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; T H K T R E A S U R E S T A T E 103 • 



Near the Head Waters of the Gallatin. 



mountains and timbered areas, watered by thousands of lakes and streams, is open to 

 all followers of the sport, subject only to the liberal provisions of the state game laws, 

 which permit the killing in season of all game animals, except moose, antelope, buf- 

 falo, bison, caribou, mountain sheep and goats, and elk in certain counties, while the 

 gamest of game fish, trout and grayling, may be taken from the waters at all times 

 of the year with rod, hook and line. 



There is not a city or town in the mountainous region which does not yearly con- 

 tain the carcasses of deer killed within a radius of a few miles of the business sec- 

 tions. Many deer are annually bagged within ten miles of Helena, and the same may 

 be said of Butte, Anaconda, Missoula, Dillon, Livingston, Bozeman, Deer Lodge and 

 Kalispell. Mountain sheep and Rocky Mountain goats are in considerable numbers 

 within a few miles of Anaconda and Deer Lodge. But few states possess the proud 

 and majestic Rocky Mountain sheep. Montana is pre-eminently the abode of the 

 largest number of these magnificent animals in the United States. For the present 

 these beautiful animals are protected by the game laws and are expected to rapidly 

 increase. 



From September first of each year, on which date the season opens for ducks 

 and other water fowl, only, until November 30, when the season on all big game closes, 

 the mountains of Montana contain thousands of hunters, some camping tor a few days, 

 and others out for a month or six weeks' trip, systematically bagging all the different 

 varieties of birds and animals permitted to be killed under the law. The season on elk 

 and deer is from October 1 to December 15; there being a limit of one per season on 

 the former and two per season on the latter; on grouse, prairie chicken, fool hen, 

 pheasant, partridge, sage hen, with a limit of five per day, from September 15 to 

 October 15, except in the counties of Custer, Dawson, Richland, Sheridan, Valley, 

 Philips, Rosebud, Big Horn, Prairie and Fallon, in which counties thd open season 



