. Oth- 

 erwise they will, in the course of a very few 

 years, become extinct. 



The rain area was limited and an hour's ride 



