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period of fourteen years the sale of these licenses more than tripled. 

 The greatest number of licenses sold was in the year 1927, the number 

 being 262,886 for a value of $273,202. These figures do not include 

 persons who were under tlie age of eighteen years of age who are 

 allowed to fish without the requirement of a license. Incidentally, this 

 was the last year of the $1 license. 



On the appended chart, it will be noted that the year following, 

 which was the first year of the $2 citizen licenses, there was a decrease 

 in the number sold of 46,150. This decrease, w^hich occurred also in 

 the hunting licenses, was due more or less to many persons not being 

 in sympathy of increasing the license fee, deciding neither to hunt or 

 fish. Sooner or later this class of people will realize the beneficial 

 results that are being obtained from the money derived from the sale 

 of the same and will eventually buy their licenses. 



ANGLING LICENSE SALES 



Numlier of 



Year Total sales licenses 



1914 $ 84,417 00 81,965 



1915 89,620 00 87,262 



1916 115,518 00 111,994 



1917 125,572 00 No record 



1918 123,080 00 No record 



1919 146,724 00 No record 



1920 163,183 00 No record 



1921 183,319 00 176,873 



1922 189,738 00 183,116 



1923 232,995 00 225,171 



1924 210,988 00 202,690  



1925 232,501 00 222,983 



1926 256,629 00 246,167 



1927 273,202 00 262,886 



• 1928 443,660 00 216,736 



 1929 469,442 20 229,374 



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



Civil War Veterans. Both the hunting and angling license acts 

 provide that veterans of the civil war may be issued licenses free of 

 charge. The number of licenses that are issued each year has been 

 steadily falling off as there are not many of the veterans surviving. 

 In 1917, there were 206 hunting and 252 angling licenses issued, while 

 in 1929 there were 34 hunting and 64 angling. These figures are for 

 the entire state. 



TRAPPING LICENSES 



In 1917 a law was enacted requiring all persons over the age of 

 eighteen years, who trapped for fur-bearing mammals for profit, to 

 have a trapping license. The fee of this license was qiute small, being 

 $1 for citizens and $2 for aliens. An open and closed season was placed 

 on fur-bearing mammals, the open season being during the winter 

 months when the furs were prime and would receive the best prices. 

 Every person who takes out a trapping license is also required, at the 

 end of each year, to file a report to the Division of Fish and Game, 

 listing their catch and the price obtained for the same. By this infor- 

 mation the division has been enabled to enact other legislation regulat- 

 ing the taking of fur-bearing mammals. 



DEER TAG LICENSES 



For a number of years the division had in mind the enactment of 

 legislation by which it would be possible to obtain information as to the 



