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FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



$118,427. Each year thereafter the slight variations in the sale showed 

 a decided increase. It will be noticed from the appended chart that in 

 the year 1919-20, which was immediately after the close of the world 

 war, the sale showed an increase of $42,496 over the year previous. 

 During the past twenty years the number of persons who have gone 

 into the field, either hunting or fishing, have more than doubled. Also 

 many new roads have been constructed and the federal government has 

 built good trails in the mountains, making it possible for sports- 

 men to enjoy excellent hunting and fishing within a few hours drive. 

 During this period the hatcheries were taxed to the utmost in raising 

 fish to be planted in streams and lakes, and the patrol force needed 

 enlarging in order to properly patrol the state. In order that this work 

 could be accomplished it was necessary to increase the citizen-resident 

 license fee on both the hunting and angling licenses from $1 to $2 ea'^'h. 

 At the 1927 session of the state legislature a new hunting and angling 

 license law was passed, increasing the citizen hunting licenses from $1 

 to $2 each and creating a new license for citizens under eighteen years 

 of age. This license costs $1. At the same time the license year was 

 changed from a fiscal year to a calendar year basis; 1928 was the first 

 year that this law was effective and the sale of licenses that year 

 showed a decrease of 29,042 in number from the year preceeding, which 

 year was the largest in point of revenue and number of licenses sold of 

 the $1 series. The sale in 1929 showed an increase of 12,751 in number 

 of licenses over 1928, and lacking 16,291 of equaling the largest number 

 sold in any year. 



HUNTING LICENSE SALES 



Number of 

 Year Total sales licenses 



1907-08 $118,427 00 113,975 



1908-09 114,950 00 111,911 



1909-10 128,450 00 124,421 



1910-11 143,265 00 138,669 



1911-12 146,181 00 141,777 



1912-13 165,984 00 159,762 



1913-14 164,111 00 159,164 



1914-15 166,307 00 161,402 



1915-16 159,991 00 ' 155,522 



1916-17 170,806 00 166,372 



1917-18 177,065 00 No record 



1918-19 178,937 00 No record 



1919-20 221,433 00 No record 



1920-21 240,353 00 225,454 



1921-22 236,891 00 222,791 



1922-23 239,149 00 226,381 



1923-24 260,846 00 246,299 



1924-25 245,591 00 226,421 



1925-26 252,017 00 231,305 



1926-27 279,701 00 253,532 



1927-28 285,362 00 257,738 



•1928 464,145 00 228,696 



♦1929 488,114 32 241,447 



♦Years 1928 and 1929, citizen licenses increased from $1 to $2 each. 



ANGLING LICENSES 



As previously mentioned in this report, the hunting license law was 

 passed in 1907, but persons were allowed to fish in this state without 

 the requirement of an angling license until 1914, when the angling 

 license law became effective. This license was also in three classes, 

 namely : Citizen-resident licenses for $1, nonresident at $3 and alien 

 at $3. Persons under the age of eighteen years were not required to 

 have a license. This license was on a calendar year basis. During the 



