GAME LAWS AND GAME SUPPLY 



to eight cents a pound, as well as wild ducks at one 

 dollar to one dollar and a half a dozen and wild 

 geese at forty to sixty cents a dozen." 



If you wish a definite comparison in the way of 

 game supplies of the past and present, consult the 

 current market lists. It would be somewhat difficult 

 today to purchase wild geese at even the maximum 

 price above quoted sixty cents a dozen. What a 

 world of change in the wild life of America there 

 has been in the past forty years! 



And yet, just to show what might have been done 

 in part at least witness another newspaper clip- 

 ping, from Plains, Montana, bearing the date of De- 

 cember 26, 1913 : 



"Plains witnessed the shipment of a car of buffa- 

 loes last Saturday. A bunch of ten were driven 

 down by Charles Allard and his crew, and four were 

 shipped to Butte, one bought here by C. H. Rit- 

 tenour, of the McGowan Commercial Company, 

 and the balance herded back to the range. 

 The animals were all in fine condition. The one re- 

 tained was a cow weighing six hundred pounds, 

 which has been butchered, and the meat is being 

 retailed. It is to the credit of Mr. Rittenour that 

 no advance was made in the price of this choice 

 meat to the consumers, the McGowan Company re- 



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