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be, with small expense, ~nd most assuredly 

 should be, better patrolled and the game laws 

 more stringently enforced than at present. 



This lack of protection has already resulted 

 in the extinction of elk in Arizona. Antelope, 

 once so numerous on the open plains, are near- 

 ing extinction. Mountain sheep, which, as in 

 the case of antelope, now have perpetual pro- 

 tection by law, are few in number and, like an- 

 telope, are killed in spite of law, because there 

 are too few and in some sections practically no 

 wardens to watch the hunters and enforce the 

 law. 



In the nature of the case it is extremely dif- 

 ficult, I may say impossible, to estimate with 

 any degree of accuracy the amount of game in- 

 habiting so wide an area as that embraced 

 within the bounds of Arizona. There is a small 

 band of mountain sheep in the Four Peaks in 

 the southeast, probably some fifteen or twenty; 

 another small band of ten or perhaps fifteen on 

 Ord and Thomas Peaks, another band in Artil- 

 lery Peak in the west, with the larger bands in 

 the Grand Canon region. It has been claimed 

 that a small number inhabit the San Francisco 

 Peaks near Flagstaff. 



I visited Flagstaff and interviewed hunters at 

 Winslow, who are familiar with these moun- 



